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Organizational Identification: Role of Proactive Vitality Management and Resources in Predicting Organizational Outcomes
Full text linkThe purpose of the current paper is to examine the role of organizational identification in predicting outcomes. Specifically, the researcher takes proactive vitality management and organizational resources as the predictor of identification. Stratified and snowball sampling techniques collect data from the service and manufacturing sectors. Results support the significant relationship of proactive vitality management and resources with organizational identification. Moreover, identification predicts both positive outcomes (innovation behavior, employee voice) and reduces the effect of negative outcomes (workplace ostracism). The current study contributes to the literature by explaining the relational mechanism between proactive vitality management and positive and negative behavior with mediating role of organizational identification. Findings will help managers get a competitive edge by promoting innovative and proactive voice behavior by reducing workplace ostracism.  
Exploring the Impact of Augmented Reality on Customer Experiences and Attitudes: A Comparative Analysis with Websites
Full text linkAugmented Reality is used by various customers’ concerned companies to augment their stimuli, shopping experiences, and customers’ purchasing behavior. Hence, AR driven enabling stimulates customer engagement and their shopping attitude by providing a vivid technology experience. Prior studies found that AR novelty, trust, and vividness influenced the customer usage attitude. There have extant literature presented in the context of AR applications, it is widely used through numerous gadgets but the author intends to explore holistic features that tend to grasp customers’ experiences and attitudes to find the variance between AR vs. Websites. AR potentially disrupted the real-world environment by providing hedonic visual benefits and eliminating the physical efforts that tend to stimulate customers who mesmerize with AR compared to a website. The author chose the Houzz AR app and its website to gather data and provide a better understanding of both scenarios. The author conducted two-field experiments to illustrate positive customer attitudes that satisfied their experience towards the AR app rather than the traditional website. AR app is vivid and novel to engage a customer and moderate their attitude towards the technology immersion. Finally, this study provides multiple implications such as unique visual illustrations, sensational features, and innovation resulting in satisfied customer experience, considering both features in real and virtual world environments
Comparison of Credit Risk Management Practices among Islamic and Public Commercial Bank’s in Pakistan
Full text linkThe main objective of this research is to explain a topic in credit risk management practices. Furthermore, this research evaluates credit risk management practices in Pakistani banks. In addition, it compares and evaluates the techniques used by currently operating Islamic banks and public commercial banks. Quantitative research methods were used in the present study. A total of 400 self-administrated questionnaires have been distributed among Pakistani employee-selected banks. SPSS version 24 has been used to analyze responses using correlation, regression, and t-tests. The purpose of this research is to observe the major elements that impact credit risk management practices, which include credit risk understanding, credit risk identification, credit risk assessment, credit risk monitoring, and credit risk analysis showing that each of these elements promoted credit risk management practices among certain institutions. This study also examined the combined impact of these five variables on Pakistan\u27s currently operating Islamic banks and public commercial banks. Finally, there are different approaches to practicing credit risk management among various institutions. The research also produced a framework for practices of credit risk management and a survey-based instrument, both of which are significant contributions
Dividend Policy and Firm Performance with Moderating Effect of Ownership Structure: Evidence from The Manufacturing Firms in Pakistan
Full text linkThe objective of this paper is to check the impact of dividend policy and firm performance with a moderating effect of ownership structure. Many studies have been made to check the impact of dividend policy on firm performance but there is not a single study that has been made yet to check the impact of dividend policy and firm performance with moderating effect of ownership structure. This research had been carried out on different non-financial sectors of Pakistan covering the firms of automobile assembler and parts manufacturing, cement and chemical manufacturing, fertilizer manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and textile manufacturing etc. The data used in carrying out this research was taken from the companies that was paying dividends and were listen in KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange. Ownership data of the firms were collected by the company’s pattern of shareholding which are published or mentioned in the company’s annual report as per Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) requirements that can be taken from the company’s website. The study shows significant positive relationship between dividend policy and firm performance. The study also shows that there is positive significant relationship between dividend policy and firm performance with moderating effect of ownership structure. Dividend policy can also have implications for a company\u27s investment and growth prospects. In general, firms that retain more of their earnings for reinvestment are likely to have higher levels of capital expenditures and research and development spending. However, dividend payments can also signal to investors that a company has confidence in its future growth prospects
Women’s Development Towards Inclusive Growth: A Study of Selected South Asian Women
Full text linkEconomic growth incorporating women\u27s participation opens many economic opportunities for women which not only upgrade women\u27s status in society but also make growth more inclusive. Improved condition and position of women in society play an important role in developing women along with enhancing their economic role. Besides explaining the significant role of women in an economy. This paper also throws some light on the need for good governance to enhance their economic role. In this context to evaluate the effect of the development of women on inclusive growth panel data models named the Fixed-Effect and Random-Effect Models have been used. Moreover, the models of White, Rogers, and Driscoll-Kraay estimators are also applied for robustness considering the three selected South Asian countries for the period between 2000-2021. The study finds that developing women play an influential role in inclusive growth and this relationship becomes more significant in the presence of good governance. Thus, it has been recommended that there should be a special focus on government policies towards women’s education, health, and political representation to make economic growth more inclusive by enhancing their economic role through their development
Does Macroeconomic and Firm Specific Factors drive Corporate Profitability? New Evidence from Pakistan
Full text linkThe aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of macroeconomic and firm specific factors on corporate profitability. Data for the period 2010-2019 is collected from listed Pakistani firms. Findings of the study reveal that corporate profitability is significantly and positively influenced by firm size and liquidity whereas corporate profitability is significantly and negatively influenced by leverage. GDP affects EPS positively but its impact on ROE and ROA is negative. Exchange rate also has a negative impact on corporate profitability. Real interest has a strong negative effect on ROA but on EPS and ROE, the effect is insignificant. Real interest has a strong negative effect on ROA but on ROE and EPS the effect is insignificant
Exploring the Nexus between Supply Chain Integration, Integrative Value-Creation, and Firm’s Performance: Mediating Roles of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Innovation Capability
Full text linkPurpose – This research aims to examine the impact of supply chain integration and Integrative value creation on Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)\u27 performance in Pakistan. We also examined the mediating impact of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Innovation Capability in these correlations.
Design/methodology/approach:
Innovative Capabilities, Integrative Value-Creation, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and supply chain integrations in Pakistani SMEs, as well as their impact on company performance, were identified and briefly contested. Hypotheses were investigated using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) on research data from 394 SMEs registered with the SMEDA (Small and Medium Enterprises Regulatory Authority of Pakistan). The quantitative analysis was completed last, followed by a discussion of the findings.
Findings
The study\u27s findings revealed that there are positive and significant connections between the factors. The beneficial association between supply chain integration and business success is mediated by innovation capability. Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Firm Performance also played a beneficial mediation influence.
Research limitations/implications
The findings are limited to SMEs in Pakistan. Future research could look into the impact of foreign investments on value creation amongst firms as of the growing figure of Internationally-owned SMEs in Pakistan, as well as the perception of unfair competition from these enterprises, this is useful. The findings of these research could have implications with regards to policy implementaion on how to encourage domestic and foreign-owned enterprises to collaborate.
Originality / Value
The current study is considered the first to explore the nexus of Supply Chain Integration (SCI) and Integrative Value Creation with Firm Performance in SMEs of Pakistan embedding the mediating roles of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy and Innovation Capability. It enriches the literature by exploring the ways to foster the firm performance through integrative value-creation and supply chain integration and validating the importance of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Innovation Capability of firms in development and enhancement of firms’ performance compared to previous studies. Moreover, it also offers various theoretical and managerial ramifications, as well as future possibilities
Effects of Perceived Value, Service Quality and Customer Trust in Home Delivery Service Staff on Customer Satisfaction: Evidence from Pakistan
Full text linkSince e-commerce has expanded rapidly in recent years, it\u27s clear that reliable delivery services are crucial to keeping customers happy. Supplying items on time, providing better service to customers, charging reasonable prices, and enhancing the supplier\u27s reputation are all significant means of retaining existing customers and attracting new ones. The study\u27s key research question is, "How important is the quality of home service?" The value that the customer attributes to the product or service has a direct impact on how satisfied they are with the purchase. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, will serve as the venue for the gathering. Four hundred users of the home delivery service were polled via email. The Smart PLS framework analyzes conceptual models using partial least squares structural equation models (PLS-SEM). These findings highlight the importance of service quality, the perceived value of the service, and trust in determining customer satisfaction. Trust allows for a connection to be created between a customer\u27s happiness and their perception of the service\u27s value, as well as between a customer\u27s satisfaction and how much they like using the service. These findings, grounded in Expectation Rejection Theory, expand the SERVQUAL model by factoring in perceived value in the presence of trust and so aid in the creation and validation of trust-based models of customer satisfaction. Managers can tell their service providers how to be more reliable and trustworthy by using the study\u27s results
Improving newcomers’ work engagement: role of organizational socialization tactics with serial mediation
Full text linkThis study aims to add knowledge to the interactionist socialization approach that influences work engagement toward the organization through a self-determination theory lens. A sample of 383 Pakistani newcomers with different educational and organizational backgrounds joined an organization within two years. The data were examined with 5000 bootstraps using the structural equation modeling approach. Organizational socialization tactics and newcomers\u27 socialization behaviors directly and positively predicted work engagement. Newcomers’ PSB encourages social capital resources and work engagement in the workplace. Our research advances the knowledge of social capital resources for effective newcomers’ adjustment that leads to work engagement, which adds to the socialization literature
Co-Opetition Symmetry and Firm Performance: A Study of Sports Goods Industry
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to examine the co-opetition and firm performance relationship through the mediating role of innovation and moderating role of trust”. This is broadly acknowledging that symmetry of co-opetition (i.e., simultaneous competition and cooperation) is achieving core advantage when firms engage in such co-opetitive relationship. Further, it is hypothesized that co-opetition has a positive influence and firm performance. The sector selected for this study is sports goods industry where requirements of co-petition are just not a requirement but also a necessity as small businesses with limited assets need heavy resources to perform internationally. Therefore, required attention was given to the effect of co-opetition on firm performance. The sample size were 415 and survey questionnaires distributed to respondents representing sports goods industry using a simple random sampling technique. The only 361 responses were useable for analysis other 54 questionnaires did not receive or not in condition to use them. The finding of this study indicated that co-opetition through innovation has a significant effect on firm performance. Furthermore, this study also verifies that the influence of trust on co-opetition and performance relationship reveals some important nuances that indicate this relationship either strong or weak. The implication of this study investigation offers that the practitioners and managers contain “optimal level” of coopetition with their competitors, which always increases firm performance. Where as “too little” and “too much” intensity of co-opetition distrust between rivals and ultimately decreases firm performance. “Finally, this study is one of the initial studies that investigating the role of innovation and trust on co-opetition and performance relationship in sports goods industry”