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{"title":"Risk Management Culture, Structure, and Process – Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence","authors":"Minela Nuhić-Mešković, Admir Mešković","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n10p10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n10p10","url":null,"abstract":"In the contemporary business environment, companies face a wide range of risks that necessitate effective risk management strategies. Risk management can be approached through either a traditional or integrated concept, which hinges on a company's ability to avoid, reduce, and transform risks into opportunities.
 
 This research aims to investigate the risk management practices employed by joint-stock companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study will focus on evaluating the risk management culture, structure, and processes implemented by these companies.
 
 The research was conducted using a questionnaire distributed to a sample of 141 companies listed on two stock exchanges in B&H. The survey included 31 identified risk management components related to culture, processes, and organizational structure. To enhance accuracy, the survey responses were improved using a Likert scale, replacing the previous "Yes – No" dummy approach. Before administering the survey, all components were validated by a group of experts. The findings revealed that companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) have inadequately developed components of an integrated risk management concept.
 
 The research results suggest that B&H companies primarily rely on traditional risk management approaches, failing to keep up with the global trend of implementing risk management standards. This situation may lead to adverse implications for BH companies and its economy.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385785","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}

{"title":"The Impact of Market Power, Credit Risk, and Economic Environment on the Stability of the Arab Banking Sector","authors":"Rami Obeid","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n10p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n10p1","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an investigation of the dialectical relationship between banking concentration and the stability of the banking sector, using data from twelve Arab countries for the period 2014-2019 in the framework of a dynamic panel data model. The findings show that the banking sector in the Arab countries follows the "Concentration-Stability" hypothesis. That is, banking concentration has a significant positive impact on bank stability. The paper explains that this result is due to two main reasons. The first reason is that large banks tend to manage their assets and capital more efficiently compared to smaller banks, while the second reason is that systemically important banks (DSIBs) are subject to additional quantitative and qualitative regulatory requirements, especially after the global financial crisis in 2008. The paper also reveals that economic growth has a significant positive effect on bank stability, while credit risk has a significant negative impact on bank stability. The paper suggests encouraging the merger of small banks, as this leads to enhancing their operational efficiency, strengthening their financial positions, and supporting their ability to absorb potential shocks.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385916","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}

{"title":"Tourism Potential of China and Its Relevance for Jordan’s Economic Openness","authors":"Omar Jraid Alhanaqtah","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n10p24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n10p24","url":null,"abstract":"The article dwells on the analysis of the international tourism industry in China and directions of implementation of its positive innovations in the tourism industry in Jordan. The paper analysis data, characterizes the current state and examines the strategic directions of the development of the tourism industry in China. The tourism sector in Jordan is considered as one of the most promising. The aim is to turn tourism in Jordan from a seasonal into a year-round activity. Jordan is a small economy compared to China. Nevertheless, common features of economic recovery after pandemic and great counts on tourism as a source of continuous revenues make positive Chinese experience relevant for Jordanian economy. Additionally, Jordan has become an up-and-coming destination for Chinese tourists. We expect that improvements in Jordanian tourism sector will serve the same “accelerator button” as it worked for China.
 
 The practical significance of the study is to determine the directions for improving the international tourism industry in Jordan, namely the development of ecotourism and tourism for the elderly (medical tourism, historical and cultural tourism, social tourism, relaxation tourism); introduction of innovations and digital technologies (digital platforms and online booking, virtual tours and augmented reality, face recognition and other security technologies, artificial intelligence and data analytics, interactive multimedia technologies, smart tourism and the Internet of Things); development of business tourism; improvement of the quality of tourist services (staff training, strengthening control monitoring the quality of services and updating the infrastructure of tourist facilities); development of new forms of tourism (individual and thematic tours, virtual reality tours and tours related to cultural and educational experience); development of individual programs for tourists; improvement of public services and management systems in the field of tourism.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385490","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}

{"title":"Effect of Financial Literacy on Financial Well-Being in Georgia","authors":"Metin Mercan, Davit Kitesashvili","doi":"10.31578/job.v12i2.240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31578/job.v12i2.240","url":null,"abstract":"Making correct financial decisions requires a certain level of financial literacy, namely knowledge of different financial products and services and planning and managing personal finances, among others. While people with low to no financial literacy tend to have higher costs, like higher interest rate on their credits, a financially literate person is more likely to use financial services more cheaply and efficiently. This study evaluates the influence of number of socio economic and demographic factors like age, gender, income and education on level of financial literacy of people in Georgia, and the relationship between financial knowledge, financial attitude, and well-being.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135787241","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}

{"title":"Foreign Debt and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria","authors":"Mayowa Ebenezer ARIYIBI, Richard AKINGUNOLA, Israel Oludare ASOGBA","doi":"10.31578/job.v12i2.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31578/job.v12i2.239","url":null,"abstract":"Despite, the external loans the Nigerian government has been receiving all this while, Nigeria continues to record a high rate of unemployment among the active labor force, high poverty rate, low per capita income, inadequate power, and water supply, inadequate social amenities, bad road network, high budget deficit, high rate of corruption in all government parastatal. Hence, this study examined the effect of foreign debts on Nigeria's Infrastructural developments. The study made use of Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), using annual time series from 1983-2019. Collected from CBN statistical bulletin, National Bureau Statistics (NBS), World Development Indicators (WDI) databank, and UNCTAD Database. The ARDL long-run coefficient reveals that BMFI and BBFI have a negative and positive insignificant and significant effect on INFRA in Nigeria, while the control variables of FDI and TOPEN has a positive and negative significant effect on INFRA in NigeriaThe findings give credence to the dual gap theory postulation, that external debt is a phenomenon that can improve the level of growth of an economy. Conclusively, the government should make sure that the foreign debt received from international organizations is used for the infrastructural development in the country and proffer policies and innovations that will help in recovering the foreign debts in the country.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135935557","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}

{"title":"Adaptability of Mobile Applications in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq","authors":"Lona Diyar Latif, Salavat Sayfullin, Metin Mercan","doi":"10.31578/job.v12i2.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31578/job.v12i2.237","url":null,"abstract":"The use of mobile phones and mobile applications is growing significantly due to its ease of use and easy access, so we need continuous and new research to keep up with changes and meet user expectations. All this can change the way marketing, education and all other sectors. This study will generally investigate the use of applications in the Kurdistan Region, and several sectors have been identified for this study such as, restaurant, hospital, jewelry, dress shop, bank. How easy they are for people to use and how they work. We also refer to the switching costs in the sections, how much the user stays on the choice of product or service, and for which product or service the customer stays longer depending on the location or brand chosen.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135935558","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}

{"title":"Banking Competition, Efficiency and Stability in the MENA Region","authors":"Khodor Trad","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n9p50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n9p50","url":null,"abstract":"The intensification of competition in the banking market following the adoption of financial liberalisation and deregulation policies all over the world has raised questions about their impact on the stability of the banking sectors. This study aims at participating in the continuous debate on how the competition conditions in the market affects the stability of banks in the MENA region. This study exploits a sample of 216 MENA banks operating over the period 1999-2019, and adopts the GMM method to detect the association between banking competition and stability. The empirical results show that market power has a negative effect on banking stability. This result has implications suggesting that the adverse effect of concentration on banking stability implies that regulators should be careful in pushing/encouraging banks consolidate, as this may reduce stability.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74666327","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}

{"title":"The Competent Leaders of the Saudi Non-Profit Organizations","authors":"R. Mohammed, Muhammed Zafar Yaqub","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n9p68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n9p68","url":null,"abstract":"To attain Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030’s goal of developing leadership, we need to understand the key issues that have emerged in the context of learning skills relating to leadership in non-profit organizations (NPOs) to enhance their efficacy for management positions. This study elaborates upon the relevant abilities of leaders of NPOs. A qualitative approach involving interviews with 15 directors from renowned non-profit Saudi organizations was used. These 15 leaders, together with 6 other employees from NPOs participating in a focus group, were the primary informants. The study involved semi-structured interviews with professionals from non-profit sectors such as education, health, environmental sustainability, and human resources to summarize critical elements that either help facilitate or negatively affect these individuals’ ability to contribute to institutional results. The results revealed six competency groups – namely personal, management, social, industry-specific, work-specific, and academic – which demonstrated the usefulness of the approach in gaining useful insights that would otherwise not have emerged. The results indicate that leaders of NPOs should exhibit these six levels of competencies to counter internal and external difficulties, and to effectively contribute to achieving organizational goals.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86536074","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}

{"title":"Green Training and Development Revolutionizing Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Green Employee Involvement in the Bangladeshi Pharmaceutical Industry","authors":"Mohammad Nurul Alam, Nadine Campbell, Subrata Das, Fariza Hashim, Imdadullah Hidayat ur Rehman, Juman Iqbal","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n9p36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n9p36","url":null,"abstract":"Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) has been found to positively affect job satisfaction (JS) and job performance as employees are more engaged and motivated to improve organizational performance (OP). However, few studies have investigated this phenomenon, and none have examined green employee involvement (GEI) within the Bangladeshi context. Therefore, this study examines the moderating role of GEI and the mediating role of JS and employee motivation (EM) on green training and development (GTD), organizational commitment (OC), and OP among pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh and contributes to the theories of action and job performance and of ability-motivation-opportunity. Self-administered surveys were sent to executives working in 10 pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh, and data were collected from 180 respondents using convenience sampling. These findings show that the GTD positively influenced OC and OP. Additionally, GEI played a significant moderating role between GTD and OC and GTD and OP. The study also revealed that JS played a significant mediating role between GTD and OC and, GTD, and OP. However, EM did not play a mediating role between GTD and OC and GTD and OP. Based on the research findings, pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh should embrace GHRM practices, prioritize GTD, foster EI, and nurture JS, which are crucial for enhancing OC and OP. These recommendations contribute to a better understanding of sustainable HR practices and underscore the importance of aligning environmental goals with organizational success. The limitations of this study include limited generalizability, convenience sampling, cross-sectional design, self-report bias, limited mediation analysis, and omitted variables. To address these limitations, future research should employ a more diverse and representative sample, use longitudinal designs to establish causal relationships, incorporate qualitative methods to gather in-depth insights, and include a broader range of variables.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"501 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76703844","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}

{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Business Research, Vol. 16, No. 9","authors":"Kevin Duran","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n9p81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n9p81","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Business Research, Vol. 16, No. 9, 2023","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135285813","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}