596 research outputs found
Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship: insights from Pakistan
No full textSustainable corporate entrepreneurship (SCE) is the process of taking an opportunity-centred approach to latent and manifest social and/or environmental problems in order to create shared value, i.e. value for the business and society simultaneously. In practice, this means launching green products, conserving the use of natural resources, educating stakeholders, engaging in trust-building activities, greening of the supply chain, showing concern for employees, and producing products in response to unmet societal needs. SCE is an emerging field, which has been mostly studied in the context of individual entrepreneurs and small businesses in developed countries. This research aims to demonstrate the importance of SCE in creating shared value in the context of a developing country. I adopt a social constructionist approach in order to reveal how corporate managers construct their reality regarding what SCE means to them, and how and why they enact this socially constructed reality in their social world. Thus, this study makes a methodological contribution by revealing the social construction of SCE, as social constructionism has not been adopted in previous studies to explore the process of SCE.I explore the process of SCE by drawing on case studies of nine corporations across three sectors of oil marketing, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverages in Pakistan. Empirically, this study draws on 34 semi-structured interviews conducted with the managers of four local companies and subsidiaries of five leading multinational companies operating in Pakistan. This thesis demonstrates important sectoral differences in the SCE approach of each of the sectors analysed, by developing a conceptual map of SCE for each sector, in addition to revealing significant differences in the SCE approach of local and multinational companies. Thus, the study contributes to the existing knowledge on SCE by highlighting the context sensitivity of the process of SCE, which extant research on SCE fails to recognize. Moreover, extant research on SCE only focuses on the outcome of SCE initiatives and neglects the contextual challenges of engaging in the process of SCE. Through this research, I also highlight important contextual challenges faced by the case companies in creating shared value. Thus, this thesis moves the field of SCE forward by empirically operationalizing the concepts of SCE and shared value, identifying sectoral differentials of SCE approach within a developing country and describing the contextual challenges of engaging in SCE practices, which remain un-explored in extant research on sustainable entrepreneurship.Despite the above mentioned contributions to knowledge, the study has its limitations. This thesis relies heavily on interviews of corporate managers who may engage in impression management, i.e. making big claims regarding their company’s involvement in SCE. Secondly, the study is confined to how corporate managers construct their reality regarding the process of SCE. The general public’s views about the SCE initiatives of the case companies were not taken in to consideration. Hence this thesis does not present the entire picture of how SCE is practised by companies and perceived by consumers in Pakistan. Future research could address these limitations by exploring the perceptions of the general public towards the SCE initiatives of the case companies in the current study.<br/
University management and organisational change: a dynamic institutional perspective
No full textThe external task environment of universities has changed significantly due to a combination of major change factors, including increasing globalisation of the educational system, the increasing international mobility and reach of the students and staff, the wider ‘marketisation’ of higher education and more specific structural, governance and institutional changes within the global education system. These changes raise significant challenges for university management and leadership. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the article demonstrates importance of leadership agency and associated qualities of university leadership for balancing plural institutional logics that help drive organisational transformation in times of major paradigmatic changes
The determinants of housing price in Sabah, Malaysia / Muhammad Atiq Aiman Mohd Sedek
No full textResidential homes are a basic necessity for the community to improve their quality of life as well
as economic goods to the nation. This study points to look at the determinants of Housing Price
in Sabah from 2000 until 2017. The nonstop increase of housing price in Sabah is becoming one
of the hot issues talked about these days. This study applied four basic theories which concern
with four major issues which are the population growth, the location and physical attributes,
demand and supply and the last one is externalities. Basically, the theories used in this study deal
with these four factors which influence the rate of house pricing. Ordinary Least Square (OLS)
method is implemented to this study. The findings give benefit to various parties such as
investors, housing developers, speculators and home buyers. The results concluded that size floor
and population growth have the major effects in determining the housing price
A Comparative Study on Women's Betrayal In Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
No full textThis study is comparing women’s betrayal in two novels, Wild Swans a novel by Jung Chang and the Patience Stone a novel by Atiq Rahimi. The fact that Chinese’ women and Afghan women’s share the common issue, that is patriarchal one, the former faces the superior communist party, whilst, the latter faces the Mullah, the influential spiritual leader. Then, the women’s betrayal is worthy of analysis. The word ‘betrayal’ turns out to have a positive connotation instead of a negative one as heard in everyday life. Using descriptive and dramatic method, the study finds that both women in both novels have similarities and differences in their betrayal seen from the way they speak as well as act. In the similarities, both women betray the powerful people and their husbands, whilst, the differences are that people in power refer to the political parties in Wild Swans, a novel by Jung Chang, to the Mullah, a religious leader in the Patience Stone, a novel by Atiq Rahimi besides the husband is loyal to the political party in Wild Swans and to the religious teaching in the Patience Stone. Eventually, comparing women’s betrayal is worth a study since their betrayal gives a new life concept that women should play important roles in society not just men
Atiq Rahimi’s Exophonic Entanglements: Multilingual and Multimodal Poetics
No full textIn 2008, first-generation Afghan migrant novelist-artist Atiq Rahimi published his first translingual work in French, Syngué Sabour: Pierre de patience. This article interrogates his multilingual and multimodal aesthetics across his translingual oeuvre. In his exophonic novel Les Porteurs d’eau (2019), Rahimi valorizes a polyvocal and culturally diverse Central Asian history. The Prix Goncourt–awarded author introduces Afghanistan’s past and present beyond its intracultural challenges. The epitome of the Rahimi-esque aesthetic is the author’s publication L’Invité du miroir (2020), which acts as a revolt, a transnational dialectic crossroads where multilingual fiction meets classical Persian calligraphy and nonfiction to explore the human spirit
Preparation and characterization of copper (I) iodide thin films prepared by spin coating method at different molarities of solution / Muhammad ' Atiq Azman
No full textThis work will show the effect of using different moralities of solution on Cul thin films. The material that used in preparing thin film is Cul that have been synthesized using chemical vapor deposition method. The method used to deposit the solution onto the glass substrate for preparing thin film was spin coating technique. The purpose using glass substrate is for characterization the physical, electrical and optical properties. It was characterized by using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), UV-Vis-NIR measurement and two point probe I-V measurement. For physical properties, the nanostructure Cul thin films can be seen through AFM measurement. The value of transmittance, absorption coefficient and optical was concentrated on characterization the optical properties. Next for electrical properties, the main purpose is to study on its resistivity and conductivity
Dialogical Intervention of Material Agency in Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes
No full textThis paper examines how material agency embodied by the land, ruins, silence, and objects involves in a dialogical relationship with human trauma and memory in Atiq Rahimi’s Earth and Ashes. The novella portrays Dastageer, an elderly survivor of a bombed Afghan village, journeying with his grandson Yassin through a devastated landscape. The narrative employs evocative imagery and second-person address to interweave the responses of the terrain into the emotional and psychological trajectories of the protagonists. This study relies on trauma theory and eco-critical concepts for the analysis of selected literary text. The research highlights how the environment actively speaks through Dastageer’s reveries and Yassin’s innocent misinterpretation of deafness believing that others have lost their voices rather than his hearing that poignantly illustrates a material voice in rupture. The land bears witness to atrocity and become a counterpart to human testimony in the novel. The novel’s sparse yet charged prose transforms landscape into a co-author of memory, grief, and unspoken history
Flood detector / Muhammad Atiq Aminudin and Mohamad Helmi Akmal Kamarul Arifin
No full textThe flood detector is designed to see the efficiency of water detection that leakage from the human house that will harmful to their furniture and also the electric devices inside their house. Other than that, several problem about the flood in certain house for example a water tube broke in middle of the night without the occupant notice and it will cause many damage in the house because of the water. Other than that, wasting of water also one of the problem that encourage we to accomplished this project such as the water pipe in the bathroom damage or forgotten to close it that will waste many water. The calculated parameters have been optimized using some software such as MPLAB that function as to write any type of program that can be transferred into machine code that can verify in PIC ( Programmable Integrated Circuit ) and personalize into the hardware. Before that, we also use a software names PROTEUS that the program function as a simulation before we simulate in hardware. From this software we can make some troubleshoot and detect our problem that easy and fast to overcome it. We also should get the wanted result that the output of project is LED green and LED red function and piezo buzzer also should function. It is observed that the gain is improved the problem of human being in their life
Do Energy Transition and International Tourism Mitigate Environmental Emissions? The Case of SCO Economies: Muhammad Sajid Ameen, Feroze Ali, and Muhammad Atiq-ur-Rehman
No full textThis study examines the role of energy transition and international tourism in alleviating environmental emissions in the case of selected Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries for 1992–2022. Ecological footprint has been taken as a proxy for environmental emissions. Along with energy transition and international tourism, GDP per capita is also incorporated as an independent variable to check the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. To find the cross-sectional dependency among selected economies, the cross-sectional dependence (CD) test was used. Due to geographical reasons, cross-country spillover special effects are possible among the eight SCO economies. After testing the unitroots of the variables, two empirical approaches have been used for the empirical findings: fixed effect regression with Driscoll-Kraay (DK) standard errors and the method of moment’s quintile regression (MMQR). The empirical results indicate that the EKC hypothesis is not valid in the case of the eight selected SCO countries. Though energy transition has reduced environmental emissions in the economies under consideration, the impact of international tourism on the population is statistically insignificant. We can conclude and propose for countries in this region to focus on renewable energy source
Gamma radioactivity and Environmental radiation risks of Granitoids in Central and Western Gilgit-Baltistan, Himalayas, North Pakistan
No full textThe study analyzed the gamma radioactivity levels due to radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, and 40K) by the Gamma-Ray spectrometry method and calculated health hazards in rocks in Central and Western Gilgit-Baltistan, North Pakistan. The results of average activity concentrations of collected rock samples were 714.82 Bq kg−1 for 40K, 44.47 Bq kg−1 for 232Th, and 56.21 Bq kg−1 for 226Ra, respectively. The values of Indoor Excessive Lifetime Cancer Risk ELCR (in) in the samples are much greater than the permissible limit of 1.19 × 10−3. The values are also higher than safe limits for building materials (0.31 × 10−3) for seven samples. According to statistical analysis, the calculation shows the correlation coefficient value higher than the safe limit. Between 226Ra and 232Th correlation coefficient value is (0.92) and 40K and 226Ra correlation coefficient value (0.97) seemed to be positively high value. For Pearson’s correlation p < 0.05 is considered a safe limit but calculations find out the values for p > 0.05. For Absorbed Dose (D), Effective dose (H), Annual Equivalent dose (E), And most important lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) R2 = 0.99 which shows a strong correlation between them. We have concluded that areas, where these rocks are exposed on a large scale, are not suitable for living. The diorite, granite, leucogranite, pegmatite, amphibolite, and gneiss are highly radioactive and should not be used as a building material.
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