Shahzad Ali

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This study examines the relationship between sustainability reporting and earnings quality management (EQM) in Pakistan's listed financial firms, with a focus on the moderating effect of board independence on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The data are analyzed using multiple regression analysis alongside robust standard error (RSE) and the panel‐corrected standard error (PCSE) technique to affirm robustness. The data were based on 960 firm‐year observations of PSX's listed financial companies from 2015 to 2024, collected from the annual audited reports available at PSX, Open Doors, and the D‐space repository. The findings reveal significant negative results for sustainability reporting and EQM in the absence of independent directors. Board independence acts as a moderator, yielding significant and positive results regarding sustainability reporting, EQM, and interacting terms. The “RSE” and PCSE affirm the robustness of the results. This study is of concern from the viewpoint of direct, indirect, and connected stakeholders. Prospective investors should be aware of the risks associated with investing in Pakistan's financial sector, particularly when the role of independent directors is limited. Regulatory authorities of Pakistan, like the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and PSX, should devise a governance mechanism where the reporting is not confined to books only, but is also practiced, and sustainability reporting should not be taken as a cushion for EQM. The study sheds light on the importance of independent directors in the Pakistani financial sector in overcoming the issue of EQM. The research has contributed to the existing literature on sustainability reporting and EQM by examining the moderating role of board independence in the financial listed sector of Pakistan. The use of the income smoothing ratio, “discretionary LLC,” is taken as a gap for the study, which is replenished.

The main objective of this research is to explore the role of green management strategies for achieving green building success through circular economic practice and the moderating effect of green economic incentives under the lens of Resource Base View theory. The analysis was done by using the structural equation modeling technique to evaluate and restrain the proposed model. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 384 respondents using a convenient sampling technique from the owner or top manager of the construction sector in Pakistan. In this regard, all the direct and indirect relationships are significant, and green management strategies significantly impact green building success through circular economic practices which include reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover. Furthermore, all the dimensions also have a significant moderating role in green economic incentives for green building success. In the context of this study, leaders and managers of the construction sector can effectively establish green strategies to gain success in green buildings. The management can be better facilitated to all stakeholders for circular economic practices that ultimately lead towards green building success. This study created an understanding of green economic incentives for the effectiveness of green buildings. Moreover, this research contributed to the literature review of green building success by using green management strategy and circular economic practices as strong influencers.

This research examines the relationships within CO2, Institutional quality, foreign direct investment (FDI), urban population growth and Trade in India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, five countries in south Asia. ARDL Autoregressive distributed lag model outcomes suggest, factors effecting environmental quality in all countries move in unison over the long term (co-integration). The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis EKC is also supported by the results. Additionally Institutional quality seems to have negative influence on environmental quality while foreign direct investment (FDI), urban population growth and Trade positively influenced CO2 emission. ARDL observations demonstrate, there is a strong correlation among CO2 emission and Institutional quality, foreign direct investment, urban population growth and Trade.

The primary goal of this research is to look into the impact of digital campaigns for environmental and economic incentives on environmental performance, with indoor and outdoor activities of households taken as mediating variables. PLS-SEM was used to evaluate and quantify the novel and complex model to meet the study’s goals. Furthermore, data were gathered from 1542 Pakistani households using convenient sampling techniques. The study’s findings show that digital campaigns and economic incentives significantly increase household’s participation in indoor and outdoor activities, which improves environmental performance. This study contributes to the literature on environmental performance by examining digital campaigns and economic incentives as resilient influencers. Furthermore, this study assists authorities in developing an effective and efficient policy that promotes environmental savaging information while providing economic incentives to encourage the activities. At the same time, it emphasizes environmental concerns and how they can be addressed.

Purpose: This study investigated the in-role and extra-role performance of male and female teachers. Multigroup Analysis is applied to the unique combination of independent variable time pressures, mediating variable psychological empowerment and dependent variable teacher in-role and extra-role performance.Design/methodology/approach: The reason for employing a distinctive methodology is because of male and female characteristics. In addition, data were gathered during COVID-19 using convenient sampling techniques from male and female teachers working in Pakistani higher education institutions.Findings: The results showed that time has a significant impact on how well male and female teachers do their jobs. According to the gendered characteristics, psychological empowerment significantly intervenes between time pressure and teacher performance. Furthermore, the result provides policymakers with guidelines while assigning the task to teachers.Practical implications: This article highlighted the issues of performance under time pressure imposed by an educational institution's employer and developed the mechanism for effective and efficient policies to improve the performance of teachers.Originality/value: Under the lens of the cognitive theory of load, this study contributes to the literature on time pressure, psychological empowerment and teacher performance by introducing a novel concept and novel research framework.