{"title":"The stimulus of factors in implementing the e-governance concept in the emerging economy","authors":"L. Mutasa, T. Iyamu","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a case study where the Namibian environment is used, to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence e-governance and how those factors manifest themselves. This study is motivated by the continuous challenges that are encountered by many African countries, either in the development or implementation or both, of the e-governance solution. The interpretive approach was employed, and qualitative data were gathered using the semi-structured interview technique. Activity theory was used as a lens to guide the analysis of the data, from which six factors were found to influence the implementation of e-governance in the country. The factors are 1) know-how; 2) requirements of both technical and non-technical components; 3) political will, which draws on power to make decisions; 4) heterogeneity; a repertoire of actors; 5) power relationship and 6) governance, which includes standards, policies, and principles. The empiricism nature of the study enhances the implementation of the e-governance solution, which can result in improved service delivery in the country.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68785267","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":"Auditing quality between share price and liquidity regarding investor’s decision","authors":"Nawaf Thuneibat, Rula Alhalaseh","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art2","url":null,"abstract":"Financial statements and the fact that many investors depend on the most critical outputs of the auditing quality. We documented the impact of audit quality as measured by audit firm size, tenure, fees, and firm experience on the stock prices and the liquidity of stock companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The research adopted the deductive approach considering the least squares dummy variable approach following Pham et al. (2020), Sumiadji et al. (2019), Ugwunta et al. (2018), and Al-Thuneibat et al. (2011) to study the relationship between time-varying predictors and outcomes of 185 shareholding companies listed on ASE from 2016 to 2020. The characteristics of an audit firm vary in their effects on both the stock price and the liquidity. Management of the listed companies should be discussed to address the barriers that limit the impact of audit quality on the reliability of information associated with financial statements aiming to reduce information asymmetry and boost investor confidence, and then the share price should rise, and smaller audit firms should be encouraged to perform more specific audit assignments.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68785361","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}
Yousef Shahwan, Mohyedin Hamza, Husam Khalel Lubad, Ola Muhammad Khresat
{"title":"Social responsibility accounting and financial performance during COVID-19: A survey of the firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange","authors":"Yousef Shahwan, Mohyedin Hamza, Husam Khalel Lubad, Ola Muhammad Khresat","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art9","url":null,"abstract":"The need to activate the concept of social responsibility accounting has increased, especially in light of the difficult economic challenges and the increase in competition between companies (Shahwan et al., 2022a). This study aims at identifying the impact of applying social responsibility accounting on the financial performance of public shareholding companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve the aim of this study, the researcher developed a questionnaire, where the study population consisted of public shareholding companies and the population was 173 companies according to the ASE. In this study, questionnaires were used to collect the data, and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) used to analyze the data. This study finds that there is a significant impact of social responsibility accounting on the financial performance represented by the return on assets for public shareholding companies listed on the ASE during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study recommended that there is a need for public shareholding companies to work to apply the activities related to social responsibility accounting in its various dimensions (employees, environment, society, and product). In addition, the companies should work to meet the desires of all members of society, which will lead to an increase in the community’s confidence in the company, and this will reflect positively on its financial performance in general and the return on assets specifically.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135470627","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":"Factors of fraud triangle affecting the likelihood of material misstatements in financial statements: An empirical study","authors":"Thanh Nga Doan, Thu Trang Ta","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art8","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify and examine the three components of the fraud triangle theory that affect the likelihood of material misstatements in financial statements. With a sample of 150 listed companies from two stock exchanges in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (HOSE) and Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) in 2019, this study uses multinomial logistic regression analysis to examine the relationship among factors. This study shows the impact of using the elements of the fraud triangle theory in forecasting the likelihood of material misstatement (Cressey, 1953; Romney et al., 1980). The results indicate that the following factors affect the possibility of material misstatements in financial statements of companies: debt ratio, return on assets, independence of the board members, selection of an audit firm, auditor change in comparison with the previous year, and historical financial statements with material misstatements. These findings of the study can be utilized to develop strategies to help identify companies that are likely to have material misstatements in their financial statements.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135470820","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}
Ahmad Heider Hussein Issa, Mohd Saiful Izwaan Saadon, Jehan Ahmad Kheiro Aburasul, Mohammad Falah Aljaman
{"title":"Effect of social media and organizational memory on hotel reputation: A partial least squares-structural equation approach","authors":"Ahmad Heider Hussein Issa, Mohd Saiful Izwaan Saadon, Jehan Ahmad Kheiro Aburasul, Mohammad Falah Aljaman","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i4art7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i4art7","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the impact of organizational memory and social media on hotel reputation in Jordan. A self-administered questionnaire was employed in this study to collect data from 325 respondents using a convenience sampling technique. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was also used to test the suggested structural model. According to the study’s conclusions, social media and organizational memory have a favourable and significant impact on Jordanian hotels’ reputations. This study only covers respondents from Jordanian hotels due to a lack of finance and time, making it impossible to compare the results with those from other hospitality sectors. As a result, this is seen as a study constraint. Further research into the value of many facets of hotel reputation was conducted using importance-performance map analysis (IPMA). The results suggest that Jordanian hotels should utilize social media to boost their reputation. The findings of this study are meant to help Jordanian hotels comprehend the function that social media plays in enhancing hotel reputation. Findings from this study can help hotel managers and practitioners improve their digital reputation management approaches.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053526","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}
Bashar Abu Khalaf, Antoine B. Awad, Mohammed Nassr
{"title":"Investigating the determinants of working capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council","authors":"Bashar Abu Khalaf, Antoine B. Awad, Mohammed Nassr","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i3art1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i3art1","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify the determinants affecting the working capital of non-financial companies listed on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). All non-financial companies listed on Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait were collected and resulted in a total of 532 companies during the period of 2008–2021. The final sample included 135 companies (25.38 percent of the total number of non-financial companies in the GCC) that had at least 10 years of data out of the 14 years. This paper applied the panel regression (random and fixed effects techniques); the insignificant result of the Hausman test favored the random effect results. The results argued that there is a negative significant effect of leverage, profitability, and firm size on working capital. This suggests that high-leveraged companies tend to have less working capital and this is due to the commitment to servicing the debts. In addition, large companies tend to have less working capital since they have huge expenses to pay and this affects negatively their working capital level. Also, an interesting result is that highly profitable companies tend to have less working capital since they include themselves in more projects. While, there is a positive significant effect of growth and cash flow on working capital, which confirms that high-growth companies tend to have better working capital.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135182925","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":"Dysfunctional design of campaign finance regulatory and post-election corruption","authors":"Ibnu Sina Chandranegara, S. Bakhri","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art13","url":null,"abstract":"This study begins with the condition that almost every election held in Indonesia lacks accountability and transparency in campaign finance report cases. Matched to Mietzner’s (2015) and Briffault’s (2010) reports, there are always problems with the non-functioning of campaign finance arrangements in upholding the principles of transparency and accountability. As a result, the lack of accountability and transparency in implementing campaign finance arrangements often results in conflicts of interest that lead to post-election corruption. This article aims to discover the factors that hinder the functioning of campaign finance regulations that can encourage enforcement transparency and accountability. This research uses normative juridical methods with a comparative law approach. The object of this research is the election campaign funding regulation, especially local elections in Indonesia and focuses on the dysfunctional design of campaign finance regulations on local head elections. We found that the candidates often violate existing campaign finance regulations, with election administrators, law enforcement and the public openly tolerating such violations. Campaign finance regulations continue to develop, but they only prioritize administrative aspects in their implementation. In conclusion, changes needed to optimize fund management are funds obtained from campaigns owned by individuals and then have a reasonable candidate wealth ratio.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68785187","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":"Property right under the Ottoman legal taxation system","authors":"Isuf Ahmeti, Mentor Lecaj","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to analyze the Ottoman taxation (timar) system which resembles medieval European feudalism. In this article, a chronological approach and contemporary scientific-methodological techniques have been used, as well as analytical and interpretation methods to clarify the Ottoman legal rules that regulate property rights focused in Kosovo. Based on this research, it has been found that the Ottoman government declared that all rural agricultural land belonged to the state, as well as that the peasant who worked on it had the status of an inherited tenant, and as a reward for his work he had the right to use it but as foreign property. This paper concludes that only a part of villagers representatives was integrated into the ranks of the spahis and the leaders of the Ottoman state, and Albanians had and kept such privileges until the end of foreign rule. This article is important to reflect on the influence that the Ottoman timar system had on the establishment of the Ottoman Empire in the countries which were its vassals, even though it has its own weaknesses (Kurmus & Yapucu, 2020).","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68785433","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":"Protection of employees in international employment contracts","authors":"Ziad Kh. Al-Enizi, Waleed Fouad Mahameed","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i1art7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i1art7","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the level of labor protection as per the international labor contract. Thus, the way applicable law is applied to international labor relations in Jordan and other Arab countries such as Kuwait and Bahrain, and Rome I Regulation were discussed (Council of the European Union, 2008). This was done to evaluate labor protection in Jordan compared to the other countries. Attempts were made to raise the problem, delineate the ongoing situation in Jordan, and suggest suitable solutions. The analytical method, and the survey of judiciary literature and relevant legal documents showed labor protection in Jordan is not suitable. This is because the Jordanian judiciary is contradictory regarding the interpretation of occurrences related to determining the applicable law, for there are no clear, explicit legal provisions in this regard. It was also suggested that the Jordanian legislator intervenes to protect the labor and provides legal regulations on the application of law. This study has provided the fertile soil for beneficiaries to enhance labor protection to make it conform to international standards, and for future research to aim at this purpose, and deal with labor rights in remote work or work performed in more than one country.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135534683","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 contribution of bank intermediation to economic growth: Empirical evidence from CESEE countries","authors":"Florije Miftari","doi":"10.22495/jgrv12i4art19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv12i4art19","url":null,"abstract":"The financial system is the crucial supporter of economic growth, as it is said to be the “blood” of economic activities. Many studies reveal the role and importance of the financial system in promoting economic development by raising growth through the accumulation and utilization of savings for productive investments (Levine, 2005). However, some studies highlight a negative or non-significant relationship which may differ depending on the sample of countries and the applied methodology, proxy of financial development, time period, etc. Based on the relevance of the topic and on the ongoing debate, the aim of this study is to explore the nexus and contribution of banking intermediation in the economic growth of some Central Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries for the period 2010–2020. We use regression methods, ordinary least squares (OLS), and a fixed effect model to investigate the relationship between economic growth and bank intermediation. We measure the development of banking intermediation using banks’ credit to the private sector, credit to government and state-owned enterprises. The research results show that credits provided by banks do not affect economic growth and are in fact negatively related to economic growth, whereas the return on equity is positively related to economic growth.","PeriodicalId":15974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Governance and Regulation","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135660844","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}