Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (ISSN 1997-8553)
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Mediating Role of Information and Communication Technology between e-HRM and Organizational Performance in Pakistan
Get PDFEvery year, businesses devote a substantial portion of their funds to purchase digital human resource management systems. The area is rapidly evolving, and a growing number of businesses are investing in e-HRM. The failure to embrace new technologies caused problems to textile sector to satisfy the operational demands of the industry. Quantitative approach is used to find the relationship between e-HRM, information communication technology (ICT) and organizational performance (OP) in textile industry of Pakistan. The study used a cluster sampling technique for data collection and SPSS and Smart-PLS software were used for data analysis. This study finds association between e-HRM and OP through ICT. It assists HR practitioners increasing their understanding of the essential role being played in achieving sustainably competitive advantage and company success by focusing on e-HRM activities. The key findings of this research emphasizes that e-HRM has an optimistic link with OP, which reduces costs and improves procedures so that quicker processes and functions may be performed. The study also provides theoretical and managerial implications
Influence of Leadership Competencies on Transport Infrastructure Projects’ Success: A Mediated Moderation through Innovative-Work-Behavior and the Project Type
Get PDFThis paper intends to examine the influence of competencies of project leaders on success of transport infrastructure development projects. Subsequently, to decide on intervening role of innovative-work-behavior on project success. Lastly, investigating contingent effect of project type as moderator in objectifying the impact of innovative-work-behavior on project success. In order to justify key ambitions of intended study, the constructs were measured using a questionnaire-based survey from transport infrastructure development departments of Lahore, Pakistan. Validation of theoretical model was confirmed by means of structural equation modeling using Amos. Study findings suggest that innovative-work behavior of project employees completely mediates effect incurred by leadership competencies on project success. Likewise project type with respect to strategic importance, contract type, application area and complexity moderates the relationship concerning innovative-work-behavior and project success. This study accounts for practical findings benefiting project managers in capitalizing on their leadership capabilities and promoting innovation within their teams for successfully accomplishing transport infrastructure projects. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that through taking maximum advantage of its empirical endorsement for achieving project success through development and enactment of certain key leadership competencies of project managers will encourage innovative actions of employees based on diverse project characteristics
The Influence of Psychological Ownership and Creative Self-Efficacy on Employee Creative Performance
Get PDFThis study examined the influence of employee psychological ownership (PO) and creative self-efficacy (CSE) on employees\u27 creative performance (ECP) and whether CSE moderates the impact of PO on ECP. The study design was cross-sectional and quantitative, while data were collected from 148 public and private organizations. The participants comprised 54.7% women and 45.3% men, with a mean age of 39.75 (SD = 8.45). The statistical tests applied to the data were regression analysis (complemented with the PROCESS tool) and executed SPSS version 27. The hypotheses tested were confirmed as predicted. PO and CSE independently positively affected ECP, and the interaction of CSE and PO on ECP was significant. Simple slope analysis revealed that the positive influence of PO on ECP was more potent when CSE was high than when it was low
Social Sustainability Studies in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis Using VOSviewer Software
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to provide a bibliometric analysis of social sustainability literature in the business and management field, produced from 2001 to April 2021. The information was retrieved from the WoS database and the VOSviewer Software was used for data analyses. The analyses allowed us to identify the most influential authors, the most cited articles, the most highly cited journals, and the countries that have made the most relevant contribution to building this field of knowledge. Likewise, we conducted a references co-citation to identify the author and topics that constitute the foundations of this topic in the business area. Likewise, the co-occurrence network analysis for popular keywords was conducted, obtaining 4 clusters that indicate the main streams of the study of social sustainability research. Besides, a content analysis was conducted in the five resultant clusters of bibliographic coupling identifying the main themes studied in social sustainability in the business and management field. Finally, a co-citation analysis was conducted. This bibliometric mapping research concludes that social sustainability has acquired an increasing academic interest by scholars, according to the number of publications retrieved in WoS. Furthermore, result is corroborating by the co-word analysis, which shows that social sustainability in business and management has been mainly centred on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. The detailed results of this bibliometric study and its practical implications are discussed
Ambidextrous Leadership, Creative Self-Efficacy, Self-Resilience, Trust in Supervisor and Employee Innovative Performance in the telecom industry of Pakistan
Get PDFThis study analyses how ICT leaders/ managers / supervisors’ ambidextrous leadership associates with the innovative performance of employees through trust in the supervisor, self-resilience, and creative self-efficacy. Data was collected in total from 450 employees ranging from the first line workers i.e., 350, while 100 managers / supervisors within the time span of 2 weeks. The SPSS and AMOS v23 software were used for the data analysis of survey results. This study used ambidexterity theory for leadership and for employees’ perspective used to broaden and build theory. This study hypothesized that there is a relationship between ambidextrous leadership, self-resilience, and trust in supervisor that affects the innovative performance of employees, such that ambidextrous leadership has the strongest positive relationship with innovative performance when employees have high levels of self-resilience and trust in supervisor. Moreover, creative self-efficacy mediates the relationship between the ambidextrous leadership and employee innovative performance. Results indicate that there is a positive effect of ambidextrous leadership on employee innovative performance when the self-resilient of employees are high and they trust their managers or supervisors at work place
Inclusive Leadership and Employees Knowledge Hiding Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust and Affective Commitment as a Moderator
Get PDFGrounded in Social Learning Theory, this study explores the connection between Inclusive Leadership and Knowledge Hiding Behavior, to better understand the mechanism that how inclusive leadership influences knowledge hiding, and reasons behind certain individuals; dissimilar to others; are comparatively less probable to involve in knowledge hiding under inclusive leadership. This study proposes that Interpersonal trust mediates, and, Affective Commitment moderates the relationship between inclusive leadership, versus knowledge hiding. Data were collected from 297 employees through questionnaire currently enrolled in MBA program in a large private sector university of Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis and Process Macro were used to ascertain the reliabilities, validities and hypothesized model through SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0.
The findings tell us that inclusive leadership negatively and significantly influences knowledge hiding. Further, the findings exhibit thar interpersonal trust mediates, and, affective commitment, reveals a moderating connection between inclusive leadership, and knowledge hiding. This could be considered one of the pioneer studies which tend to contribute to the literature of knowledge hiding and leadership, by strengthening association between inclusive leadership and knowledge hiding behaviors, converging on the mechanism and boundaries of the relationship
The Impact of Social Media Usage on Small and Micro Social Commerce Enterprises in Malaysia
Get PDFDue to the Covid-19 pandemic and movement control order (MCO), many small and micro-sized enterprises in Malaysia have been relying on social media platforms to promote and sell their products. Nonetheless, only a few studies were conducted on the success of this practice. The question of whether social media can indeed have an impact on social commerce performance remains unanswered. This study used mediating variables of social media in the relationship among ease of use, satisfaction, trust, perceived usefulness, social commerce performance, and the direct effect of social media use on social commerce performance among small and micro-enterprises in Malaysia. The data were collected from 100 business owners / managers of Malaysian small and microenterprises using social media for business. The study uses SPSS and PLS-SEM (partial least square based structural equation modeling) software for the data analysis. The results show that perceived usefulness, ease of use, satisfaction, and trust significantly impact social media use. The result also show that social media use positively impacts social commerce performance. This study consequently suggests that small and micro-enterprise owners / managers in Malaysia should effectively use social media to increase the scommerce performance for sustainable growth. They should fully utilize the popularity of the use of social media by providing useful and reliable information about their products or services to boost trust among potential buyers
Green Intellectual Capital and Corporate Economic Sustainability: The Mediating Role of Financial Condition
Get PDFThis study aims to assess the effect of green intellectual capital on corporate economic sustainability in the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. Moreover, it also investigates whether the financial condition of a firm mediates the relationship between green intellectual capital and corporate economic sustainability. Data from the managers of 294 manufacturing firms were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. Structural equational modeling has been used for hypotheses testing. Results indicate that green human capital and green relational capital significantly influence corporate economic sustainability while the effect of green structural capital is not significant. The results also elucidate that the financial conditions of a firm significantly mediate the impacts of green human capital, green structural capital, and green relational capital on corporate economic sustainability. Green intellectual capital facilitates the production of eco-friendly products and contributes to reducing waste, cost, time, and emission of harmful gases. Finally, study concludes that organizations should invest in green intellectual capital to meet the objective of corporate economic sustainability
Network Embeddedness and Innovation Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises: Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity
Get PDFAim of this study is to identify the effect of network embeddedness on innovative performance of small and medium enterprise (SME) firms. Further, this research also seeks the mediating role of absorptive capacity of SME firms based upon a resource-based view and social network theory. Data is analyzed by applying multiple linear regression and structural equation modeling using SPSS and AMOS respectively. Findings of this study reveal that network embeddedness and innovation performance are positively related and absorptive capacity fully mediates between network embeddedness and innovation performance. This study explains how and when network embeddedness positively influences innovation performance for developing new products and creating new technologies for competing with other players of SME firms based upon the theoretical concept of social network theory and resource-based vie
Dynamic Common Correlated Effects of Public Debt on Energy Poverty Alleviation in OIC Member Countries: Does Institutional Performance Matter?
Get PDFExtensive literature explored debt-growth, growth-energy usage, and growth-poverty link. However, the debt and energy poverty (EP) has received less focus. Despite having a significant impact of these two on economic performance and millions of people\u27s lives. This study employs a modern sets of econometrics approach to resolve the cross-sectional dependency (CSD) and heterogeneity influence of debt on EP alleviation and also explore the moderating role of institutional quality (IQ) from 2000 to 2017 in developing countries of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Energy poverty alleviation index is obtained by recruiting four different indicators of energy poverty. We employ dynamic common correlated effect estimator introduced by Chudik and Pesaran (2015) that is suitable in case of cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity. Long run outcomes of the study disclose nonlinear association between public debt and EP alleviation indicating that public debt is conducive for EP reduction up to certain level, but after that, any additional public debt hurts the energy poverty alleviation. Results of the interaction term of the study show that IQ strongly impacts the effect of public debt. On the base of empirical outcomes, it is recommended that public debt should be maintained at a certain level and also the developing countries of OIC should strength their institutional efficiency as it enhances the EP alleviation. This is the novel study that investigates properly the role of institutional performance in debt-energy poverty link in OIC developing countries