South Asian Journal of Business Studies

The effect of working capital investment on firm value and long-term investment: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector

Roshan, Niti Nandini Chatnani

This study investigates the relationship between working capital investment (WCI) and firm value for Indian manufacturing firms using excess net working capital (NWC) and Tobin's…

An examination of economic growth determined by foreign direct investment and the institutional environment: a subnational perspective

Vandana Goswami, Lalit Goswami

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and economic growth with a special focus on the institutional environment…

Investigating how consumer-perceived value and store image influence brand loyalty in emerging markets

Shahidul Islam, Mashiat Zahin, Shahida Binte Rahim

This study examines the impact of consumer-perceived value (CPV) dimensions such as product quality, price fairness, brand prestige and brand positioning on brand attitude and…

National culture has an impact on antecedents of engagement. Or does it?

Vindhya Weeratunga, Deborah Blackman, Fiona Buick, Anthony Cotton

The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the applicability of employee engagement theories in a South Asian country, Sri Lanka, and determine whether…

COVID-adjusted HR practices and employees' stress across continents: testing a moderated mediation model

Subhash C. Kundu, Purnima Chahar, Prerna Tuteja

The paper has intended to advance the research on the relationship between COVID-adjusted HR practices (CAHRP) and employees' stress (ES) by exploring the mediating role of…

How does emotional intelligence influence self-efficacy among customer service representatives in Pakistan? Mediatory effects of emotional labour

Mukaram Ali Khan, Rimsha Ashfaq Butt, Saba Nawab, Syed Sohaib Zubair

This study intends to explore the influence of emotional intelligence on employee self-efficacy in Pakistan's telecom industry. Besides, it explores the mediating effect of…

Knowledge management through information and communication technology investments: the story of Indian family firms

Arindam Mondal, Amit Baran Chakrabarti

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are indispensable tools for Knowledge Management (KM) practices in today’s knowledge-intensive and globally interconnected…

Responses of investors to earnings announcement: does the type of ownership holdings in banks matter?

Akila Anantha Krishnan, Angan Sengupta

This study examines the influence of the ownership structure of banks on investors' behavior by dissecting the investors' response to news regarding performance indicators in…

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 market…

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 complete…

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 and…

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 providing…

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 investigating the…

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), innovative…

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. Hence…

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.

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 National…

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 at…

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 to know…

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 performance in a…

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 stay and…

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, mainly in…

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 customer. 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'…

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…

“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 possibility…