SAJMS - South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

The Impact of Personal and Cultural Factors on Green Buying Intentions with Mediating Roles of Environmental Attitude and Eco-Labels as Well as Gender as a Moderator

Research Article

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of personality traits of consumers regarding their green buying intention by measuring the mediation effects of eco-labels and environmental attitude along with the moderation of gender. To the researchers' best knowledge, there is a lack of research in developing countries in explaining the influence of rarely researched factors such as [...]

By Amna Hasnain, Syed Hassan Raza, Usama Shahzad Qureshi 2020
Keywords: Green buying intention, Consumer personality traits, Eco-labels, Environmental attitude, Structural equation modeling. Read more...

Trade Liberalization Effects on Import Demand: The Pakistan Experience Using Bilateral Trade Data

Research Article

The fundamental objective of this study is to estimate for basic trade elasticity and assess the impact of trade liberalization on Pakistan's import demand in the bilateral cases for a sample of selected countries. In the sample, countries are selected from both the developed and developing world on account of their greater share in Pakistan's total imports. The method of [...]

By Saleem Khan, Sher Ali, Muhammad Abdul Kamal 2020
Keywords: Import Demand, Trade Liberalization, ARDL and Pakistan Read more...

The Moderating effect of Business Network on the Relationship Between Export Market Orientation, Total Quality Management and Company Export Performance: Evidence from Furniture Industry of Pakistan

Research Article

The contribution of the Pakistan furniture industry in exports has declined in the last few years. This situation is alarming for industry and country economic growth and overall performance of the industry. The main objective of study is to investigate the moderating role of the business network (BN) on the relationship among total quality management (TQM), export market orientation (EMO) [...]

By Muhammad Imran, Abdul Raziq, Hassan Mujtaba Nawaz Saleem, Mohid Khaliq 2020
Keywords: Business network, total quality management, export market orientation, company export performance, furniture industry. Read more...

Ownership Structure and Business Firm Value: A Study of Non-financial Sector of Pakistan

Research Article

The basic purpose of this study is to examine the association of ownership structure (OS) with the value of business firms (VBF). By using panel data techniques, the relationship between OS and VBF has been statistically tested. OS is used as an explanatory variable, whereas, for measuring VBF, accounting base performance measures (short term performance) include return on assets (ROA) [...]

By Muhammad Usman, Hassan Mobeen Alam 2020
Keywords: Corporate Governance, Ownership Structure, Value of Business Firms, Firm Age, Non-Financial Sector, Agency Theory, Resource Dependence Theory. Read more...

Consumer Buying Attitudes towards Counterfeit and Green Products: Application of Social Comparison Theory and Materialism

Research Article

Counterfeiting and the purchase of counterfeits have been a global issue for years and it seems to be growing, it gives rise to criminality and many other economic problems. It does not only affect the economic environment but the ecological environment as well. Hence, this research aims to find out the factors that make people purchase counterfeits and factors that [...]

By Sania Usmani, Alina Ejaz 2020
Keywords: Materialism, Green Consumption, Purchase of Counterfeits Read more...

An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Flexibility, Relationship Integration and Strategic Flexibility in Supply Chain Agility: Insights from SMEs Sector of Pakistan

Research Article

Supply chain agility (SCA) has become an important concept these days and gained a great deal of attention from the research fraternity. Researchers and scholars have mainly examined the dimensions of integration and flexibility as the antecedents of SCA from conceptual lenses in the past and suggested further explanations from empirical testing. Thus, this research aimed to investigate three key [...]

By Mirza A. Haq, Irfan Hameed, Abdul Raheem 2020
Keywords: Supply chain agility, integration, flexibility, moderated mediation SEM, Small & medium enterprises. Read more...

Effect of Teamwork on Employee Performance in High-Tech Engineering SMEs of Pakistan: A Moderating Role of Supervisor Support

Research Article

Measuring employee performance of high-tech engineering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of a developing country is meager in the literature of organizational studies. Therefore, this paper analyzes a) the effect of teamwork on employee performance; and b) how supervisor support moderates the relationship between teamwork and employee performance. Using a cross-sectional survey in a non-contrived field-study setting, a useable sample [...]

By Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil,Kamal Bin Ab Hamid 2020
Keywords: Teamwork; employee performance; supervisor support; SMEs; Pakistan. Read more...

Online Education & MOOCs: Teacher Self-Disclosure in Online Education and a Mediating Role of Social Presence

Research Article

In online education, students have been observed to face a few barriers in the overall learning and experience such as the absence of physical presence of the instructor, lack of instructor-student relationship, lack of student satisfaction and perceived learning. This research was conducted to study a few key variables in online education that may or may not have their effect [...]

By Komal Akram Khan, S. M. Tariq Rafi 2020
Keywords: Teacher self-disclosure; social presence; social-penetration; MOOCs, Smart PLS Pakistan. Read more...