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Business Incubators in Pakistan: State of the Art and Future Outlook
No full textPurpose: In developing countries business incubators (BIs) have become a key catalyst for the flourishment of new ventures, due to overall weak financial health and opportunities for the startups. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of BIs in Pakistan and identify areas that need improvement. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopts a mixed-method approach of social science research, using a cross-sectional survey of BI tenants in Pakistan (n=100), triangulated with the help of in-depth interviews of key stakeholders of BIs (n=12). Data from cross-sectional survey were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Paired Samples T-test methods. Data from interview responses were analyzed with the help of MAXQDA.
Findings: The study shows that the effectiveness of incubation facilities in Pakistan is less than the perceived importance and identifies which facilities tenants are most and least satisfied with. The findings of this study suggest that for BIs to be more effective in creating new ventures and providing employment opportunities, the Pakistani government must take concrete actions. New BI centers must be established to meet the market's demands and an evaluation process for existing BI centers must be implemented. To aid in the creation of new businesses in Pakistan, more university-based BIs should be established.
Implications/Originality/Value: The findings of this study are equally useful for the Government of Pakistan, BIs, and fresh startups. 
The Role of Green Human Resource Management Practices towards Attaining Sustainable Development Goals through Corporate Sector
No full textPurpose: Drawing on stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984) and TBL theory (Elkington, 1994), this study aims to propose a consolidated model of GHRMPs – SDGs linkages, shedding light on the underlying process through which the corporate-sector can attain SDGs.
Design/methodology: A detailed review of extant literature by strategically choosing articles on the topics of GHRMPs and sustainable-development from different databases published from 2015 to 2022 was performed.
Key finding(s): This study identified 8 SDGs potentially attainable by corporate-sector. Through GHRMPs corporate-sector can attain three pillars of sustainability i.e., environmental, social, and economic, effectively execute green SCM practices, undertake green–innovation, and eventually accomplish SDGs.
Practical implication(s): This study guides business policymakers and civil society actors seeking to widen the range of sustainable corporate actors.
Contribution to knowledge: This study explored the mid-mechanism comprehending the GHRMPs – SDGs linkages and identified the role of GHRMPs towards SDGs, and hence contributes to the knowledge by providing a roadmap for understanding sustainability by exploring the previously unexplored networks between constructs
Uncovering Teachers’ Implicit Leadership Theories for School Administrators: A Qualitative Inquiry
No full textPurpose: This study attempted to expand the existing knowledge regarding school administrators’ effective and ineffective leadership behaviours and traits based on the perceptions of teacher respondents.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The basic interpretive qualitative approach was adopted to scrutinize and discover the cultural attributions of the participating teachers. Research data were collected from 64 teachers working at a metropolitan city centre in mid-western Turkey. The respondents were asked to list the effective and ineffective characteristics of a school leader.
Findings: A total of 379 expressions (249 effective, 130 ineffective) defining leader behaviours and traits were obtained. On average, there were 5.92 (SD: 2.06; min.=2, max.=9) expressions per participating teacher. We found seven effective leader behavioural themes with a total of 38 leader attributes and five ineffective leader behavioural themes with 27 leader attributes.
Implications/Originality/Value: A seven-themed taxonomy of educational leadership behaviours was created. The results implied that communication skills and being an expert in the post are crucial as highlighted both by effective and ineffective leader attributes. The paper was concluded by offering some implications
Assumption of Jurisdiction by Pakistani Supreme Court in Reko Diq Case: Another Violation of International Investment Law
No full textPurpose: This paper discusses that Pakistani judicial approach to separability, arbitrability and grounds to assume jurisdictions to decide these mattes does not sit well with the ICSID jurisprudence.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Qualitative approach has been used.
Findings: The Supreme Court’s judgment in Reko Diq is discussed in the light of awards rendered by ICSID to establish that the jurisdiction to decide the separability of arbitration agreement, arbitrability of a dispute or subject matter does not rest with a domestic court where parties have already conferred jurisdiction to determine these matters to ICSID and that Pakistani court cannot use any ground to assume jurisdiction over these matters.
Implications/Originality/Value: The paper concludes that the judicial system of Pakistan needs reforms to formalize and ascertain the role of domestic arbitration councils in alignment with the ICSID. This will help Pakistani firms competing in international markets to get necessary legal support at home in line with international standards
Trade, Environment, Human Capital and Services Sector in Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis
No full textObjective: This study aims to examine the influence of Trade Liberalization, Environmental Quality (CO2 Emission) on Services Sector Growth in some selected developing.
Methodology: The estimation of the study considers panel data unit root and panel data ARDL approach. The environmental quality is represented by Carbon Dioxide Emission and trade liberalization is by trade openness.
Findings: The results of Panel Unit Root test summarize that Panel ARDL is the most appropriate method of estimation for having Panel Coefficient values due to mixed order of integration for developing countries.
Implications: The empirical findings of model, in Developing Countries, Labor Force, Capital Stock, Trade Openness, Money Supply, Government Expenditure and Human Capital exert upward pressure on Services Value Addition while Carbon Dioxide Emission and Price Level is putting download pressure on Services Value Addition.  
Organizational Learning and Innovation and its Impact on Professional Accountants Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: Evidence from Pakistan
No full textPurpose: This study develops a theoretical model that explores the effect of organizational learning on the organizational citizenship behavior of professional accountants in Pakistan. Additionally, the model also explores the mediating role of organizational innovation between this relationship.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Data were gathered from professional accountants at small accounting firms in Pakistan.
Findings: The findings prove that organizational learning positively influences the citizenship behavior of accountants. Additionally, the findings also report the mediating role of organizational innovation between organizational learning and accountants’ organizational citizenship behavior.
Implications/Originality/Value: The findings of this paper may have both practical and theoretical implications for researchers, domestic and international companies
Relationship Quality and Innovation Capacity of Micro Enterprises: A Single Case Study in the Traditional Food Sector
No full textPurpose: This study aims to analyze the innovation capacity and relationship quality of micro-enterprises with its stakeholders.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This is an exploratory and single-case study that uses an in-depth interview with the owner of one traditional food micro-enterprise (TFME) in Yogyakarta City (Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia).
Findings: The results determined that there are four types of relationships between a TFME and its stakeholders: supplier, internal, customer, and lateral partnerships. We further identify antecedents of relationship quality: opportunistic behavior, reputation, customer orientation, relationship orientation, conflicts, product quality, and knowledge and skills. The research further found that conflicts, relationship quality, product quality, knowledge and skills, and owner’s age can affect the innovation capacity of a TFME.
Implications/Originality/Value: Theoretically, the findings provide support for the development of relationship marketing theory. Practically, this study is valuable for TFMEs to build relationship quality with stakeholders and innovation capacity
Maintaining Service Quality in Remote Teaching Environment: Case of Lebanese International University
No full textPurpose: The shift from traditional face-to-face classes to virtual classrooms in response to Covid 19 pandemic has affected the higher education sector worldwide, including Lebanon. Among all private universities in Lebanon, the Lebanese International University (LIU) is the largest in terms of enrolment, which enroll 30% of higher education students in the country. Therefore, this study evaluates the LIU experience in remote teaching. After completing three consecutive online semesters, it was essential to measure to which extent did the remote instructor performance affected the educational service quality at LIU.
Methodology: By the end of the Fall 2021 semester, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted among students at the School of Business and a total of 450 usable responses pertaining to undergraduate students were considered for data analysis.
Findings: Using SPSS Software, the validity and reliability of the questionnaire has been verified and results showed that remote instructors’ performance has a significant and strong positive correlation with all dimensions of service quality; highest for reliability and lowest for tangible. Moreover, regression analysis results showed that 81.5 % of the variance in service quality scores can be predicted from the remote instructors’ performance.
Suggestions: Future studies could collect data in a longitudinal manner and include a more representative student sample of the university students
Innovation and Employee Performance: Mediating Role of Psychological Well Being
No full textPurpose: Today, the organizational innovation is considered as the most important factor to experience the increased productivity in organizations. Many previous studies focused on the innovation and its’ effectiveness for performance at different organizational levels. This study mainly focused on the relationship between organizational innovation and the employee performance. Organizational innovation comprises both creation of new and innovative ideas as well as their successful implementation. Another purpose of this study was to empirical test the mediating role of employee psychological wellbeing in the relationship of organizational innovation and employee performance.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The convenient sampling methodology was used to collect the data. The researchers collected the data from 700 employees and their immediate supervisors. The data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire.
Findings: The findings revealed that innovation has an impact on workers performance and their psychological well-being mediates the connection between the organizational innovation and performance of employees.
Implications/Originality/Value: The proposed model was tested and validated through the empirical data, which is an important contribution of current study. These study findings are helpful for academicians, managers, and entrepreneurs
Analyzing the Moderating role of Board Structure in Relation between Tax Avoidance and Business Strategy: New Insight from Emerging Economy
No full textPurpose: Taxation basically occupies an important place in the strategic decisions of companies, therefore, business are thinking to adopt a dynamic and active method for tax management. This study examine the moderating role of board independence, and board size in the relation between tax avoidance, and business strategy in developing economy of the Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The sample of study consist of 125 non-financial companies listed on Pakistan stock exchange with time period of 5 years from 2013 to 2017 on annual basis. Study uses static (fixed effect, & random effect) and dynamic (GMM) panel data estimation techniques.
Findings: The result shows that increase in board size of a prospector firm will increase its trend to avoid taxes. The finding also reveals that an increase in the independent directors in prospector firms will decreases tax avoidance activities in emerging economies. Additionally, result shows that firm profitability and leverage are negatively related to tax payments while firm size show positive association with tax payments.
Implications/Originality/Value: Among others, this study suggests that tax authorities should advocate the prospector firms to increase the number of independent directors on board because there presence cause a reduction in tax avoidance activities and increase tax payments