15 articles in this issue
Patient Rambe, Retumetse Joyce Jafeta
Despite the surging appropriation of social media by marketers for communicative marketing of brands, what remains under-explored in literature is the capacity of social media platforms to influence student preferences for brands. This research gap is iro... see more
Sungbin Chun, Eunho Cho
We empirically investigate whether a differentiation strategy constrains real activities earnings management (RAEM). Further, considering corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are a popular tool of differentiation strategy, we examine whether i... see more
Elizabeth Chinomona
Businesses are getting better, bigger, more integrated and more complex in this era. The recognition of the influence and importance of quality of work life can be beneficial to employees and employers in a business. If an employee’s expectation are met, ... see more
Hyunjun Park, Youngtae Yoo
This paper reviews the theory of Chief Executive Officer hubris and related constructs. It is to identify the area of Chief Executive Officer hubris clearly and to clarify the confusion of related constructs which includes: overconfidence, Chief Executive... see more
Pascal Paillé, Jorge H. Mejía Morelos
This study examines the linkages between managerial support for the environment, employee environmental commitment, perceived behavioral control, and employee propensity to recycle. Using a convenience sample (N = 142), we report that employee environment... see more
Jeong Hwan Lee, Bohyun Yoon
The liquidity hypothesis predicts a negative relationship between stock liquidity and dividend payout propensity, i.e., a firm will decide to pay dividends to compensate for the liquidity demand of investors. This study comprehensively examines whether th... see more
Tessie H. H. Herbst, Ajay K. Garg
In South Africa as elsewhere in the world, higher education institutions have been criticised for a lack of transformation. This apparent lack of transformation called into question the capability of the leaders within these institutions to effectively le... see more
Assion Lawson-Body, Laurence Lawson-Body, Lori Willoughby
No action research has been conducted regarding the status of CRM implementation in the public institution sector. This study aims to identify rare or unexpected contextual, organizational, and individual factors behind the CRM implementation at a state S... see more
Jin Kyung Kwak
In this study, we investigate the effect of having express checkout lanes in retail stores. Express checkout lanes are being used to reduce expected wait time of small-buying customers, but their operational effect has not been analyzed so far. By compari... see more
Ted D. Englebrecht, W. Brian Dowis, Justin S. Cox
Taxpayers engage in activities for both tax and nontax reasons. Some of these undertakings are geared to earn a profit. Other activities provide personal pleasure and recreation. Regardless of the activity type, expenses are incurred and... see more
Rutherford Johnson
The outcome of interactions between various economic actors has a decided subconscious component. Transactional analysis (TA), which was developed in the late 1950s, provides a cognitive theory about the way that human beings interact with each other on a... see more
Muhammad Akram Naseem, Ramiz Ur Rehman, Amir Ikram, Fizzah Malik
The purpose of this study is to explore the link between corporate governance characteristics and corporate social responsibility disclosure of listed companies in the Pakistan stock Exchange (PSX), Pakistan. A sample of 179 companies from financial and n... see more
Seong Ho Bae, Seok Woo Jeong, Woo Jae Lee, Kwangwuk Oh
Previous studies find that analysts forecast earnings more optimistically but inaccurately when they face the conflict of interest (COI). We extend this line of research by examining whether analysts’ forecasting behavior affected by the mere existence of... see more
Sang-Hoon Lee, Yuhyung Shin, Seung Ik Baek
Organizations are constantly under pressure for survival in the current highly volatile work environment. This change has been accelerated by trends such as smart work environments and artificial intelligence in the organizational context. Given such unce... see more
Asma’a Al-Amarneh
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of economic freedom level on investment efficiency; predicted by market return and volatility; using data covering the period from 1996 tell 2015 for the MENA region countries. Simple regression model... see more