LEVERAGING STRATEGIC MANEUVERABILITY TO AUGMENT BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE DURING ENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCE

ABSTRACT   Purpose: Ensuring that businesses thrive in turbulent environments is as challenging as navigating the proverbial stormy waters. Drawing upon attention-based and action-based views of firms’ dynamic capabilities, we examined whether firms with high strategic maneuverability can gain a competitive advantage in turbulent environments by adopting business model innovation

Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Sustainable Competitive Advantage under Environmental Uncertainty in Textile Industry

This study examined the relationship between dynamic capabilities and sustainable competitive advantage through technological and non-technological innovation under environmental uncertainty.  The proposed interactive model has been explained using the dynamic capabilities theory. Data were collected from 246 managers in the textile manufacturing industries in Pakistan through a two-point survey. The measurement model showed excellent psychometric qualities for all variable measures. Findings provide that dynamic capabilities have a significant positive relationship with sustainable competitive advantage mediated by technological and non-technological innovations in parallel and serial ways. Environmental uncertainty accelerated the positive impact of dynamic capabilities on both these forms of innovation, leading to sustainable competitive advantage. Findings emphasize the importance of dynamic capabilities in the manufacturing industry and support investment in developing such capabilities, which enhance industry innovation and competitiveness

Impact of Passive Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Turnover Intentions; Mediating Effect of Organizational Interpersonal Trust

This study investigates the impact of passive leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intentions with the mediating effect of organizational interpersonal trust. Data has been collected from a sample of 180 working at managerial levels in public and private sector universities based in Islamabad. Findings of the current study confirms that passive leadership is negatively associated with organizational citizenship behavior and employee turnover intentions and the mediating role of organizational interpersonal trust confirms the partial mediation between these relationships. The study provided with new insights into the body of knowledge and also provided with practical implications. Limitations of the current study along with the future directions of research also discussed at the end

Making Foreign Aid Work: Issues of Cost Effectiveness of Educational Aid in Pakistan

The quality of inclusive and accountable institutions in a donor-recipient country determines the effectiveness of foreign aid. This study examined whether the role of donor agency or the implementing agency was more helpful in the successes of two foreign-funded educational interventions in Northern Pakistan. The two interventions, each focusing on teachers’ development program and the capacity development of principals, were funded by two different international donors. The study also provided a comparison of the two international donors working styles and their strategies applied for the execution of their respective projects. The findings of the study, which were generated through qualitative methods, noted wide variations not only in the working strategies of the two donors, but also the role of the executing agency. It was noted that multiple factors determined the productivity of the two projects; one of the elements that contributed the success or failure of the two project was their design or road map. Based on the findings of this study, it was maintained that a proactive role of both the entities is crucial for the success of such interventions. &nbsp

EFFECT OF STATE MINDFULNESS ON EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION AND WELL-BEING: ROLE OF WORK-FAMILY BALANCE: Dr. Hafiz Ghufran Ali Khan, Zafar Abbass, Muhammad Faizan Akbar, Muhammad Jehanger Khan

This study aims to know how; committed and satisfied employee is an asset to an organization. How’ Scan help the organization to compete and grow aggressively in a dynamic global environment. Therefore, state m unless is a factor that increases employee job satisfaction and well-being by ensuring work-life balance as a mediator which is vital for organizational productivity and profitability. Quantitative data from 400 respondents of the telecom and banking sector of Pakistan has been collected through self-admin red questionnaires for analysis. The collected data has been analyzed through IBM SPSS 23 to explore the relationship among independent and dependent variables and the mediating effect of work-life balance has also been substantiated. Testing of mode confirms the positive impact of state mindfulness on employee job satisfaction and well-being by ensuring work-life balance as a mediator. This research is providing a theoretical and empirical foundation to link state mindfulness with employee job satisfaction and wellbeing of employees. This study also adds to the limited stick of knowledge, providing a mediating link of work-family balance between state mindfulness and job satisfaction and employee well-being. This study also broadens previous research findings