Does Affirmative Action affect intention to leave? The effect of perception of discrimination due to Affirmative Action policies on the intention to leave in a beneficiary group

Affirmative action policies are believed to have both positive and negative impacts on business. This paper takes a novel perspective to understand the negative impact of this policy on the organizational commitment and therefore the intention to leave (IL) on the part of native employees when they perceive unfair discrimination against expatriate employees. Based on analysis conducted by Structure Equation Modelling of answers from a sample of 440 employees in Saudi Arabia, the perception of affirmative action in an organization is found to affect the perception of discrimination (national, gender and religious) in it. The perception among nationals of discrimination is found to fully mediate the relationship between the perception of an organization’s affirmative action policy and organizational commitment (OC). Indeed, this OC fully mediates the perception of national discrimination and the intention to leave. Furthermore, the perception of negative discrimination based on gender and religion partially mediates the relationship between the perception of the affirmative action policy and the intention to leave among the beneficiary group

Cost, Benefit and Financial Risk (CoBeFR) of ERP Implementation

The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to show and measure the impact of ERP related decisions, such as degree of business process re-engineering and the level of hardware investment, on the organisational financial value (OFV). OFV is based on current time value of money (ie interest rate), financial risk, and net cash flows emerged from ERP system. Financial risk, the sensitivity of the organisation net profit to changes in market conditions, is affected by organisational adoption of ERP system. The main conclusion is that there are interrelated impacts of ERP implementation decisions to the organisational financial value. Therefore, decision maker should look at the implementation decision from a new perspective; Organisational Financial Value (OFV) perspective

How Can ERP Improve The Organisation Innovativeness? Factors Derived From Socio-Technical And Contingency Theories

This research adopts the Socio-Technical Theory and Contingency theory to develop and test a new framework for the possibility of improving organization innovativeness. The framework consists of three main drivers: ERP Innovation attitude, organization flexibility, and ERP skills. This research surveyed 210 ERP managers in different countries. After analysing the data using Structure Equation Modelling, that organization flexibility and the employees’ user skills enhance employees’ attitude towards ERP as an innovation enabler (ERP attitude) attaining ERP Innovating Benefits. Consequently, the study found that there is an indirect impact of ERP skills and Organisational flexibility on ERP Innovations meditated by the attitude. The main implication of this research is that ERP can be a source of innovation employees’ believe in that. They will believe in that if the organisation is flexible and they have the required skills and knowledge for using it effectively

Sharing-Economy ecosystem: A comprehensive review and future research directions

This research study reviews the literature on the participants in the sharing economy (SE) ecosystem and its impact on the participants, creating and capturing value through increasing the understanding of the ecosystem’s novel models. The review classifies the participants in the SE ecosystem into primary and secondary participants. The classification is based on the connection to the core network/ecosystem and the role of the participants in the ecosystem. The primary participants are subdivided into groups: customers are subdivided into New Customers (NC) and Current Customers (CC); providers into Product Providers (PP) and Service Providers (SP); and mediators are subdivided into Small and Medium Mediators (SMM) and Large Mediators (LM). The secondary participants are governments sub-grouped into Local Governments (NG) and National Governments (NG); Theories and methodologies within the academic literature on the sharing economy ecosystem are also examined. The study also analyses the influence of digital sharing and explores the value of digital technologies in management strategies and the value of the integration between participants of SE businesses. Recommended future research directions are outlined according to the conducted review

ERP System as an Enabler for Bottom up Innovations

This research adopts a resource-based approach to develop and test a new framework related to improvement in bottom up innovations by means of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The framework consists of five primary resources: attitude, organisational characteristics, skills, ERP human resources, and ERP technological resources. Responses from 210 organisations that have adopted ERP were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Regarding organisational resources, the research results did not support the premise that an organisation’s characteristics (i.e., agility, or the innovation sponsorship) and attitude to technology have direct effects on organisational innovativeness. Rather, it was found that these relationships are fully mediated by the employees’ quantitative skills. Regarding technical resources, ERP Human resources, i.e., the ability to create business partnerships, and ERP technical resources, i.e., the customisability of reports, have significant impacts on organisational innovativeness. The main implication of this research is that ERP is not only a planning technology but also a driver of innovation when supported by the necessary organisational and technical resource

Integrating and Extending Competing Intention Models to Understand the Entrepreneurial Intention of Senior University Students

The growing interest in the development of Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, most of these theories focus on the relationship between entrepreneurs perceptions and their intention and ignore the cognitive and psychological characteristics that might configure their perceptions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to integrate the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with the Entrepreneurial Event Model (EEM) and to extend the combined model to include the personality characteristics of an entrepreneur that might shape the perceptions and intentions. This study uses a sample of 688 senior university students (Emirati nationals, 91.2% and expatriates, 8.8%) and employs positivist research with a quantitative approach, adopting a survey strategy through questionnaires, and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results demonstrate the relevance and robustness of the suggested combined and extended model in the prediction of intention on the part of senior university students to become entrepreneurs (explained varience=73.3%) based on survey data (2017; n = 688). The main contribution of this paper lies not only in the integration of the TPB and the EEM but also in extending the two theories on which it is based through adding entrepreneurial personality characteristics and an explanation of the mechanism through which entrepreneurial perceptions and EI develop