The Role of Sustainability Practices in Improving Corporate and Sustainability Innovation Performance of the Petroleum Companies of Pakistan

The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyze the vital role of sustainability practices encompassing eco efficiency linked, employee or ethics centered and integrative procedures for enlightening corporate performance and guaranteeing greater sustainable innovation performance. This is achieved by upholding and maintaining EEA trait resilience that comprises engineering, ecological and adaptive facets of resilience. On the basis of tentative assumptions derived through a Triple Bottom Line (3BL) of oil and gas companies, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with SMART PLS has been used to perform path analysis for testing these hypotheses. The sample in the envisioned study with cross-sectional study design contains primary or empirical data obtained from the managers of petroleum companies in Lahore, Pakistan. With respect to the current study’s context, it can be established that sustainability or socially responsible practices are the ultimate supporting and ancillary beings of petroleum based organizations needed to gratify ecological, engineering and adaptability (EEA) resilience and assist these companies to achieve long term goals pertaining to corporate value, effectiveness and efficacy with augmented heights of sustainable innovation performance. This study features and emphasizes the true value of sustainability based on the premise of Institutional Theory and resilience or bounciness of oil and gas companies momentous of Systems Theory based texts. The findings reveal that higher sustainable innovation enactment and enhancement in corporate level performance of these petroleum companies can be sustained and endured in continuity by fetching resilience in adaptiveness, ecosystem protection and engineering processes through installing distinguished ethics, employee and integration centered sustainability and actions in operations.&nbsp

Interactivity of E-Service Quality, Students’ Collegiate Stress and Academic Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Motivation to Learn

E-service quality and students’ retention has become a critical component of competitiveness in higher education. There are many factors associated with effective e-services but interactivity is assumed as one of the most significant factors in education sector. Higher education institutes are investing lucrative resources to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of e-services to attract and retain students. The quantitative study was designed, first to see the relationship between interactivity of e-service quality and students’ collegiate stress, academic efficacy and motivation to learn.  A sample of 430 students from private sector higher education institutes (universities) was selected from district Lahore by simple random sampling. The students’ perception about interactivity of e-service quality was measured by adopting a dimension from e-SQ (e-Service Quality) proposed by Al-Nuaimi, Mahmood, & Jebur, (2014). The students’ collegiate stress, motivation to learn was measured through adopting a dimension from College Persistence Questionnaire (CPQ) developed by Davidson, Beck, Grisaffe, & Practice, (2015). The study suggests that interactivity of e-SQ had completely non-significant association with motivation to learn, collegiate stress and academic efficacy among university students. On the other hand, motivation to learn held a significant relationship with collegiate stress of the students. Furthermore, motivation to learn had highly non-significant correlation with academic efficacy of the students. Lastly, academic efficacy of the students was also non-significant in relationship with collegiate stress of the students. &nbsp

Investigating Resilience and Performance of Emergent Financial Technology Startups Endorsed by Knowledge Management

The paper seeks to examine the effect of knowledge management on resilience and performance of emergent financial technology startups (Fintechs) in Lahore, Pakistan through the development of dynamic capabilities when confronted with environmental dynamism. Based on the tentative deductions derived from Dynamic Capability View (DCV)  of emergent financial sector ventures, this paper employs Partial Least Square for Structured  Equation Modeling to investigate these hypotheses. Sample of current cross-sectional study involves empirical analysis performed on primary data assembled from knowledge workers employed in emergent financial technology startups. Knowledge management practices also have a positive impact on the developing dynamic capabilities of the organization. Implementation of effective knowledge management practices results in reconfiguring and advancing the companies’ dynamic competencies under the conditions of dynamism and unexpected changes occurring in the external business environment.  Consequently, fin-techs succeed in accomplishing their goals of spirit, adaptive capacity i.e. increased resilience and escalated performance

An Efficient Model for the Selection of Leadership Competencies and Performance Improvement for the Success of Transportation Projects

Infrastructure development always play important role in socio- economic growth of Pakistan. Project completion and success is dependent on the leadership competencies. Leadership competencies of a project manager are influencing the team for completing any project with success. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of project managers’ leadership competencies in light of theory explaining “The Competency School of Leadership” coupled with specific project types on project success outcomes for transport infrastructure projects. A structured questionnaire was conducted to collect data through purposive sampling from individuals that are currently working in recently completed projects in the transport infrastructure development of Lahore. A total of 152 useful responses were returned. Findings obtained using moderated regression analysis using Andrew Hayes ‘process’ technique suggest that leadership competence of project managers is insignificant for successful completion of the projects.. Results suggest that the project managers are effectively executing their leadership competencies that can help them in successful completion and delivery of projects.  Moreover, it has been found that project managers that are working on infrastructural development are exhibiting effective leadership competencies that are significant for the successful completion of projects across industries. &nbsp

Impact of Institutional Environmental Factors on Project Performance-An Analysis on the Construction Projects in Lahore, Pakistan

The construction industry has experienced a dramatic boom in theeconomy over the last two years, due to the significance of CPEC in Pakistan. In the project’s performance, the role and concept of Institutional Environment have been extensively studied in previous literature. However, the analysis of these strategic constructs in construction firms has been minimal. Still, a gap exists in institutional factors concerning project performance. This paper aims to address this gap posits that Institutional Environmental Factors (IEFs) may impact the performance of the construction projects; also, there may be some factors that can impede or promote the performance of these projects. Data were collected from a sample of some construction firms’ management teams through semi-structured interviews. Study results suggested that coercive & normative factors of the institutional environment have a significant impact on the project performance concerning time delays and cost escalation. However, mimetic factors have less impact. This study also tries to assimilate the importance of institutional factors with the policy-making aspects of construction firms which can affect the performance of the projects. Future implications and limitations of the study are also discussed