Category: Journals

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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.

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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.

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Social interactions through social commerce platforms empower consumers to share their personal experiences with others, but its role becomes more significant for societal protection during COVID-19. Numerous scholars have studied e-commerce extensively, but there is a lack of studies to identify social commerce characteristics to attract potential consumers during COVID-19. This study aims to examine the role of social commerce constructs by integrating social presence as a moderator in the model to explain consumers online shopping intentions in a Pakistani context, where lack of trust on the reliability and validity of comments from other consumers being considered the growing concern toward the success of social commerce. The quantitative data were collected from the respondents living in different cities of Pakistan. Most of the hypothesis supported and demonstrate the positive response from the Pakistani consumers having experience in shopping through social commerce platforms. The findings of this study will help scholars and managers to understand the attitude of Pakistani consumers.

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Private universities are growing in the present era. The enrollment ratio is also getting high, and universities are putting efforts to attract more students. Hence, it is essential to provide students with the best quality services as it spreads positive word-of-mouth. Therefore, the present article is designed to study the impact of front-desk staff service quality on word-of-mouth through the mediating effect of students’ affective commitment and students’ trust. An online questionnaire survey was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan. This study used the partial least square method to run structural equation modeling analysis. The findings revealed that all paths show a positive and significant relationship except front-desk staff service quality and word-of-mouth. Moreover, students’ affective commitment and trust mediate the relationship between front-desk staff service quality and word-of-mouth. Results also illustrate that gender exerts a significant moderating role on front-desk staff service quality, students’ affective commitment, and word-of-mouth. The study provides practical implications for policymakers, private university  management, and educational institutions. Firstly, it is crucial to provide effective communication training to the front-desk staff to learn the basic etiquette of greetings and humbleness. Secondly, there must be experienced personnel who can assist students promptly.

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Aim of this study is to examined the impact of buyers’ dependence and absorptive capacity on business performance and the moderating role ethical long term relationship. Direct data gathering from respondents is a primary component of research methodology. The first data was gathered using a self administered questionnaire from prior research and an online Google form. data gathered for one month, starting in January 2023. Respondents from Sindh pharmaceutical firms in Pakistan who are either directly or in directly engaged in buying represent
the study’s population. In acknowledgement of a variety of restrictions, including time, location, and financial concerns, we have used the convenience sampling and cross sectional methodology. Strongly disagree to stro ngly agree on a five point Likert scale (1 5). The results showed that direct effect hypothesis buyer dependency and absorptive capacity are support .Therefore, the proposed H1, and H2, which are both positive and significant relationship with business performance. In addition, the moderation effect of the present analysis also demonstrate that
ethical long term relationship does not moderated relation between buyer dependency a business performance was rejected Last ethical long term relationship does moderated relation between absorptive capacity a business performance was accepted. These variables should be taken in future polices in order to better firm performance.

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In higher educational institutes, developing classrooms for active learning is becoming a part of comprehensive educational drive for students involving and engaging in learning. For this purpose, influence of social factors on collaborative learning and engagement has been investigated which will influence learning performance of students. The study looked at following areas: (a) the ability of social factors for developing collaborative learning and engagement and (b) whether collaborative learning and engagement mediate a link between social factors and student’s learning performance. Constructivism theory has been utilized to observe the student’s learning behavior. Data have been collected through questionnaires from university students. Findings evaluated through structural equation modeling (SEM), shows that social factors, i.e. interaction with peers and teachers, social presence, and usage of social media positively impact active collaborative learning and student involvement, thus affecting their learning performance. The findings also provide evidence for double mediation used in this study. As online learning is becoming more prevalent in education, it has been concluded that overall collaborative learning and engagement with influence of social factors improve activities of students learning; therefore, their usage should be stimulated in teaching and learning in higher educational institutions as it influences students’ academic development.