Moderating effect of organizational culture on the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and business performance in Pakistan's banking sector

Drawing upon resource based view of the firm and contingency theory, this study examined the role of organizational culture in moderating the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and its dimensions with business performance. A total of 249 middle managers of the big five banks of Pakistan participated in the study. The findings of the study supported the hypothesized positive relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and business performance. Similarly, it was found that organizational culture was positively related with business performance as well as moderating the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and business performance. With regards to the relationships between dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship and business performance, the findings revealed positive significant relationships between management support, organizational boundaries, time availability, and work discretion, and business performance. However, no significant relationship exists between rewards and reinforcement and business performance. The findings further revealed that organizational culture moderated the relationship between organizational boundaries, time availability, and work discretion with business performance. Generally, these results supported the view that corporate entrepreneurship and its dimensions could effectively foster business performance. Furthermore the findings supported the prominent role of organizational culture towards enhancement of business performance either individually or collectively with corporate entrepreneurship and its dimensions. Finally, the theoretical, methodological and practical implications as well as limitations and suggestions for future research are provided in this study

Examining the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship construct: A validation study in the Pakistani banking context

Corporate Entrepreneurship is globally advancing phenomena.Organizations in the search of excellence, increase in their financial and non-financial gains are adopting corporate entrepreneurship for a better tomorrow. Prominent scholars played a significant role in the development, understanding and advancement of corporate entrepreneurship.In this respect, particularly for measuring the state of corporate entrepreneurial activities inside a firm, the researchers developed tools to measure and assess it.In pursuing that objective the Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) was developed.As this instrument was mainly developed and tested in the United States and Canada therefore, in this study the psychometric properties of Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument construct are assessed in the Pakistan’s context.Two hundred and sixty five bank branch managers from big five banks of Pakistan were surveyed.We analysed the data using Smart PLS 3.0 software due to its methodological usefulness. The findings demonstrated that the scale has adequate level of internal consistency reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity for each CEAI dimension. Based on above findings, it is suggested that CEAI construct can be effective in measuring the corporate entrepreneurship in the banking sector of Pakistan.Therefore, the potential researchers are suggested to employ this tool in measuring corporate entrepreneurship in the developing countries and in Pakistan specially

Examining multifactor leadership questionnaire construct: A validation study in the public hospitals of Sindh, Pakistan context

Present study examined the psychometric properties of the multiple leadership questionnaires (MLQ) in the health sector of Pakistan. Three hundred and fifteen medical doctors participated in the survey from all four regions of Sindh province.Using Smart-PLS 2.0 M3 software the data was analyzed. The results of the present study revealed that all the leadership styles including transformation, transactional and laissez-faire were highly relevant.The results of the study also demonstrated adequate level of internal consistency reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity for each of the leadership styles.Based on the results, it is suggested that the MLQ instrument could be useful for measuring all the leadership styles in the health sector in Pakistan

Conceptualising Silence in External Corporate Communication: A Case Study of Pakistan

Although existing research has extensively explored corporate disclosure, a very little is known about why corporate organisations may remain silent while communicating with their external audiences. This study offers a definition of corporate silence and develops a conceptual framework for the study of silence in the narrative communication of corporate organisations. We develop a typology based on the forms and motivations for corporate silence in written corporate documents. Data was gathered from 26 interviews with senior managers from regulatory bodies, audit firms and listed companies in Pakistan and a grounded theory approach was used for data analysis. We postulate that self-protection from fear and discomfort, cooperation, managerial opportunism, apathy, and resistance are the prime motivators of corporate silence. The analysis also leads to the development of five different forms of silence: (1) defensive; (2) prosocial; (3) opportunistic; (4) authoritative; and (5) counteractive

Greening the workforce to achieve environmental performance in hotel industry: A serial mediation model

Recent literature in the domain of environmental management suggests that employees' behavior is vital to enhance environmental outcomes. Despite this fact, a negligible effort has been made to study how HRM is linked with the environmental performance of the organization. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the interrelationship between organizations' Green HRM and environmental performance through the mediation of environmental concerns and environmental responsibility. To conduct this study, a sample comprised of 300 white-collar employees of various hotel chains operating in Pakistan was selected. The data were collected using a multi-time approach and were analyzed through partial least structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The findings suggest that Green HRM positively contributes to the environmental performance of the organization. Mediating roles of environmental concerns and environmental responsibility were also found statistically significant. Furthermore, the results also revealed that the relationship between Green HRM and environmental performance would be stronger when employees become more concerned about the environment. This research contributes to the body of knowledge in testing the theory of organizational citizenship behavior towards environmental wellbeing by providing empirical evidence on hypothesized relationships. Using Organizational citizenship behavior towards the environment theory the present study is an attempt unveil what is unknown on the Green HRM and environmental performance relationship

Creatures of a lesser god! Gender-based differences in HR attributions mediated by person-job fit: a poly-contextual analysis

PurposeUsing social information processing and sense-making theory, the current study examines how the poly-contextual factors and social environment of employees provide unique cues and shape an employee’s person-job (PJ) fit perceptions in ways that enable males to perceive a better PJ fit than their female counterparts at work. These perceptions of PJ fit act as mediating processes between gender-based differences in HR commitment or HR control attributions. Design/methodology/approachAfter collecting two waves of data over a six-month period from a sample of 498 banking sector professionals in Pakistan, the hypothesized relationships were tested using hierarchical multiple regression. FindingsIt was found that gender (female) was positively related to HR control attributions and negatively related to PJ fit perceptions and HR commitment attributions. The mean differences between males and females concerning these study variables were significant. Also, PJ fit mediated the relationship between gender and HR attributions. Originality/valueThe study contributes to the advancement and understanding of the predictors of HR attributions by examining the poly-contextual factors that shape unique experiences, knowledge structures and social information processing, thus forming distinct PJ fit perceptions and subsequent HR commitment or control attributions for males and females.</br

Unveiling the Direct Effect of Corporate Entrepreneurship’s Dimensions on the Business Performance: A Case of Big Five Banks in Pakistan

The ground aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between individual factors of corporate entrepreneurship and business performance. This investigation was expected to bring in un-revealed results as the past literature does not provide any sufficient evidence for the proposed model. The study used survey method to collect data from the big five banks in Pakistan. For this reason a total of 256 responses were collected from the bank branch managers on the topic, using stratified random sampling technique. Through using PLS structural Equation Modeling, the study employed the use of SmartPLS 3.0 for executing tests pertaining to reliability and validity, this was ensured by evaluating measurement model. Next, the study assessed structure model, under which the research has revealed that out of the 5 mentioned dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship only three have resulted in a significant relationship with business performance; this was followed by assessment of r-squared values and predictive relevance of the model keeping in view the recommendations from the popular literature. Implications for further research and management professionals are mentioned in detail