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THE IMPACT OF UNIVERSITY INTERNAL FACTORS ON ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM UNIVERSITY RESEARCH
Get PDFAcademic entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field forscholarly investigation, provides an opportunity to challengequestions and rethink about the nature and scope of publication. This paper puts forward an aspect for the research universities of Pakistan that can result in new value generation and job creation. Academic entrepreneur is missing forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting or capturing economic value. Current research aims to fill this gap by adapting the corporate entrepreneur as a construct for academic entrepreneurship and internalenvironment as a motivational factor in order to propose a model for this study. Findings support that university reward system; support, leadership, and organization structure are the key indicator of academic entrepreneur within these research universities. Results provide evidence that academic entrepreneurship has a positive influence on research commercialization and technology transfer for these higher education institutes
Fault Tree Analysis for a Modern Communication System
Get PDFWireless communications became one of the most widespread means for transferring information. Speed and reliability in transferring the piece of information are considered one of the most important requirements in communication systems in general. Moreover, Quality and reliability in any system are considered the most important criterion of the efficiency of this system in doing the task it is designed to do and its ability for satisfactory performance for a certain period of time, Therefore, we need fault tree analysis in these systems in order to determine how to detect an error or defect when happening in communication system and what are the possibilities that make this error happens. This research deals with studying TETRA system components, studying the physical layer in theory and practice, as well as studying fault tree analysis in this system, and later benefit from this study in proposing improvements to the structure of the system, which led to improve gain in Link Budget. A simulation and test have been done using MATLAB, where simulation results have shown that the built fault tree is able to detect the system’s work by 82.4%
INTERPRETATION OF ELEMENTS UPSETTING EXPORT GROWTH IN PAKISTAN
Get PDFExports are the important instrument of economic growth.Instabilities in export earnings present uncertainties in an economy.These uncertainties bring significant impact over the economicbehavior by poorly upsetting the proficiency of investment and in turnhave an adverse effect on economic growth. The core objective of thisstudy is to find the impact of some of the key macroeconomic variablesthat affect exports growth of Pakistan. The data is from the year 1972-2012. Johansen Juselius (1990) test is implemented for getting thedesired results. The results show that all of the variables sustain apositive relation to Export. Conclusion drawn is the need of obligatorysteps required to be taken by the Government so as to build a nationon the footings of strong export receipts
STRATEGIC CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE PERSISTENCE OF MUTUAL FUNDS IN PAKISTAN
Get PDFThis research is an attempt to empirically analyse the strategicbehaviour i.e. selectivity and timing skills of mutual fund managersand persistence in performance of mutual funds in Pakistan usingdata set of thirty-three open end equity based mutual funds from June2008-2016. Strategic behaviour has been analysed through proposedmethodology by Jensen Alpha, Treynor & Mazuy and Henriksson &Merton. Persistence in risk adjusted performance has been evaluatedusing Sharpe, Treynor and Sortino measures. Results indicate thatonly few mutual fund managers possess either significant selectivityor outstanding timing skills in Pakistan. This implies that most of themutual fund managers are either speculative or inside traders.Persistence in performance of mutual funds is not strong enoughbecause performance of fewer mutual funds exceeds the performanceof capital market. Mutual funds that exhibit positive risk premiumalso exhibited underperformance after the adjustment of risk factor
THE IMPACT OF LOAN SIZE AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON INTEREST RATE SPREADS IN PAKISTAN’S COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR
Get PDFThis study investigates the effect of loan size and globalfinancial crisis on interest rate spreads (IRS) in Pakistan’s bankingsector. This study employs unbalanced panel data set of 22 commercialbanks in Pakistan for the period 2005-2014. By using fixed effectregression model, it is found that loan size is negatively affected bythe IRS which indicates that as loan size increases, IRS is reduced. Inthe same vein, bank size has a negative but insignificant effect on IRS.Liquidity and credit risks are negatively influenced by bankingspreads, whereas operating cost has a positive effect on IRS. Returnon assets (ROA) has no effect on IRS. Finally, recent global financialcrisis is also positively influenced by banking spreads which indicatesthat the financial system of Pakistan is globally integrated
LINKING EMPOWERMENT AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT WITH INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: TESTING A MODERATING MODEL OF EMPLOYEE’S CREATIVE SELF-EFFICACY
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect ofempowerment and capability development on employee’s innovative behavior. We also examine the moderating effect of worker’s creative self-efficacy. The software developers working in IT firms have been selected for this study. The data were collected randomly from200 software developers by using questionnaires. The results indicate that empowerment and capability development is significantly and positively related with employee’s innovative behavior. Furthermore, the analysis revealed that employee’s creative self-efficacy moderatesthe empowerment and capability development relationship withemployee’s innovative behavior. The results of the study are novel and productive for the top management of the IT sector. The study provides insight into employee’s innovative behavior and suggests how organizations can boost innovations by empowerment is consistence with effective capability development programs
ROLE OF REWARDS TO FOSTER KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES: MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMITMENT
Get PDFWe investigate how rewards can foster knowledge sharingpractices in the education sector. This study also aims to determinewhether psychological commitment mediates in the relationshipbetween rewards and KS practices. To get the objectives of this study,data have been collected from 363 employees of private universities.The results exhibit a strong positive relationship of intrinsic, extrinsicrewards and psychological commitment with KS practices. Theintrinsic reward has been proved a stronger predictor of KS practices.Moreover, the current study exhibited that intrinsic rewards are ofprior importance to people than extrinsic rewards. The resultssuggested that in order to foster KS culture in organizations, it isnecessary for strategic managers to devise such environment andpolices where employees are given commitment and rewards ofintrinsic nature so that they are motivated to get involved in KSpractices and can provide competitive edge to the organization
BOARDS THAT LEAD: WHEN TO TAKE CHARGE, WHEN TO PARTNER, AND WHEN TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY
Get PDFThe book I am reviewing is “Boards that lead: When to takecharge, when to partner and when to stay out of the way”. The bookprovides practical knowledge about micro level corporate governanceby presenting original business cases to facilitate the company topmanagement team and executive directors. Reading this book company’s director can add value by learning about strategic decision making for the corporate board
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN KARACHI
Get PDFThe purpose of the research is to explore the use ofexperiential learning in Marketing, Human Resources Managementand Finance courses of five leading business schools in Karachi. Aquantitative survey research design was employed to answer theresearch questions of the study employing an Indigenous Use ofExperiential Learning Scale (UELS) developed in compliance withthe Guidelines of International Testing Commission 2013. Accordingto the results the use of experiential learning differed (df (4,82)=15.565, p < .01) among business schools. From the research thathas been undertaken, it is possible to conclude that that experientiallearning is used in all five business schools that were part of the study.The findings indicate that experiential learning, though comparativelya new concept in business education in Pakistan has found its way into business education
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND IN-ROLE JOB PERFORMANCE AMONG PRIVATE SECTOR BANK EMPLOYEES
Get PDFThe present study was conducted to identify the relationship between the facets of organizational culture and in-role job performance among the private sector bank employees of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The sample was taken from different private banks of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, thus including 133 male and 66 female employees in the study. The age of respondents ranges from 20 to 60 years. In order to measure organizational culture Organizational Culture Index (OCI) was employed. It was developed by Wallach in 1983. In-Role Job Performance was measured by using the scale developed by William and Anderson, 1991. The study results showed that bureaucratic organizational culture has significant positive relation with the in-role job performance of the employees. Whereas the findings of innovative culture shows positive relation with the in-role job performance. Results showed no significant relation of supportive culture with the in-role job performance in the sample