Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/09721509231183767
Amjad Ali, Asim Rafiq, Muddassir Hussien, Salman Sarwat, Abdul Raziq
This study aims to predict the direct and indirect relationship between the usage of Big Data and the effectiveness of the Supply Chain (SC). Additionally, it identifies Top Management Support (TMS) as a moderator. The data were collected through the survey of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and most respondents were senior and middle-level managers with in-depth knowledge of the SC and Big Data usage. SPSS and PLS 3.0 were used to test the hypothesis. The results demonstrate that Big Data usage impacts direct supply chain effectiveness (SCE), however, supply chain agility (SCA) and supply chain networks (SCNs) as mediators between SCE. TMS was used as a moderator between big data usage, SCA and SCNs. The research suggests that, among SMEs, this is the first study to be carried out in Pakistan that looked at the relationship between the usage of big data and the efficacy of SCs, with TMS acting as a moderator (SMEs).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/09721509231170469
Padmaja Nalluri, R. S. Rao
An increasing number of e-commerce sites offering products globally have created a highly competitive marketplace across various market segments. E-retailers look to update their sites regularly to facilitate consumer decision-making. This article examines consumers’ motivational factors when shopping online and their association with online shopping sites offering different product lines delineating one online shopping site from another. Significant online shopping motivational factors identified through the literature review such as ease of navigation and website content, personalized services, discounts/promotional offers, range of products, familiarity with an e-store, reviews on-site, cancellation and returns policy, product quality and logistics were mapped with a few popular e-commerce sites in India offering different product lines, using correspondence analysis. Findings suggest consumers give more importance to quality, ease of navigation and website content, and personalized services when shopping at e-commerce platforms offering limited product lines like grocery/apparel. In contrast, good reviews, good logistics, clear order cancellations and return policy are more important when shopping at e-commerce sites providing an extensive product line. Such information can assist e-retailers in improvising their services to gain customer satisfaction and differentiate their website from others.
{"title":"Impact of Product Line on Shopping Motivations of Consumers in E-commerce—A Correspondence Analysis","authors":"Padmaja Nalluri, R. S. Rao","doi":"10.1177/09721509231170469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231170469","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of e-commerce sites offering products globally have created a highly competitive marketplace across various market segments. E-retailers look to update their sites regularly to facilitate consumer decision-making. This article examines consumers’ motivational factors when shopping online and their association with online shopping sites offering different product lines delineating one online shopping site from another. Significant online shopping motivational factors identified through the literature review such as ease of navigation and website content, personalized services, discounts/promotional offers, range of products, familiarity with an e-store, reviews on-site, cancellation and returns policy, product quality and logistics were mapped with a few popular e-commerce sites in India offering different product lines, using correspondence analysis. Findings suggest consumers give more importance to quality, ease of navigation and website content, and personalized services when shopping at e-commerce platforms offering limited product lines like grocery/apparel. In contrast, good reviews, good logistics, clear order cancellations and return policy are more important when shopping at e-commerce sites providing an extensive product line. Such information can assist e-retailers in improvising their services to gain customer satisfaction and differentiate their website from others.","PeriodicalId":47569,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41273575","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 : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/09721509231157562
Imen Khanchel, Naima Lassoued, Cyrine Khiari
This study aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on stock market performance and determine whether firms with a reactive corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy (compared to those with a proactive and strategic strategy) were less affected. Focusing on a sample of 217 French firms, the event study approach is applied to examine change in the stock prices of socially responsible firms at the announcement of COVID-19 as a pandemic. The results show that stock prices dropped significantly as a reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly for the proactive CSR group compared to the reactive CSR group. The results also show that the reactive CSR group resisted more in the longer term. Furthermore, an investment strategy aiming at buying reactive CSR firms and or selling proactive ones would have earned abnormal returns. However, the investment strategy is not fruitful when we consider reactive CSR stocks and strategic firms.
{"title":"The Reactive Strategy During the COVID-19 Crisis: A New String to the Bow of CSR","authors":"Imen Khanchel, Naima Lassoued, Cyrine Khiari","doi":"10.1177/09721509231157562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231157562","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on stock market performance and determine whether firms with a reactive corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy (compared to those with a proactive and strategic strategy) were less affected. Focusing on a sample of 217 French firms, the event study approach is applied to examine change in the stock prices of socially responsible firms at the announcement of COVID-19 as a pandemic. The results show that stock prices dropped significantly as a reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly for the proactive CSR group compared to the reactive CSR group. The results also show that the reactive CSR group resisted more in the longer term. Furthermore, an investment strategy aiming at buying reactive CSR firms and or selling proactive ones would have earned abnormal returns. However, the investment strategy is not fruitful when we consider reactive CSR stocks and strategic firms.","PeriodicalId":47569,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46086309","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 : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/09721509231187496
Modimpally Radhika, P. K. Reddy, V. S. Prasad
The rise of social media has had an impact on conventional media since it has given individuals a platform to engage in marketing and investment activities. This article examines about the majority of firms use social media as a marketing tool genuinely aids in establishing and keeping relationships with investors. Currently, social media facilitates investors as well as companies an opportunity to establish relationships. Social media truly considered an investment in relationships, and by means of the execution of relationship quality, it is measured for how it influences behaviours such as fulfilment, word-of-mouth and trust. Both institutions and financial investors emphasize the effective use of social media marketing. Online survey mode was used to reach target group of respondents. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the reliability of each component using the Cronbach alpha test, correlation, KMO for the precision of the factor analysis and pivot of the Varimax, all of which were related to seven distinct parameters and 27 dimensions. Research results show that investors who follow a company on social media are more likely to be satisfied, to trust it and to want to recommend it to non-followers. Additionally, they perceive higher levels of commitment and excellence in relationships. Together, these results show that social media is likely to have an effect on crucial relationship marketing variables that lead to more relational clients.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1177/09721509231168538
Ahmed Abdullahi Ibrahim, E. Isichei
The sustainability challenges of nascent firms in developing economies were a motivation for this study. Hence, a direct effect of entrepreneurial finance on nascent firms’ sustainability was investigated. The study proposed an integrative model that accounts for innovation capability and government support, as mechanisms in explaining the entrepreneurial finance and sustainability nexus. Data collection was with questionnaire from a sample set of 235 nascent entrepreneurs. Structural equation model with the aid of SmartPLS was used for the data analysis. The study found that entrepreneurial finance, innovation capability and government support all have a direct positive effect on nascent firms’ sustainability. Innovation capability, in contrast, partially mediates the relation between entrepreneurial finance and sustainability. However, the study failed to account for a conditional effect of government support on the indirect effect of innovation capability on nascent firms’ sustainability. The study validates the resource dependence theory as a theoretical lens and highlights the fundamental issues that drive sustainability as it relates to new-born firms, most especially from an emerging economy perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1177/09721509231178996
Sonal Jain, Aditya Saha
This study aims to uncover differences in profitability and market timing skills of Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) against benchmarks. Using a Markov Regime Switching Model, the article comments on the extent of information utilization by FIIs during periods of low and high economic uncertainty across global (NASDAQ-Composite 3000) and local markets (NIFTY-500 index). The results show significant over-performance (under-performance) in FIIs against benchmarks (NIFTY-50 and NIFTY-500 indices) during low (high) market uncertainty for local uncertainty. However, there is no significant difference in the overall profitability of FIIs during events of global economic uncertainty. The analysis utilizes precise estimates by taking all companies within the index individually and maintaining holdings for all. The article utilizes profitability measures of cash flows, Modified Internal Rate of Return and Buy-and-Hold-returns. The results of this study are relevant to institutional investors, policymakers and investors, especially during local and global uncertainty events.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1177/09721509231160876
Mehreen Waheed, A. R. Kausar, Syed Ahmad Ali
Family firms are often recognized as wealthy in resources, especially in operant resources. These resources are hidden and play a phenomenal role in sustainable development. Fewer studies are available to spotlight the role of operant resources. This study aims to surface the magnificent hidden role of agile operant resources that facilitate the diverse needs of stakeholders in family firms. Data for this study were collected using in-depth interviews with complementary observations. Almost 29 interviews were considered with the owners of family firms from Pakistan. Interviews were translated and transcribed. Gioia Methodology is used to develop broader themes for discussion in terms of first-order concepts, themes and aggregate dimension that explained the mystical hidden role of agile operant resources in family firms. Research findings portrayed that Collaborative Capability, Reputational Resources, Religious Resources and Relationship Proneness are the agile operant resources which strengthen stakeholder’s partnership in family businesses. The authors proposed a conceptual model for highlighting the pertinent role of agile operant resources that facilitate stakeholder partnership in family-owned businesses (FOBs). Recent study provides the conceptual framework to academia for future research in the literature of family firms. FOBs may adopt all these agile operant resources to cater firm diverse stakeholder partnerships in today’s business world. It will open new avenues of growth and innovation for FOBs. This research can apply to all FOBs.
{"title":"Configuration of Agile Operant Resources in Family Firms Through Stakeholders Partnership","authors":"Mehreen Waheed, A. R. Kausar, Syed Ahmad Ali","doi":"10.1177/09721509231160876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231160876","url":null,"abstract":"Family firms are often recognized as wealthy in resources, especially in operant resources. These resources are hidden and play a phenomenal role in sustainable development. Fewer studies are available to spotlight the role of operant resources. This study aims to surface the magnificent hidden role of agile operant resources that facilitate the diverse needs of stakeholders in family firms. Data for this study were collected using in-depth interviews with complementary observations. Almost 29 interviews were considered with the owners of family firms from Pakistan. Interviews were translated and transcribed. Gioia Methodology is used to develop broader themes for discussion in terms of first-order concepts, themes and aggregate dimension that explained the mystical hidden role of agile operant resources in family firms. Research findings portrayed that Collaborative Capability, Reputational Resources, Religious Resources and Relationship Proneness are the agile operant resources which strengthen stakeholder’s partnership in family businesses. The authors proposed a conceptual model for highlighting the pertinent role of agile operant resources that facilitate stakeholder partnership in family-owned businesses (FOBs). Recent study provides the conceptual framework to academia for future research in the literature of family firms. FOBs may adopt all these agile operant resources to cater firm diverse stakeholder partnerships in today’s business world. It will open new avenues of growth and innovation for FOBs. This research can apply to all FOBs.","PeriodicalId":47569,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46718628","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 : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1177/09721509231164249
Iliana E. Aguilar-Rodríguez, Luciano Barcellos-Paula, Carlos H. Artieda-Cajilema
The study sought to understand the relationship between organizational culture (OC) and organizational performance (OP) and included economic activity as a control variable in large and medium-sized companies in Ecuador. The authors collected data from 342 employees from different hierarchical levels and functional and operational areas of different economic activity through online surveys at two points in time. A descriptive analysis and structural equation modelling were applied. The results revealed that the culture of involvement, consistency and mission significantly explained OC. Of these, the mission was the most important. In addition, the research proposes another dimension called commitment. OP was significant for individual-level performance, group-level performance and job stability. In addition, individual-level performance and job stability were best related to business performance. When the type of economic activity is involved, the culture of involvement and consistency is more significant. The outcomes suggest that all the characteristics of OC and OP ensure the integration of strengthened principles into strategies, which, although unrelated to each other, are good predictors for improving corporate governance. Despite the popularity of studies on OC and OP, this research showed that it is still at an early stage of research in emerging economies. It provides managers with knowledge for effective management of the work environment.
{"title":"Organizational Culture and Organizational Performance: The Role of Companies of a Developing Economy to the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Iliana E. Aguilar-Rodríguez, Luciano Barcellos-Paula, Carlos H. Artieda-Cajilema","doi":"10.1177/09721509231164249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231164249","url":null,"abstract":"The study sought to understand the relationship between organizational culture (OC) and organizational performance (OP) and included economic activity as a control variable in large and medium-sized companies in Ecuador. The authors collected data from 342 employees from different hierarchical levels and functional and operational areas of different economic activity through online surveys at two points in time. A descriptive analysis and structural equation modelling were applied. The results revealed that the culture of involvement, consistency and mission significantly explained OC. Of these, the mission was the most important. In addition, the research proposes another dimension called commitment. OP was significant for individual-level performance, group-level performance and job stability. In addition, individual-level performance and job stability were best related to business performance. When the type of economic activity is involved, the culture of involvement and consistency is more significant. The outcomes suggest that all the characteristics of OC and OP ensure the integration of strengthened principles into strategies, which, although unrelated to each other, are good predictors for improving corporate governance. Despite the popularity of studies on OC and OP, this research showed that it is still at an early stage of research in emerging economies. It provides managers with knowledge for effective management of the work environment.","PeriodicalId":47569,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45107655","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 : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1177/09721509231187490
M. Siwandeti, Baraka Israel, Leticia Mahuwi
Studies that address the effect of supply chain (SC) factors on market participation are relatively inadequate. To bridge this gap, we employ marginal effects analysis based on the binary logit model to examine the effect of SC factors on market participation among smallholder cereal crop producers in Tanzania. Data were sourced from 359 smallholder cereal crop producers using a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. The findings of the study indicate that SC infrastructure negatively and significantly affects smallholders’ market participation decisions ( β = −0.0918, p < .0013). Furthermore, the results of marginal effects suggest that market participation by smallholder cereal crop producers is positively and significantly affected by the extent of competition between agricultural SCs ( β = 0.1729, p < .0001), SC distribution strategies ( β = 0.2911, p < .0015) and collaborative SC ( β = 0.1856, p < .0002). These findings provide sufficient evidence to conclude that SC factors are significant predictors of market participation among the surveyed smallholder cereal crop producers. Consequently, streamlined measures should be undertaken to help smallholders increase their odds of market participation. These measures may include upgrading road infrastructure to tarmac or bitumen standards, especially in rural areas where farming takes place, infusing farmers’ associations and agricultural extension services, promoting collective marketing and strengthening long-term relationships between farmers and traders. Finally, the study offers valuable information to policymakers and agricultural stakeholders regarding addressing smallholders’ market participation challenges from a SC perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1177/09721509231163712
H. A. Haruna, Hyeladi Stanley Dibal, E. Isichei
The association between foreign direct investment (FDI) and stock market development (SMD) is very crucial given the role of liquidity in the SMD process. However, this association can be affected by regulatory quality. Through the Calderon-Rossell model, this article explored the direct and conditional effects of FDI on SMD in five sub-Saharan African countries (Ghana, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa) from 1996 to 2020. Regulatory quality was used as a moderator of the association between FDI and SMD. The pooled mean group strategy of the panel Auto Regressive Distributed Lag was implemented and findings suggested that FDI is positively and significantly related to SMD in the long-run. Furthermore, the conditional effect of regulatory quality on the association between FDI and SMD could not be established. This article has policy implications and contributed to the Calderon-Rossell model theoretical debate that liquidity improves SMD.
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