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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, India…
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 relationship…
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 exploitation…
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 short-run…
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 the role…
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 why EMFs…
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 role of…
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…
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 gender…
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 effects of…
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 resources are…
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…
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 investment…
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 examines…
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 Asian…
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 growing…
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…
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 groups in…
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 purpose of…
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…
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 corporate…
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 at young…
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 in…
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 constraining…
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 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 foreign…
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.
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…
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…
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 previous…
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, aligned…
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 impact on…
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 Africa…
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 several…
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 acceptance…
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 multinational…
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 banking…
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 a…
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 scenario of…
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