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The Mechanisms for Influencing Green Purchase Intention by Environmental Concern: The Roles of Self-Green Image Congruence and Green Brand Trust

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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 [...]

By Fethi Klabi, Binzafrah F. Volume 16, Issue 1 2022 Keywords: Self-image congruence, Environmental concern, green brand trust, green purchase intention, Saudi Arabia. Read more

Factors Affecting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises' Accessibility to Institutional Finance in Pakistan: Moderating Role of Government Support

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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 [...]

By Abubakar Khaliq, Muhammad Saif Ul Islam, Muhammad Akram, Aamir Hussain, Muhammad Usman Volume 16, Issue 1 2022 Keywords: Access to finance, government support, collateral security, financial information, interest rates, business ownership. Read more

Impact of Financial Decisions on Firm Performance: Path Analysis Approach

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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 [...]

By Asifa Maqbool, Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh Volume 16, Issue 1 2022 Keywords: Corporate Investment, financing, dividend, corporate performance, path analysis. Read more

The Fear of Covid-19 With Role of Avoidance Behavior and Self-Resilience

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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 [...]

By Jawad Iqbal, Muhammad Imran Volume 16, Issue 1 2022 Keywords: COVID-19 Fear; Avoidance Behavior; Self-Resilience; Hypervigilance; Helplessness; Worry & Panic Read more

Oil Price Shocks and Stock Market Performance: A comparison between Oil Exporting and Oil Importing Nations

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The paper explores the impact of shocks in oil prices on the stock market for the oil importing and exporting nations. As Pakistan is heavily dependent on imports of oil therefore, we focus on Pakistan as an oil importing nation and have taken Iran, as an oil exporting nation because, it is considered to be among top ten nations of [...]

By Muhammad Farhan, Zeeshan Atiq, Syed Shahid Zaheer Zaidi Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Oil Price shocks, Stock Market Performance, Oil Exporting Nations, Oil Importing Nations Read more

Global Illicit Financial Flows: Where does Dirty Money from Developing Countries become legal?

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The study determines most favorite destinations for money laundering preferred by wrong doers from 25 developing nations selected on the basis of highest illegal financial fund outflows from 2004 to 2014, a report published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) in 2015. Firstly, it has been discussed that how money laundering activities are shackling the economic and financial stability in a [...]

By Wahaj Ahmed Khan, Syed Tehseen Jawaid, Muhammad Asif Shamim Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Money laundering, Illicit Financial Flows, Developing Countries Read more

Revisiting Determinants of Financial Development? The Role of Financial and Monetary Freedom: Empirical Evidence from the Asia-pacific Region

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This study aims to assess what determines/improves the overall multidimensional nature of the financial development index and its sub-indices. For this purpose, we use data over the period 1998 to 2017 for 9 countries from the Asia-Pacific region. The hypothesis of no long run relationship between variables is tested via the three-panel co-integration test i.e. Kao test, the Pedroni [...]

By Wajid Ali, Asif Javid, Shakeel Ahmad, Nauman Ahmad, Aamir Khan Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Financial Development, Financial regulations, financial inclusion, Panel Cointegration, FMOLS, DOLS, Causality Read more

Moderating Role of Person Job-Fit Facet between Hierarchical Plateau and Turnover Intention

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This study aims to examine the impact of hierarchical plateau on turnover intention with moderating role of person job-fit facet. Hierarchical plateau is a point of an individual's career life where the probability of being promoted further is low. The theory of work adjustment (TWA) is applied in this research study which measures that satisfaction level of an employee and [...]

By Ramesh Kumar, Waqar Akbar, Naveed R. Khan Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Hierarchical plateau, turnover intention, person job fit, demand abilities, need supplies Read more

Readable Labels and Moderating Effect of Individual Personality Traits Effect on Consumer Healthy Packaged Food Selection Intention

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It is a common notion that front of pack label guide individual for the selection of healthy and right amount of packaged food. The inconsistent results found in past studies. In continuation with current study proposed a model which is underpinned with theory of planned behavior. The proposed model comprised of factors affecting individual attitude to read food label at [...]

By Muhammad Zeeshan Zafar, Noor Azmi Hashim, Fairol Bin Halim,Shahjahan Masud Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Traffic lights efficacy, health statements efficacy, user friendly label efficacy, label reading attitude, personality traits and intention. Read more

Law Enforcement in Times of Violent Demonstrations

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This paper is an in-depth study on the country's public disorder and the efficacy of police response. In order to understand the dynamics of police response towards violent public order situations, it is important to elaborate complexities of the prevailing environment. The evaluation of this environment revolves around the existing policing practices towards handling volatile law and order situations, available [...]

By Syed Kaleem Imam Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Conflict, demonstrations, enforcement, law and Order, Police, protests, response, riots. Read more

Influence of Electronic Media on Public Policies and Narratives in Pakistan Post-2005

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The research article investigates the role of the news media and specifically electronic media since 2005, which has emerged as a strong force in Pakistan in the past decade and, under certain circumstances, shapes public policymaking in Pakistan. Media across the world is seen as a tool to shape public narratives and influence policymakers in crafting policies that adhere to [...]

By Sarah Alam, Rafia Taj, Abuzar Wajidi Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Electronic Media, Policy Making, Narratives, Pakistan, Influence, Masses Read more

Is Social Media Addiction in Covid-19 Pandemic Affecting Students' Academic Performance and Health?

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The objective is to see how social media addiction affected students' academic performance and physical health in covid-19. In addition, the moderating impact of psychological well-being on the relationships between personality traits and social media addiction is also studied. Data collection is conducted through an online survey with 506 Pakistani students. Results are analyzed through the partial least squares method. [...]

By Noman Ahsan, Faiza Hakim Volume 15, Issue 2 2021 Keywords: Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Social Media Addiction in Covid-19, Academic Performance, Physical Health, and Psychological Well-Being. Read more

Is Single Trigger Contingent Capital Certificates an Effective Tool to Manage Risk?

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The purpose of this paper is to highlight that contingent capital certificates (CC certificates) provide financial institutions with the cushion to resist financial crises, but if the structure of these CC certificates is based on the singular trigger, it can cause a transfer of wealth between investors, i.e., existing shareholders and the CC certificate holders. Many financial institutions, to [...]

By Muhammad Ahmed Fawad, Areeba Khan Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Contingent capital certificates, Capital ratio/ Accounting triggers, Market-based triggers, Multiple triggers, Regulatory triggers, Wealth transfer, Conversion ratio, Dilution. Read more

The Mediating Role of the Emotional Intelligence in the Organizational Justice and Contextual Performance Relationship of Administrative Staff in Pakistan

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The purpose of this article was to examine a model that recognizes the effect of organizational justice on contextual performance. The model also assessed the mediating role of emotional intelligence in connecting organizational justice and contextual performance. The data were gathered from 202 self-administered questionnaires, sampling respondents from administrative staff working in private sector universities. The relationships among these variables [...]

By Hazrat Bilal, Shahid Ali, Naveed Ali, Lala Rukh Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Organizational Justice, Emotional Intelligence, Contextual Performance, Mediating role of Emotional Intelligence, Private Sector University. Read more

The Moderating Role of Market Mavens in Explaining the Impact of Brand Positioning Strategies on Brand Love

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With the presence of increasingly similar products in the fashion apparel retail industry, the real challenge today is to steer marketing communication efforts in the direction of developing consumer-brand bonds that are interpersonal and simultaneously acknowledge the role of market mavens as strong external influencers in this regard. Hence, the primary area of focus this to analyze the relationship among [...]

By Saad Shahid, Sohail Zafar Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Brand positioning strategy, Brand love, Market maven. Read more

The Role of Guerilla Marketing for Consumer Buying Behavior in Clothing Industry of Pakistan using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

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The study examines the impact of viral, street, stealth, ambient, and ambush marketing on consumer buying behavior towards the clothing industry in Karachi, Pakistan. The study has used structural equation modeling for data analysis while the purposive sampling technique has been used and collected 247 sample size based on the estimation of Soper (2018). The results have shown that street [...]

By Raheel Farooqui Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Guerilla Marketing, Consumer Buying Behavior, Clothing Industry, CB-SEM, Karachi. Read more

Uncertainty and Risk Analysis of Pakistan's Housing Market: Fan Chart Approach

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Economic forecasting is necessary to revise and check the effectiveness of the existing policies. This serves as a pioneer study to forecast house prices (HP), foreign direct investment (FDI), and worker's remittances (WR) using the time series data ranging from 1973 to 2018 on the economy of Pakistan. The analysis is performed on a yearly, quarterly, and monthly basis to [...]

By Rafiq Ahmed, Syed Tehseen Jawaid, Samina Khalil Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Fan Chart, House prices, foreign direct investment, worker’s remittances, forecasting, Pakistan. Read more

The Impact of Knowledge Management Environment on Knowledge Management Effectiveness: Through Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing Process in Branch Banking of Pakistan

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the knowledge management environment on knowledge management effectiveness through the mediating role of knowledge sharing processes in public and private, conventional and Islamic branch banking of Pakistan. The Survey technique was used for the collection of data from the staff of branch banking. A sample of 290 was used [...]

By Zahid Imran, Owais Shafique, Shakeel Sarwar, Warda Najeeb Jamal Volume 15, Issue 1 2021 Keywords: Knowledge Management Environment, Internal Knowledge sharing process, Knowledge Management Effectiveness, Branch Banking, Pakistan. Read more

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