PSU Research Review , Open Access

Job commitment, total quality management, information communication technology adoption, toxic leadership and job demands: a conceptual framework for student retention

Samuel Koomson

This paper aims to examine the direct effect of job commitment (JCT) on student retention (REN), exploring the mediating roles of total quality management (TQM) and…

Carbon dioxide emissions reduction efficiency and growth potential: case of China

Alina Steblyanskaya, Mingye Ai, Artem Denisov, Olga Efimova, Maksim Rybachuk

Understanding China's carbon dioxide (C…

The influence of emotional intelligence and personal styles of dealing with conflict on strategic decisions

Raed Alharbi, Alhamzah Alnoor

Organizations seek to achieve the best results for their strategic decisions by increasing the effectiveness of the vertical and horizontal interconnection. This leads to…

Regulatory accounting environment, cultural values and board efficacy in developing countries

Kais Baatour, Moufida Ben Saada

This cross-country study aims to investigate from an interdisciplinary perspective the impacts of the accounting regulation's strength and cultural values of long-term…

Corporate social responsibility and financial performance – the role of corporate reputation, advertising and competition

Makhmoor Bashir

The research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) has seen a surge over the years. However, the role of corporate reputation (CR)…

30 years of research in Islamic accounting: a literature review

Md. Saiful Alam

This paper aims to examine the Islamic accounting research. In particular, the paper extensively investigates the literature on Islamic accounting to understand the…

Prognosticating anthropomorphic chatbots' usage intention as an e-banking customer service gateway: cogitations from Zimbabwe

Brighton Nyagadza, Asphat Muposhi, Gideon Mazuruse, Tendai Makoni, Tinashe Chuchu, Eugine T. Maziriri, Anyway Chare

The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that explain the reasons why customers may be willing to use chatbots in Zimbabwe as an e-banking customer…

Interconnections between governance shortcomings and resource curse in a resource-dependent economy

Fisayo Fagbemi, Richard Angelous Kotey

The paper assesses the role of natural resource rents in Nigeria's economy through the channel of institutional quality.

The essential necessity to invest in the cultivation of peer recovery specialists as organizational leaders

Traci Carrano Traci Carrano, Darrell Norman Burrell

The emergence of COVID-19 has exacerbated and spurred the growth of mental health issues in ways that have challenged mental health workers tremendously. The complex…

Artificial intelligence in urban services in Malaysia: a review

Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan, Andrew Ebekozien, Noor Alyani Nor Azazi, Maslina Mohammed Shaed, Radin Firdaus Radin Badaruddin

Studies showed that a proactive delivery system employing innovative artificial intelligence (AI) in urban services might perform better. This has become an important…

The effectiveness of the general aptitude test in Saudi Arabia in predicting performance of English as a foreign language

Abdulhameed Aldurayheem

This study examines the test's predictive validity of English language performance and compares test constructs to identify the most effective predictors of English…

Online classes for higher education in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perception-based study

Md. Abdur Rouf, Mohammad Sharif Hossain, Md. Habibullah, Tanvir Ahmed

The main purpose of this paper is to find out the perception of different respondents' groups related to the factors that influence the online learning for higher…

Vocabulary usage among Asian EFL learners during speech: a corpus-based quantitative analysis of the effects of L1 type, L2 proficiency and task type

Shin'ichiro Ishikawa

Using a newly compiled corpus module consisting of utterances from Asian learners during L2 English interviews, this study examined how Asian EFL learners' L1s (Chinese…

Can gold hedge against inflation in the UAE? A nonlinear ARDL analysis in the presence of structural breaks

Nassar S. Al-Nassar

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of gold as a hedge against inflation in the case of the United Arab Emirates.

Job satisfaction of women employees of the public sector of Afghanistan

Arezo Mehrzad, Pierre Rostan

This paper focuses on job satisfaction of women employees in the public sector of Afghanistan and identifies factors and challenges influencing women's job satisfaction in…

Psychological contract breach moderates job satisfaction–citizenship behaviour relationship

Samuel Koomson

This study finds out if a satisfied physician will show citizenship behaviour (OCB) in a work environment where psychological contract breach (PCB) exist.

Impact of social media on learning English language during the COVID-19 pandemic

Muneera Muftah

This research shows how social media has affected learning at present during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has become the largest and most convenient area of…

Impacts of work-family role conflict on job and life satisfaction: a comparative study among doctors, engineers and university teachers

Tazrin Jahan Priyanka, Momotaj Akter Mily, Md. Asadujjaman, Mohammad Arani, Md. Mashum Billal

This study was designed to investigate the impacts of work-family role conflict on job and life satisfaction among three major professionals: doctors, engineers and…

Recruiting on the Net: insights for employers from prospective employees

Md Sohel Chowdhury

Drawing on the signaling theory and technology acceptance model, the main purpose of this study was to predict prospective employees' intentions to apply for jobs in a…

Impact of COVID-19 on Saudi Arabia's economy: evidence from macro-micro modelling

Raed Alharbi

Even with the Saudi Arabian Government's discretionary measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the economic sectors were not spared…

National development level effects on capital budgeting practices: a comparative study of nature vs nurture

Pratheepkanth Puwanenthiren

This research should help determine whether development should focus on individual firms or will raising the national development level act like a rising tide and raise…

Expectations of student with disability living in off-campus student housing in Ghana: a Gap Model approach

Elvis Attakora-Amaniampong, Miller Williams Appau, Issaka Kanton Osumanu

Previous students' housing studies have neglected the need to study all-inclusive student housing and quality of services delivery among students with disability. This…

Psychology of color, integration of local culture and effect of infographics on English language learning

Intakhab Alam Khan

Many students are found facing difficulties in learning English due to plenty of reasons: known and unknown ones. In order to overcome such an issue, the instructors have…

Rethinking survival, renewal, and growth strategies of SMEs in Bangladesh: the role of spiritual leadership in crisis situation

Ariful Islam, Nur Fadiah Mohd Zawawi, Sazali Abd Wahab

For Bangladeshi small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the COVID-19 economic shock is remarkable in both its complexity and intensity. SMEs need systemic inspiration to…

Islamic finance for entrepreneurship activities and economic growth: a parametric and non-parametric analysis from Malaysia

Mohammed Ayoub Ledhem, Warda Moussaoui

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between Islamic finance for entrepreneurship activities and economic growth in Malaysia within the model of endogenous growth.

Consumer values, online purchase behaviour and the fashion industry: an emerging market context

Ogechi Adeola, Adenike Aderonke Moradeyo, Obinna Muogboh, Isaiah Adisa

This study examines consumer online purchase behaviour in the Nigerian fashion industry.

EFL Saudi Student's attitudes toward peer feedback activities in a writing class

Raniya Abdullah Alsehibany

This study aims to examine Saudi female students' attitude toward peer feedback activity in writing classes with a list of questions for the students to follow during the…

Impact of foreign direct investment, remittances and official development assistance on economic growth: panel data approach

Amna Zardoub, Faouzi Sboui

Globalization occupies a central research activity and remains an increasingly controversial phenomenon in economics. This phenomenon corresponds to a subject that can be…

Identifying the aspects of organizational culture: a study of Indian banking industry

Pooja Singh Negi, Ramesh Chandra Dangwal

The purpose of the present study is to identify the core cultural aspects perceived by the executives of public, private and foreign banks in India.

The bankruptcy law of Saudi Arabia: policy, operation and comparison

Fahad Alarifi

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the new Bankruptcy Law in Saudi Arabia (KSA Bankruptcy Law) under both a comparative lens and a policy-oriented one, while…

Corporate characteristics and leverage: evidence from Gulf countries

Waleed M. Al-Ahdal, Faozi A. Almaqtari, Dheya A. Zaid, Eissa A. Al-Homaidi, Najib H. Farhan

This study aims to investigate the impact of corporate characteristics on leverage in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) non-financial listed firms.

Integration of social media into HRM practices: a bibliometric overview

Md Sajjad Hosain

This paper aims to critically discuss the mounting role of social media (SM) or social networking sites (SNSs) on various human resource management (HRM) practices.

Factors influencing PLS financing: the perspective of Indonesian Islamic banks employees

Peni Nugraheni, Istiqomah Nur Alimin

This study aims to examine the factors that influence profit–loss sharing (PLS) financing in Indonesian Islamic banks from the perspective of Islamic banks’ employees…

The interrelationship of marketing, accounting and auditing with corporate social responsibility

Mohammed Muneerali Thottoli

The purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelationship of marketing, accounting and auditing with corporate social responsibility (CSR) to determine the benefit of…

Assessment of perceived labor market conditions in employees’ turnover intention model – mediation and moderation analyzes

Mohd Abass Bhat, Shagufta Tariq Khan, Riyaz Ahmad Rainayee

This paper aims to examine employee perceptions of the labor market in the employee turnover intention model and explores how different situations outside work (labor…

EFL students’ achievement and attitudes towards flipped pronunciation class: correlational study

Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady, Abduljalil Nasr Hazaea

Existing research has examined English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ attitudes towards flipped learning. However, no study seems to have correlated students 

Factors affecting the employability of private university graduates: an exploratory study on Bangladeshi employers

Md Sajjad Hosain, Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, Tania Parvin

This paper aims to identify the factors that can affect the overall graduate employability (OGE) of the private university graduates of Bangladesh. The authors carefully…

Board demographic diversity and human rights reporting in Western Europe

Ana Paula Castelo Branco, Maria Teresa Bianchi, Manuel Castelo Branco

This paper aims to examine the relationship between board demographic diversity and human rights reporting for a sample of large Western European companies.

Herding behavior and stock market conditions

Abdollah Ah Mand, Hawati Janor, Ruzita Abdul Rahim, Tamat Sarmidi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether market conditions have an effect on investors’ propensity to herd in an emerging economy’s stock market. Additionally…

A systematic review of Asian community participation in biosphere reserves

Mastura Jaafar, Andrew Ebekozien, Daina Mohamad, Ahmad Salman

Managing biosphere reserves (BR) have become more challenging regarding the socio-cultural conflict between communities and BR administrators. For the past two decades…

A study on capital budgeting practices of some selected companies in Bangladesh

Md. Anhar Sharif Mollah, Md. Abdur Rouf, S.M. Sohel Rana

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current capital budgeting practices in Bangladeshi listed companies and provide a normative framework (guidelines) for…

Internal processes in decision-making (mental, emotional, cultural, ethical and spiritual) of Afghan business leaders

Mujeeb ur Rahman Ibneatheer, Pierre Rostan, Alexandra Rostan

The purpose of this paper is to understand, which internal processes (mental, emotional, cultural, ethical and spiritual) Afghan business leaders use when making…

Faculty perception of teaching translation courses online during Covid-19

Zakaryia Almahasees, Mutahar Qassem

The spread of Covid-19 has led to the closure of educational institutions worldwide, forcing academic institutions to find online platforms. The purpose of this paper is…

Exploring the links between financial flows and economic growth: a panel ARDL approach

Amna Zardoub

Globalization occupies a central research activity and remains an increasingly controversial phenomenon in economics. This phenomenon corresponds to a subject that can be…

Discovering the linear relationship of service quality, satisfaction, attitude and loyalty for banks in Albaha, Saudi Arabia

Adil Zia

This study aims to examine the factors that lead to loyalty in bank customers. It establishes a relationship of service quality (SQ) with satisfaction and attitude that…

Managerial adaptability and business strategic change in age of COVID-19

D'Alizza Mercedes, Darrell Norman Burrell

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the consequential impact of COVID-19 on mental health organizations. Via the context organizational development (OD) action…

Does Sukuk financing boost economic growth? Empirical evidence from Southeast Asia

Mohammed Ayoub Ledhem

This paper aims to investigate empirically whether Sukuk financing is boosting the economic growth in Southeast Asia within the framework of the endogenous growth model.

Health, economic and social lifestyle: a rapid assessment of COVID-19: evidence from MENA countries

Taha Almarayeh, Abdulateef Almarayeh

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries are among the most affected regions globally, which are expected also to be influenced significantly for an extended…

A study of service quality, corporate image, customer satisfaction, revisit intention and word-of-mouth: evidence from the KTV industry

Kim Leng Khoo

This paper aims to understand the impact of service quality on corporate image and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, this study also examined the influence of corporate…