The present paper aims to investigate the influence of the innovational factors on the financial performance of banking sector in Pakistan. Innovational factors include; process innovation, Product innovation, digital financial innovation, Marketing innovation and organizational innovation. To serve the purpose of this research, the data was collected from 305 respondents who were working at some managerial positions at the banks in Pakistan. The data was analysed using the partial least squares - structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that digital innovation is an important factor that spur the financial performance of the banks. Moreover, organizational and process innovation are [...]

The paper intents to examine the role of inclusive leadership, innovative work behavior, job autonomy and perceived organizational support in the IT sector of Pakistan. To assess the impact of inclusive leadership on innovative work behavior; impact of inclusive leadership on job autonomy and perceived organizational support; impact of perceived organizational support and job autonomy on employee innovative work behavior. Questionnaire survey was conducted to find out the results of the study, sample of 199 respondents have been collected from the IT sector of Pakistan. Inclusive leadership found to be the most important factor in order to encourage employee innovative [...]

The growing innovation in technology has introduced various ways of doing business such as offering food via food delivery app (FD-App). Considering this, the study aims to examine the factors affecting continuous intention to use FD-App (CIFD-App). The data was gathered from people of Karachi, Pakistan who had used FD-Apps, and PLS-SEM was used to test the hypotheses on a sample of 380. The findings revealed that attitude has a positive impact on CIFD-App. Moreover, perceived value also significantly affects attitude and CIFD-App. The findings also showed that all characteristics of FD-App significantly influence perceived value. The findings reveals that [...]

This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the customer loyalty among omnichannel users. Omni-channels are famous platforms that connect customers with the brands. Firms strive hard to keep this channel more interactive and supportive in order to satisfy customers and create loyalty among them. Although it is an important aspect in modern business, fewer studies have been conducted in this area to provide a comprehensive model that not only helps to create satisfaction but also loyalty among users. This research is conducted to fill in the gap and to provide theoretical and empirical evidence about how firms can [...]

Employee innovative work behavior is crucial in order to achieve organizational objectives and its success. The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism on job embeddedness and employee innovative work behavior, as well as the influence of job embeddedness on innovative work behavior of mid-level managers, upper level managers, and supervisors of private organizations in IT sector of Pakistan. The researcher employed a questionnaire that utilized a set of questions that measure grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, job Embeddedness, and employee innovative work behavior. The results showed that grandiose narcissism has a significant [...]

The world is witnessing an accelerated shift towards Electric Vehicles (EV) and Plug in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEV). At the same time, vehicle manufacturers face many challenges when they in-troduce high-tech electric vehicles in emerging markets. Focusing on Kuwait as an emerging market for electric vehicles, this exploratory research examines the components of value for the car dealers and car owners. The results of the study indicate that there is a potential market for high-end EVs manufactured by famous marques which have dealerships in Kuwait. They also indicate that high-end consumers would consider buying fully-equipped EVs as second or third cars [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an extraordinary shock to businesses with unfavorable effects for current production capacity. At the same time, technology has increasingly been advocated as a crucial method for minimizing economic losses from the pandemic. Small and medium-sized enterprises survival and lack of longevity continue to spark public debate, scholarly interest, concerns and attention. Inadequate technology capability is one of the key problems to which this may be attributed. The relationship between Technological capability (TC) and firm performance was examined amongst selected small and medium-sized enterprises in Lagos State. This paper conducted a survey research approach, using [...]

Based on attribution theory and cultural identification theory, we constructed a stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model with corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures as antecedents and knowledge-sharing behavior (KSB) as a result to explain the underlying mechanisms of different kinds of CSR disclosures and users' KSB in the context of the Chinese Internet. Three hundred and fifty-eight valid responses to a survey questionnaire were analyzed. The results of this study show that CSR disclosures have a positive impact on CSR altruistic attribution, CSR identification, and KSB. External CSR (ECSR) disclosures have a more significant and positive impact on the above variables compared to [...]

Extant literature suggests that opinion leaders promote brand advocacy, an innovative tool for changing organizational culture. A few studies have explored the association between opinion leaders and brand advocacy but have not examined its antecedent and consequence in a single study. Given this gap and others discussed in the study, it has extended Two-Step Flow Model and developed a conceptual framework containing four direct, two mediating, and two moderating variables. The study has focused on the Facebook users of Pakistan as it is more popular than other social media. We non-randomly collected 431 samples based on a self-administered questionnaire adapted [...]

Using a sizable sample of data from the Pakistan Stock Exchange, the study explores the relationship between five risk indicators and portfolio stock returns as well as the mediating function of consumer confidence. The analysis is based on a five-factor model developed by Fama and French (2015) that incorporates time-series ordinary least square regression and structural equation modelling approaches. Market estimates show a statistically significant relationship with portfolio excess returns in terms of size, value, profitability, and investment risk-premia. Nevertheless, Consumer Confidence, a mediating and independent variable in Pakistani non-financial firms, is insignificant in capturing the variation of portfolio returns. [...]