Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2022.20.1.6
Qurat ul Ain, Abida Ellahi
This study explores how perceived crowding affects customers in the service sector. A Semi-structured interview guideline was developed to assemble data from forty customers of banks and telecom franchises. Analysis of the research was carried out by using qualitative research software Atlas. The findings suggest that perceived crowding, including social and spatial crowding, impacts customers behaviour emotionally and psychologically. They demonstrate altered behaviour when present in a crowded environment. Further, it was also found that certain elements helped customers tolerate the effects of spatial and social crowding; either types of customers, environment/infrastructure, or Frontline Service Employees behaviour during service attainment. Additionally, following the assumptions of the theory of psychological reactance, this study proposed a research model for future empirical studies. Findings also suggest that top management must consider the impact that perceived crowding produces on customers. Limitations and future research directions and theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.12
Nabeeha Zulfiqar, S. Javid, Ma Islam, Aisha Azhar, S. Naveed
The objective of this study is to test the influence of value relevance of accounting information (EPS, BV, CF, ROE) on the market share value of non-financial sector of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) listed firms in the Pre & Post IFRS implementation period and transition regime. The study analyses the effectiveness of the quality measures of accounting information for the future prediction of market stock price and for investors to make better decisions for future investment. The targeted population of this study is the non-financial sector of PSX. The targeted sample is based on 41 non-financial public listed companies of PSX. The sample is based on those reported companies whose data is consecutively available for 18 years from 2001 to 2018. This study period has been chosen because this period covers the Pre and Post IFRS application period of Pakistan’s firms. The panel data and Ohlson (1995) price model are applied in the study. The findings conclude that the R-Square value of GLS analysis for post IFRS and Transition period is higher than pre-IFRS. It indicates that the Post IFRS application and transition regime periods indicate the quality measure of value relevant accounting information than the Pre IFRS application period. These both Post IFRS application period and transition regime show more valuable accounting measures for listed non-financial firms of PSX. This study concluded that the concurrent period of IFRS standards for non-financial listed firms impacts the value relevant accounting information to describe market share value.
{"title":"Value Relevance of Financial Reporting: In Pre IFRS, Post IFRS and Transition Regime","authors":"Nabeeha Zulfiqar, S. Javid, Ma Islam, Aisha Azhar, S. Naveed","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to test the influence of value relevance of accounting information (EPS, BV, CF, ROE) on the market share value of non-financial sector of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) listed firms in the Pre & Post IFRS implementation period and transition regime. The study analyses the effectiveness of the quality measures of accounting information for the future prediction of market stock price and for investors to make better decisions for future investment. The targeted population of this study is the non-financial sector of PSX. The targeted sample is based on 41 non-financial public listed companies of PSX. The sample is based on those reported companies whose data is consecutively available for 18 years from 2001 to 2018. This study period has been chosen because this period covers the Pre and Post IFRS application period of Pakistan’s firms. The panel data and Ohlson (1995) price model are applied in the study. The findings conclude that the R-Square value of GLS analysis for post IFRS and Transition period is higher than pre-IFRS. It indicates that the Post IFRS application and transition regime periods indicate the quality measure of value relevant accounting information than the Pre IFRS application period. These both Post IFRS application period and transition regime show more valuable accounting measures for listed non-financial firms of PSX. This study concluded that the concurrent period of IFRS standards for non-financial listed firms impacts the value relevant accounting information to describe market share value.","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128593696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.11
R. Hassan, N. Ahmed, Fahim Ahmed Siddiqui
This study aims to identify the causes of delayed justice in Karachi district courts and analyse the critical causes of delay that the Pakistani judicial and legal system is confronting daily. Article 37 (d) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan emphasise speedy, expeditious and inexpensive justice. World Justice Project Rule of Law Index has ranked Pakistan 130 out of 139 countries on various parameters, including civil and criminal courts. This research makes a comprehensive analysis of civil and criminal litigation in Pakistan for delay reduction. Unfortunately, less has been done previously in Pakistan and especially equal to none of quantitative. This research will focus on the quantitative aspect regarding the rule of law. Moreover, this study used factor analysis to identify the top contributing factors that cause subordinate courts delays. The linear regression model is used to determine and test the directions of the independent variables. This research measures significance of these factors to reject the null hypothesis at a 5% interval level. Similarly, linear regression is used for the cost of litigation to identify the relationship between independent and dependent variables, which is the ”cost of each hearing”. The results show that unnecessary adjournments on frivolous grounds are the most contributing factor of the delayed justice and filing of the miscellaneous applications on frivolous grounds, lack of skills and standardised level of training of both advocates as well as learned judges.
{"title":"Judicial System and Public Policy: Strategy for Expeditious Disposal of Backlog","authors":"R. Hassan, N. Ahmed, Fahim Ahmed Siddiqui","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify the causes of delayed justice in Karachi district courts and analyse the critical causes of delay that the Pakistani judicial and legal system is confronting daily. Article 37 (d) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan emphasise speedy, expeditious and inexpensive justice. World Justice Project Rule of Law Index has ranked Pakistan 130 out of 139 countries on various parameters, including civil and criminal courts. This research makes a comprehensive analysis of civil and criminal litigation in Pakistan for delay reduction. Unfortunately, less has been done previously in Pakistan and especially equal to none of quantitative. This research will focus on the quantitative aspect regarding the rule of law. Moreover, this study used factor analysis to identify the top contributing factors that cause subordinate courts delays. The linear regression model is used to determine and test the directions of the independent variables. This research measures significance of these factors to reject the null hypothesis at a 5% interval level. Similarly, linear regression is used for the cost of litigation to identify the relationship between independent and dependent variables, which is the ”cost of each hearing”. The results show that unnecessary adjournments on frivolous grounds are the most contributing factor of the delayed justice and filing of the miscellaneous applications on frivolous grounds, lack of skills and standardised level of training of both advocates as well as learned judges.","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114745558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.8
Asmara Irfan, A. Sami
The central idea of this research is to find out how reputation management creates public value. The value system of an institution is very much important for its reputation. Reputation is associated with an institution’s ability to assure its employee’s requirements. An institution’s reputation explains its members’ opinion about its institution’s proficiency to create values comparative to its opponents. Universities do not give attention to managing their reputation in the long run. Public value can be considered a new thought for public sector organisations to manage their reputation. The public value of universities includes those ethics of an organisation that offer quality services to its students. To remain in the competition, universities have to handle their reputation by fulfilling their students’ demands. Reputation management is much argued in the business sector, and public value is discussed in different public organisations. Few researchers have discussed the relationship between reputation management and public value in the education sector. This study uses proportional random sampling. The sample for this study includes five public universities in Pakistan. To evaluate the collected data Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was used. The findings of this study confirm that there is a positive relationship between university reputation and public value.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.3
M. Asif, Sheraz Khan, Q. Shah
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of foreign shareholdings (FS) on agency cost and firm’s performance in nonfinancial listed firms of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The authors employed the data set of agency cost, FS and corporate governance from 2012 to 2016. According to the recent literature Foreign Shareholdings (FS) can also be used as a powerful remedy to mitigate the dual type of agency problems. This study uses two proxies for agency cost, i.e. AUR and DER, and one for firm performance, i.e. Tobin’s Q, as dependent variables. Foreign direct investment is used as an explanatory variable and twelve independent variables. The study found that a higher level of the FS decreases the agency cost level under the asset utilisation ratio. It implies that foreign investment can benefit from employed assets due to superior abilities and advanced technology. While under discretionary expenditure ratio, FS has not significantly influenced agency cost. It is also found that FS significantly increase market base performance. The findings clarified that foreign investors play an important role in reducing agency costs and improving firm performance. In addition, the empirical evidence drifted towards the critical policy implication for emerging markets to allow foreign investors to invest in their firms to obtain maximum gains.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.4
M. Majeed, Syeda Tuba Javaid
This qualitative study indicates the perspective of Pakistani secondary school teachers on the meaning and importance of work in their lives. The data was collected through in-depth recorded semi-structured interviews from 17 secondary school teachers and were analysed using narrative analysis. After a two-stage coding, the themes that developed included the economic meaning of work, psychological meaning of work, changes that make work more meaningful and reasons why working has lost its meaning. Findings indicated that work is an innate character of humans and it’s the source of satisfaction. Still, if parents become part of the system, more teaching resources and techniques applied, teacher opinion given importance would give more meaning to teachers’ work. When management is not supportive, teachers face disrespect and do not get due appraisals, or a salary increase made teachers’ meaning of work lost. In this way, this research facilitates the educational administration and leaders to understand the teachers and their needs which would help them appreciate the teachers properly and provide them with the incentives they deserve. It would also enhance the quality of teachers’ work and the quality of education. It is found that the teachers would work more enthusiastically if their opinions were given importance.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.5
Nazia Rehman, Khurram Shakir, Ibrahim Noorani
Music is used for emotional control purposes and has been helpful in stress management and enhancing general well-being. Music could favourably affect consumers’ perceptions. The subject of this research is to see the connection between the music in Pakistani restaurants, as well as to analyse its impact on customer behaviour, and whether the music in the restaurant makes the customer pay more attention and make them spend more time in a restaurant. This study involved data collection and analysis from 395 Customers in a Pakistan restaurant industry. Smart PLS software was used to analyse the outcomes after data collection, and the conceptual framework was validated using structural equation modelling (SEM) and factor analysis. Based on our findings, background music and customers’ emotions are positively related. Further, results indicate that music is favourably connected to spending more time and money in the restaurant of Pakistan, with the mediation from consumers’ emotions. Background Music may aid in the growth of the Pakistan Restaurant industry since the findings of this study imply that customers will spend more money and time there due to the music. This study also suggests future research subjects on the evolution of the restaurant industry as a result of consumer emotions
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.9
Sadia Shaikh, F. Sultan, M. Asim
Big-data analytics are treated as the future of technology and essential for the retail sector. The technology is especially beneficial for optimising daily operations and supply chain practices. However, there is a wide gap in the related literature in developing and Asian countries on this subject. On the other hand, retailing is one of the fastest-growing industries globally. Therefore, this study is specifically designed to understand the role of big data concerning the organised retail sector of Pakistan. The study’s primary objective is to assess the significance of technology in augmenting assortment strategies. However, the mediation of advanced algorithms and moderation of skilled data scientists are included in the research construct to increase research relevance to the pragmatic world. Results were determined by applying Partial least square structured equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings indicated that big data is a prolific constituent to optimise assortment in the retail sector of Pakistan. However, the technology would not produce the desired results without applying advanced algorithms. This study accentuates the actuality that advanced algorithms are essential to be analysed to use big-data most effectively to retrieve new information. Further studies may also be conducted in devising a comprehensive model which includes all the potent variables associated with store-layout design.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.2
Syeda Mehreen Kazmi, Aleena Shuja, S. H. Bukhari
The construction industry has experienced a dramatic boom in the economy over the last two years, due to the significance of CPEC in Pakistan. In the project’s performance, the role and concept of Institutional Environment have been extensively studied in previous literature. However, the analysis of these strategic constructs in construction firms has been minimal. Still, a gap exists in institutional factors concerning project performance. This paper aims to address this gap posits that Institutional Environmental Factors (IEFs) may impact the performance of the construction projects; also, there may be some factors that can impede or promote the performance of these projects. Data were collected from a sample of some construction firms’ management teams through semi-structured interviews. Study results suggested that coercive & normative factors of the institutional environment have a significant impact on the project performance concerning time delays and cost escalation. However, mimetic factors have less impact. This study also tries to assimilate the importance of institutional factors with the policy-making aspects of construction firms which can affect the performance of the projects. Future implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.2.7
Gerry S. Digo
This study determined the laboratory school’s performance and developed a three-year strategic plan to enhance its organizational performance. The researcher used a descriptive survey design, and the survey results were analyzed using frequency count and mean. The participants consisted of the school management, alumni, faculty, nonteaching staff, and students. Purposive sampling was used to select 101 participants within a school year for the study. The analysis and synthesis of data showed that the areas that needed attention were reducing the number of students per class, formulating faculty development programs, conducting in-service training, and hiring competent teachers. Further, developing the laboratory school’s purpose, values statement, objectives, key improvement strategies conducting operational research, publication of research studies, funding for faculty research, providing incentives for researchers, and preparing the vision-mission for the laboratory school are recommended in this study. These findings are addressed in the strategic plan developed for review and approval of the management committee to achieve organizational effectiveness and raise the performance of the laboratory school. Finally, this study may ensure the continued operation of the laboratory schools in state universities and colleges.
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