International Journal of Management Research and Emerging Sciences
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ROLE OF CORRUPTION AND ITS IMPACT UNDER VARIOUS REGIMES: CROSS COUNTRY ANALYSIS
Get PDFMany empirical studies investigate relationship between democracy and corruption by considering democratic and non-democratic regimes. There are many economies which are not fully democratic and autocratic, so there is a dire need to explore these relationships in case of other two categories of political regimes, such as flawed democracies and hybrid regime. Does this relationship equally hold in these political regimes? This study gauges out the linkages between corruption and economic growth for all plausible cases of political regimes. Empirical analysis includes sample of 159 countries based on different political regimes, consisting on 20 full democracies, 55 flawed democracies, 39 hybrid regime, and 53 authoritarian regimes. The data are taken from the period of 2006 to 2019. The sophisticated empirical Bayesian estimation procedure is employed to explore the association between growth and socio-economic variables. The results indicate that corruption in case of mature democracies has no significant effect on economic growth While in autocracies has significant positive effect on economic growth. However, corruption has negative effect on economic growth in flawed democracies and hybrid regim
KNOWLEDGE SHARING TOOLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR OF PAKISTAN: THE ROLE OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AS MEDIATOR
Get PDFIn global era, business and economies are experiencing continuous revision due to lack of knowledge and intangible resources. Now a day, to attain competitive advantage in knowledge based economies, organization is using different techniques to manage employee knowledge. This study examines the impact of knowledge sharing tool on organizational innovation by using mediating role of job satisfaction and organization commitment and to test this relationship through empirical in the context of Pakistan. Convenient sampling technique is used to collect data from the 400 teachers of public universities, through survey questionnaire. Results shows that Knowledge sharing tools have positive impact the organizational innovation. Moreover, the findings also confirm that job satisfaction and organization commitment mediate the relationship among knowledge sharing tools and organizational innovation. Moreover, employee trusts along with organization commitment and job satisfaction encouraging the innovation behavior. This research contributed in theoretical and practical by considering trust as a knowledge sharing tool influence on organization innovation with mediation analysis of job satisfaction and organization commitment. Comparative study may be conducted in future from public and private universit
E-COMMENTS IN BUSINESS
Get PDFInternet and social media have dramatically changed the pattern of the business environment. People use several social media applications (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc.) to share their personal experiences by e-comments about products and services of the organizations. E-comments create radical effects on business management practices because it can reach millions of people within a short time. Therefore, customers prefer to review e-comments as a reference before making any purchasing decisions. That’s why business practitioners are interested in online e-comments’ review to identify the behavior and intentions of their customers. Indeed, organizations also use such type of social media platforms to promote their products and services. However, there is limited research on the impact of e-comments on business management practices. Therefore, this theoretical study aimed to investigate and discuss the impacts of e-comments on business management practice
DEBT LAFFER CURVE ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES
Get PDFThis study explores that whether the debt financing or debt forgiving would be suitable for the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). Debt Laffer curve theory has been tested in 21 HIPCs by applying price equation of debt, maximized value of debt and price elasticity approach over the period of 1980 to 2014. The maximized value of debt criterion implies that Chad is not eligible for the debt write-off strategy in comparison with the rest of the countries. By applying price elasticity approach, it is observed that only Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, and Republic of Congo are eligible for debt financing while the remaining countries should adopt debt write-off facility. The crux of the study is that overall debt forgiveness is suitable for the HIPCs. Moreover, it is also in the favor of both the creditor countries and various international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF and HIPCs itself. The study suggests that the creditors should continue to be financing along with improving structural policies and institutions of the HIPC
KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND PERFORMANCE: A MEDIATING ROLE OF INNOVATION
Get PDFThe Resource-Based View (RBV) states the intangible resources as knowledge resources that provide better and more strategic outcomes than tangible resources of the organization. In this discourse, this study inclines to investigate the role of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing practicing (KSP) on the performance of banks with a mediating role of innovation. The existing instrument is utilized to gather the information from 268 managers from the sample size of 42 banks. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) utilized to assess the accuracy of the model. The results of the study shed light that innovation altogether intervenes in the relationship between both explicit and tacit knowledge-driven performance. Further, findings of the study postulate that explicit KSP fundamentally gives momentum to the performance of banks comparatively tacit KPS thus emphasizes that managers need to increase the flow of tacit KSP through social networking, etc
NEWCOMERS’ SOCIALIZATION TACTICS AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT: INTERPLAY OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND PRIOR RELATIONSHIPS
Get PDFSocialization is a necessary process that helps to manage new talent in the organization in order to survive and thrive in the global market. Numerous studies show that organizational socialization tactics affect workers’ affective commitment. However, the processes through which affective commitment is established during socialization is still unclear. We propose the socialization tactics generate newcomers perceived organizational support (POS) and develop affective commitment. Furthermore, pre-establish links within the organization play a contingency role in the socialization process. Surprisingly, there is no study which theoretically and empirically investigates these referral’s effects on newcomers’ socialization process and its workplace outcomes. We conducted a quantitative sectional survey from 228 newcomers of different organizations. The findings reveal that socialization tactics positively relate to the affective commitment through the mediation of POS and the POS-affective commitment is stronger when prior relationships are high. However, this contingent effect does not empirically support the socialization tactics-POS relationship. The implications are discussed, and future directions are provided
HEALTH CARE MEDIA CAMPAIGNS IN PAKISTAN: KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF MOTHERS REGARDING POLIO IMMUNIZATION
Get PDFPakistan is faced by a number of health care challenges and battle against polio is still continued. Media can play an effective role through health care campaigns in creating awareness and educating the masses about the perilous and life threatening consequences of diseases, polio in particular. The efficacy of such campaigns is based on widespread mass media outreach. The study aims to identify the media that was the most effective in educating the mothers regarding the infectious disease polio and its immunization in Lahore, Pakistan. It also aims to find out the impact of media on the socio-demographic variables of the respondents. As many as 200 mothers residing in Lahore were surveyed to measure their knowledge, attitudes and practices towards polio immunization. The results of the study show that television channels were the most effective source of information about polio campaigns and immunization as compared to other sources of mass media. The study also determined that literate mothers from urban areas were more vigilant as compared to others with low literacy rate. Moreover, younger mothers had poor knowledge about polio immunization as compared to elderly mothers. Therefore, it is concluded that print, electronic, digital, social, outdoor media and interpersonal communication channels should join hands in hands to eradicate polio and make Pakistan a polio-free countr
LEAN MANUFACTURING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: A CASE OF MALAYSIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Get PDFPurpose: It is not necessary that massive investment in automobile industry is beneficial for all the nations. Some countries like Malaysia are facing different issues regarding Financial Performance (FP) due to the intensity of worldwide competition. To address this issue, this study is being conducting to investigate the role of lean manufacturing in the FP of Malaysian automobile industry.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study followed quantitative research approach and survey was preferred to collect required data from managerial staff of Malaysian automobile company with the help of questionnaire. Total 500 questionnaires were used and distributed with the help of simple random sampling technique. Study utilized PLS-SEM to investigate end the impact of lean manufacturing on FP of Malaysian Automobile Industry.
Findings: Results of the study revealed a strong connection between lean manufacturing and FP. Lean manufacturing has positive impact on FP of Malaysian automobile industry. Moreover, quality management is important to sustain the link between lean manufacturing and FP.
Implications/Originality/Value: This study is contributed in the body of knowledge by highlighting the lean manufacturing practices to promote FP. As this study highlighted various lean manufacturing practices to enhance FP, therefore, it is significant for practitioner
IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET ON SMES PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN
No full textPurpose: The study is an effort to identify the effects of strategic innovation on performance of small and medium enterprises of Pakistan. The study evaluated the effects of product innovation, process innovation and market innovation on performance of small and medium enterprises of Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The sample was drawn from the 102 small and medium enterprises which were operating in the Pakistan. Data was collected from employees of the small and medium size enterprises operating in Pakistan. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was analyzed through SPSS software.
Findings: The findings of the study show a positive relationship between innovation and performance. Results proved that introducing new products helps the small and medium size enterprises to increase their performance, or enhancement of current product also helps small and medium size enterprises to increase the performance.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study concludes that in current competitive business environment, it is necessary for firm to be innovative in their products, processes and market to enhance their performance. Study findings conclude that strategic innovation is one of the most important factors of the firm for their performanc
QUALITATIVE STUDY ON LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR ISLAMIC BANKS OF PAKISTAN
Get PDFPurpose: This is a qualitative research that gives an insight into liquidity management process of Islamic banks and exploring banker’s perspective in Pakistan. Interviews were used as a research instrument through which bankers were gotten some information about products, services and liquidity services proffered by banks, practices of liquidity management, structural support in liquidity management, SBP job in liquidity management and advertising system to draw in depositors.
Design/Methodology/Approach: There were 15 interviews conducted with the bankers from Islamic Banks, analyzed through thematic analysis, indicating that Islamic banks have growing potential in the market. Considering deposits as significant perspective in liquidity management of banking sector different advertising related viewpoints were watched
Findings: It was perceived that Islamic banks are experiencing laudable growth and customer attraction. Reason being the notion that the Islamic banks are shariah compliant, presence of muftis in its shariah board, fluctuating profit rates and the manner in which it is gone before. While other critic that calculations are based on KIBOR and elements of interest still exits even in Islamic banks.
Implications/Originality/Value: Furthermore,conventional marketing procedures were also practiced by Islamic banks such as advanced media or print, door-door marketing, reference use, depending on word-ofmouth and product and service improvement, difference in opinion is due to unsatisfactory guidance by Islamic Banks to their customer