Saeed Ahmad Sabir

The present study is undertaken to investigate the underlying mechanism of the relationship between three dimensions of Green Intellectual Capital (GIC), which include Green Human Capital (GHC), Green Structural Capital (GSC), and Green Relational Capital (GRC), with green product innovation (GPDI) and green process innovation (GPRI) within the context of Pakistani manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This investigation aims to elucidate the function of green knowledge sharing (GKS) as a mediating mechanism among GHC, GSC, GRC, GPDI, and GPRI by incorporating concepts from the natural resource based view (NRBV) and the knowledge based view (KBV) theories. A quantitative study design was used, with survey data collected from 381 owners and managers of manufacturing SMEs in Pakistan. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques were used to examine the proposed relationships among these variables. Results show that all components of GIC considerably influence both GPDI and GPRI, directly and indirectly through GKS. GKS has a significant impact on the development of intangible green competencies, resulting in innovative outcomes. This research contributes to the literature by applying NRBV and KBV theories in the context of green innovation within resource constrained SMEs. The study found that these firms can enhance their green innovation performance by leveraging green intellectual capital and cultivating a culture of green knowledge sharing. The study has significant implications for policymakers and business leaders in developing regions, promoting and encouraging the adoption of sustainable approaches.

Employees are likely to showcase under-par performance when working conditions are not suitable for them or when they do not feel mentally sound. One of the major factors contributing to this is the presence of negative supervision at the workplace. The core aim of this objective study is to highlight the repercussions of negative styles of leadership at workplace. The study focuses on Despotic Leadership (DL) as well as Passive-Avoidant Leadership (PAL) in reference to the textile industry of Pakistan. The researchers aimed to inspect the influence of these negative styles of leadership on employees’ Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB). The moderating effect of Employee Resilience (ER) was also analyzed as the resilience of employees provides resistance to the stressful environment. The underrepresentation and partial exploration of these negative styles of leadership in the existing literature, especially when it comes to South-Asian region, proved to be the unique aspect of this study. Another novel point of this research is the testing of ER as a moderator on the basis of theory of theory of Social Exchange (SE). The researchers gathered data from 365 non-managerial officiating staff deployed in large scale textile manufacturing units in Pakistan. Only three cities were targeted as those represent almost 70% of the whole industry in the country. PLS-SEM was deployed to conduct the analysis with results indicating that both DL and PAL have positive and significant linkage with CWB. ER found to be moderating the relationship between PAL and CWB but it does not moderate the relationship between DL and CWB. The study may prove to be accommodating in policy making for practitioners of the industry in addition to the novel contributions towards the existing literature.

An innovative mind is an asset for the organization; capturing the intellect people; nurturing their critical thinking and retaining those employees is always a critical task for the organizations. Leaders take this responsibility for the betterment of their business firm. On, innovative work behavior, notably the missing link is identifying the impact of latest renowned underexplored leadership style, ebullient supervision. Developing over the affective event theory, this paper explored the simple relation as well as sequential mediation of work-life balance and work effort invested by an employee due to ebullient supervision. Using the famous probability sampling technique, purposive sampling, the data is collected from 382 employees; both supervisors and supervisees, working in software houses of Pakistan. The advanced version of PLS-SEM is used to explore the uncovered paths among the constructs. The rigorous results supported the presumed relations that work-life balance and work effort simply and partially mediate the impact of ebullient supervision on innovative work behavior of employees, proving this study novel. Thus, this study ensures the perspicacity for future leaders to execute their policies to enhance the innovative environment at their workplace.

The purpose of this investigation is to examine the role of big data analytics and data availability on sustainable competitive advantage and business performance. Furthermore, the researchers also investigate the mediating role of innovative capabilities between observed variables. The current research used quantitative research design and positivism philosophy to conduct this research. The population of the study, comprised of managers working in different manufacturing companies in Pakistan, the researchers used an adopted questioner to collect data from respondents. Furthermore, a structural equational model was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The research findings indicate that there is a significant mediating influence of innovative capabilities (IC) in the relationship between big data analytics (BDA) and data availability. This mediating effect has a favourable impact on both sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and firm performance. This highlights the crucial significance of IC in converting data-derived insights into innovative strategies, thereby contributing to improved competitiveness and the overall performance of the organization. This study is significant for manufacturing organisations and policymakers to make appropriate decisions regarding the usage of big data analytics. This study is limited to manufacturing organisations and selected variables. Future studies may use government policies as a moderator to test the model of current research.

Being a developing economy, Pakistan can sustain its economic growth through the promotion of Tourism activities. In this regard, tourism is considered an important channel to boost the economic development of a country. In Pakistan, the tourism sector has been fluctuating due to various political and security issues. Moreover, Sustainability is an established business trend in the modern corporate world. The literature on sustainable tourism practices is scant, particularly in the least developed countries. Very few studies touch upon the concept and no holistic theoretical or conceptual frameworks around the idea of sustainable practices in the tourism industry have been formulated. This study aims to explore the implementation of sustainable tourism in Pakistan and how the tourism industry conceives its role in this regard. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the tour operators who operated in the northern area of Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted to gather data. Results suggest that the tour operators although realize the importance of social, environmental, and economic dimensions of tourism on the communities have no management systems in place to cater accordingly. There are no incentives in place by the government to facilitate tour operators to design and implement such systems. The tour operators do not select a destination based on Sustainable practices, but rather the selection of destination is mostly demand-based and profit-oriented. The study suggests that corporate profit motive is the sole criterion for decision-making and is one of the major causes impeding sustainable tourism in Pakistan. The role of tour operators in developing sustainable tourism is vague as the tour operators do not have any systems in place to implement sustainable models. The study recommends that efforts need to be put in place to incentivize sustainable tourism in Pakistan and proper laws should be set forth by the authorities to comply by the tour operators. The role of tour operators is important and understood, however, there is a need to put proper systems in place.

Sustainable finance and green trade are essential to accomplish the green growth agenda. Though the literature prevails, little is known about the inclusive influence of financialization and trade openness on ecological status rather than just focusing on air pollution or inconclusive element. This study aims to analyze the role of financial dimensions and trade openness with environmental performance in the context of three panels of Asian countries consisting of low, middle, and high-income over the period 1990–2020. The estimated outcomes from the novel panel, the Granger non-causality technique, demonstrate that financialization further contributes to environmental deterioration instead of preserving the environmental quality. Regarding the low and middle-income economies, the authorities should enhance gains from trade openness to develop energy efficiency and ecological status policies. In the case of high-income Asian countries, they are even more desperate to consume energy and ignore the ecological challenges. The findings of this research offer various policy suggestions to accomplish sustainable development objectives.

Purpose: The study aims to investigate the impact of organizational characteristics and knowledge process capabilities on the entrepreneurial orientation among the manufacturing industry employees in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Additionally, this study has examined the mediating role of knowledge process capabilities in the relationship between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation among those employees and the moderating effect of psychological factors on the relationship between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation.Design, methodology, and approach: The study has employed the survey-based methodology and data are collected with the aid of self-administered questionnaires. This study utilized the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to establish the validity and reliability of the measurement model and test the relationships. The response rate of the current study is 64.66%.Findings: The study findings have shown mixed results as one of the organizational characteristics, namely, resource and time availability is an insignificant determinate of entrepreneurial orientation among the manufacturing industry employees in Punjab province of Pakistan. Whereas management support, rewards, work discretion, and knowledge process capabilities appear as significant determinates of employees’ entrepreneurial orientation. The results indicated that knowledge process capabilities have a mediating role in the relationship between organizational characteristics and employees’ entrepreneurial orientation. Moreover, psychological factors, namely, propensity to take risk and locus of control have a significant moderating role on the relationship of management support, rewards, and work discretion with employees’ entrepreneurial orientation.Practical implications: The empirical insights on the study are valuable for policymakers and managers in manufacturing sectors of developing countries, such as Pakistan, to enrich their work performance through the understanding impact of organizational characteristics and knowledge process capabilities on the entrepreneurial orientation with moderating role of psychological factors.Originality and value: Studies on the mediating impact of knowledge process capabilities on the linkage between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation with the moderating role of psychological factors remain limited. This study is one of the earliest studies that investigate these inter-relationships.

The motivation behind the study is continuous fluctuations in energy prices in Pakistan, so this study aims to investigate the role of a twin deficit, urbanization, climate change, energy production from oil and gas, and the exchange rate in energy inflation. This study utilized oil prices and electricity prices to capture energy inflation using time series data from 1972 to 2021, from World Development Indicators (WDI) and the Census of Electricity Establishment (CEE). This study utilized the vector auto-regressive (VAR) model to investigate the short-run and long-run estimates. This study found that the twin deficit and the exchange rate have a significant and positive association with energy inflation. However, the size impact of the twin deficit is greater on oil prices as compared to electricity prices. Furthermore, urbanization, climate change, and energy production from oil and gas have a positive and significant long-run association with electricity prices. Moreover, the results of the variance decomposition test indicate that the relative contribution of the budget deficit in electricity prices (Model 1) is greater than other modeled variables, while the relative contribution of the budget deficit and climate change is greater in oil prices (Model 2), as compared to other exogenous variables. This study helps policymakers to devise policies to control energy inflation, which affects the well-being of society.