Saba Qasim, M. Siam, Salniza Bt Md. Sallaeh, O. Rabie
{"title":"Impact of corporate social responsibility on brand extension success via organizational trust: moderating role of the CSR communication","authors":"Saba Qasim, M. Siam, Salniza Bt Md. Sallaeh, O. Rabie","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.11/1007.11.269.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.11/1007.11.269.283","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the moderated mediation mechanism through which corporate social responsibility affects brand extension success. This study posits that organizational trust mediates the relationship between corporate social responsibility and brand extension success. We further hypothesized that the CSR communication would moderate this process; high CSR communication would strengthen the effect of CSR on brand extension success. The findings showed that CSR positively affects brand extension success via organizational trust. Data were obtained from 316 consumers who have knowledge of the CSR actions of various organizations operating in Pakistan and brand extension. We have selected those organizations for our data collection which are doing CSR in Pakistan. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for both research and practice.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123813735","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}
Cheng Yu, Zong-Sheng Lee, Zhi-yu Wang, Chun-Chang Lee, Chueh-Shih Lin
{"title":"Bonus ratio, individual performance, and Self-selection of housing brokerage employees","authors":"Cheng Yu, Zong-Sheng Lee, Zhi-yu Wang, Chun-Chang Lee, Chueh-Shih Lin","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.11/1007.11.284.297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.11/1007.11.284.297","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the Self-selection issues present in the individual bonus ratio and individual performance of housing brokerage employees. The participants in the survey were housing brokerage employees in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. In this study, individual performance and individual bonus ratio were designated as interacting endogenous variables. Evaluations were conducted using two-phase simultaneous equations. The empirical results showed the following: 1. a higher bonus ratio resulted in better individual performance, while better individual performance resulted in a higher bonus ratio. 2. Male workers performed significantly poorer than female workers. 3. Junior college education, hours of work, and low salary had a significant positive effect on individual performance. 4. Significantly more men than women selected brokerage work with a high individual bonus ratio. 5. Employees with university or higher education, low salary, and working in the direct selling system had significantly lower individual bonus ratios.?","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114962661","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 monetary strategies on economic growth: an empirical analysis for Pakistan","authors":"H. Mahmood, A. Waheed, S. Khalid","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.10/1007.10.260.268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.10/1007.10.260.268","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to check the long run relationship between monetary variables and gross domestic product. The study has used the yearly data for the periods of 30 years from 1983 to 2013. It is concluded that GDP is positively associated with M2, government expenditures, and inflation. While it is negatively related with interest rate, growth becomes possible with low interest rate. Investment opportunities are increased in economy. With currency appreciation, it has positive impact on growth. Domestic products are cheaper that compete in international markets and BOP becomes favorable. Due to increase in government borrowing from SBP for development purposes money supply increases. Money supply firstly effects the growth, and then it shows the impact on inflation. Due to the increase in the demand of goods output increases and it generates more employment opportunities. Lower interest rate encourages the investor to invest with the result employment increases. These monetary policies increase output growth through money supply which has short run effect. Most of the developing countries lag behind in attaining the objectives and goals of monetary policy. The main hurdles are to increase internal government borrowing and inflation pressure which destabilize the entire economy.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601497","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 effect of CSR on brand loyalty: the moderating role of corporate reputation and mediates the brand image","authors":"Saba Qasim, M. Siam, M. Sarkawi","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.10/1007.10.251.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.10/1007.10.251.259","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is viewed as a good marketing tool due to its significant influence on customers? practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the indirect effect of various measurements of CSR on brand loyalty. The study focus on indirect relationship of CSR on brand loyalty mediated with brand image and the study moderates corporate reputation. This is a conceptual paper based on an indirect relationship of CSR on brand loyalty. This article may provide evidence of an indirect relationship between CSR and brand loyalty through the moderating role of corporate reputation and mediated brand images. Our findings indicate that legal and ethical responsibilities, as two main dimensions of CSR, improve brand loyalty through brand images. Moreover, fulfilments of legal and ethical responsibilities play different roles in improving a brand loyalty. This article is an important step in research on the indirect relationship between CSR and brand loyalty and also it mediates brand image as moderated with corporate reputation.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"8 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126827875","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":"Financial market anomalies: evidence from Tunisia stock market","authors":"B. Ahmed, Regaieg Boutheina","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.9/1007.9.238.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.9/1007.9.238.250","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to investigate the presence of seasonal market anomalies (calendar anomalies) and to analyze their effects on the behavior of financial investors in terms of decisions and profit on the Tunisian market during the entire period that starts on January 2003 and ends on 31 December 2015. This work examines four calendar effects which are the new week of the year (WOY), the day of the week (DOW), the week of the month (WOM) and month of the year (MOY) effects using daily data of Tunisian Stock Market Index (TUNINDEX closing price) and dummy variables based on a GARCH (1,1) regression model adopted by Levy and Yagil (2012) to demonstrate whether the anomalies exist on the Tunisian market. The findings show that the returns for Friday are always positively significant. In contrast, the returns for October are almost negatively significant and low compared to other months. We also find that market calendar anomalies are clues to help investors improving their trading strategies and timing their investments to make abnormal profits.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127751044","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}
Adedoyin Festus Fatai, L. Cheol, A. Oluwatosin, K. Muhammad
{"title":"Oil rents and fiscal balance in oil dependent economies: do fiscal rules matter?","authors":"Adedoyin Festus Fatai, L. Cheol, A. Oluwatosin, K. Muhammad","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.8/1007.8.176.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.8/1007.8.176.201","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we utilize a panel of oil dependent economies from 2000 to 2015 and attempt to empirically examine the relationship between crude oil rents and fiscal balance, while controlling for other covariates. Our strategy is to highlight the importance of fiscal rules by using an instrumental variable approach based on Dynamic Panel estimators [the General Method of Moment (GMM)]. This is used in comparison with estimations from pooled OLS, LSDV fixed effects, and the IV/2SLS techniques (using each country`s share of world output as instrument). Our pre-estimation diagnostics showed that the GMM approach might not be applicable to the small sample, and we suspected that the IV/2SLS method might also be weak in testing our hypothesis for the oil dependent economies; therefore we maintained the LSDV Fixed effects estimations. Our estimation results shows that in countries with fiscal rules, there is insignificant reaction of fiscal balance to changes in oil rents shocks, and the impact is weak. We find also that welfare spending, which was captured by the real GDP per capita, affects fiscal balance, and so does the budgetary variable, i.e. debt-to-GDP ratio, and the ability of the government to curb corruption and mismanagement of funds, which is politically motivated.?","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133989619","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 effects of sectoral trade composition on inequality: evidence from emerging economies","authors":"Mohammad M. Islam, Zhaohua Li, F. Fatema","doi":"10.18488/journal.1007/2017.7.8/1007.8.202.224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.1007/2017.7.8/1007.8.202.224","url":null,"abstract":"This study identifies the effect of sectoral composition of trade on inequality in the emerging economies. We separate export and import into four broad sectors such as agriculture; labor-intensive manufacturing; capital-intensive manufacturing and service, and measure revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of each sector. We then identify the effect of growing export; import; and comparative advantage of these sectors on inequality. The study applies dynamic panel data model to a panel dataset of 31 emerging economies over 1994-2014. We take both relative and absolute measures of inequality to solve the debate regarding measurement issues of inequality. The study results suggest that trade in different sectors have differential effect on inequality measured by Gini and ratio of average income of highest and lowest quintiles, but it significantly increases income differences between the two extreme quintiles of income group. Technology has a mixed effect on relative inequality, but it substantially raises absolute income differences between the highest and lowest quintiles.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127865376","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":"An empirical study on factors effecting the job satisfaction of employees in the hospitality industry ? a case of Danang city, Vietnam","authors":"T. T. Phuong, T. Vinh","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.7/1007.7.160.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.7/1007.7.160.175","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examined the factors affecting the job satisfaction of employees in the hospitality industry, by developing a conceptual model and applying it to a specific context ? Danang City, Vietnam. Questionnaire data were collected from 315 employees working in the hospitality industry, Danang city. The results of empirical tests using a structural equation model support all the research hypotheses. The results indicate that job satisfaction is influenced by workplace environment; pay and promotion potential; fairness and workplace relationships. Finally, the specific theoretical and managerial implications of the results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125326078","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":"Exploring relation between Indian market sentiments and stock market returns","authors":"Divyam Aggarwal","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.7/1007.7.147.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.1007/2017.7.7/1007.7.147.159","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to understand the relation between contemporaneous stock market returns and investor sentiments in Indian context. The analysis is done for daily data over a range of five years. Market measure proxies of investor sentiments including the market mood index and the volatility index are examined to explore their nature of association with the stock market returns. The results show that changes in sentiments have a higher explanatory power than sentiments at level when determining statistically significant relation with stock market returns. While the market mood index indicating optimism is positively related with stock returns, the VIX index also referred to as the fear guard index has a negative relation with stock returns. Moreover the market mood index seems to granger cause stock market returns and exhibit a long run association with stock market returns. With presence of sentiments impacting stock market returns established, more studies in context of developing countries are needed to understand the temporal dynamics between sentiments and stock markets.","PeriodicalId":426560,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Empirical Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131111105","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}