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{"title":"\"Innovation as a mediator between Innovative Culture, Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Management, Learning Orientation, and Performance \"","authors":"H. Zafar","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Hina Zafar1 Khawaja Khalid Mehmood2 1 & 2Institute of Management Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan. (khawjakhalid@bzu.edu.pk) An organization’s performance is its ability to attain its goals efficiently and effectively, and if it does so, it could become successful in achieving long term competitive advantage (Ricardo & Wade, 2001). Tidd (2001) argues that companies could better exploit market opportunities by adopting innovation. Other scholars have majorly concluded that amongst others, innovation has been an important contributory factor for organizations performance in multiple contexts (Gault, 2018; Mehmood, Sonia, & Umar, 2016; Rajapathirana & Hui, 2018). For instance, Zahra, Belardino, and Boxx (1988), Damanpour and Evan (1984) have found a 149 January-June 2019 JISR-MSSE Number 1 Volume 17 10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.9 JEL Classification: M1, M14, M59 positive effect of innovation on organization performance in various industries including service-based and administrative organizations. In a more recent study conducted in the context of transitional economy in South-Eastern Europe, Turulja and Bajgoric (2019) suggested that product innovation and process innovation, both positively affected performance of the various type of firms. Innovation could be determined by certain important strategic factors. For instance, learning orientation is supposed to be concerned with getting a high level of organizational performance through the use of new knowledge for developing new offerings (Hurley & Hult, 1998). Further, organization culture contains the ability to foster innovation and performance (Hartmann, 2006). Empirical researches have also suggested the positive nature of the association between culture, innovation and company performance (Gallagher, 2008; Miron, Erez, & Naveh, 2004). Similarly, knowledge management is critical in fostering innovation and enhancing performance (Gloet & Terziovski, 2004; Parlby & Taylor, 2000). Also, transformational leadership is supposed to motivate human resources for getting innovative products and achieving better performance (Elkins & Keller, 2003; Seaver, 2010). Importantly, several scholars have suggested that variables like learning, transformational leadership, knowledge management, and innovation have been significant for stimulating SMEs’ growth and development (Bessant & Tidd, 2007; Hogen & Coote, 2013; Nunes, Annansingh, & Eaglestone, 2006; Tajasom, Hung, Nikbin, & Hyun, 2015). 150 January-June 2019 JISR-MSSE Number 1 Volume 17 Problem statement & research significance Hence, in this area, the critical literature review indicates that although innovation has been studied in the past by numerous scholars but its antecedents and performance consequences are still knotty questions. Especially, innovation's intervening nature of effect between innovative culture, knowledge management, transformational leadership, learning orientation and performance of SMEs has not been stud","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133050774","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":"Dutch Disease as an impediment to Economic Growth of Pakistan","authors":"Shahid Hussain Javaid","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Shahid Hussain Javaid1 Iqbal Panhwar2 1Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology, SZABIST, Karachi. Email: Shahid.Hussain1@sbp.org.pk 2Bahria University, Karachi. Dutch disease is a phenomena when increase in natural resource abundance or foreign inflows which leads to appreciation in real effective exchange rate (REER) first. In the second step, this appreciation contracts the size of tradable and non-tradable sector expands. Cordon and Neary (1982) explained the idea as “adverse effect of non-booming (natural resources) sector to booming (agriculture & industrial) sector. The booming and non-booming sectors further explained in broader perspective. Booming sector includes existed available resources e.g. mining and non-booming involved agriculture and industrial sectors. These booming and non-booming sectors are called as traded sector. The non-traded sector is services sector, which consists of transport, financial services etc. Real exchange rate appreciation reduces the value of imported goods and domestic goods become expensive. This boosts the import expenditure and exports may be reduced and lead to contraction in the tradable sector. This contraction leads to decrease in output and employment level in the economy. Hence, Dutch Disease becomes harmful for economic growth of the country. The mechanism of Dutch disease can be elaborated as: A) starting from increase in foreign financial inflows, it raises the income of different households. This improves the demand for goods and services and for labor. It would reduce the supply of labor in the market for other sectors. If the expenditure of household increases means services sector expand and this leads to increase the cost of producing industrial and agricultural goods and contract the tradable sector. Many economists through spending and the resource movement effect explain this channel. This may have positive/negative linkages by improving the productivity in production sector. B) Consumption effect is the other channel in explaining Dutch Disease effects. Consumption effects can be explained as; Increase in prices of goods & services within the country boost the demand for imports. This raises the demand for more foreign currency,","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114878161","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":"\"Impact of Financial Intermediation and Financial Sector Efficiency on Economic Growth in Pakistan \"","authors":"A. Kiani","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Adiqa Kiani1 Muhammad Ali2 1 & 2 Federal Urdu University Islamabad. Email: adiqakian@gmail.com, The primary duty of financial system of a country is to transfer excess money stocks from savers to the borrowers (investor/spenders) for making goods and services and also investment rises by purchasing new tools or equipment and other amenities that causes growth of the economy and also living standard of people gets better, So financial system is most important concept of the modern society (Vincent, 2013). The financial sector has two types of financing. The two types of financing are direct financing which refers to financial markets and indirect financing which refers to financial intermediaries, play an important role in boosting the economy. Financial intermediary reduces costs associated with saving and investment decisions while financial markets help to cause the full distribution of existing wealth that stimulate economic augmentation of a country (Saqib, 2013). A financial intermediary acts as an agent between parties for channeling financial transactions. The funds are given by the financial institutions often take a form either loans or mortgages. It is called a financial dis-intermediation if the transactions take place between parties directly, e. g debt or equity markets. Financial advisor, banks, life insurance companies, investment banks, credit unions, mutual funds, brokers and stock exchanges are the best examples of financial intermediaries.","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121098602","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":"\"Impact of Development Perspective of HRM and Lesson Learned System of Knowledge Management on Project SuccessThrough Project Management Competency Retention \"","authors":"Muhammad Mudasar Ghafoor","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Muhammad Mudassar Ghafoor1 Kanwal Iqbal Khan2 Yasin Muneer3 Khawaja Hasnat Haider4 1University of the Punjab, Jhelum Campus 2Institute of Business & Management, University of Engineering and Technology, Email: drkanwaliqbalkhan@gmail.com 3College Women University Sialkot 4University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus The success of an organization can be measured by the success of its projects. Projects play an essential role in the implementation of strategies in the organizations that represents the success of the business and create a long-term positive image of the organization (Engelbrecht, Johnston, & Hooper, 2017). The project management scholars explained project success factors, but still, there is a need to identify the managerial factors that can affect the success (Radujkovic & Sjekavica, 2017; Raziq, Borini, Malik, Ahmad, & Shabaz, 2018) as many scholars disagree on the success factors (Badewi, 2016). In the beginning, the project was considered successful if it is completed within the allocated time, the budget allocated and expected quality is achieved. But now the concept of knowledge in project management has shown that the project success does not only depend on these factors, but it is also a complicated and multidimensional approach consisting of many attributes (Ahmadabadi & Heravi, 2019; Mir, & Pinnington, 2014). Elattar, (2009) considered the project as successful if it meets its goals and expectations. Project managers recorded their output and efforts during the projects and used it in the future when required. The project-based organization has taken a wise step by adopting a learned lesson system, but the advantage of learning has not yet received in a proper manner (Paranagamage & Carrillo, 2012). Lesson learned has enabled managers to make use of it at","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133644458","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":"IMPACT OF TARIFF ON INCOME: CROSS COUNTRY ANALYSIS","authors":"Sidra Amin","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Sidra Imran Amin1 Ambreen Fatima2 The ratio between the world trade and the world GDP has been a subject of attention in the recent literature which is also a summary statistic for globalization. According to the International Monetary Fund statistics a sharp decline is observed in both the volume and the value of the goods and services traded. IMF states that the volume has lessened and the value in terms of dollar trade has almost collapsed during the latter part of 2014 and a 10% fall is seen regarding its value mainly due to the sharp decline in imports and a drop in the oil prices and appreciated dollar value. The volume of trade has experienced a very low growth rate amounting to half the average of what it was during the previous years. The import growth is observed to have slowed down for both developed economies and the developing economies. However, the developed economies experienced the downturn first mainly due to the debt crises in the European zone. The slow growth of trade has now increased in pace and the driving factor is the similar weak conditions in the developing countries which are also exporting. To understand the reasons behind these changes, the economists have studied the relationship between import and growth along with the relative shift in the prices. The growth factors","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134521606","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":"Linking Ethical Leadership with Employee Work Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Conscientiousness","authors":"I. Khattak, M. Junaid, Tasneem Fatima, Saadullah Shah","doi":"10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2019.17.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"Ethical leadership continues to receive considerable attention due to its influence on various job outcomes. This study examines the effect of ethical leadership on job outcomes (employee well-being and employee voice). It demonstrates how good faith directs the relationship between ethical leadership and job outcomes. Data were collected from 180 employees of 6 Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in Peshawar through questionnaires. Results show that ethical leadership is positively related to employee well-being and employee voice. The findings of the study show that H1and H2 was accepted and there is a strong relationship among ethical leadership, employee voice, employee well-being. The main contribution of this study was to find the moderating effect of conscientiousness was also significant for both dependent variables. H3 was also accepted. The future implication shows that the organizations can identify those aspects through which employee work outcome can be improved. The use of ethical leadership strategies can allow managers to build positive attitudes in an employee which results in employee well-being.","PeriodicalId":375599,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130165143","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}