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Job commitment, total quality management, information communication technology adoption, toxic leadership and job demands: a conceptual framework for student retention
Samuel KoomsonThis 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…
Can micro-enterprises use Tawarruq Fardi Financing (TFF) for fund raising?
Sumaira Siddiky, Randi Swandaru, Aishath MuneezaMicro-enterprises, like any other business entity, face financing challenges. However, micro-enterprises often cannot access financial institutions as they cannot fulfill…
Carbon dioxide emissions reduction efficiency and growth potential: case of China
Alina Steblyanskaya, Mingye Ai, Artem Denisov, Olga Efimova, Maksim RybachukUnderstanding China's carbon dioxide (
The influence of emotional intelligence and personal styles of dealing with conflict on strategic decisions
Raed Alharbi, Alhamzah AlnoorOrganizations seek to achieve the best results for their strategic decisions by increasing the effectiveness of the vertical and horizontal interconnection. This leads to…
The impact of implementing visual grammar on learning participle adjectives by EFL learners
Adil Mohammed Qadha, Baleigh Qassem Al-WasyThis paper aims to examine the impact of using visual grammar on learning participle adjectives by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners.
Does corporate governance affect environmental reporting?
Md. Abdur Rouf, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-FaryanThis study examines, in relation to agency theory, the influence of corporate mechanism on the environmental reporting of banking businesses registered on the Dhaka Stock…
Exploring the influence of behavioral aspects on stock investment decision-making: a study on Bangladeshi individual investors
Tanzina Hossain, Pallabi SiddiquaDetermining the impact of behavioral influences on the stock market has significant implications for investment analysis and portfolio management. Behavioral biases are…
Does the implementation of IFRS improve transparency regarding the company's financial conditions?: evidence from an emerging market
Ibrahim El-Sayed EbaidThis study aims to examine whether there are differences between financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and…
When morally good employees become bad: the role of unethical requests and wrong judgments at the workplace
Sana MumtazThis research focuses on the distinct group of high-status employees commonly referred to as workplace vigilantes, and conceptually investigates how unethical requests by…
Machine vs human translation: a new reality or a threat to professional Arabic–English translators
Muneera MuftahHow closely does the translation match the meaning of the reference has always been a key aspect of any machine translation (MT) service. Therefore, the primary goal of…
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 ChareThe 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…
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance – the role of corporate reputation, advertising and competition
Makhmoor BashirThe research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) has seen a surge over the years. However, the role of corporate reputation (CR)…
Interconnections between governance shortcomings and resource curse in a resource-dependent economy
Fisayo Fagbemi, Richard Angelous KoteyThe 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 BurrellThe 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 BadaruddinStudies showed that a proactive delivery system employing innovative artificial intelligence (AI) in urban services might perform better. This has become an important…
Regulatory accounting environment, cultural values and board efficacy in developing countries
Kais Baatour, Moufida Ben SaadaThis cross-country study aims to investigate from an interdisciplinary perspective the impacts of the accounting regulation's strength and cultural values of long-term…
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 BillalThis study was designed to investigate the impacts of work-family role conflict on job and life satisfaction among three major professionals: doctors, engineers and…
The effectiveness of the general aptitude test in Saudi Arabia in predicting performance of English as a foreign language
Abdulhameed AldurayheemThis study examines the test's predictive validity of English language performance and compares test constructs to identify the most effective predictors of English…
30 years of research in Islamic accounting: a literature review
Md. Saiful AlamThis paper aims to examine the Islamic accounting research. In particular, the paper extensively investigates the literature on Islamic accounting to understand the…
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 AhmedThe 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…
The bankruptcy law of Saudi Arabia: policy, operation and comparison
Fahad AlarifiThe 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…
Psychology of color, integration of local culture and effect of infographics on English language learning
Intakhab Alam KhanMany 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…
The interrelationship of marketing, accounting and auditing with corporate social responsibility
Mohammed Muneerali ThottoliThe purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelationship of marketing, accounting and auditing with corporate social responsibility (CSR) to determine the benefit of…
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 IshikawaUsing a newly compiled corpus module consisting of utterances from Asian learners during L2 English interviews, this study examined how Asian EFL learners' L1s (Chinese…
Factors affecting the employability of private university graduates: an exploratory study on Bangladeshi employers
Md Sajjad Hosain, Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, Tania ParvinThis paper aims to identify the factors that can affect the overall graduate employability (OGE) of the private university graduates of Bangladesh. The authors carefully…
Can gold hedge against inflation in the UAE? A nonlinear ARDL analysis in the presence of structural breaks
Nassar S. Al-NassarThe 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 RostanThis 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 KoomsonThis study finds out if a satisfied physician will show citizenship behaviour (OCB) in a work environment where psychological contract breach (PCB) exist.
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 WahabFor Bangladeshi small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the COVID-19 economic shock is remarkable in both its complexity and intensity. SMEs need systemic inspiration to…
Impact of social media on learning English language during the COVID-19 pandemic
Muneera MuftahThis 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…
Herding behavior and stock market conditions
Abdollah Ah Mand, Hawati Janor, Ruzita Abdul Rahim, Tamat SarmidiThe 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…
Islamic finance for entrepreneurship activities and economic growth: a parametric and non-parametric analysis from Malaysia
Mohammed Ayoub Ledhem, Warda MoussaouiThe 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.
A systematic review of Asian community participation in biosphere reserves
Mastura Jaafar, Andrew Ebekozien, Daina Mohamad, Ahmad SalmanManaging biosphere reserves (BR) have become more challenging regarding the socio-cultural conflict between communities and BR administrators. For the past two decades…
Recruiting on the Net: insights for employers from prospective employees
Md Sohel ChowdhuryDrawing 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…
Consumer values, online purchase behaviour and the fashion industry: an emerging market context
Ogechi Adeola, Adenike Aderonke Moradeyo, Obinna Muogboh, Isaiah AdisaThis study examines consumer online purchase behaviour in the Nigerian fashion industry.
Exploring the links between financial flows and economic growth: a panel ARDL approach
Amna ZardoubGlobalization occupies a central research activity and remains an increasingly controversial phenomenon in economics. This phenomenon corresponds to a subject that can be…
EFL Saudi Student's attitudes toward peer feedback activities in a writing class
Raniya Abdullah AlsehibanyThis 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 COVID-19 on Saudi Arabia's economy: evidence from macro-micro modelling
Raed AlharbiEven 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 PuwanenthirenThis 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…
Health, economic and social lifestyle: a rapid assessment of COVID-19: evidence from MENA countries
Taha Almarayeh, Abdulateef AlmarayehMiddle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries are among the most affected regions globally, which are expected also to be influenced significantly for an extended…
Impact of foreign direct investment, remittances and official development assistance on economic growth: panel data approach
Amna Zardoub, Faouzi SbouiGlobalization 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 DangwalThe purpose of the present study is to identify the core cultural aspects perceived by the executives of public, private and foreign banks in India.
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 OsumanuPrevious students' housing studies have neglected the need to study all-inclusive student housing and quality of services delivery among students with disability. This…
Integration of social media into HRM practices: a bibliometric overview
Md Sajjad HosainThis paper aims to critically discuss the mounting role of social media (SM) or social networking sites (SNSs) on various human resource management (HRM) practices.
Assessment of perceived labor market conditions in employees’ turnover intention model – mediation and moderation analyzes
Mohd Abass Bhat, Shagufta Tariq Khan, Riyaz Ahmad RainayeeThis paper aims to examine employee perceptions of the labor market in the employee turnover intention model and explores how different situations outside work (labor…
A study on capital budgeting practices of some selected companies in Bangladesh
Md. Anhar Sharif Mollah, Md. Abdur Rouf, S.M. Sohel RanaThe 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 RostanThe purpose of this paper is to understand, which internal processes (mental, emotional, cultural, ethical and spiritual) Afghan business leaders use when making…
ISSN:
2399-1747e-ISSN:
2398-4007Online date, start – end:
2017Journal’s owner:
Prince Sultan University(opens new window)Open Access:
open accessEditor:
- Dr Mohammad Nurunnabi