International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 18 Issue 10

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Determinants of shadow economy in OIC and non-OIC countries: the role of financial development

Shabeer Khan, Baharom Abdul Hamid, Mohd Ziaur Rehman

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants and the impact of financial development on shadow economy in OIC countries and then compared with non-OIC…

The expatriate and local hotel general managers: differing approaches to employees’ loyalty

Yong-Ki Lee, Paresha N. Sinha, Soon-Ho Kim, Eric Melvin Swanson, Jae-Jang Yang, Eun-Jung Kim

Hotels conducting international business are acknowledging the importance of an expatriate general manager (GM), to increase the effectiveness of their knowledge management system…

Forecasting sovereign risk perception of Brazilian bonds: an evaluation of machine learning prediction accuracy

Diego Silveira Pacheco de Oliveira, Gabriel Caldas Montes

Given the importance of credit rating agencies’ (CRAs) assessment in affecting international financial markets, it is useful for policymakers and investors to be able to forecast…

Industry-level analysis of COVID-19’s impact in emerging markets – evidence from Pakistan

Muhammad Mushafiq

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate COVID-19’s impact on the emerging stock markets.

Economic policy uncertainty and investors' sentiment—an Indian perspective

Sohil Idnani, Masudul Hasan Adil, Hoshiar Mal, Ashutosh Kolte

This paper aims to understand the effect of a change in Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) of India and the USA on investors' sentiment in the Indian context, consisting of Sensex…

Corporate compliance capability of EMNEs: a prerequisite for overcoming the liability of emergingness in advanced economies

Liang Wang, Zaiyang Xie, Hongjuan Zhang, Xiaohua Yang, Justin Tan

The literature on how emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) overcome the liability of emergingness/origin has sidestepped a prerequisite for any efforts to overcome…

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 Goh

This study examines how the importance of external investment environment factors affects stock market perception, and how stock market perception affects stock investments after…

The impact of China's trade, aid and FDI on African economies

Derrick Anquanah Cudjoe, He Yumei, Hanhui Hu

This study examines the impact of China’s trade, aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the economic growth of Africa.

The impact of trade openness on the cost of financial intermediation and bank performance: evidence from BRICS countries

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, Md. Mominur Rahman, Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Abdul Kaium Masud

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of trade openness on the cost of financial intermediation and bank performance. Developed and developing countries are currently…

Interplay among blockchain technology adoption strategy, e-supply chain management diffusion, entrepreneurial orientation and human resources information system in banking

Heba Mohamed Adel, Raghda Abulsaoud Ahmed Younis

To empirically study the direct and mediating relationships between blockchain technology adoption strategy (BCTAS), electronic supply chain management diffusion (eSCMD)…

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Antecedents of environmental strategies: a study of the manufacturing industry in Pakistan

Farida Saleem, Yingying Zhang-Zhang, C. Gopinath, Muhammad Imran Malik

The paper aims to explore how market pressures, upper echelons theory and slack resources interact to affect pro-environmental strategies in an emerging market. Specifically, the…

How and when economic policy uncertainty influences firms' strategic change: the role of CEO turnover and organizational inertia

Xi Zhong, Weihong Chen, Ge Ren

Many studies have examined the antecedents of firms' strategic change on a micro and meso level, but few studies have explored it from the macrolevel (e.g. economic policy…

Selection of resilient suppliers in manufacturing industries post-COVID-19: implications for economic and social sustainability in emerging economies

Abhijit Majumdar, Jeevaraj S, Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, Rohit Agrawal

Selection of resilient suppliers has attracted the attention of researchers in the past one decade. The devastating effect of COVID-19 in emerging economies has provided great…

Global knowledge centrality: co-inventor collaboration with China

Jessica Salmon, Salma Zaman, Emine Beyza Satoglu, Fernando Sanchez-Henriquez, Andres Velez-Calle

This 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 the role…

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 Khan

This 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…

Regional responses to macroeconomic and regional policy in Poland

Ageliki Anagnostou, Vyron Bourelias, Paweł Gajewski

The purpose of this paper is to investigate regional impact of macroeconomic and regional policy impulses, using our newly developed multi-regional computable general equilibrium…

The impact of economic uncertainty, stock market uncertainty and monetary uncertainty on money demand in India

Mohammad Azeem Khan, Masudul Hasan Adil, Shah Husain

The purpose of the paper is to address money demand instability and investigate the impact of economic uncertainty, stock market uncertainty and monetary uncertainty on money…

Technological innovation policy and Chinese heterogeneity enterprises' outward foreign direct investment

Jinjing Zhao, Jongchul Lee

The 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 or…

Impacts of social insurance on firm performance: evidence from Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises

The Nguyen Huynh

This article analyzes the impact of social insurance on firm performance by obtaining evidence from Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Russian merger control: in favor of foreign companies?

Anastasiia Redkina, Mariia Molodchik, Carlos Jardon

The paper aims to reveal the attitude of the Russian competition authorities towards cross-border mergers involving foreign buyers. The study addresses the following question: Is…

Reverse FDI and knowledge-and-physical-capital model: empirical evidence from emerging economies

Andrzej Cieślik, Giang Hien Tran

The main aim of this paper is to verify whether the modern mainstream economic theory of multinational enterprise that explains foreign direct investment (FDI) from developed…

Disaggregated IPO returns, economic uncertainty and the long-run performance of SME IPOs

Vikas Gupta, Shveta Singh, Surendra S. Yadav

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in national economies worldwide, generating employment and contributing to innovation. This study tries to investigate the…

Development of empirically based customer-derived positioning taxonomy for consumer electronics sector in the Indian emerging market

Natasha Saqib, Mir Shahid Satar

An Indian emerging market positioning taxonomy has been developed in response to the literature review's findings that existing positioning typologies/taxonomies are based on…

How leadership styles influence organizational outcomes: an empirical study in Vietnamese SMEs

Dat Tien Le, Selvarajah Christopher, Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen, Hong Thi Thanh Pham, Phuong Thi Lan Nguyen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of leadership styles on different organizational outcomes and value structure such as: overall business performance, working…

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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 Santoro

This paper aims to investigate information technology capabilities (ITC)’s influence on organizational performance (OP) within the hospitality industry. Specifically, it analyzes…

Political connections and firm performance in an emerging market context: the mediating effect of sustainability disclosure

Faisal Faisal, Rizki Ridhasyah, Haryanto Haryanto

This study examines the mediating effect of sustainability disclosure on the relationship between political connections and firm performance from the resource-based view.

A matter of others' money: How cash holdings of other firms affect a firm’s cash holding?

Jisaba Jinkrawee, Ravi Lonkani, Suchanphin Suwanaphan

This 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). Peer…

Examining the influence of forgiveness and its antecedents on consumer behavior: the moderating role of service failure severity

Ramakrishna Salagrama, Sanjeev Prashar, Sai Vijay Tata

This study aims to investigate antecedents of forgiveness from the non-complainers point of view after a service failure in India.

Cultural values, entrepreneurial team structure and performance of SMEs

Mohammad Bashokuh-E-Ajirloo, Bahman Khodapanah, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mehdi Ebrahimzadeh

The 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.

International acquisitions and efficiency and productivity of the Serbian cement industry

Slađana Savović, Predrag Mimović, Violeta Domanović

This paper explores the impact of international acquisitions on the efficiency and productivity of the cement industry in an emerging economy.

Openness and technological innovation: the moderating effect of information technology adoption and political ties

Hao Jiao, Jifeng Yang, Cheng Jiang, Jiawei Yu

This research helps firms pursue an open innovation strategy but want to minimize competitive pressure from other external entities. A theoretical framework is constructed to…

Financial stress effects on financial markets: dynamic connectedness and portfolio hedging

Taicir Mezghani, Mouna Boujelbène-Abbes

This 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).

Cash holding and performance analysis of mutual funds: a case of an emerging financial market

Faisal Khan, Syed Hamid Ali Shah, Romana Bangash

This 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 performance-related…

What triggers mobile application-based purchase behavior during COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Vietnam

Xuan Cu Le

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has shifted purchase behavior and accelerated the diffusion of modern retail channels via mobile application (or m-application). This work aims…

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 Vo

The pupose of the paper is to study the usefulness of Piotroski (2000)'s F-score in separating winners and losers in Vietnam.

The impact of market orientation on small firm performance: a configurational approach

Sanjay Chaudhary, Deepak Sangroya, Elisa Arrigo, Giuseppe Cappiello

In this study, the authors examine the influence of market orientation on small firms' performance. The authors theorize that the association between market orientation and small…

Digital entrepreneurship and emancipation: exploring the nexus in a conflict zone

Sharfa Hassan, Ajaz Akbar Mir, Sher Jahan Khan

This paper aims to examine the emergence of digital entrepreneurship in a conflict environment to explore the emancipatory potential of digital technology in a rare context. The…

A global perspective of the role of domestic economic, financial and political risks in inbound tourism

Seyed Alireza Athari, Uju Violet Alola, Andrew Adewale Alola

In 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 risks…

Influencing factors and paths of upgrading consumer goods industry in Shanghai: a FsQCA approach

Lei Shen, Cong Sun, Muhammad Ali

This study examines the factors that influence the improvement of the consumer goods sector in three dimensions (technology, internal factors and external environment) for…

Determinants of profitability in Chinese companies

Ali Saleh Alarussi, Xiaoyu Gao

This study is conducted to determine the factors that affect profitability in Chinese listed companies (by using financial ratios). Four independent variables liquidity…

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Natural resources and economic growth: evidence from Brunei Darussalam

Muhammad Tahir, Umar Burki, Arshad Hayat

This paper explores the relationship between natural resources and economic growth of Brunei Darussalam, an underresearched area in the available literature.

Adoption of artificial intelligence in banking services: an empirical analysis

Mahfuzur Rahman, Teoh Hui Ming, Tarannum Azim Baigh, Moniruzzaman Sarker

This 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 important…

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Triple vectorial analysis of financial development impact on economic growth: evidence from the Middle East and Central Asia

Rim El Khoury, Etienne Harb, Nohade Nasrallah

This 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.

Cooperation in a minimum-waste innovation ecosystem: a case study of the Czech Hemp Cluster

Jindrich Spicka

Innovation ecosystems face many environmental challenges. The literature review shows that innovation ecosystems accelerate innovation activity, but empirical studies have not…

Regulatory focus and construal level theory on low-income consumer indebtedness: Evidence from an emerging market

Patrícia de Oliveira Campos, Marconi Freitas da Costa

This 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 level…

Can market state and market volatility explain time-varying momentum profits in South Africa?

Mwangele Kaluba, Yudhvir Seetharam

While 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 are…

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 Hasan

The primary objective of this study is to examine the nexus between transformational leadership (TL) and followers' radical creativity (FRC). In contrast, creative process…

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 Kang

This paper examines asymmetric multifractality (A-MF) in the leading Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stock markets under different turbulent periods (global financial crisis…

Entry-level job pursuit intention: assessing person-environment fit in India

Atri Sengupta, Shashank Mittal

Person-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 norms (Ma…

Revisiting expectation confirmation model to measure the effectiveness of multichannel bank services for elderly consumers

Neena Sinha, Nidhi Singh

This 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 continued…

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Developing a competitiveness index at sub-national level for India: an economic growth measure

Nirmalkumar Singh Moirangthem, Barnali Nag

The objective of this study is threefold–first, to develop a Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) for measuring competitiveness of sub-national regions for India; second, to test…

Empirical comparison of Shariah-compliant vs conventional mutual fund performance

Naseem Al Rahahleh, M. Ishaq Bhatti

This paper investigates the performance of locally focused equity mutual funds (LFEFs) in Saudi Arabia as compared with the performance of benchmark funds. More specifically, the…

Corporate environmental responsibility and innovation: empirical evidence from Vietnam

Van Ha Nguyen, Nam Hoang Vu

This study aims to examine the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) practices and different types of innovation carried out by small- and medium-sized…

Loan to value ratio and housing loan default – evidence from microdata in India

Asish Saha, Debasis Rooj, Reshmi Sengupta

This 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 national…

Corporate social responsibility and SMEs' performance: mediating role of corporate image, corporate reputation and customer loyalty

Thanh Tiep Le

The 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 (CI)…

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Entrepreneurs' exit strategies and their determinants: the role of perceived exit challenges

Izabela Koładkiewicz, Łukasz Kozłowski, Marta Wojtyra-Perlejewska

The 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 decision…

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 Shah

The financial policies of the modern world corporations and their investment decisions are generally considered as interrelated because the agency problems, associated with the…

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 Riemersma

The study aims to examine the effects of guanxi and harmonious leadership on acquisition performance and the role of sociocultural integration as a mediating mechanism impacting…

Framework and determinants of benchmarking: a theoretical analysis and case study in Vietnam

Viet Hoang, Khanh-Duy Nguyen, Hoang-Le Nguyen

This study aims to develop a benchmarking model with productivity, management, and sustainability indicators (PMS), measure the performance of furniture firms in Vietnam, explore…

Studying key antecedents of disruptive technology adoption in the digital supply chain: an Indian perspective

Tarit Mitra, Rohit Kapoor, Narain Gupta

The study examines the key drivers of the adoption of disruptive technologies (DTs) in the digital supply chain (DSC) in developing nations.

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Inbound tourism demand elasticities of MENA countries: the role of internal and external conflicts

Ojonugwa Usman, Andrew Adewale Alola, George Ike

In 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 external…

Cover of International Journal of Emerging Markets

ISSN:

1746-8809

e-ISSN:

1746-8817

ISSN-L:

1746-8809

Online date, start – end:

2006

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Ilan Alon