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Purpose – The earth needs to go green as it clarifies that humans should adopt a sustainable lifestyle that will
be friendly to the environment and society. The emerging stream of academic literature on “go green” adds a
new perspective to the deep-rooted conception of entrepreneurship. The objective of green entrepreneurship is
to follow the traditional concepts of entrepreneurship but also brings the additional potential for society and the
environment. The present paper is designed to study the impact of personality traits and university green
entrepreneurial support on green entrepreneurial intentions along with the moderating role of environmental
values.
Design/methodology/approach – The data are collected by using the survey method, and the five-point
Likert scale is used for this purpose. The statistical techniques applied to the dataset were confirmatory factor
analysis and partial least square structural equation modeling.
Findings – The results revealed that personality traits are positively and significantly associated with green
entrepreneurial intention, but risk-averse students depict insignificant results towards green entrepreneurial
intention. Also, university green entrepreneurial support results in positive green entrepreneurial intention.
Environmental values also strengthen the association.
Originality/value – Previously, researchers emphasized the entrepreneurial intentions for the sake of
improving the economy, decreasing unemployment and promoting small ventures, but none focused on the
green aspects of entrepreneurship. To date, we still lack knowledge regarding students’ green entrepreneurial
intentions and how personality traits and green support affect the intention. The focus of the present study is to
sustain nature and ecosystems through green entrepreneurship by providing directions and economic and
noneconomic gains for investors, entrepreneurs, students, universities and societies.
Keywords Green entrepreneurship, Environment, University green support, Higher education, Smart-PLS

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Our study investigates the relationship between technology innovation and human development in technologically advanced countries using data from quarterly observations from the last decade of the twentieth century to the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This objective of this study is to implement Quantile-on-Quantile regression (QQ) technique that as formulated by Sim and Zhou (J Bank Finance 55:1–8, 2015) and the renowned Granger-causality in quantiles as proposed by Troster (Econom Rev 37(8):850–866, 2018) examine the basic relationship between the given quantiles of technology innovation and their effects on the quantiles of human development. Therefore, the outcomes of this study explain the overall interdependence of technology innovation and affect the overall human development index. It is enumerated that the empirical results indicate that a significant positive relationship exists between technology innovation and human development in all selected technologically advanced countries, predominantly in both low and high tails. Moreover, the outcomes of Granger causality quantiles indicate a bi-directional fundamental relationship between these two variables in the dataset of all countries. The outcomes of the observations are extended to the recent findings on these two variables’ nexus and imply a differential impact on the technologically advanced countries. This causality guides us to offer some specific policy recommendations to each group of countries.

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Purpose

This study explores the service quality dimensions in Internet banking and their impact on e-customer’s satisfaction and e-customer’s loyalty. This study tries to inspect the structural association between Internet banking service quality, electronic customer satisfaction and electronic customer loyalty based on separate constructs.

Design/methodology/approach

In this present research, quantitative approach is applied. The data is gathered from 500 bank clients in Pakistan by using structured questionnaires, and the theoretical model is tested by partial least square structured equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Moreover, convergent validity and discriminant validity were assessed.

Findings

Results show that all the dimensions are found to have a positive and significant influence on customer satisfaction while customer’s satisfaction has a significant and positive impact on customer’s loyalty. Findings indicate that service quality plays a very important role in every society, as it has become the basis for how customers interpret online banking and, in the end, how it interacts and operates with online services.

Practical implications

This research adds up considerably to the literature of bank marketing, and it is also fruitful for the academicians since it demonstrates the way Internet banking service quality determinants predict e-satisfaction of clients which ultimately raises the e-loyalty of clients. This study is useful for those E-retailers and managers who want to grab e-retailing market.

Originality/value

This research suggests a model which ultimately enhances customer loyalty towards Internet banking service quality through customer satisfaction in Pakistan. It involves modified model of E-SERVQUAL (user friendliness, efficiency of websites, personal need, and site organization) which connects it to electronic customer satisfaction and electronic customer loyalty. Therefore, it will assist the Internet banking sector in building effective marketing tactics, establishing long lasting relationships with clients and acquiring the competitive edge in the market.

Keywords:
Internet banking service quality, Customer satisfaction, Customer loyalty, SERVQUAL

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Construction glitches have become serious issues for Malaysian construction projects. The construction industry is one of the industries driven by supply chains and affected by interconnected risks. Any disruption happening anywhere will halt the whole project or even other projects. However, massive literature is available to deal with various kinds of risks from the supply chain (SC) of the construction industry that have never been discussed before. This is an empirical investigation and the data was collected through a questionnaire distributed to the construction industry through systemic probability sampling. Final and purified data was analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling through Smart PLS. A total of three types of risks were identified from the literature, namely supply side risks (SR), process side risks (PR) and demand side risks (DR). It has been found that supply side risks and demand side risks have significant negative effects on supply chain performance (SCP) while process side risks also have negative effects on supply chain performance but not significant. This study will help managers to understand how supply chain risks (SCR) affect the construction industry and what type of risks they should be more aware of. This study covers only operational side risks while future research can be on other risks. Furthermore, various approaches can be proposed for mitigation, but there is also a need to verify these approaches for Malaysia.

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The study aims to analyze two objectives: first is to explore the non-linear relationship between tourism development, economic growth, urbanization, and environmental degradation, and also to analyze the threshold level of the contribution of tourism development on environmental degradation in top tourist arrival destinations. We applied the newly proposed econometric method panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) framework with two regimes on yearly panel data from 1995 to 2017. Findings suggest that the relationship between tourism development and environmental degradation is non-linear and regime dependent. Furthermore, the findings indicated that the relationship above the threshold level is negative and significant, while below the threshold, tourism development is positive and significant effect on environmental degradation. Tourism development and environmental degradation also exhibit the inverted U-shape relationship meaning that at a particular point, increase in tourism development increases in environmental degradation but after a particular point, increase in tourism development decreases the environmental degradation. The economic growth and urbanization also portray a non-linear and regime-dependent relationship with environmental degradation. The study assists policies and empirical information.

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As a pragmatist compliment to firms, intermediary regulatory bodies, regulatory and
law enforcement agencies, the purpose of this research article is to present an initial
framework for nurturing a corporate culture of disclosure and transparency, that
would fulfill the legal obligations towards stakeholders, while amicably addressing
ethical critics, and thus proactively averting the fomenting financial crisis.
This global descriptive review of corporate governance literature seeking to analyze
reform, by constructing a governance framework, that binds the board of directors
and management primarily with pro-delta-based performance incentives, mitigating
risk and agency cost, while strengthening the dividend policy, and utilization of
working capital, with provisional clawback deterrence to quell potential deviant
behavior. Cultivating and nurturing a corporate culture of disclosure and
transparency mandates board independence, to improve the firms’ performance, and
fulfill the fiduciary trust of the shareholders, while also considering mitigating debtladen risk, and fostering societal good.
The review constructs the Corporate Governance Disclosure and Transparency
Culture Ripple Effect Framework (CGDATCREF), under the patronage of the board
of directors, which conceptually should resonate throughout the organization, and
beyond captivating potential investors, customers, and admirers, while curbing
questionable ethical practices.
In retrospect of the evolutionary progress of corporate governance, the presented
framework will not be free from criticism, but rather provide avenues for enhanced
models, and empirical statistical inference, to evolve future robust models. The
framework could also be ported via simulation software application, to replicate real
Tianjin Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue yu Gongcheng Jishu Ban)/
Journal of Tianjin University Science and Technology
ISSN (Online): 0493-2137
E-Publication: Online Open Access
Vol:54 Issue:08:2021
DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/S2X4E
August 2021 | 495
corporate scenarios, thus aiding in calibrating and optimizing before decision
making.
Keywords
Agency theory, corporate culture, disclosure and transparency, risk mitigation, board
of directors, corporate governance, CGDTREF

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The devastating effects on the environment have raised many questions on the environmental performance of an organization. As the environment is severely affected by the operations of giant businesses, i.e. ‘hotel industry.’ There is a need to explore the factors that influence employee environmental performance by incorporating green motivation and proactive environmental management maturity as mediators. The data are collected using the survey method. The statistical techniques applied to the dataset were confirmatory factor analysis and partial least square structural equation modeling. The findings reveal that green HR practices positively and significantly related to green intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and proactive environmental management maturity. Similarly, green motivation is significantly and positively linked with employee environmental performance. In contrast, proactive environmental management maturity is positively and insignificantly linked with employees’ environmental performance. In contrast, mediation analysis reveals that green motivation, i.e., intrinsic and extrinsic, partially mediates the association between green HR practices and employee environmental performance. However, no mediating effect of proactive environmental management maturity is found between the proposed associations. The paper contributes to the literature in many ways. Firstly, it explains the role of Green HR practices in forming green motivation among employees of the hotel industry, and previously no researchers studied this combination in the context of the hotel industry. Secondly, green motivation and proactive environmental management maturity are incorporated as mediators to have in-depth knowledge about the employees’ environmental performance.

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Environmental degradation has severely affected the natural cycle of ecosystem. It’s high time now and humans should execute strategies effectively to protect the further degradation. Initially, we need to understand the ways that might affect the environment. Thus, existing research is designed to explore the nonlinear association between financial development (FD) and carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in the context of low-income countries by employing the yearly data of 1990–2016. The panel smooth transition regression model (PSTR) is applied, and the result confirmed that the nexus between the two variables are nonlinear. Moreover, it also shows that at a low regime, FD increases the CO2 emissions but as the economy of low-income states progress to the high regime, the association between the two variables becomes negative and significant. The study also confirms that FD can reduce CO2 emissions once it reaches a certain threshold point. Based on these findings, new insights are provided for the policymakers, and several policies are suggested to improve the environmental quality in low-income countries.

ABSTRACT
The popularity of green innovation has dramatically increased in
the recent times because of the potential benefits attached with
it. Therefore, in order to make the technology more affordable,
green innovation is the key to enhancing the affordability factor.
On the other hand, in order to safeguard the environment, the
role of media is one of fundamental importance. In contrast,
energy consumption is often regarded as a key indicator of economic prosperity, mostly at the cost of the environment. Hence, the present study attempts to explore the asymmetric effect of the film and drama industry, energy efficiency, and economic growth on green innovation, with the help of the latest quantile autoregressive distributed lag (QARDL) method for the period 2000Q1 to 2019Q4. The results have reported a positive and significant association of the Film and Drama Industry, Energy
Efficiency, and economic growth on the quantiles of Green
Innovation. Based on the findings, it is recommended that there
is a dire need to develop content that promotes the green innovation, whereas, more investments are to be sought after, so as to enhance the level of energy efficiency.