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This paper aims to investigate the effect of faculty adeptness, learner expectations, and uses of technology on perceived learners learning outcomes. Furthermore, it has investigated the mediating role of emotional intelligence in study variables. This study has adopted descriptive research design and followed a convenient sampling method for the collection of the data. This research includes a survey of 447 respondents pursuing their higher education in affiliated colleges in Delhi. The study results indicate that faculty adeptness, learner expectations, and uses of technology have a significant relationship with perceived learners learning outcomes. Furthermore, it was found that emotional intelligence partially mediates the relationship between FA and PSLO and Tech and PSLO, whereas emotional intelligence fully mediates the relationship between LE and PSLO. The result of the study will be helpful for professionals, academicians, and researchers. The findings of the study will be helpful for HEIs for improving students’ performance. This study explains the significance of students’ emotional intelligence. The result of the study has indicated that emotional intelligence fully mediates in the case of learner’s expectations and perceived learners’ learning outcomes. But it partially mediates the relationship between FA and PSLO and Tech and PSLO.

Mobile money has transformed access to financial services in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and has helped to reduce gaps in the financial inclusion of the unbanked poor. This paper analyzes the impact of the use of mobile money on household resilience to health shocks. Using the propensity score matching method and the probit model with instrumental variables, the results show that the use of mobile money reduces the vulnerability of households to health shocks. We also find that women use mobile money more frequently to alleviate the adverse effects of a health shock. Moreover, we find that mobile money has a greater impact on health shock in rural areas than in non-rural areas. The results also show that the use of mobile money’s impact magnitude on health shock resilience increases with age and education level up to a threshold. Based on the paper’s findings, we have highlighted some economic policies to improve household resilience to shocks. First, the expansion of mobile network coverage, particularly in rural areas, is essential to ensure widespread access to mobile money services. Second, reducing mobile money transaction and service costs is necessary to make these services accessible to low-income households. Third, training and awareness-raising programs on responsible financial management and the effective use of mobile money must be implemented to ensure that all population segments benefit fully from these services, particularly women and older people. Fourth, tax incentives could be offered to mobile operators expanding into rural areas and offering reduced rates for emergency transactions.

This paper re-examines Solow’s productivity paradox through the prism of the joint use of ICT tools. On the one hand, the joint use of ICT tools implies heterogeneous, hierarchical, and complementary skills and, on the other hand, constitutes a larger consumption network. This study uses data from the enterprise survey conducted by the World Bank on a representative sample of 361 Cameroonian firms to re-examine this productivity paradox. These data have the advantage of providing information on the characteristics and productivity of firms, as well as on the different types of ICT used. Methodologically, the study uses a Tobit model with instrumental variables to take account of ICT endogeneity problems and the truncated, censored nature of our productivity measure. The main results suggest that (i) the use of a single ICT tool (mobile money, website, or email) has a positive but insignificant effect on worker productivity; (ii) the use of two or more of these tools (email-mobile money, email-website, mobile money-email-website) positively and significantly affects worker productivity, by 5.881, 6.189, and 8.881 points, respectively; (iii) company size, sector of activity, and previous productivity positively and significantly affect labor productivity. This study argues in favor of the joint use of ICT tools requiring different, complementary, and prioritized skills in order to significantly increase productivity. Specifically, it is in the interests of large companies and companies in the industrial and service sectors to mobilize several ICT tools requiring complementary skills.

In the past few years, despite Latin America having allocated more resources to the innovation and study of the fishing and aquaculture sector, this economic sector still maintains the same level in the short or long term in relation to imports and exports as the axis of the economies in foreign investment with a lasting participation in the Latin American market. For this reason, our study aims to study the impact that fishery production has on the economy of Latin America. Using time series from 1990 to 2020 on fisheries data, the individual and group variables will be studied by using the fixed and random-effects model for estimation. A panel autoregressive econometric technique (Panel-ARDL) will be used to observe the relationship in the long and short term. Our results suggest that in the long term, aquaculture and fishing production have a positive relationship with FDI, that is, a 1% increase in production results in an FDI increase of 1.49%, being significant at 1%, while, in the short term, it was established that the coefficient was 0.32%, being statistically significant. Finally, to validate the short-term model, an ECM was calculated, whose coefficient has a negative sign and is statistically significant.

This research focused on the effects of prior experiences based on the imprinting theory that how individual-level imprints are transferred to the organizational level. The research attempted to answer the question of how owners’ career imprints affect the performance of ventures. Ventures operating in the technology sector were categorized according to their academic and industry background. The results showed that although academic-partnered ventures were found to generate more patents, their performance is lower than non-academic partnered ventures. This research has theoretical and practical contributions providing results that show different institutional contexts lead to different outcomes through the occupational imprinting effect.

This study addresses the scant research on the relationship between the employees’ perceived leader knowledge hiding (PLKH), mattering (feeling valued in the organization), and creativity. It further aims to examine the moderating role of task-related complexity. Based on the social exchange theory, the current study examines how PLKH impacts employees’ creativity directly and indirectly through employee mattering and how task-related complexity plays a role as a moderator. By carrying out a multisource study, 340 responses from supervisors and their immediate subordinates from R&D departments of the manufacturing sector operating in Pakistan (Faisalabad, Lahore, and Rawalpindi) were considered for data collection from July to December 2023. The current study tested the proposed relationships through a partial least squares structural equation modeling technique. The findings show that PLKH negatively correlates with employees’ mattering and creativity. Meanwhile, employees’ low mattering negatively mediates between PLKH and creativity. Moreover, results revealed that task-related complexity is a significant moderator in this study model. These findings enrich the knowledge management literature regarding the negative impact of leaders’ knowledge hiding on employee mattering and creativity. Additionally, the crucial role of task-related complexity in strengthening the negative effect of PLKH on employee creativity is an essential extension of the literature. Implications for organizations and academicians depending on outcomes are suggested.

Researchers have recently focused attention on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) because of their social impact and the imperative to combine economic growth with sustainability. At the same time, academics have emphasised the key role played by social economy (SE) organisations in achieving the SDGs, a recognition that has been echoed by numerous institutions. This study, which runs from 2015 to 2021, uses bibliometric analysis to measure the extent of research on the alignment of SE organisations with the SDGs, providing information on its evolution. The analysis is based on the Web of Science (WoS) citation database and uses VOSviewer version 1.6.17 and RStudio version 3.6.3. It assesses the current status, challenges and opportunities of the synergy between SE and the SDGs. The results reveal that this is a burgeoning area of research, predominantly focused on Europe, which lacks a clearly defined focus on the role of SE organisations as catalysts for the SDGs. As a result, SE researchers are missing the opportunity to demonstrate that SE attributes and strategies legitimise SE organisations as pioneers in achieving the SDGs. The findings of this analysis can advance the understanding of the role of SE organisations in achieving the SDGs, potentially steering future research initiatives.

The mounting human activities, production of goods and services, and a growing global economic activity trend are responsible for ecological degradation. The present study is designed to elucidate the role of three important economic indicators: (i) natural resource rent, (ii) fiscal decentralisation, and (iii) economic innovation in reducing environmental degradation in BRICS economies by using the panel estimation techniques spanning the 1980 to 2018. The empirical findings infer that economic growth has an unfavourable and significant interconnection with CO₂ emission. Moreover, the study uncovered that eco-innovation is favourably linked with environmental quality. Our findings specify that natural resource rent is imperative for increasing CO₂ emissions in five selected countries. The analysis also favours the positive role of fiscal decentralisation in mitigating emanations. The empirical outcomes of Granger causality show uni-directional causality between fiscal decentralisation and CO₂ emission, eco-innovation and CO₂ emission, and GDP and CO₂ emission. The outcome implies that any policy interference regarding these variables can significantly influence environmental quality. In contrast, NRR has two-way Granger causality with CO₂ emission; this confirms that reverse causality between NRR and CO₂ emission exists.

Technology has recently become a competitive advantage to firms in severe competition in creating new products, higher working environment quality, and more outstanding customer response capabilities. Thus, this study avails the phenomenon to consider whether technology can foster sales performance. To deeply analyze the relationship, we perform (i) an analysis of the technological adoption and sales performance during the period and (ii) an in-depth exploration of whether new equipment can fortify the sales performance when along with technology. The study is conducted as a contributor to the Technology-Organization-Environment framework for all these purposes. The research is based on the aggregation of 3494 samples collected from the Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) survey, implemented biennially between 2011 and 2015. So far, the results indicate that technology does wonders in the efficient sales performance of SMEs in general. In detail, the effectiveness of technology is accentuated in larger firm sizes, while small and medium enterprises can only be assured of taking the opportunity to apply new technology since it does not harm sales effectiveness. However, it seems to have no effects when it comes to new equipment, even when the firm can benefit from applying new technology in all firm sizes. In this study, technology is a phenomenon in fostering most enterprises’ operations without doubts; hence, the practitioners and researchers only need to take more insight research based on their firm and market characteristics to apply the proposed results fully. We also bring out even more in-depth to see how the new equipment and new technology affect the sales performance along different regression models, which aims to heighten the accuracy of the results in different aspects. Nevertheless, the study’s limitations remain the data time-scope problem, which is not up-to-date, as well as the economic scale on which the study takes place.

This paper presents the results of a study aimed at understanding how technology maturity level influences the incidence of university technology transfer to the private sector. The study examined the topic from the perspective of private sector organizations. It used data from a random sample of patent applications filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a theoretically guided sampling of multiple cases of private sector organizations that contemplated obtaining and assimilating technologies created at universities in the United States. The patent application data were analyzed using nonparametric statistical techniques and the case data were analyzed using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The findings of the study suggest that the typical maturity level of technologies created at U.S. universities is a TRL-5 or lower on the NASA technology readiness level (TRL) scale. A technology maturity level of TRL-6 or higher is likely an insufficient but necessary part of at least one unnecessary but sufficient configuration of conditions that tends to result in the occurrence of university technology transfer. However, under certain circumstances, a technology maturity level of at least TRL-6 could be a sufficient but unnecessary condition for the occurrence of university technology transfer. These findings have several important implications. First, they provide support for the notion that university technology transfer is subject to causal complexity. Moreover, it may be possible to increase the incidence of university technology transfer in the United States by implementing public policy and practices that explicitly take technology maturity level into consideration.