This study explores the critical role of intellectual capital (IC) in ensuring the sustainable pe... more This study explores the critical role of intellectual capital (IC) in ensuring the sustainable performance and growth of European hospitality firms, both large and small, during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Based on an extensive analysis of data from 42,516 accommodation, food, and travel sector firms operating in 18 EU countries during 2012–2021, this research provides crucial insights into the differential impacts of human, structural, and relational IC on profitability and asset growth. The results show that human IC positively affects SMEs’ profitability, while relational IC benefits both small and large firms. On the other hand, structural IC negatively impacted asset growth for both SMEs and large firms before the crisis but had no impact during the crisis. This study offers crucial insights for policymakers, investors, and business leaders alike, emphasizing the importance of investing in human and relational IC as key drivers of sustainable growth and profitability in ...
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
The study investigated the impact of foreign direct investment and economic growth, upon carbon e... more The study investigated the impact of foreign direct investment and economic growth, upon carbon emissions of Ukraine. The annual data for the study has been extracted from the World Bank Development Indicators for the period 1990 to 2019. The study variables are foreign direct investment, economic growth, and carbon emissions. We started our analysis based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model as being use quite extensively in the existing literature. However, we faced the issue of multicollinearity, then we applied the Ordinary Least Square technique and system generalized method of moments as alternative estimation techniques. The main analysis is based on the Ordinary Least Square technique, whereas robustness has been carried out under the system’s generalized method of moments. Both estimation techniques confirmed the significant and positive relationship between our study’s variables. The results indicate that in Ukraine the inflows of foreign direct investment an...
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between economic growth, finan... more This article presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between economic growth, financial development, and carbon emissions by utilizing bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping. The research utilized the Scopus database, covering the period from 1989 to 2023. Through network analysis, the study identified five primary clusters, distinguished by the geographical and technological extent of the topic. The main objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the future research avenues in the nexus between economic growth and carbon emissions. The article discusses the authors, journals, regions, and organizations that have had a significant impact on the growth-emission nexus, along with a summary of the most frequently cited works in this field. Furthermore, a meta-analysis was conducted to determine the aggregate impact of each research initiative. Based on the analysis and identified gaps, the study proposes future research paths.
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
Examining urbanisation and tourism from the perspective of global Sustainable Development Goals i... more Examining urbanisation and tourism from the perspective of global Sustainable Development Goals is essential for achievinga balance between environmental protection and economic growth in the world's most polluted nations. Moreover, most polluted countries pay more attention to the nature of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to achieve a sustainableenvironment. This study intends to explore the impacts of FDI, tourism, urbanization, and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions using panel data for the top ten most polluted nations for the period from 2000 to 2019. To guide empirical testing,the panel unit root tests LLC and IPS are used. The outcomes of LLC and IPS advise FM-OLS application on how to accomplish the goals. The findings provide proof of how FDI and other factors affect carbon emissions (CE). Particularly, renewable energy consumption (REC) has a detrimental but minor effect on CE. For the panel of developing nations, FDI had a favourable and significant e...
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022
This study attempts to explore the environmental impacts of globalization under the umbrella of t... more This study attempts to explore the environmental impacts of globalization under the umbrella of the EKC (environment Kuznets curve) approach in South Asia. For this reason, this study investigates the causality between energy usage and growth-driven CO2 emanations. The study adopts the FMOLS (fully modified OLS) technique for the econometric assessment, which portrays a significant demolish of environmental well-being in the region, whereas individual country, such as Nepal, also demonstrates a positive and significant effect of non-environmentally friendly power and globalization index on CO2 emanations. Nonetheless, negative as well as positive signs of GDP and its square (GDP)2, respectively, validate the EKC theory in the sample region. Furthermore, the empirical finding reveals the feedback effect between economic growth (GDP) and energy usage. Despite this, GDP Granger causes CO2 emanations.
The purpose of this study is to identify at what extent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)... more The purpose of this study is to identify at what extent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diseases effect on environmental health issues in selected provinces of Chinese hospitals. In survival analysis approach, this study employs the Cox proportional hazard model (CPM) to incorporate the duration of event, probability of occurrence of an event, and the issue of right censoring. An advantage of using CPM is that one does not need to specify the distribution of baseline hazard H0 (t) as it considers a common value for all units in population. The results indicate that male and travel expenditures have negative association with the duration of cure. Furthermore, the medical expenditures and the spatial characteristic of time expenditure have positive association with the duration of cure of MDR-TB patients. The inconsistent behavior of males in taking medicines as compared to females and males is also more prone to tuberculosis (TB).
Abstract: The study aims to investigate the dividend preferences in Pakistani capital market and ... more Abstract: The study aims to investigate the dividend preferences in Pakistani capital market and further deals with the investigation of cash dividend preference of poorly performing firms list on Karachi Stock exchange. The study utilized the financial data for 2001-2011 of listed Pakistani firms to examine the behavior of distribution of cash dividends. Panel regression statistical technique was used. From the analysis, it is originated that poorly performing firms having lesser portion of tradable shares pay dividends in cash. The study finds that the cash dividend distribution behavior of poorly performing firms and describes the preference of directors. Further, low performing firms prefer cash dividends as compared to stock dividends as long as they have large percentage of directors or financial institutions or block-holders ’ ownership of nontransferable shares. Furthermore, if a firm has mix of directors, financial institutions and block-holders’ ownership of nontransferabl...
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM pract... more Abstract: The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and innovative orientation, innovative activities and firm performance and to test the mediating effect of innovative activities on the firm performance. To accomplish this purpose, survey was to carry out in the twin cities Rawalpindi-Islamabad of Pakistan. Total three hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed among the middle level employees of telecom organizations. Out of Total, two hundred and fifty three (253) questionnaires were retrieved back. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the model. The results of the SEM indicates that the Knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and Innovation orientation have significant and positive impact on Innovative activities of the firm, whereas, Innovative activities has significant and positive impact on firm financial performance. The study recommends that organization...
This paper focuses on the determinants of bank's selection criteria in Malaysia. The purpose ... more This paper focuses on the determinants of bank's selection criteria in Malaysia. The purpose of the study is to examine the significant factors of bank selection criteria such as people influence, communication technology, convenience, personnel, easy process and variety, service quality, and cost. This study also presents how customers rank the factors by their priorities and the demographic differences in bank selection criteria. The total of 187 respondents from Taman University (Skudai, Malaysia) was sampled. The findings reveal the first important factor in bank selection criteria is "service quality" followed by "convenient", "cost", "personnel", "easy process and variety of product", "communication technology", and lastly - "people influence". The findings also indicate that there are differences between the respondent's demographic background and bank selection criteria. These results are discussed...
The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Coll... more The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and innovative orientation, innovative activities and firm performance and to test the mediating effect of innovative activities on the firm performance. To accomplish this purpose, survey was to carry out in the twin cities Rawalpindi-Islamabad of Pakistan. Total three hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed among the middle level employees of telecom organizations. Out of Total, two hundred and fifty three (253) questionnaires were retrieved back. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the model. The results of the SEM indicates that the Knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and Innovation orientation have significant and positive impact on Innovative activities of the firm, whereas, Innovative activities has significant and positive impact on firm financial performance. The study recommends that organizations should i...
The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between behavioural factors affect... more The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between behavioural factors affecting individual investors’ decision behaviour while investing in the capital stock market. To achieve this objective, the study has tested the relationship of firm’s specific attributes and personality traits of individual investors in the stock market of Pakistan. In addition, this study has examined the mediating effect of sensational attitude between (1) firm’s specific attributes and investment decision behaviour and (2) personality traits and investment decision behaviour. Furthermore, this study also investigates the moderating effect of brand familiarity on the relationship between firm’s specific attributes and sensational attitude. In this study, the positivist research approach has been used and survey methodology has been adopted to collect responses from individual investors of capital markets of Pakistan. The purposive probability sampling technique was employed and about fiv...
3 Abstract: The research study has analyzed the stock price volatility by taking non-financial fi... more 3 Abstract: The research study has analyzed the stock price volatility by taking non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange. The study is based on panel data that covers 35 firms for the period of 2001-2011. The main variable is dividend yield. The other explanatory variables taken by the study are; size, growth, earning per share and earning volatility. The research study has concluded that price volatility of stocks has a negative relationship with dividend yield and earnings per share. The research has identified a positive relationship of price volatility with size and growth in assets of firms. In addition, the research has identified that there is no relationship between price volatility and earning volatility of firms in Pakistan.
This article investigates the relationships between personality traits, risk tolerance, and inves... more This article investigates the relationships between personality traits, risk tolerance, and investment decisions and highlights the importance of personality traits in determining risk tolerance levels and investment decisions. Personality traits are classified according to the Big Five taxonomy: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience. Primary data was collected from 330 individual investors from Islamabad. Descriptive analysis of the data was run on SPSS, reliability of the constructs was assessed through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), whereas, Structural Equational Modelling (SEM) was used to conduct hypothesis testing through path analysis. As per the results of CFA, the constructs were found to be reliable. Mediation analysis confirmed that risk tolerance partially mediated the relationship between personality traits and investment decisions. This study and results have theoretical and practical implications for the investors,...
This study explores the critical role of intellectual capital (IC) in ensuring the sustainable pe... more This study explores the critical role of intellectual capital (IC) in ensuring the sustainable performance and growth of European hospitality firms, both large and small, during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Based on an extensive analysis of data from 42,516 accommodation, food, and travel sector firms operating in 18 EU countries during 2012–2021, this research provides crucial insights into the differential impacts of human, structural, and relational IC on profitability and asset growth. The results show that human IC positively affects SMEs’ profitability, while relational IC benefits both small and large firms. On the other hand, structural IC negatively impacted asset growth for both SMEs and large firms before the crisis but had no impact during the crisis. This study offers crucial insights for policymakers, investors, and business leaders alike, emphasizing the importance of investing in human and relational IC as key drivers of sustainable growth and profitability in ...
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
The study investigated the impact of foreign direct investment and economic growth, upon carbon e... more The study investigated the impact of foreign direct investment and economic growth, upon carbon emissions of Ukraine. The annual data for the study has been extracted from the World Bank Development Indicators for the period 1990 to 2019. The study variables are foreign direct investment, economic growth, and carbon emissions. We started our analysis based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model as being use quite extensively in the existing literature. However, we faced the issue of multicollinearity, then we applied the Ordinary Least Square technique and system generalized method of moments as alternative estimation techniques. The main analysis is based on the Ordinary Least Square technique, whereas robustness has been carried out under the system’s generalized method of moments. Both estimation techniques confirmed the significant and positive relationship between our study’s variables. The results indicate that in Ukraine the inflows of foreign direct investment an...
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between economic growth, finan... more This article presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between economic growth, financial development, and carbon emissions by utilizing bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping. The research utilized the Scopus database, covering the period from 1989 to 2023. Through network analysis, the study identified five primary clusters, distinguished by the geographical and technological extent of the topic. The main objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the future research avenues in the nexus between economic growth and carbon emissions. The article discusses the authors, journals, regions, and organizations that have had a significant impact on the growth-emission nexus, along with a summary of the most frequently cited works in this field. Furthermore, a meta-analysis was conducted to determine the aggregate impact of each research initiative. Based on the analysis and identified gaps, the study proposes future research paths.
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
Examining urbanisation and tourism from the perspective of global Sustainable Development Goals i... more Examining urbanisation and tourism from the perspective of global Sustainable Development Goals is essential for achievinga balance between environmental protection and economic growth in the world's most polluted nations. Moreover, most polluted countries pay more attention to the nature of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to achieve a sustainableenvironment. This study intends to explore the impacts of FDI, tourism, urbanization, and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions using panel data for the top ten most polluted nations for the period from 2000 to 2019. To guide empirical testing,the panel unit root tests LLC and IPS are used. The outcomes of LLC and IPS advise FM-OLS application on how to accomplish the goals. The findings provide proof of how FDI and other factors affect carbon emissions (CE). Particularly, renewable energy consumption (REC) has a detrimental but minor effect on CE. For the panel of developing nations, FDI had a favourable and significant e...
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022
This study attempts to explore the environmental impacts of globalization under the umbrella of t... more This study attempts to explore the environmental impacts of globalization under the umbrella of the EKC (environment Kuznets curve) approach in South Asia. For this reason, this study investigates the causality between energy usage and growth-driven CO2 emanations. The study adopts the FMOLS (fully modified OLS) technique for the econometric assessment, which portrays a significant demolish of environmental well-being in the region, whereas individual country, such as Nepal, also demonstrates a positive and significant effect of non-environmentally friendly power and globalization index on CO2 emanations. Nonetheless, negative as well as positive signs of GDP and its square (GDP)2, respectively, validate the EKC theory in the sample region. Furthermore, the empirical finding reveals the feedback effect between economic growth (GDP) and energy usage. Despite this, GDP Granger causes CO2 emanations.
The purpose of this study is to identify at what extent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)... more The purpose of this study is to identify at what extent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diseases effect on environmental health issues in selected provinces of Chinese hospitals. In survival analysis approach, this study employs the Cox proportional hazard model (CPM) to incorporate the duration of event, probability of occurrence of an event, and the issue of right censoring. An advantage of using CPM is that one does not need to specify the distribution of baseline hazard H0 (t) as it considers a common value for all units in population. The results indicate that male and travel expenditures have negative association with the duration of cure. Furthermore, the medical expenditures and the spatial characteristic of time expenditure have positive association with the duration of cure of MDR-TB patients. The inconsistent behavior of males in taking medicines as compared to females and males is also more prone to tuberculosis (TB).
Abstract: The study aims to investigate the dividend preferences in Pakistani capital market and ... more Abstract: The study aims to investigate the dividend preferences in Pakistani capital market and further deals with the investigation of cash dividend preference of poorly performing firms list on Karachi Stock exchange. The study utilized the financial data for 2001-2011 of listed Pakistani firms to examine the behavior of distribution of cash dividends. Panel regression statistical technique was used. From the analysis, it is originated that poorly performing firms having lesser portion of tradable shares pay dividends in cash. The study finds that the cash dividend distribution behavior of poorly performing firms and describes the preference of directors. Further, low performing firms prefer cash dividends as compared to stock dividends as long as they have large percentage of directors or financial institutions or block-holders ’ ownership of nontransferable shares. Furthermore, if a firm has mix of directors, financial institutions and block-holders’ ownership of nontransferabl...
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM pract... more Abstract: The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and innovative orientation, innovative activities and firm performance and to test the mediating effect of innovative activities on the firm performance. To accomplish this purpose, survey was to carry out in the twin cities Rawalpindi-Islamabad of Pakistan. Total three hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed among the middle level employees of telecom organizations. Out of Total, two hundred and fifty three (253) questionnaires were retrieved back. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the model. The results of the SEM indicates that the Knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and Innovation orientation have significant and positive impact on Innovative activities of the firm, whereas, Innovative activities has significant and positive impact on firm financial performance. The study recommends that organization...
This paper focuses on the determinants of bank's selection criteria in Malaysia. The purpose ... more This paper focuses on the determinants of bank's selection criteria in Malaysia. The purpose of the study is to examine the significant factors of bank selection criteria such as people influence, communication technology, convenience, personnel, easy process and variety, service quality, and cost. This study also presents how customers rank the factors by their priorities and the demographic differences in bank selection criteria. The total of 187 respondents from Taman University (Skudai, Malaysia) was sampled. The findings reveal the first important factor in bank selection criteria is "service quality" followed by "convenient", "cost", "personnel", "easy process and variety of product", "communication technology", and lastly - "people influence". The findings also indicate that there are differences between the respondent's demographic background and bank selection criteria. These results are discussed...
The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Coll... more The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and innovative orientation, innovative activities and firm performance and to test the mediating effect of innovative activities on the firm performance. To accomplish this purpose, survey was to carry out in the twin cities Rawalpindi-Islamabad of Pakistan. Total three hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed among the middle level employees of telecom organizations. Out of Total, two hundred and fifty three (253) questionnaires were retrieved back. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the model. The results of the SEM indicates that the Knowledge-based HRM practices, Collaborative HRM practices and Innovation orientation have significant and positive impact on Innovative activities of the firm, whereas, Innovative activities has significant and positive impact on firm financial performance. The study recommends that organizations should i...
The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between behavioural factors affect... more The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between behavioural factors affecting individual investors’ decision behaviour while investing in the capital stock market. To achieve this objective, the study has tested the relationship of firm’s specific attributes and personality traits of individual investors in the stock market of Pakistan. In addition, this study has examined the mediating effect of sensational attitude between (1) firm’s specific attributes and investment decision behaviour and (2) personality traits and investment decision behaviour. Furthermore, this study also investigates the moderating effect of brand familiarity on the relationship between firm’s specific attributes and sensational attitude. In this study, the positivist research approach has been used and survey methodology has been adopted to collect responses from individual investors of capital markets of Pakistan. The purposive probability sampling technique was employed and about fiv...
3 Abstract: The research study has analyzed the stock price volatility by taking non-financial fi... more 3 Abstract: The research study has analyzed the stock price volatility by taking non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange. The study is based on panel data that covers 35 firms for the period of 2001-2011. The main variable is dividend yield. The other explanatory variables taken by the study are; size, growth, earning per share and earning volatility. The research study has concluded that price volatility of stocks has a negative relationship with dividend yield and earnings per share. The research has identified a positive relationship of price volatility with size and growth in assets of firms. In addition, the research has identified that there is no relationship between price volatility and earning volatility of firms in Pakistan.
This article investigates the relationships between personality traits, risk tolerance, and inves... more This article investigates the relationships between personality traits, risk tolerance, and investment decisions and highlights the importance of personality traits in determining risk tolerance levels and investment decisions. Personality traits are classified according to the Big Five taxonomy: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience. Primary data was collected from 330 individual investors from Islamabad. Descriptive analysis of the data was run on SPSS, reliability of the constructs was assessed through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), whereas, Structural Equational Modelling (SEM) was used to conduct hypothesis testing through path analysis. As per the results of CFA, the constructs were found to be reliable. Mediation analysis confirmed that risk tolerance partially mediated the relationship between personality traits and investment decisions. This study and results have theoretical and practical implications for the investors,...
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