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Examining the Role of Knowledge Sharing in Promoting Innovation in the Service Sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe present research paper aims to conduct an in-depth investigation to determine how knowledge sharing influences experimental innovation, exploitative innovation, and also their concurrent form, i.e. ambidextrous innovation. To achieve this aim successfully, the principles of causal research positivist paradigm is followed. Data is gathered from 192 lower and middle managers in different private organizations in the service sector of Pakistan and is analyzed through the techniques of inferential statistics, such as, regression, correlation and factor analysis. The main findings of the present study reveal that there is a significant positive influence of knowledge gathering on exploitative, experimental and ambidextrous innovation. While, there is a significant positive impact of knowledge contribution from inside the department on the ambidextrous and exploitative innovation. In contrast, there is no statistically significant impact of knowledge contribution from outside the department on any of the three strategies of innovation. The study hopes to draw the attention of the academicians and practitioners towards the significant role of knowledge sharing on the dimensions of innovation. Keywords: knowledge, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation, exploitative innovation, experimental innovation, ambidexterity innovatio
Contributing Factors and Consequences of Corporate Governance in Small Pakistani Listed Companies
Get PDFIn this research, the contributing factors of corporate governance practices and their consequences are examined in the context of small Pakistani companies traded on Karachi Stock Exchange before the year 2006. The researcher develops an entirely new database in order to facilitate the construction of an index to determine the corporate governance practices of all 312 companies included in the sample and to evaluate their performances. The study notes that a number of organizational characteristics, such as the nature of auditor, market value of equity, leverage, ownership structure of the company, and composition and size of the boards, are closely associated with effective corporate governance practices. Furthermore, the study provides substantiation that effectual adherence to corporate governance regulations not only enhances the organizational performance, but also improves the quality of reported earnings. In the light of the achieved findings, the study concludes that despite the fact that abidance of governance regulations and practices is likely to enhance the organizational performance, small companies that have constrained resources may choose not to follow or implement them. Therefore, the shareholders and management of these companies are required to take more notice of the pluses and minuses of abiding by the governance systems Keywords: Corporate governance, small Pakistani listed companies, accruals quality, Karachi Stock Exchange, company performance, Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan
Employee Silence as a Determinant of Organizational Commitment: Evidence from the Higher Education Sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe constructs of employee silence and organizational commitment have been researched very well individually, however very few studies examine how they both are related with each other. The purpose of this research is to empirically determine how the silence of an employee impacts his/her commitment to the organization. To achieve this purpose, data is collected from one-twenty-four people working in the higher education institutions of the capital region of Pakistan. Data is then subjected to various kinds of statistical tests to ensure the achievement of reliable results. The results revealed that employee silence is negatively associated with and a statistically significant predictor of organizational commitment. Keywords: Employee silence, organizational commitment, acquiescent silence, quiescent silence, pro-social silenc
Role of work-family conflict in job burnout: support from the banking sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe main aim of this study is to determine the relationship between work-family conflict (WFC) and job burnout experienced by an employee. This study follows a cross-sectional and quantitative approach. Self-administered, ordinal scale based questionnaires are used as an instrument to collect the responses from 200 respondents, working in the head offices of two private banks in Islamabad, Pakistan. Kendall tau-b rank correlation coefficient, linear regression and one-way ANOVA are employed for testing conceptual and mathematical model. The results of statistical analysis shows that both the domains of work-family conflict i.e. family interference with work and work interference with family, significantly and positively influence the job burnout of employees. Organizations must take an initiative to resolve the work-family conflict so that the employees devote their full capacity to work and also be able to meet their family requirements easily
Identifying the Factors Influencing Organizational Health: A Study of Pakistani Medical Colleges
Get PDFOrganizational health, particularly, organizational health of educational institutions, is an under-researched area in Pakistan. Despite of compelling evidence that organizational health has serious, positive consequences on the wellbeing, development, and performance of the employees, as well as the organization, very little research has been conducted on this construct. Using a descriptive and quantitative research approach, the present study intends to determine the key factors that influence the organizational health of Pakistani medical colleges (OHPMC). A questionnaire for determining the factors influencing OHPMC has been specifically designed keeping in view the contextual requirements. Two hundred faculty members from four medical colleges in Rawalpindi are selected as the sample subjects. Statistical tool and techniques such as, descriptive analysis, scale reliability analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis are conducted on the collected data. The results achieved through all these analysis will help the academicians and practitioners to recognize the factors that influence the OHPMC and take necessary measures to enhance them
Knowledge creation and firm performance: Is innovation the missing link?
No full textThis research analyzes the interrelationship among knowledge creation, innovation and firm performance using 350 surveys distributed to middle managers of three Pakistani telecommunication companies. The statistical results confirm the direct association between both knowledge creation and firm performance, and innovation and firm performance. Furthermore, results highlight a potential mechanism for the impact of knowledge creation on firm performance: the partial mediating role of innovation. Results not only present insights to address the question of what drives firm performance, but also contribute to integrate the literature on knowledge management and innovation management. The study advises practitioners to focus on learning-conducive cultures, flexible structures and learning-supportive leadership as strategies to effectively leverage organizational innovation and knowledge creation capacity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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