Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration: Volume 2 Issue 1

How can the public sector resolve complex issues?: Strategies for steering, administering and coping

Brian W. Head

The purpose of this paper is to ask how the public sector manages complex issues, and suggests that new strategic thinking is needed about ways forward.

Human resource management: an Islamic perspective

Bilal Khan, Ayesha Farooq, Zareen Hussain

Organizations manipulate themselves as per the legal, political, and social values of the particular country where they operate. As a result, the operations and human resources…

Confucian moral roots of citizenship behaviour in China

Yong Han, Yochanan Altman

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Confucian moral standards may serve as a moral root of employees' organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in the…

Psychological capital and authentic leadership: Measurement, gender, and cultural extension

Arran Caza, Richard P. Bagozzi, Lydia Woolley, Lester Levy, Brianna Barker Caza

The purpose of this paper is to test the measurement properties of the psychological capital questionnaire (PCQ) and the authentic leadership questionnaire (ALQ). Both scales'…

Building social capital through corporate social investment

David Cooke

Whereas previously the objectives of the corporation are seen by many as antithetical to the aims of the not‐for‐profit sector, we are now in fact seeing far greater interaction…

Investor relations level and cost of capital: evidence from Japanese firms

Kosal Ly

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the level of investor relations and cost of capital of Japanese electric appliance firms.

Resolving complex wicked problems: new challenges for Asia Pacific managers?

Yvon Dufour

Measuring the impact of research

Measuring the impact of research