The purpose of this paper is to establish the role of emotional intelligence in enhancing organizational performance of the employees in the health care sector, while motivation is seen as a moderating factor that strengthens the relationship of the two variables. To understand the concept in the health sector, 200 respondents were selected to provide data on self-administered structured questionnaires. [...]
Youth and entrepreneurship are the two most legit formulations to cater to the ever-changing needs of today's mode of production. Youth always bring innovation, improvisation, and creativity into society. At the same time, businesses foster all the relevant factors for the sustainable development of people and the community to accomplish Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). New jobs, economic well-being, and equal [...]
This research aims to propose extension of existing asset pricing models by including distress risk anomaly to enhance their predictive ability. It explores in detail the shortcomings of existing asset pricing models and deviation between theoretical and empirical evidences. The limitations of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) lead to the development of various asset pricing models with the inclusion of [...]
The sectoral output and income inequality nexus has attracted the attention of economists in recent years. The present study contributes to the existing literature on the sectoral output and income inequality nexus in G7 economies. To serve this purpose, the study uses panel autoregressive distributed lag (PARDL) methodology. The PARDL methodology suggests the long-run and short-run relationship among all variables [...]
An evolution in the apparel retail industry from physical to online is due to the large number of internet users to such an extent that buying from many channels is a new norm in the apparel industry as many retailers are transitioning from physical to online such as through social media, mobile commerce, smart phones, etcetera. Nevertheless, an integrated and [...]
The current study intended to examine the consumer intention while purchasing locally assembled and imported cars. Hence, the study proposed a model which is underpinned with social identity theory. The research model employed consumer ethnocentrism, self-congruity product characteristic, perceived relative price, brand personality and service quality. The current study identify research gap and found to the best knowledge of researchers [...]
In this study, we invoke the theoretical notion of different competitive conditions in lending and deposit market power for the banking industry of Pakistan. We find highly monopolistic conditions in lending market whereby majority of the banks are enjoying high market power. On the other hand, the deposit market is found to be highly competitive. Subsequently, we find the effects [...]
Service quality and customer perception vary across business sectors. The youth plays a vital role in determining the quality of service in large food retail outlets in South Africa in general and most notably in the Cape Metropolis. This study investigated the most critical factors of service quality that are significant in the Millennials perception, used to measure quality in [...]
Talent attraction is contemporarily subject to extensive research due to prevalent gaps which hold significance in the field of human resource management. This article describes how students graduating from a business school in Karachi, Pakistan perceive various organizational factors in terms of their impact on the attractiveness of the firm as a place to work. The framework used in the [...]
This study is the first to examine a serial mediation model that includes environmental concern, self-green image congruence, green brand trust, and green purchase intention. Based on data from a sample that included 349 Saudi individuals, the analyses supported most mechanisms flowing from environmental concern to self-image congruence and green brand trust in serial. The direct relationship of environmental concern [...]
The study aims to explore the factors influencing the accessibility of small and medium-sized enterprises to institutional finance and moderating role of government supports in the relationship between collateral security, interest rates, financial information, business ownership, and accessibility to finance facilities in Pakistan. The moderation multiple regression analysis was applied for analysis using SMART PLS3.0 software. A fully structured [...]
This study intended to explore causal relationships between the corporate performance and financial decisions of the firms which are listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX). This study has used Return on assets and Tobin's Q as the measures of accounting performance and market performance respectively. To effectively examine the causal structure of corporate financing, investment, dividend payout decisions, and [...]
Studies conducted in the field of resilience have proven the role of resilience in their clinical presentations, but few studies investigated the relationship between resilience and painrelated fear. However, there are limited studies to investigates the moderating role of self-resilience along with mediating role of avoidance behavior in fear of COVID-19. The survey questionnaire is used to collect responses from [...]