South Asian Journal of Business Studies

Transformational leadership and career success: a moderated mediation model of proactive career behavior and role ambiguity

Swati Agrawal, Sajeet Pradhan

This study examines the mediating and moderating role of proactive career behavior (PCB) and role ambiguity (RA) in the relationship between transformational leadership…

Developing the relationship between corporate cultural factors and employees' organizational commitment via self-efficacy

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Abdul Wahid Zehri, Sadia Anwar, Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed, Naimatullah Shah

In this study, the researchers explored the predictive powers of corporate cultural factors and self-efficacy on Pakistan's public sector bank employees' organizational commitment.

Dynamic modeling of marginal expected shortfall under economic sensitivity: empirical evidence from Pakistan

Hasan Hanif

Systemic risk is of concern for economic welfare as it can lower the credit supply to all the sectors within an economy. This study examines for the first time the…

Corporate governance and cost of equity: the moderating role of ownership concentration levels

Muhammad Arsalan Hashmi, Urooj Istaqlal, Rayenda Khresna Brahmana

The study analyzes the influence of corporate governance and ownership concentration levels on the cost of equity. Further, the authors extend the literature by…

Are consumers willing to pay a premium for art-infused products?

Mansi Gupta

Art-infusion has become a common practice among brands across the globe. This is because marketers leverage the uniqueness and prestige of arts to earn superior profits…

Exploring Customer Perceived Value towards non-deceptive counterfeiting: a grounded theory approach

Kaushik Samaddar, Aradhana Gandhi

The study explores and builds theories in Customer Perceived Values (CPVs) that drive counterfeit buying intention, using a Grounded Theory Approach (GTA) in an emerging…

Influence of government financial incentives on electric car adoption: empirical evidence from India

K.V. Ansab, S. Pavan Kumar

Electric cars have very little market share in developing countries despite their environmental benefits. Thus, governments have started promoting electric cars by…

Corporate derivatives use and firm value: conditional role of corporate governance

Affaf Asghar Butt, Sayyid Salman Rizavi, Mian Sajid Nazir, Aamer Shahzad

This study aims to examine the effect of corporate derivatives use on firm value and how the corporate governance index modifies this relationship.

Impact of organizational climate, culture, leadership and structure on competitive advantage: mediating effect of absorptive capacity

Khawaja Khalid Mehmood, Mehreen Mushtaq, Jalal Rajeh Hanaysha

This research aimed to investigate absorptive capacity's (AC) mediating effect among four important organizational factors, namely transformational leadership (TL)…

The volatility spillover effect of macroeconomic indicators and strategic commodities on inflation: evidence from India

Shailesh Rastogi, Jagjeevan Kanoujiya

This study aims to analyze the volatility spillover effects of crude oil, gold price, interest rate (yield) and the exchange rate (USD (United States Dollar)/INR (Indian…

Help and hindrance: family roles concerning small businesses of women in Bangladesh during COVID-19 pandemic

Jasmine Jaim

Although the extant literature has already recognised the negative impact of homebound responsibilities on women's entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is yet…

Using blockchain for global governance: past, present and future

Chandan Kumar Tiwari, Abhinav Pal

This paper examines the current state of blockchain governance research. The study’s findings also propose a conceptual framework for the use of blockchain in governance…

Factors influencing online luxury purchase intentions: the moderating role of bandwagon luxury consumption behavior

Sheetal Jain

Despite the fact that online is predicted to become the major channel for luxury purchases by 2025, there is scant literature related to online luxury buying behavior…

Managing employees’ performance in Indian public sector undertakings during COVID-19 pandemic-induced blended working

Sanjeet Kumar Sameer

Acknowledging the significance of perceived organizational support (POS) for employees’ performance, this study aims to examine the underlying mechanism of task…

Intention to stay and happiness: a moderated mediation model of work engagement and hope

Neha Bellamkonda, Murugan Pattusamy

Drawing from the self-determination theory (SDT) model of work motivation (Gagné and Deci, 2005), the paper aims to examine the relationship between employee intention to…

Dimensions of mobile service adoption – a systematic literature review

Vishal Kulshrestha, Kokil Jain, Tarun Dhingra

The goal of this paper is to identify the main factors influencing mobile service adoption and define a universally applicable holistic concept capable of explaining all…

The effect of bank reputation on loyalty – the moderating role of bank type

Rashmi Sharma, Richa Joshi

This paper aims to investigate the role of bank reputation (via its proposed dimensions) in influencing bank trust and its subsequent effect on the loyalty of the…

Workplace diversity and individual-level outcomes: the role of gender as moderator

Itinpreet Kaur, Geeta Mishra, Rahela Farooqi

Although existing literature abounds with actual diversity research, there is scant work on perceived diversity. This research aims to investigate the impact of employees'…

Sustainable organizational performance management: deciphering the role of emotional capital in e-commerce industry

Parul Gupta, Kanupriya Misra Bakhru, Amit Shankar

This study aims to understand role employee emotional capital in e-commerce organizations for implementing a sustainability-oriented approach. It explores two research…

How COVID-19 impacts consumer purchase intention towards health and hygiene products in India?

Pooja Kumari, Bhumika Bhateja

The surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in India raises the need to study the variables that affect product and category choices, consumer buying preferences and…

Information technology investment and working capital management efficiency: evidence from India survey data

Amarjit Gill, Parminder Kang, Afshin Amiraslany

This study aims to test the relationship between information technology investment (IT_INVEST) and working capital management (WCM) efficiency.

Social capital in e-commerce era: toward a deeper knowledge of its conceptualization and empirical measurement in agribusiness

Le Dang Lang

E-commerce, with technology as its backbone, is an indispensable business trend associated with the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Recently, its intensifying…

Does exchange rate volatility influence import commodities of India-US? Evidence from ARDL approach

Mohini Gupta, Sakshi Varshney

The aim the study is to explore the impact of real exchange rate volatility and other macroeconomic variable such as price of import, industrial production and real…

The impact of entrepreneurs' full-time versus hybrid employment and social connections on new venture survival: a USA–India comparison

Xi Zhang, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Raja Roy, Cesar Bandera

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the entrepreneurs' social connections and types of employment differentially affect the survival of startup firms in the USA…

Fostering sustainable relationships in Pakistani cellular service industry through CSR and brand love

Ammar Javed, Zia Khan

This study investigates the mediating role of brand love in two important relationships: first, corporate social responsibility (CSR)–word-of-mouth (WoM) intentions and…

Expense shifting and revenue shifting in the income statement: substitutes or complements?

Manish Bansal

The study aims at examining the relationship between the forms of misclassification practices, namely expense shifting and revenue shifting. In particular, the study aims…

The relation of workplace spirituality with employee creativity among Indian software professionals: mediating role of psychological empowerment

Tapas Bantha, Umakanta Nayak

This paper aims to examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee creativity and check the mediating role of psychological empowerment on this relationship.

Impact of menstruation-related stigma and behavior on female employee performance in Bangladesh: mediating role of non-work related stress

Raisa Tasneem Zaman, Md.Fazla Mohiuddin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how menstruation specific stigma and behavior impacts female employee performance in Bangladesh. Besides, it aims to…

Impact of upward and downward earnings management on stock returns

Asgar Ali, Manish Bansal

The current study aims at examining the impact of upward and downward earnings management on the cross-sections of stock return. The study also examines the moderating…

Volatility integration of gold and crude oil prices with the interest rates in India

Shailesh Rastogi, Adesh Doifode, Jagjeevan Kanoujiya, Satyendra Pratap Singh

Crude oil, gold and interest rates are some of the key indicators of the health of domestic as well as global economy. The purpose of the study is to find the shock…

Will she stay or will she quit: determinants of career persistence and non-persistence amongst women workers of India's IT sector

Swati Alok, Sudatta Banerjee, Navya Kumar

This study aims to identify demographic characteristics, personal attributes and attitudes and social support factors that adversely or favourably affect the likelihood of…

How well does government microcredit serve the investment needs of small and medium enterprises? An impact analysis on handloom weavers in Bangladesh

Mst Tania Parvin, Regina Birner, Ashrafun Nahar

The purpose of this study is to empirically estimate the impact of a government microcredit program on the handloom weavers to promote small and medium enterprises (SMEs…

Workplace spirituality, self-compassion and mindfulness as antecedents of employee mental wellbeing

Jnaneswar K, M.M. Sulphey

Mental wellbeing brings in multiple benefits to employees and their organizations like better decision-making capacity, greater productivity, resilience and so on. The…

“Goldilocks” gender mix for maximal innovation likelihood at Indian firms

Navya Kumar, Swati Alok, Sudatta Banerjee

Gender diversity is known to trigger creative and relationship conflicts alike, the former a boon for innovation and the latter a bane. This study aims to explore the…

A turnaround fuelled by transformational leadership

Mayuree Sengupta

The purpose of this paper is to understand how Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the National Research Development Corporation, India, Hanumanthu Purushotham had…

Reestablishing the legitimacy after fraud: does corporate governance structure matter?

Sohail Rizwan, Sumayya Chughtai

The study aims to yield evidence on the relation between the quality of governance characteristics and the firms' financial credibility involved in financial violations.

The relationship between performance appraisal system and employees' voice behavior through the mediation-moderation mechanism

Khalid Rasheed Memon, Bilqees Ghani

The purpose of this study is to investigate and articulate the performance appraisal process as a tool, used for the development of voice behavior through the fostering of…

Tax avoidance as earning game player in emerging economies: evidence from Pakistan

Jahanzeb Marwat, Suresh Kumar Oad Rajput, Sarfraz Ahmed Dakhan, Sonia Kumari, Muhammad Ilyas

The current study aims to achieve two targets. First, examine empirically that whether corporate managers use tax avoidance to influence short-term profitability? Second…

Entrepreneurial mothers' behaviours on their business and family life: a case study in Sri Lanka

Thilakshi Kodagoda, Ramanie Samaratunge

This study examines women entrepreneurs' understanding of motherhood and entrepreneurial career and how they negotiate this combination with their gendered understandings…

Improving firm performance using market orientation and capabilities: a case study approach

Sandeep Narula, Sudhir Rana, Shakul Srivastava, Manjeet Kharub

This study explores the relationship between market orientation (MO), marketing capabilities, competitive advantage and firm performance with a focus on productivity and…