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Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Passion between Social Support and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions among Indonesian College Students
No full textPurpose: The number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia is still lagging compared to several other ASEAN countries, so there is an urgency to explore the factors that influence the formation of entrepreneurial intentions as predictors of entrepreneurial behavior. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of social support and entrepreneurial passion on forming entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, this study investigates whether entrepreneurial passion mediates the relationship between social support and entrepreneurial intention.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study used a quantitative approach with a single cross-sectional descriptive research type on 268 samples of student respondents in Indonesia. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Data analysis in this study was carried out with the PLS-SEM technique.
Findings: The results of this study confirm the direct positive influence of social support on entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention, as well as the direct positive influence of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, the study showed that entrepreneurial passion partially mediates the relationship between social support and entrepreneurial intention.
Implications/Originality/Value: The results of this study enrich the study of entrepreneurial literature related to entrepreneurial passion and social support, mainly how social support as a contextual variable affects entrepreneurial passion. The study's results also enrich entrepreneurship literature because it investigates entrepreneurial passion as a mediator between social support and entrepreneurial intention
Learning Braille at Higher Education Level: Exploring the Perception of Prospective Special Education Teachers
No full textPurpose: Braille learning is important for teaching students with visual impairment. This study intended to seek the perception of pre-service teachers who obtain degree in special education with the compulsion of learning Braille.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This was exploratory and qualitative research. The Sample of study included pre-service teachers (N = 21) studying at higher education level. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data for this study. A self-developed semi-structured interview protocol was instrument to collect data. The validity of the instrument was assured by the expert opinion (N=03). The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed through an extensive literature review. The data were analyzed through open coding of the interview transcription to draw categories and themes. There were four major themes emerged i.e challenges in learning Braille, reading techniques, Braille comprehension, and Braille Rules.
Findings: The findings of the study revealed more difficulty in reading Braille in grade two as compare to Braille writing, no training in the haptic sense in higher education institutes, and a lack of proper training courses in teaching and learning braille.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study recommends appropriate support by the institutes and particular trainings and courses for Braille learning.  
A Manifestation of Impression Management in Corporate Reporting in Jse Top 40 Listed Companies
No full textPurpose: The purpose of the study is to exposes impression management in the developing country, with a specific focus on the Top 40 Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Despite not being required by the International Financial Reporting Standards, the Chairperson's statement is the most read statement among the more than 80% of listed companies. The study investigated profitable and unprofitable companies' use of impression management through passive voice and personal references.
Methodology: Secondary data in form of annual reports were used and self-attribution theory was used as framework. Mixed content analysis was used. Using a targeted sample, the study differentiated between 20 profitable and 20 unprofitable companies, based on the change in pre-tax profit between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2020.
Findings: Profitable and unprofitable companies used self-attribution bias. The Mann-Whitney test finds no significant difference despite profitable organizations’ using more self-attribution than unprofitable companies. The continued use of impression management deceives investors and impairs their ability to make informed decisions
Implications: The study sends a strong warning to potential investors on use of impression management by listed companies. Further, the study further adds to the debate on impression management through self-attribution in corporate reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility Moderates the Relationship of Corporate Governance and Investment Decisions: New Insight from Emerging Markets
No full textPurpose: This paper examines the relationship between Corporate Governance, Corporate Investment, and Financial Performance of firms with moderating relationship of Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging markets of Asia (Pakistan, China, Malaysia, and India).
Design/Methodology/Approach: To examine the impact, the panel data of 214 non-financial listed firms from 2014–to 2019 was collected.
Findings: We documented a new insight that CSR and CG are significantly associated with CI and FP. Results also show that the quality of CG and CSR enriches the CI decisions that improved FP. Findings also show that CSR moderates the relationship between CG and CI decisions, and between CG and firms’ FP. The board directors and ownership concentration have a positive relationship with CI decisions and FP. Overall CSR moderates the relationship between CI and CP.
Implications/Originality/Value: These findings are beneficial to the management of corporations working in emerging markets to improve CSR activities. This research also contributes to existing literature, on how CSR moderates the relationship between CG and CI decisions in the given contexts.  
Role of Media in Depression to The Viewers Watching Covid 19 Related News
No full textPurpose: The prevalence of depression among the general population is closely associated with exposure to COVID-19-related news but being a recent phenomenon, little work has been done on this issue. The focus of the present study is to hypothesize the relationship between media exposure to COVID-19-related news and the prevalence of depression across populations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. and comparatively, measure the source of news watching on a gender basis during Covid-19 among the different age groups.
Methods: Primary data were collected from 1150 respondents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan through a structured questionnaire. Chi-square tests were applied to measure the relationship between media exposure to covid-19 news and depression at bi-variate and multivariate analyses.
Findings: Results disclosed that media exposure to covid-19 relates news causes depression among people. In addition, Media exposure was significantly associated with the respondent’s mental health problems at a 0.01 level of significance.
Implications: Findings of the study confirm most of the previous scholarly work on this issue, which concludes that watching Covid-19-related news is closely associated with a consequent increase in depression. The study recommended that health intervention campaigns should be initiated by the government on media to decrease the level of fear among people. The study also recommended that content spreading false information regarding COVID-19 may also be removed by the government from the media. Moreover, medical specialists and psychologists may be called to different media programs to share useful information about the pandemic. Official pages, containing the correct and useful information on the said pandemic, may also be created on various social sites by the government authorities for the benefit of the general population.  
Mediating Role of Perceived Fairness between Organizational Commitment, Organizational Trust and Work Engagement of Female Faculty Members of Public Sector Universities in Punjab, Pakistan
No full textPurpose: Ensuring the competitive advantages for female faculty members and to attain sustainable progress in rapidly transforming educational environment in the current era.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been applied by using MPlus Software. The construct in the Context of Pakistan is exploratory in nature.
Findings: The study has examined the mediating relationship of fairness between organizational trust, organizational commitment and work engagement of female faculty members working in public sector universities of Punjab, Pakistan.
Implications/Originality/Value: It is necessary to explore the other suitable attributes of the relevant construct in the context of Pakistan. As the results remained not satisfactory and generalizability of the results is not possible
Nexus of Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment, Trade on Economic Growth: A Cointegration Analysis
No full textObjective: As Malaysia is an upper-middle-income country since 1992, it aspires to achieve high-income nation status by 2028. This paper aims to examine the interrelation of foreign direct investment inflows (FDI), domestic investment (GFCF), trade openness (TO), and economic growth (GDP) in Malaysia from 1979 to 2019.
Methodology: The econometric model and techniques applied are unit root test, Johansen-Juselius co-integration analysis, and vector error correction mechanism. The unit root test result indicated the stationarity of all series at the first difference.
Findings: Subsequently, co-integration analysis depicted a presence of one co-integration among the series at 5% level of significance, thus VECM is an appropriate technique to apply. In the long run, VECM findings indicated 1% increase in FDI caused a decline in GDP by 0.1338%, while 1% increase in GFCF will increase GDP by 0.8136%. Also, GDP has a weak unilateral effect on FDI in the short run based on VECM causality findings.
Implications: This paper certainly provides new literature and evidence for the Malaysian context through advanced techniques applied
The Impact of Corporate Governance with Mediating Effect of Digital Innovation on Firm Performance
No full textPurpose: The COVID-19 issue emphasized the significance of strong governance in changing the firm's actions because there are still health hazards (Ashraf, 2020). With the pandemic scenario, digital innovation, adoption, and integration into practical activities and operations is critical for any organization seeking a long-term competitive edge (Grove, 2018). The current study is an attempt to understand the impact of corporate governance on firm performance with the mediating role of digital innovation
Design/Methodology/Approach: Based on the most convenient sample approach, the Punjab banking industry has been considered. The questionnaire survey approach was used, and survey results were gathered through both online and in-person contacts
Findings: The results obtained show that digital innovation has reduced the effect of Board Size and Board Diversity while the effect of Board Independence, Board Committees and Frequency of yearly conducted meetings held in a year were diverted from their directions in the results of indirect effect.
Implications/Originality/Value: This study contributes to the literature by illuminating the aspects that might form the foundation for the creation of enhanced company performance. Following the global emergence of a pandemic, there has been very little literature work identified building a solid relational foundation
Analysis of Customer Satisfaction to Internal Ambiance of Vehicles using Predictive Analytic Modeling
No full textPurpose: The main reason behind carrying out this research is to explain the current position of Pakistan’s automobile industry, what the customer expectations are and what they are doing to achieve quality standards and to meet the expectations of the customer and fulfill their satisfaction.The combination of questions addressed in this research has not been worked upon before(Adeel, 2019)
Design/Methodology/Approach: As per the nature of this study, non-random sampling techniques used to collect the data. The sample size for current study was 231 customers of local and important vehicles as participants selected. To test the proposed model, a structured questionnaire was used to collect the data.
Findings: Results that arise in quantitative data show customer satisfaction towards internal features of vehicles and successfully identify what factors having the highest impact on customer satisfaction are feeling, interior refinement, safety and ambient light
Implications/Originality/Value: This will aid car manufacturers to do better market segmentation to target customers living in different cities of Pakistan as well as aid car dealers to know their customer needs regarding car. Moreover, when bigger sample size is used results may be differ from our results as more people will be engaged in survey from all over Pakistan that will help future researchers to know psychographic of people living in non-identical places of Pakistan
Discursive Constructions of Child Rape in Pakistani Newspapers: A Study of Hussain Khan Wala Case
No full textPurpose: This study identifies the types and nature of media discourses of child rape that may be intended to maintain gender ideologies and power relations around normative sexual practices.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This research study is conducted from the social constructivist perspective about gender and sex in connection with the dynamics of power relations in the Pakistani social system Data for analysis consisted of all editorials and opinion columns about the Hussain Khan Wala Case in the Urdu newspaper daily Nawa-e-Waqt and English newspaper Dawn. Hussain Khan Wala’s case was a highlight in the media in August 2015. The victims were minor and the incident grabbed the most attention of the press and public. For discourse analysis, newspaper articles (editorials and opinion columns) were selected because these texts present detailed discussion (nature of the problem, causes, effects, solutions, and value judgments) about the phenomenon.
Findings: In theoretical terms, Pakistani media dominantly discusses child sexual abuse including rape in the context of political power disparity in rural and urban areas. In Pakistani media, child rape is delinked from adult rape and sexual practices. The blame for child sexual abuse is shifted to political and administrative officialdom.
Implications/Originality/Value: The media is structurally and ideologically unsuitable for conservative values and unable to disseminate the values of shame, modesty, piety, and dignity