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This technical note aimed to assess critically the need of the learning factories and living labs for sustainable educational and social development.

The study implied systematic research review and opinions of the expert to critically analyze the meaning and application of learning factory and living labs for social and educational development.

The study concluded that there is an urgent need for the collaboration among the entire stakeholder for establishing learning factory and living labs for social and educational development.

The technical study provides a unique perspective to educational and social development. It added to the traditional learning system by enlarging the venue of learning through stabling learning factories and living labs and insisted the higher educational institutions (HEIs) to open their door for general public for the inclusive development at national and international horizons.

This study examines the short-run and long-run impact of macroeconomic variables such as industrial production index, inflation, exchange rate, interest rate, foreign direct investment and trade balance, on KSE 100 index and sectorial stock indices under bearish, bullish and normal states of the stock market prices. Moreover, we take into account the effect of three crises observed from 2005 to 2009.

This study uses quantile autoregressive distributed lag (QARDL) model for examining the short-run and long-run effect across various quantiles of the dependent variables and compare its' results standard autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model.

ARDL estimates indicate that, in the long-run, industrial production index, trade balance and foreign direct investment significantly affect stock prices. These findings remain same when three crises have been taken into consideration. In addition, estimates from QARDL model indicate that, in the short-run, the effect of exchange rate, interest rate, consumer price index and foreign direct investment, varies across bearish, bullish and normal states of the overall stock prices. Moreover, the short-run findings for Auto Assembler, Cement, Commercial Banks sector are consistent with overall stock indices, whereas other sectors, such as, Oil and Gas and Power Generation and distribution are asymmetrically affected by all macroeconomic variables. In the long-run, the effect of all macro-variables varies across different states of the stock markets except industrial production index for Auto Assembler sector, Oil and Gas sector and composite index of KSE 100 index.

We take into account the effect of three crises observed from 2005 to 2009 and also examine the macroeconomic effect across bullish, bearish and normal states of the sectorial stock indices and composite index of Pakistan stock exchange. Finally, we use novel approach, called QARDL model, which has several advantages over other techniques.

Political risk devastates social and economic developmental projects. Countries with political stability attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and engage domestic investment corporations. This study aims to investigate the impact of perceived organizational politics and political risk on project success, considering the moderating and mediating roles of ethical leadership and the psychological contract.

A multimethod approach was adopted in this work that includes an exploratory content analysis to confirm the latent factors of the variables under study. A measurement scale was developed and tested for perceived organizational politics, political risk, the psychological contract and ethical leadership in the projectized environment. Lastly, cross-sectional data were collected from the senior-level professionals of the projectized organizations and analyzed using SPSS and SMARTPLS techniques.

The findings indicate that ethical leadership and the psychological contract mitigate political risk. The study recommends that developing countries emphasize well-defined policies and standard operating procedures to streamline the project design and execution processes.

The study claims that ethical leaders can play a vital role in mitigating perceived organizational politics and political risk and maximizing project value through the psychological contract.

Although previous research predicts that ethical leadership has very little effect on project success, this study provides critical theoretical and practical contributions to research on project success regarding leadership expertise and the psychological contract.

Business processing organizations are continuously focusing on customer knowledge management (CKM) due to the competitive business environment. CKM is being recognized as an essential source for improving organizational performance (OP). This study focuses on understanding CKM and its impact on OP. It also explores the moderating role of big data analytics capability (BDAC) on OP. Moreover, the mediating role of operational and strategic agility on OP was empirically tested.

Positivist research doctrine has been deployed and data was collected using structured survey using cross-sectional approach. The data were collected from 392 employees working in business processing software houses in the emerging market of Pakistan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was deployed for the estimation of theoretical model.

The study's findings indicate that CKM has no significant impact on OP; although the presence of BDAC moderates the relationship significantly. Moreover, the study recommends that CKM and BDAC to be tested in the project environment, considering organization's operational and technical capabilities.

The study proclaims that BDAC can be helpful for organizations to improve their capabilities and output. Likewise, enhancing BDAC reduces failure rates of the projects.

This study provides a critical theoretical and practical contribution to project management in business processing organizations. Big data analytics can be of value for diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analysis in the project management context.

The purpose of the study is to assess the project leader's role in normal and new normal situations. This study aims to investigate the project leadership role in unforeseen situations and the new normal situations.

The review is based on the content and contextual analysis. Most of the information was covered in the daily newspapers and practices were recorded in the media and social media. Moreover, recent articles were consulted for the comprehension of the phenomenon.

The study finds that leaders are supposed to develop strategies to balance the organizational needs and workers' priorities. An agile approach, empathetic and collaborative approach may be more helpful to handle volatility, unstable situations, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) situations.

The study leaders are expected to develop new strategies, collaborative thinking and a healthy workplace environment for social, emotional, physical, and psychological safety to make projects more productive.

The review assessed the kind of leaders required in the new normal situation after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the globe. Such a contribution is anticipated to serve as a call for emerging leadership frameworks for the VUCA work environments of the future.