International Journal of Emerging Markets
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Managerial religiosity, attitudes towards women as managers and supportive HR practices
Kumar Krishna Biswas, Brendan Boyle, Sneh Bhardwaj, Parth PatelThe authors' study aims to examine to what extent managerial religiosity does influence human resource (HR) managers' attitudes towards women as managers (ATWM), and…
Shariah compliance and stock price synchronicity: evidence from India
Omar Farooq, Neveen AhmedThis paper aims to document the effect of shariah compliance on stock price synchronicity.
Financial sector development, anti-money laundering regulations and economic growth
Isaac Ofoeda, Elikplimi Agbloyor, Joshua Yindenaba AborThis study examines the influence of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations on the financial development-economic growth nexus around the world.
Does KAM disclosure make a difference in emerging markets? An investigation into audit fees and report lag
Saeed Rabea Baatwah, Ehsan Saleh Almoataz, Waddah Kamal Omer, Khaled Salmen AljaaidiThis study investigates the consequences of the key audit matter (KAM) disclosure requirement by considering two salient audit proxies: audit fees and audit report lag…
Tax reform and investment efficiency: evidence from China's replacement of business tax with VAT
Yajie Bai, Maoguo WuExtensive macro- and micro-economics research has been conducted on China's tax reform, which replaced business tax with value-added tax (VAT). However, existing studies…
Innovating, exit or both? Strategic responses to crisis revisited from resource redeployment perspective: evidence from China
Jun Jin, Shijing Li, Zan Chen, Liying WangAlthough scholars in strategic management have identified innovating and exit as firms’ two sequential strategic responses to long-run crisis, the potential…
Internationalization and domestic political support: a differentiation of R&D-related foreign and domestic firms in Turkey
Timo Kleiner-Schaefer, Ekrem Tatoglu, Ingo LiefnerThis paper contributes insights into how different firm types in the emerging market (EM) of Turkey respond to upgrading pressures in terms of internationalization and the…
Fear of COVID-19 and employee engagement: does emotional stability matter?
Sadia Shaheen, Sehar Zulfiqar, Bashir Ahmad, Muhammad Ahmad-ur-RehmanFear of COVID-19 is a new workplace hazard that has made drastic changes at workplaces globally. Based on the conservation of resource (COR) theory, this research…
Does the stock liquidity drive the trade credit of publicly listed firms in Saudi Arabia?
Mohammed Bajaher, Fekri Ali ShawtariThis study aims to examine the influence of stock liquidity on the trade credit of publicly listed companies in Saudi Arabia.
The role of intellectual capital and service agility in banking service provision: the perspective of Brazilian export companies
Mara Mataveli, Juan-Carlos Ayala Calvo, Alfonso J. GilBanks in emerging markets such as Brazil provide a wide range of services to companies to facilitate the export process. The objective of the present study was to analyze…
The role of cognitive heuristic-driven biases in investment management activities and market efficiency: a research synthesis
Maqsood AhmadThis article aims to systematically review the literature published in recognized journals focused on cognitive heuristic-driven biases and their effect on investment…
Impact of merger on stock returns and economic value added (EVA) of the acquiring firms: a study from Indian corporate sector
Puja Aggarwal Gulati, Sonia GargThis paper attempts to examine the impact of merger on the stock returns and economic value added (EVA) of acquiring firms to know if the mergers are successful corporate…
Islamic religiosity and consumer ethnocentrism in post-Arab Spring countries
Sedki Karoui, Samy Belaid, Romdhane KhemakhemReligious tendencies have increased in post-Arab Spring countries, raising the question of whether this geopolitical event has affected consumers' orientations towards…
Are emerging economies’ credit cycles synchronized? Fresh evidence from time–frequency analysis
Seema Saini, Utkarsh Kumar, Wasim AhmadTo the best of our knowledge, no study has examined credit cycle synchronizations in the context of emerging economies. Studying the credit cycles synchronization across…
Should Bangladesh join Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)? The gravity explanation of Bangladesh dilemma
Gour Gobinda Goswami, Farhan Khan, Kazi Labiba, Farhanaj Achol, Tapas Kumar Saha, Aunanna ZulfikarThe scope of this work is to explore whether Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would be beneficial to Bangladesh, given Bangladesh's strong ties with…
Corporate governance, litigation risk and firm performance: a mediation moderating model
Abdul Waheed, Hamid Mahmood, Jun WenThe purpose of this research is to investigate how the negative effect of litigation risk on firm performance could be controlled through the channel of voluntary…
The impact of gender and political embeddedness on firm performance: evidence from China
Ying Teng, Eli Gimmon, Sibylle Heilbrunn, Shenyi SongThis study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship between gender and performance of private enterprises in the emerging economy of…
Adaptation strategy, international experience and export performance of Moroccan handicraft firms: the mediating role of partnerships
Sara Dassouli, Virginia Bodolica, Harit Satt, Mohamed M'hamdiThis paper aims to examine the specific role that partnerships play in the relationship between adaptation strategy, international experience, and export performance of…
Residents' waste mobile recycling planned behavior model: the role of environmental concern and risk perception
Yong-Sheng Chang, Zhang Yue, Madeeha Qureshi, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Song Wu, Michael Yao-Ping PengThe purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships of environmental concern and risk perception with residents' waste mobile recycling behavior in the…
Supply chain analytics and post-pandemic performance: mediating role of triple-A supply chain strategies
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Arsalan Zahid Piprani, Zhang YuThe abrupt outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hit every nation in 2020–2021, causing a worldwide pandemic. The worldwide COVID-19 epidemic, described as a “black…
The determinants of IPO initial returns in emerging markets: a quantile regression
Amira Akl Ahmed, Bosy Ahmed Gamaleldin Fathy, Nagwa Abdl-Allah SamakThis article investigates the determinants of cross-section variation of initial public offerings' (IPOs) first-day returns in a sample of 710 issues across seven emerging…
Drivers of digital supply chain transformation in SMEs and large enterprises – a case of COVID-19 disruption risk
Vu Minh Ngo, Hiep Cong Pham, Huan Huu NguyenDigital transformation in supply chains (SCs) has emerged as one of the most effective ways to minimize SC disruption risks. Given the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19…
Determinants of foreign direct investment: employment status and potential of food processing industry in India
Satya Prasad PadhiThe paper underpins an advanced domestic manufacturing that comes with some advanced employment specialization status of individual industries as the key determinant of…
Economic policy uncertainty and investment-cash flow sensitivity: evidence from India
Gaurav Gupta, Jitendra Mahakud, Vishal Kumar SinghThis study examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) of Indian manufacturing firms.
Transactive memory system and entrepreneurial team performance: the impact of ability to improvise and market competition
Wei Hu, Fawad Ahmed, Yuchao SuDrawing upon the social exchange theory, this study examines the interplay of transactive memory system (TMS) with improvisation and market competition intensity for the…
Government expenditure–shadow economy nexus: the role of fiscal deficit
Toan Pham-Khanh Tran, Ngoc Phu Tran, Phuc Van Nguyen, Duc Hong VoThe effects of government expenditure on the shadow economy have been investigated. However, the effect from a moderating factor that affects this relationship has been…
Conditional impact of credit growth on macroeconomic and financial aggregates: evidence from Turkey
Omer Cayirli, Koray Kayalidere, Huseyin AktasThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of changes in credit stock on real and financial indicators in Turkey with a focus on conditional and time-varying dynamics.
Can intermediary and disintermediary be compatible in coordination management: affordance, fusion and actualization of blockchain and conventional systems
Daojun Sun, Limin Deng, Wenchi YingThis study investigates into how organizations enable the compatibility between intermediary role of conventional systems with disintermediary potentials of blockchain…
Antecedents and consequences of organisational citizenship behaviour: a mediated-moderation examination in an emerging economy
Ritu Tayal, Mamta Tripathi, Nishant Singh, Umesh BamelThe objective of this paper is to employ a model to expand the literature's comprehension of the organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) phenomenon in the Indian…
Estimating a financial uncertainty index for Saudi Arabia
Hedi Ben Haddad, Sohale Altamimi, Imed Mezghani, Imed MedhioubThis study seeks to build a financial uncertainty index for Saudi Arabia. This index serves as a leading indicator of Saudi economic activity and helps to describe…
Designing energy policy in the presence of underground economy: the case of Pakistan
Muhammad Ahad, Saqib Farid, Zaheer AnwerIn the presence of informal sector in the country, designing an energy policy and the pursuit of higher economic growth become challenging for emerging economies. These…
Does digital financial innovation enhance financial deepening and growth in Kenya?
Roseline Misati, Jared Osoro, Maureen Odongo, Farida AbdulThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of digital financial innovation on financial depth and economic growth in Kenya.
How appreciative leadership affects employees' helping behaviors? The mediating role of emotions and the moderating role of organizational trust
Muhammad Asim, Zhiying Liu, Usman Ghani, Muhammad Athar Nadeem, Umme Farva Hashmi, Yi XuThis study, based on social exchange theory, aims to explore the association between appreciative leadership and employees' helping behaviors by investigating the…
Financial integration and capital structure decisions of listed firms: evidence from China
Ahsan Ahmed, Rozaimah Zainudin, Shahrin Saaid ShaharuddinThis paper investigates the impact of financial integration on the capital structure of the firms operating in mainland China, examining the firm-level and country-level…
The acceptance and continued use of blockchain technology in supply chain management: a unified model from supply chain professional's stance
Khuram Shahzad, Qingyu Zhang, Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad HafeezThis study pinpoints the critical factors influencing the acceptance of blockchain technology in supply chain management in the light of the extended unified theory of…
Sustainable supply chain management performance in post COVID-19 era in an emerging economy: a big data perspective
Qasim Ali Nisar, Shahbaz Haider, Irfan Ameer, Muhammad Sajjad Hussain, Sonaina Safi Gill, Awan UsamaBig data analytics capabilities are the driving force and deemed as an operational excellence approach to improving the green supply chain performance in the post COVID-19…
Corporate social responsibility and corporate innovation efficiency: evidence from China
Ling Yuan, Li Zheng, Yong XuThis study aims to analyse the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate innovation efficiency and the mechanism underlying this effect.
Supply chain relational capital and firm performance: an empirical enquiry from India
Pushpesh Pant, Shantanu Dutta, S.P. SarmahThe purpose of this paper is to examine how over-reliance on buyer-supplier relational capital (created through the interconnected supply chain and social network) impacts…
Empirical evidence of the relationship between terrorism and firm financial performance in Nigeria
Godwin Okafor, Camilo CalderonThis paper investigates the relationship between terrorism and firm financial performance in Nigeria. The country has become one of the riskiest countries in Sub-Saharan…
Analyzing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on supplier performance evaluation factors via fuzzy cognitive map with a hybrid learning system
Pinar Kocabey ÇiftçiThe COVID-19 pandemic has proven that how supply chain management (SCM) can become a crucial process for sustainability of the world's production/service. The global…
Are ESG indexes a safe-haven or hedging asset? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Stefano Piserà, Helen ChiappiniThe aim of the paper is to investigate the risk-hedging and/or safe haven properties of environmental, social and governance (ESG) index during the COVID-19 in China.
Procyclicality of loan-loss provisions and competitive environment – a global perspective
Małgorzata Anna Olszak, Iwona KowalskaDespite the extensive debate on the impact of bank competition on risk-taking, there is no evidence of its role in procyclicality of loan-loss provisions (LLPs). The…
Understanding digital entrepreneurial intentions: A capital theory perspective
Ajaz Akbar Mir, Sharfa Hassan, Sher Jahan KhanDigital entrepreneurship is a highly topical, sub-specialist and contemporary branch of entrepreneurship which is providing ever-increasing range of platforms for pursuing…
Developing a resilient healthcare supply chain to prevent disruption in the wake of emergency health crisis
Md Kamal Hossain, Vikas Thakur, Yigit KazancogluThe study aims to identify and analyse the drivers of resilient healthcare supply chain (HCSC) preparedness in emergency health outbreaks to prevent disruption in…
Assessing the role of international transmission channels of sovereign risk: a multidimensional spatial econometrics approach
Peipei Liu, Wei-Qiang HuangThis study is the first that aims to investigate international transmission channels of sovereign risk among G20 and explore its influential factors by applying the…
Social franchise chains operating in African countries: are their social goals aligned with the 2030 United Nations sustainable development goals?
Rozenn Perrigot, Komlanvi Elom GbetchiSocial franchise chains have social goals rather than – or in addition to – commercial or profit-making goals. But are these social goals, disclosed by social franchisors…
Cultural distance and post-acquisition performance: the role of absorptive capacity
Stephanie Tonn Goulart Moura, Christian Falaster, Bernardo Silva-RêgoCultural distance can be a challenge for internationalization. However, in some instances, it is possible that different cultures could represent a benefit for…
Impact of government ownership on private sector enterprises’ environmental responsibility: empirical evidence from Chinese listed firms
Han Yu, Ciji Song, Zengji SongAgainst the background of actively promoting the reform of mixed ownership in China, this study regards government ownership in private sector enterprises (PSEs) as an…
The role of artificial intelligence in effective business operations during COVID-19
Yasheng Chen, Mohammad Islam Biswas, Md. Shamim TalukderThe pressure to survive in a highly competitive market by using artificial intelligence (AI) has further demonstrated the need for automation in business operations during…
Strategic asset-seeking foreign direct investments by emerging market firms: the role of institutional distance
Yang Yang, Jia Xu, Jonathan P. Allen, Xiaohua YangThis study examines the impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the foreign ownership strategies of emerging market firms (EMFs).
Islamic financial literacy and Islamic banks selection: an exploratory study using multiple correspondence analysis on banks' small business customers
Mohammed Ali Al-Awlaqi, Ammar Mohamed AamerAlthough Islamic banks offer superior financial services than other interest-based conventional banks, they could not expand their share and dominate the markets in…
Nexus among board characteristics, earnings management and dividend payout: evidence from an emerging market
Malik Abu Afifa, Isam Saleh, Aseel Al-shoura, Hien Vo VanThe direct nexus between board characteristics, earnings management (EM) practices and dividend payout is examined in this study, followed by an examination of the…
Idiosyncratic volatility, turnover and the cross-section of stock returns: evidence from the Korean stock market
Jungmu Kim, Changjun Lee, Woo-Hyuk Lee, Youngkyung Ok, Thuy Thi Thu TruongThe authors aim to understand the driving forces behind the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle in the Korean stock market. The authors study the Korean stock market because…
Promoting a heritage product to domestic youth markets: should it be localized?
Afred Suci, Hui-Chih Wang, Her-Sen DoongLocalization, glocalization, and standardization advertising strategies have scarcely been examined in the context of internationally acknowledged heritage products aimed…
Asymmetric dynamics in sovereign credit default swaps pricing: evidence from emerging countries
Serdar Simonyan, Sema BayraktarThis paper examines the relationship between sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) and several macroeconomic factors in an asymmetric setting and distinguishes between…
Career resilience and professional attitudes of tourism practitioners in China under the COVID-19 pandemic
Zhi-Fei Li, Jia-Wei Zhao, Shengliang DengThis paper investigates the current psychological state of Chinese tourism practitioners and their career resilience during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It empirically…
Investor personality as a predictor of investment intention – mediating role of overconfidence bias and financial literacy
Riidhi Jain, Dipasha Sharma, Abhishek Behl, Aviral Kumar TiwariThe purpose of this study is to examine the role of personality traits (PTs) of individual investors on their investment intention (II). Further, to study the mediating…
Does foreign direct investment stimulate the output growth of the formal economic sector in Vietnam: a subnational-level analysis
Thi Bich Thuy Dao, Vi Dung NgoThis study focuses on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth of the formal sector comprising all foreign and domestic registered…
More structure or better social practices? Using a contingency lens to address ambidexterity gaps in innovative SMEs
Carolina Rojas-Córdova, Julio A. Pertuze, Amanda Jasmine Williamson, Michael LeatherbeeEnvironmental uncertainty (EU) and firm size (FS) generate inertial forces that can push small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to emphasize either exploration or…
The link between corporate governance, corporate social sustainability and credit risk of Islamic bonds
Awais Ur Rehman, Saqib Farid, Muhammad Abubakr NaeemMotivated by lack of empirical research on sukuk (Islamic bonds) defaults and factors influencing the credit risk in sukuk industry, the study investigates the impact of…
Does family size matter to investors? Evidence from mutual fund flow in Saudi Arabia
Bader Jawid AlsubaieiThis study aims to examine the role of fund family size on the money flow of Saudi Arabian open-end equity mutual funds. The author also investigates whether the…
Role of imported raw materials in the performance of inward foreign direct investments in Ethiopia
Mumin Dayan, Frank Yat Cheong Leung, Muammer OzerDrawing on the resource dependence theory (RDT), this paper investigates ownership composition, export intensity, and industry class as moderating factors to investigate…
Consumers' intention toward buying ethically produced products in Bangladesh
Yi-Hui Ho, Syed Shah Alam, Mst. Nilufar Ahsan, Chieh-Yu LinWhile many companies begin to promote ethically produced products, much remains to be known about consumers' buying intention toward these products. This paper attempts to…
Foreign direct investment inflows and energy diversification in emerging seven economies: evidence from a panel data analysis
Mohd Irfan, Raj Kumar OjhaHigher economic growth accompanied by rising energy demand poses severe challenges to the long-term environmental sustainability of E7 economies, including Brazil, China…
Examining the role of China's outward direct investment in realizing carbon neutrality: empirical evidence from Belt and Road countries
Qingyan Jiang, Cuihong Yang, Jie Wu, Yan XiaKnown as the major capital providers in Belt and Road countries and the largest carbon emitter in the world, what role China's outward direct investment (ODI) plays in…
Technology-based business incubators: the impacts on resources of startups in Brazil
Clarissa Dourado Freire, Mário Sacomano Neto, Herick Fernando Moralles, Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues AntunesThis paper aims to analyze the influence of technology-based business incubators (TBIs) on the resources of technology startups in Brazil. The authors identify which…
Determinants of satisfaction with imported Asian pears in the US: moderating role of Korea's country image
Sunhee Seo, Kawon Kim, Soo Yeon ImThis study aimed to investigate the effects of accessibility, quality perception, and price perception on consumer satisfaction with imported fruit, specifically imported…
Re-configuring ownership structure, board characteristics and firm value nexus in Malaysia: the role of board gender and ethnic diversity
Sitara Karim, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Rusmawati Binti IsmailThis study serves two objectives; first, it examined the impact of ownership structure and board characteristics on firm value; second, the moderating effects of board…
How export-oriented SMEs from emerging markets respond to the CSR-related code of conduct: a content analysis of auditing reports
Changdong Chen, Yunxia Zhu, Ruochen Jiang, Lifeng ZhuThis study aims to explore how emerging SMEs respond to the multifaceted contents of CSR-related code of conduct (COC) from external stakeholders and the underlying…
Google Trends and cryptocurrencies: a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles analysis
Syed Ali Raza, Larisa Yarovaya, Khaled Guesmi, Nida ShahThis article aims to uncover the impact of Google Trends on cryptocurrency markets beyond Bitcoin during the time of increased attention to altcoins, especially during the…
Whether, how and why home country environments influence emerging market firm acquisition behavior
Rama Krishna Reddy, Frances Fabian, Sung-Jin ParkAccording to the 2019 World Investment Report, recent events in deglobalization have made many countries, especially developed markets, resist inward foreign direct…
The role of education in filling the gender gap in financial inclusion in low-income economies
Saeed Pahlevan Sharif, Navaz Naghavi, Hassam Waheed, Kizito Uyi EhigiamusoeThis study aims to investigate whether gender predicts financial inclusion and whether education can fill the gender gap in financial inclusion when controlling for the…
Ethical leadership, workplace spirituality, and job satisfaction: moderating role of self-efficacy
Junaid Aftab, Huma Sarwar, Alina Kiran, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq, Sadaf Ambreen, Arqam Javed KayaniIn the 21st century, spirituality is becoming an interesting phenomenon in the workplace and has been discussed by academicians, researchers, and practitioners alike. This…
Do consumer boycotts really matter with global companies? The moderating effect of gender differences
Changju Kim, Xiuyan Yan, Soohyun ParkDrawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study aims to conduct an empirical investigation on whether and how psychological and motivational factors (i.e. attitudes…
Impact of real earnings management on earnings persistence – evidence from India
Srikanth PotharlaThe present study aims to examine the relationship between real earnings management and earnings persistence and also to test how the group affiliation of the firms…
Identifying and analysis of key flexible sustainable supply chain management strategies toward overcoming the post-COVID-19 impacts
Tazim Ahmed, Chitra Lekha Karmaker, Sumaiya Benta Nasir, Md. Abdul MoktadirThe emerging markets are facing a lot of risks and disruptions across their supply chains (SCs) due to the deadly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To mitigate…
Capability upgrading through technological proximity: evidence from a leading Chinese e-bike firm
Huanhuan Ma, Jingqin Su, Shuai Zhang, Sijia ZhangThe rapid growth of emerging market firms (EMFs) has been a topic of interest for the past two decades, especially in China. However, few studies have discussed how and…
Covid-19 and consumers' online purchase intention among an older-aged group of Kosovo
Asdren Toska, Jusuf Zeqiri, Veland Ramadani, Samuel Ribeiro-NavarreteThis study aims to investigate the online purchase intention of an older-aged group in Kosovo. Very few studies have analyzed the online purchase intention of these age…
Barriers to achieving sustainability in pharmaceutical supply chains in the post-COVID-19 era
Sharmine Akther Liza, Naimur Rahman Chowdhury, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Mohammad Morshed, Shah Murtoza Morshed, M.A. Tanvir Bhuiyan, Md. Abdur RahimThe recent pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly impacted the operational performances of pharmaceutical supply chains (SCs), especially…
A global perspective of the role of domestic economic, financial and political risks in inbound tourism
Seyed Alireza Athari, Uju Violet Alola, Andrew Adewale AlolaIn this study, as part of an attempt to foster sustainable development, the aim is directed at understanding the perspectives of domestic economic, financial and political…
Overcoming the liability of origin: cross-listing in developed economies as a signal
Jiang Wei, Jie Zheng, Yan ZuoThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of cross-listing in overcoming liability of origin (LOO) facing emerging economy corporations (EECs).
Do board characteristics play a moderating role in M&A decisions of family firms?
Mehul Raithatha, Radha LadkaniThe purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effect of the board of directors on the strategic decisions made by family firms, and to understand the board…
Exploring factors influencing bicycle-sharing adoption in India: a UTAUT 2 based mixed-method approach
Prasanta Kr Chopdar, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Anna VisviziBicycle sharing offers a novel way to create smart and sustainable mobility solutions for the future. The purpose of this study is to draw on the Unified Theory of…
Examining the nexus between transformational leadership and follower's radical creativity: the role of creative process engagement and leader creativity expectation
Md. Nurun Nabi, Zhiqiang Liu, Najmul HasanThe primary objective of this study is to examine the nexus between transformational leadership (TL) and followers' radical creativity (FRC). In contrast, creative process…
Empirical comparison of Shariah-compliant vs conventional mutual fund performance
Naseem Al Rahahleh, M. Ishaq BhattiThis paper investigates the performance of locally focused equity mutual funds (LFEFs) in Saudi Arabia as compared with the performance of benchmark funds. More…
Medical tourism brand equity in emerging markets: scale development and empirical validation
Diya Guha Roy, Sujoy Bhattacharya, Srabanti MukherjeeThis research theoretically proposed and empirically validated a Customer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE) scale specifically for Medical Tourism for emerging economies including…
Systematic review of eWOM literature in emerging economy using ACI framework
Gobinda Roy, Biplab Datta, Srabanti Mukherjee, Avinash K. ShrivastavaThe purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic study of important research trends and published electronic word of mouth (eWOM) studies over the past 20 years in the…
Conformity by information or relation? An exploration of investors' response in equity crowdfunding
Yaokuang Li, Li Ling, Juan Wu, Daru Zhang, Weizhong FuThis paper aims to investigate the role of informational and relational mechanisms on equity crowdfunding investors' conformity behaviors by focusing on a relational…
Green corporate reputation and innovation: the role of non-supply chain learning and green supply chain knowledge
Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Ebenezer Afum, Charles BaahThe growing relevance of environmental sustainability calls for identification of factors that contribute to green innovation and build green corporate reputation…
The impact of market orientation on small firm performance: a configurational approach
Sanjay Chaudhary, Deepak Sangroya, Elisa Arrigo, Giuseppe CappielloIn this study, the authors examine the influence of market orientation on small firms' performance. The authors theorize that the association between market orientation…
Determinants of medical tourism: application of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process
Sunita Guru, Anamika Sinha, Pradeep KautishThe study aims to facilitate the medical tourists visiting emerging countries for various kinds of ailments by ranking the possible destinations to avail medical treatments.
Fundamental analysis and the use of financial statement information to separate winners and losers in frontier markets: evidence from Vietnam
Tuan Ho, Y Trong Nguyen, Hieu Truong Manh Tran, Dinh-Tri VoThe pupose of the paper is to study the usefulness of Piotroski (2000)'s F-score in separating winners and losers in Vietnam.
Elucidating the effect of information technology capabilities on organizational performance in UAE: a three-wave moderated-mediation model
Haseena Bader Alkatheeri, Fauzia Jabeen, Khalid Mehmood, Gabriele SantoroThis paper aims to investigate information technology capabilities (ITC)’s influence on organizational performance (OP) within the hospitality industry. Specifically, it…
Will music with or without fragrance in retail stores increase consumer purchase behaviour in emerging markets?
Rajesh SrivastavaThis paper studied the effects of music plus fragrance or music alone on consumer purchase behaviour, footfalls and repeat visits to retail stores in the context of the mall.
Regional business cycles in emerging economies: a review of the literature
Alcides Padilla, Jorge David Quintero OteroThis article offers a review of the literature on regional business cycles (BCs) in emerging economies. The objective is synthesizing the existing studies based on…
Multifractality during upside/downside trends in the MENA stock markets: the effects of the global financial crisis, oil crash and COVID-19 pandemic
Walid Mensi, Imran Yousaf, Xuan Vinh Vo, Sang Hoon KangThis paper examines asymmetric multifractality (A-MF) in the leading Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stock markets under different turbulent periods (global financial…
Impact of foreign and domestic ETFs on the volatility and pricing-efficiency of constituents during turbulent and tranquil times: Indian evidence
Vanita Tripathi, Aakanksha SethiThe purpose of this study is to ascertain how foreign and domestic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) investing in Indian equities affect their return volatility and pricing…
Shaping the attitudes of Russian managers in ethical issues – personal attributes and environmental pressure
Marc Oberhauser, Dirk Holtbrügge, Igor GurkovThe purpose of this study is to investigate how the attitudes of Russian managers are affected by personal attributes, environmental conditions and also cognitive processes.
Cultural values, entrepreneurial team structure and performance of SMEs
Mohammad Bashokuh-E-Ajirloo, Bahman Khodapanah, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mehdi EbrahimzadehThe main objective of this study is to explain the relationship between members' cultural values on structure and performance of the entrepreneurial teams that located in Tehran.
A long-memory analysis for the CBOE Brazil ETF volatility index
Edson Zambon MonteThe main goal of this paper is to investigate whether there is long-memory behavior in the CBOE Brazil ETF volatility index (named here VIXBR). As structural breaks may…
The role of value added across economic sectors in modulating the effects of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics
Simplice Asongu, Christelle Meniago, Raufhon SalahodjaevThis study investigates (1) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics and (2) the relevance of value…
Internationalization of Guanxi from China to Africa
Abdoulkadre AdoThis study focuses on the use of guanxi by African returnees from China in Africa. It explains how returnees understood and leveraged guanxi to collaborate with Chinese partners.
Framework and determinants of benchmarking: a theoretical analysis and case study in Vietnam
Viet Hoang, Khanh-Duy Nguyen, Hoang-Le NguyenThis study aims to develop a benchmarking model with productivity, management, and sustainability indicators (PMS), measure the performance of furniture firms in Vietnam…
Entrepreneurs' exit strategies and their determinants: the role of perceived exit challenges
Izabela Koładkiewicz, Łukasz Kozłowski, Marta Wojtyra-PerlejewskaThe study aims to investigate whether the perceived problems in exiting a business—as well as the scope of and access to external support—may impact an entrepreneur's…
FDI and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: does democracy matter?
Sean GosselThis paper investigates whether democracy plays a mediating role in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Corporate R&D spending, subsidies and stock market reactions to seasoned equity offering announcements: evidence from China
Xin XiangThis study focuses on an emerging market, China, and investigates the effects of corporate research and development (R&D) spending and subsidies on stock market reactions…
Loan to value ratio and housing loan default – evidence from microdata in India
Asish Saha, Debasis Rooj, Reshmi SenguptaThis study aims to investigate the factors that drive housing loan default in India based on unique micro-level data drawn from a public sector bank's credit files with a…
Cooperation in a minimum-waste innovation ecosystem: a case study of the Czech Hemp Cluster
Jindrich SpickaInnovation ecosystems face many environmental challenges. The literature review shows that innovation ecosystems accelerate innovation activity, but empirical studies have…
Impact of coupling of technological innovation and standardisation on industrial development
Jing Yang, Lushen Shao, Xiang Jin, Lijun ZhouUsing the industrial data between 2000 and 2016, this study analysed the process of coupling and coordinated development of technological innovation and standardisation…
COVID-19, stock prices, exchange rates and sovereign bonds: a wavelet-based analysis for Brazil and India
Veli Yilanci, Ugur Korkut PataThis study aims to investigate the impact of the rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on stock prices, exchange rates and sovereign bond yields in both Brazil…
Natural resources and economic growth: evidence from Brunei Darussalam
Muhammad Tahir, Umar Burki, Arshad HayatThis paper explores the relationship between natural resources and economic growth of Brunei Darussalam, an underresearched area in the available literature.
Is financial development crucial to achieving the “2030 agenda of sustainable development”? Evidence from Asian countries
Purnima Khemani, Dilip KumarAchieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) demands mobilising finance and aligning it with elements of sustainability. This study, thus, aims to investigate the impact…
Regulatory focus and construal level theory on low-income consumer indebtedness: Evidence from an emerging market
Patrícia de Oliveira Campos, Marconi Freitas da CostaThis study aims to further analyse the decision-making process of low-income consumer from an emerging market by verifying the influence of regulatory focus and construal…
Multidimensional performance measures and factors and their linkage with performance
Kamilah Ahmad, Shafie Mohamed Zabri, Siti Anisah AtanThis study investigates the extent to which performance measures (PMs) are used, the relationship between multidimensional PMs and firm performance and the factors related…
Entrepreneurship, gender and success in Lebanon
Hayfaa TlaissThe aim of this paper is to explore how men entrepreneurs construe their success and the influence of the socio-cultural context and political and economic turbulence on…
Corporate environmental responsibility and innovation: empirical evidence from Vietnam
Van Ha Nguyen, Nam Hoang VuThis study aims to examine the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) practices and different types of innovation carried out by small- and…
Work-related social media use and employee-related outcomes: a moderated mediation model
Rahul Bodhi, Adeel Luqman, Maryam Hina, Armando PapaRecently, work-related social media use (WSMU) in organisations and its association with employee outcomes have received considerable research attention. This study…
Adoption of artificial intelligence in banking services: an empirical analysis
Mahfuzur Rahman, Teoh Hui Ming, Tarannum Azim Baigh, Moniruzzaman SarkerThis study aims to understand the importance and challenges of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking industry in Malaysia and examine the factors that are…
Cash holding and performance analysis of mutual funds: a case of an emerging financial market
Faisal Khan, Syed Hamid Ali Shah, Romana BangashThis study is about the determinants of cash holding and impact of cash holding on mutual funds’ performance. In addition, the study analyzes the impact of…
Volatility spillover analysis between stocks and exchange rate markets in short and long terms in East European and Eurasian countries
Dejan Živkov, Marina Gajić-Glamočlija, Jasmina ĐuraškovićThis paper researches a bidirectional volatility transmission effect between stocks and exchange rate markets in the six East European and Eurasian countries.
Debt maturity structure and firm investment in the financially constrained environment
Muhammad Nouman, Ijaz Ahmad, Muhammad Fahad Siddiqi, Farman Ullah Khan, Mohammad Fayaz, Idrees Ali ShahThe financial policies of the modern world corporations and their investment decisions are generally considered as interrelated because the agency problems, associated…
Can market state and market volatility explain time-varying momentum profits in South Africa?
Mwangele Kaluba, Yudhvir SeetharamWhile the momentum anomaly is prevalent in South Africa, few have examined the reasons influencing it. This study examines whether momentum profits vary through time and…
Service sector subsidiary performance in emerging markets: is it who or what you know?
Sven Dahms, Ambika Zutshi, Sandeep PuriThis research investigates performance determinants of service sector foreign-owned subsidiaries located in an emerging market. The focus is on the two dimensions of…
High-performance work systems and organizational citizenship behavior: the role of goal congruence and servant leadership
Md. Shamsul Arefin, Omar Faroque, Junwei Zhang, Lirong LongAligning employees' goals with organizational goals is an overarching objective of an organization to increase employees' outcomes and, ultimately, the firm's performance…
The impacts of economic policy uncertainties on carbon dioxide emissions of emerging and low-income developing countries: the moderating role of institutional quality
Dinkneh Gebre Borojo, Jiang Yushi, Miao MiaoThis study is aimed to examine the effects of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It further aimed to investigate the moderating role…
Developing a competitiveness index at sub-national level for India: an economic growth measure
Nirmalkumar Singh Moirangthem, Barnali NagThe objective of this study is threefold–first, to develop a Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) for measuring competitiveness of sub-national regions for India; second…
Inbound tourism demand elasticities of MENA countries: the role of internal and external conflicts
Ojonugwa Usman, Andrew Adewale Alola, George IkeIn this paper, the authors investigate the inbound tourism demand elasticities of the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. The authors emphasize the role of…
Monetary policy decisions and bank profitability: evidence from an emerging economy
Gloria Clarissa Dzeha, Christopher Boachie, Maryam Kriese, Baah Aye KusiThis study provides empirical evidence for the first time on how different measures of monetary policy affect banking profitability in Ghana.
Policy-oriented restart of supply and demand after COVID-19: firm-level evidence for China
Chao Liang, Bai Liu, Hing Kai ChanChina is the only major economy in the world that has achieved positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2020. The paper aims to explore the effect of China's public…
Do guanxi and harmonious leadership matter in the sociocultural integration by Chinese multinational enterprises in The Netherlands?
Zhe Sun, Liang Zhao, Hongji Wei, Xiaoming Wang, Rosanne Rosalie RiemersmaThe study aims to examine the effects of guanxi and harmonious leadership on acquisition performance and the role of sociocultural integration as a mediating mechanism…
Studying key antecedents of disruptive technology adoption in the digital supply chain: an Indian perspective
Tarit Mitra, Rohit Kapoor, Narain GuptaThe study examines the key drivers of the adoption of disruptive technologies (DTs) in the digital supply chain (DSC) in developing nations.
Openness and technological innovation: the moderating effect of information technology adoption and political ties
Hao Jiao, Jifeng Yang, Cheng Jiang, Jiawei YuThis research helps firms pursue an open innovation strategy but want to minimize competitive pressure from other external entities. A theoretical framework is constructed…
Entry-level job pursuit intention: assessing person-environment fit in India
Atri Sengupta, Shashank MittalPerson-environment (PE) fit theory suggests that value congruence (fit) leads to the job pursuits intention (Cable and Judge, 1996) which is also influenced by cultural…
The impact of uncertainty-fear against COVID-19 on corporate social responsibility and labor practices issues
Moustafa Mohamed Nazief Haggag Kotb Kholaif, Xiao MingThe research aims to profoundly investigate the correlation between uncertainty-fear against COVID-19, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and labor practices issues…
Corporate social responsibility and SMEs' performance: mediating role of corporate image, corporate reputation and customer loyalty
Thanh Tiep LeThe purpose of the paper is to evaluate the essential role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on SMEs' performance by exploring the mediating role of corporate image…
Triple vectorial analysis of financial development impact on economic growth: evidence from the Middle East and Central Asia
Rim El Khoury, Etienne Harb, Nohade NasrallahThis paper provides a state-of-the-art review of the financial development in the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) and examines its impact on its economic growth.
Workplace spirituality, knowledge-hiding and the mediating role of organizational identification: evidence from Pakistan
Muhammad Muavia, Ghulam Hussain, Umar Farooq Sahibzada, Wan Khairuzzaman Wan IsmailThis research aims to investigate relationship between workplace spirituality and employees' knowledge-hiding as mediated by organizational identification.
Challenges in creating egalitarian logistic ecosystem: cases of app-based cab aggregators (ABCAs)
Nikhil Kewal Krishna Mehta, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas ChavanGiven the increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, egalitarian ecosystems may play an important role to establish equality among various…
The foreignness effect on internationalisation depth: the perspective of multicomplexity and the duality of foreignness
I-Fan Yen, Hsin Mei Lin, Yi-Tien ShihThe literature on foreignness has, to date, stressed the liability of foreignness (LOF) and the advantage of foreignness (AOF). Drawing on industrial organisation theory…
Revisiting expectation confirmation model to measure the effectiveness of multichannel bank services for elderly consumers
Neena Sinha, Nidhi SinghThis study aims to understand the expectations of elderly bank customers with mobile banking services and to measure its impact on their long-term satisfaction and…
The mediating role of financial service branding on investment decisions: an emerging market's perspective
Robert Kwame Dzogbenuku, George Kofi Amoako, Albert MartinsThis study seeks to assess the mediating role of financial service branding on investment decisions from the perspective of financial service investors.
How consumer uncertainty intervene country of origin image and consumer purchase intention? The moderating role of brand image
Talat Islam, Mawra HussainCountry of origin is a well-studied topic for developed countries that have a favourable image. However, how country of origin image affects the consumers of an emerging…
Busy commissioners and firm performance: evidence from Indonesia
Irwan Trinugroho, Tastaftiyan Risfandy, Mamduh M. Hanafi, Raditya SukmanaUsing the Indonesian setting where the government formally limits the presence of busy commissioners, the authors investigate whether a board containing busy commissioners…
An investigation of the impacts of asset ratio policy on the banking system during the Covid-19 crisis in Turkey
Serife Genc IleriThis paper provides a quantitative assessment of the “asset ratio” rule defined in Turkey as part of measures taken to stimulate the economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic…
Global knowledge centrality: co-inventor collaboration with China
Jessica Salmon, Salma Zaman, Emine Beyza Satoglu, Fernando Sanchez-Henriquez, Andres Velez-CalleThis paper examines the role of co-inventor collaboration with China and/or the USA on a country's increase in centrality in global knowledge networks. It also explores…
A matter of others' money: How cash holdings of other firms affect a firm’s cash holding?
Jisaba Jinkrawee, Ravi Lonkani, Suchanphin SuwanaphanThis study examines the effects of comparable companies, within the same industry, on cash-holding (CH) levels of a specific firm in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)…
Conflicts, trust toward the acquirer from emerging economies and post-acquisition cooperation intention
Xun Zhang, Jun Wu, Ning Zhang, Biao XuThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of inter-group conflicts on the trust toward the acquirer and then further on cooperation intention after acquisitions…
Effect of advertising expenditures on analyst coverage: evidence from an emerging market
Omar Farooq, Harit Satt, Fatimazahra BendriouchThis paper aims to document the relationship between advertising expenditures and analyst coverage in a sample of Indian firms during the period between 2000 and 2019.
Russian merger control: in favor of foreign companies?
Anastasiia Redkina, Mariia Molodchik, Carlos JardonThe paper aims to reveal the attitude of the Russian competition authorities towards cross-border mergers involving foreign buyers. The study addresses the following…
The impact of economic uncertainty, stock market uncertainty and monetary uncertainty on money demand in India
Mohammad Azeem Khan, Masudul Hasan Adil, Shah HusainThe purpose of the paper is to address money demand instability and investigate the impact of economic uncertainty, stock market uncertainty and monetary uncertainty on…
Impacts of social insurance on firm performance: evidence from Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises
The Nguyen HuynhThis article analyzes the impact of social insurance on firm performance by obtaining evidence from Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Antecedents and consequences of consumers' attitudes toward product placements: evidence from India
Ravineet Kaur, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Apurva BakshiAdvertising clutter has fueled the rise of nontraditional advertising methods. The current study, conducted in India, adopted the consumer socialization framework to…
Value-added intellectual capital and productive efficiencies: evidence from Taiwan listed electronics companies
Irene Wei Kiong Ting, Wen-Min Lu, Qian Long Kweh, Chunya RenThis study examines the effect of value-added (VA) intellectual capital on business performance from the perspective of productive efficiency, which is derived from its…
Host country corruption and headquarters-subsidiary relationships in emerging economies
Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Miao Miao, Muhammad Faraz Mubarak, Syed Imran Zaman, Syed Hasnain Alam Kazmi, Navaz NaghaviThe primary objective of this study is to investigate the impact of a host country's corruption on the autonomy of a foreign subsidiary from a country with lower tolerance…
On the foreign direct investment–economic growth relationship in Africa: does economic freedom mediate this relationship?
Olufemi Adewale Aluko, Muazu Ibrahim, Xuan Vinh VoIn this study, the authors examine how economic freedom mediates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in Africa.
Digital entrepreneurship and emancipation: exploring the nexus in a conflict zone
Sharfa Hassan, Ajaz Akbar Mir, Sher Jahan KhanThis paper aims to examine the emergence of digital entrepreneurship in a conflict environment to explore the emancipatory potential of digital technology in a rare…
Technological innovation policy and Chinese heterogeneity enterprises' outward foreign direct investment
Jinjing Zhao, Jongchul LeeThe study aims to analyze the role of the Made in China 2025 (MIC2025) initiative in China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) and the factors affecting the success…
Financial stress effects on financial markets: dynamic connectedness and portfolio hedging
Taicir Mezghani, Mouna Boujelbène-AbbesThis paper investigates the impact of financial stress on the dynamic connectedness and hedging for oil market and stock-bond markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Examining the influence of forgiveness and its antecedents on consumer behavior: the moderating role of service failure severity
Ramakrishna Salagrama, Sanjeev Prashar, Sai Vijay TataThis study aims to investigate antecedents of forgiveness from the non-complainers point of view after a service failure in India.
Do participants in the bond market care about corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China
Jun Hu, Wenbin Long, Yu Wang, Linzi ZhouUsing a sample of listed Chinese companies that issued bonds from 2010 to 2019, the authors empirically test the link between CSR and corporate bond pricing, and the…
Determinants of stock market reaction to cross-border acquisitions: evidence from emerging economies
Samta Jain, Smita Kashiramka, P. K. JainThe global economy has witnessed an exponential increase in cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) by emerging market companies (EMCs), demanding a relook at their…
Political connections and firm performance in an emerging market context: the mediating effect of sustainability disclosure
Faisal Faisal, Rizki Ridhasyah, Haryanto HaryantoThis study examines the mediating effect of sustainability disclosure on the relationship between political connections and firm performance from the resource-based view.
Coopetition in social entrepreneurship: a strategy for social value devolution
Leandro da Silva Nascimento, Júlio César da Costa Júnior, Viviane Santos Salazar, Adriana Fumi Chim-MikiCoopetition is a well-studied phenomenon in traditional enterprises. However, it lacks deepening in the social sphere, specifically on hybrid organizations (social and…
The evolving passage of consumer ethics research: a systematic literature review
Syed Masroor Hassan, Zillur RahmanAs a crucial counter-equivalent to business ethics, consumer ethics has emerged as a promising research domain for practitioners and academicians alike. Despite its…
Impact of environmental management practices on corporate sustainability: evidence from the Maldives hospitality industry
Anitha Moosa, Feng HeThis paper aims to explore how environmental management practices impact different dimensions of corporate sustainability. It also explores the mediating impact of…
Determinants of profitability in Chinese companies
Ali Saleh Alarussi, Xiaoyu GaoThis study is conducted to determine the factors that affect profitability in Chinese listed companies (by using financial ratios). Four independent variables liquidity…
The emergence of family entrepreneurship in the transition economy of Cuba
Eli Gimmon, Christian FelzenszteinTo better understand the emergence of small-scale entrepreneurial firms in the under-researched transition economy of Cuba.
The impact of organizational practices on formation and development of psychological contract: expatriates' perception-based view
Hafsa Bashir, Bashir Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem Bari, Qurat Ul Ain KhanBased on signaling and motivation theories, this study investigates the impact of organizational practices on the formation and development of expatriates' psychological…
International acquisitions and efficiency and productivity of the Serbian cement industry
Slađana Savović, Predrag Mimović, Violeta DomanovićThis paper explores the impact of international acquisitions on the efficiency and productivity of the cement industry in an emerging economy.
Unexpected investment, tunnelling and financial constraints
Le Hong Ngoc Ha, An ThaiBased on a sample of 1,435 Vietnamese listed firms over the period from 2005 to 2017, this study examines the sensitivity of unexpected investment to free cash flow and…
Diversity and consumer dispositions towards foreign countries in an emerging market
Aybegüm Güngördü BelbağThe current study builds on social identity theory and realistic conflict theory aims to identify the relationships amongst consumers' ethnocentrism, animosity, discomfort…
Excess volatility pursuit in autoregressive GARCH model based panel data analysis at country level: BRICS context
Wajid Shakeel Ahmed, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Muhammad Jibran Sheikh, Inzamam KhanThis particular study examined the government bond price variations in order to determine the presence of excess volatility both at country and panel group level of BRICS…
Investment environment, stock market perception and stock investments after stock market crash
Mohammad Tariqul Islam Khan, Siow-Hooi Tan, Lee-Lee Chong, Gerald Guan Gan GohThis study examines how the importance of external investment environment factors affects stock market perception, and how stock market perception affects stock…
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the valuation of Indian companies using a financial model
Pitabas Mohanty, Supriti MishraFear grips stock markets when a pandemic like COVID-19 strikes, severely affecting stock prices. However, fundamental value drivers of companies do not change drastically…
Exploration of dissonance segments among fashion apparel consumers: Evidence from a developing nation
Mohit Jamwal, Sita MishraThe purpose of this paper is to examine the existence and profile consumer segments based on dissonance in Indian apparel fashion retail market.
Impact of economic and market factors on the market liquidity timing ability of mutual fund managers in Turkey
Hale Yalcin, Sema DubeThe authors examine whether Turkish fund managers employ liquidity timing along with market return timing, and if additional economic and market factors could affect their…
Symmetric and asymmetric adjustment of bank deposit interest rates: empirical evidence from Kenya
Moses Nzuki Nyangu, Freshia Wangari Waweru, Nyankomo MarwaThis paper examines the sluggish adjustment of deposit interest rate categories with response to policy rate changes in a developing economy.
The impact of board composition and ownership structure on dividend payout policy: evidence from Saudi Arabia
Helmi A. BoshnakThis study examines the impact of board composition and ownership structure variables on dividend payout policy in Saudi Arabian firms. In particular, it aims to determine…
Customer participation in service innovation using SNS smartphone apps: an investigation of the Indian hotel service industry
Bijoylaxmi Sarmah, Yupal Shukla, Ravi Chatterjee, Shampy KambojExisting research lacks a comprehensive understanding of the individual factors that may transform an “ordinary” customer into an active participator in the service…
The use and knowledge of export promotion programs in the early internationalization of Brazilian SMEs
Marcelo André Machado, Viviane BischoffThis paper aimed to evaluate the differences in the use and knowledge of export promotion programs (EPPs) between Brazilian SMEs that internationalized early and SMEs that…
Toward the inter-channel synergy renaissance in emerging markets: evidence from adding clicks to bricks in Serbia
Dragan Stojković, Aleksa Dokić, Bozidar Vlacic, Susana Costa e SilvaNewly established intersections between offline and online channels create room for enhancing inter-channel synergies. The nature and structure of emerging markets only…
Antecedents of environmental strategies: a study of the manufacturing industry in Pakistan
Farida Saleem, Yingying Zhang-Zhang, C. Gopinath, Muhammad Imran MalikThe paper aims to explore how market pressures, upper echelons theory and slack resources interact to affect pro-environmental strategies in an emerging market…
How does Buddhism affect corporate cash holdings?
Yaoqin Li, Xichan Chen, Wanli Li, Xixiong XuThis study explores whether and how Buddhism impacts corporate cash holdings. Buddhist culture affects investors' perception of how cash is deployed and then influences…
Forecasting sovereign risk perception of Brazilian bonds: an evaluation of machine learning prediction accuracy
Diego Silveira Pacheco de Oliveira, Gabriel Caldas MontesGiven the importance of credit rating agencies’ (CRAs) assessment in affecting international financial markets, it is useful for policymakers and investors to be able to…