Abdul Aziz Khan Niazi

• Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Engineering and Technology Lahore

The study aims to compare Pakistan's Insurance and financial services with sixty-one selected countries. The study's overall design comprises a literature survey, data acquisition, and analysis. The population under study is all sovereign countries of the world. The sampling design is purposive sampling and the sample size is sixty-two countries. T...

The study aims to assess the severity of the consequences of floods in Pakistan. The study's overall design includes reviewing relevant literature, collecting data from primary sources, and modeling & analyzing the phenomena. The population under study comprises the folk stakeholders of the phenomenon. The sampling design is purposive (focus group...

The study aims to investigate the interrelationships among humanitarian issues arising from floods in Pakistan. The study's overall design comprises a review of relevant literature, primary data collection, structural modeling, and analysis of the phenomena. The method of modeling is "Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM)" and the process of anal...

Aim of study is explicating the causes of frequent floods in Pakistan. Overall design of the study comprises of relevant literature review, primary data collection and structural modelling & analysis of the phenomena. The method of modelling is ISM (Interpretive Structural Modeling) and method of analysis is MICMAC (cross impact matrix multiplicati...

The Purpose of the study is to analyze the uses of data science in digital marketing in post COVID-19 scenario. General design of the study includes survey of relevant research literature, primary data collection, structural modeling and critical analysis. The study uses Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) for structural modeling and Matriced' I...

The aim of this study is to expound the environment of SMEs by way of identifying, ranking and classifying factors that affect growth of SMEs. The overall design of the study comprises of review of literature, data collection from primary sources and application of modeling techniques. This is a qualitative study that comprises of literature review...

This is an exploratory and qualitative study based on a survey. The study aims to generate a list of factors hindering switching to solar energy systems. The study design comprises the literature review, data analysis and discussion. The population under study includes stakeholders of solar energy systems, e.g., solar penal producers, importers, se...

The aim of study is modeling the complex relationships among enablers of combating the damages by floods. The study's overall design entails of a literature-review, data-collection, and analysis. Population under study is all stakeholders of phenomenon of floods in Pakistan. Sampling design is non-probability based focus group (i.e. panel of expert...

The purpose of current research is to evaluate commercial banks’ performance regarding Green Banking (GB) practices using State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) framework as criteria. The study aims to rank and compare commercial banks with respect to their acceptance, adoption and implementation of green guidelines issued by SBP. The research design compr...

The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers to green banking in Pakistan. For this purpose, the research is conducted within the panel of 15 experts. It is a qualitative research, with philosophy of interpretivism and it is an exploratory study. For analysis purpose, ISM and MICMAC are used in this study. It consists of literature discours...

The study aims at developing a list of supply chain issues in virtual shops and construct a hierarchal model of those supply chain issues with the purpose to prioritize them. It is also geared towards unfolding the interrelationships of those issues. The research design entails comprehensive review of literature and qualitative analysis following t...

The aim of the study is to determine what determinants influence trust in online purchases as well as how those determinants relate to one another in different contexts. The general design of this qualitative study includes a literature review, primary data gathering strategies, and qualitative analytic approaches. Relying on the purposive sample m...

The real estate sector is bringing fate to the global economy. But, still this sector is rigid to move towards transformation and uses of advance technology. It is the call of day to use virtual technology in real estate sector. The aim of this study is to identify the list of barriers which create hindrance in switching from traditional to virtual...

Non-governmental organizations work for the welfare of society as well as contribute to the economic development of a country. As non-governmental organizations face serious performance declines since last decade around the world, not only in specific geographic area, there is a dire need for exploring the cause of such decline in order to fight th...

The study is aimed to analyze the barriers to address the cyber security challenges. Research design includes examination of literature, data collection and analysis. It uses Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) technique with Matriced' Impacts Croise's Multiplication Appliquée a UN Classement (MICMAC). It is a qualitative approach to structure p...

Purpose of conducting this research is to identify the critical factors of contractual bargaining in the context of construction industry of Pakistan. The design of current study comprises of the review of literature, data collection and analysis. Data collection involves systematic review of the literature, discussion with experts who are well ver...

The rapidly increasing emissions of carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas have been witnessed world over in last few decades. In similarity to other continents, Asia has been affected by the carbon dioxide gas emissions over the past decades. A number of researches conducted in the past studied various aspects of CO2 emissions sources in Asia....

Turnover is a symptom of a critical structural issue such as inadequate retention management, companies should consider what makes people commit to being loyal and successful. The easiest way to retain employees is to increase their level of satisfaction, but this will only be effective if properly performed. To retain skillful employees, Strategic...

The aim of the study is to find the measures to reduce the counterproductive behavior of employees working in public sector organizations. It is an empirical study that evaluates the relationships among the employees' counterproductive behaviors. The study keeps qualitative research philosophy and the process of reasoning is the act of making gener...

Abstract Aim of Study: The purpose of current study is to investigate the barriers that influence sharing of tacit knowledge among the skillful workers. Overall Design: Design of the research includes the review of literature, data collection, modeling and classification analysis. Methodology: In this current study the barriers of tacit knowledge...

The study aims to assess and analyze the social outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study uses the discourse of comprehensive literature review to identify the outcomes, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) for developing a structural model and Matrices' Impacts Cruise's Multiplication Appliquée a UN Classement (MICMAC) for analysis, classific...

The COVID-19 pandemic created a significant economic decline and altered market behavior, forcing buyers and dealers online. The traditional local market merchants are not fully equipped with e-commerce business techniques and strategies, which is a barrier to their e-commerce behavior and success. The study aims to help small-medium firms adapt to...

Dealing with expropriating investors’ money is a demanding issue in the corporate sector. This study aims to unveil the barriers to putting expropriations to halt, extract the structure underlying the relationships among barriers, and classify them. The study design entails a literature survey, primary data collection, modeling of the issue, and an...

Workplace incivility has gotten a lot of attention in recent decades. Researchers have looked at many forms of aggressive conduct in the workplace and their negative impacts on individuals and businesses. The goal of this study was to see how incivility among supervisors leads to work withdrawal and when this link might be mitigated. We argued that...

This study aims to generate a list of enablers of quality enhancement of higher business education in Pakistan and build a structural model of enablers to prioritize them. It also intends to impose direction and hierarchy on the inter-relationships of the enablers. The study’s design consists of a literature review, data collection from primary sou...

This study aims to generate a list of enablers of quality enhancement of higher business education in Pakistan and build a structural model of enablers to prioritize them. It also intends to impose direction and hierarchy on the interrelationships of the enablers. The study's design consists of a literature review, data collection from primary sour...

The study aims to assess a sustainable green financial environment by exploring the underlying structure of monetary seismic aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is qualitative and uses a review of literature, primary data collection methods, and qualitative analysis techniques as the study's overall design. The data is collected by one...

The study aims to assess and analyze the social outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study uses the discourse of comprehensive literature review to identify the outcomes, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) for developing a structural model and Matrices’ Impacts Cruise’s Multiplication Appliquée a UN Classement (MICMAC) for analysis, classific...

The study aims to assess and analyze the social outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study uses the discourse of comprehensive literature review to identify the outcomes, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) for developing a structural model and Matrices' Impacts Cruise's Multiplication Appliquée a UN Classement (MICMAC) for analysis, classific...

Purpose: In this research study, author tried to analyze and investigate the issues of COVID-19 pandemic and its possible affect on economies especially in context of Pakistan. The basic purpose of this research is to examine and understand the COVID-19 issues and its consequences worldwide economies. This study was conducted using grey relational...

This study is aimed to conceptually engineer the effects of hot potatoes (bad loans) in the banking system. The study’s research design uses elementary concepts of graph theory comprising of mappings of systemic behavior of contemporary banking. Issues have been formally underpinned, described, and visualized through directed and linear graphs. Fin...

This study aimed to analyze stressors to which medical staff is vulnerable due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It also imposes a hierarchy on complex relations among stressors for excavating underlying structure and builds a model of interrelationships contrasting reality. The design of this study comprises a literature survey,...

The study is aimed to analyze the determinants of the effectiveness of SOPs in mass gatherings for containing COVID-19. The overall design of the study involves a literature review, data collection by field survey, structural modeling, and analysis. The study is built on the experts' opinion of a focus group (representing people who recently partic...

This research is determined to empirically test relationships of sales promotional tools i.e. price discount, samples, coupons, demonstration/free tasting, consumer contest, premium and buy back allowance towards consumer's purchase intention. Moreover, this research transmits certain guidance to FMCG marketers regarding the optimal effective tool...

Purpose The study aims to investigate the barriers in implementing social distancing at the workplace as an aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic period. Design/methodology/approach Study design consists of a review of literature, data collection and analysis. It encompasses identification, verification and analysis of the relationships among the bar...

Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women worldwide. Approximately 5%-10% of instances are attributed to mutations acquired from the parents. Therefore, it is highly recommended to design more potential drugs and drug targets to eradicate such complex diseases. Network-based gene expression profiling is a suggested tool for discoveri...

The purpose of the study is to evaluate county-wide health systems using the data set of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall design of study comprises a literature review, secondary data, and a mathematical analysis. It is a cross-sectional quantitative study following a deductive approach. It uses the data of the first wave of the...

Purpose: Health system of a country is backbone of economy. It has fundamental importance in sustainable development of a country. Aim of this article is to excavate future challenges to health system of selected 106 countries. Design/Methodology/Approach: It is a country level comparative analysis of health risk factors. Design of the study includ...

Purpose: The primary objective of the paper is to synthesize the available literature on technology and innovation management in business firms. The study examines and elaborates the sequential relationship between all constructs that ensure innovation and technology management happen in an integrated way. Approach/Design/Methodology: The study emp...

Cyberbullying has become a global problem among students in developing as well as developed nations. However, there is a need to explore the cyberbullying in the context where literacy rate is low. The study aims to investigate the influence of cyberbullying on emotional problems, self-esteem, and physical health problems among the university's stu...

The province of Punjab is considered the breadbasket of Pakistan. This study is aimed to evaluate and hierarchicalize the districts of Punjab based on agricultural indicators. It follows a ranking approach that uses secondary cross-sectional data obtained from Punjab Development Statistics 2016. This study has employed Grey System Theory and used G...

This study aims to evaluate worldwide official financial flows by international financial institutions to selected 123 countries of the world. The design of the study is composed of a review of literature elicited from research databases, extraction of secondary data of World Development Indicators (WDI) 2020, and mathematical analysis. In real tim...

This study attempts to rank different countries based on their performance in terms of travel and tourism and to categorize them into assemblages. The overall design of the study consists of a review of literature and analysis of secondary data as given on the website of World Development Indicators (WDI). It is a quantitative research study that u...

The purpose of the study is to gauge the unemployment level of selected one hundred and thirteen countries. The design of the study includes a survey of the literature, extraction of relevant data and analysis. The study follows a quantitative paradigm of research that uses secondary data set taken from the website of World Development Indicators (...

The aim of the study is to reveal the underlying structure of issues of university students taking online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The overall design of the study includes a review of contemporary literature and field survey for data collection and analysis. Discourse of literature coupled with expert opinion has been employed f...

International trade has fundamental importance for all the countries and the analysis concerning international trade particularly concerning tariff barriers is high on the agenda of researchers in the field of economics, business and politics. Aim of the study is to assess the world tariff barriers of 158 countries. Overall design of the study comp...

This study aims to investigate employees’ physical behaviors under the environment of mergers. Chaotic recognition and disorderly hierarchicalization of critical physical behaviors of employees resulting into unsuccessful mergers is the problem under investigation. Employees have power to dictate the fate of mergers; therefore, it is imperative to...

Aim of the study is to evaluate climate selected sixty-six countries of the world. Since climate plays a vital role in economic growth of any country and there is dearth of climate models comparing country-wise position to predict as how climate of country is relatively better than others and how it may change in the future and how will it affect o...

Aim of the study is to evaluate ease of doing business though analysis of trade facilitations by different countries. The scope of the study involves one hundred and twenty-seven countries of the world and uses secondary data taken from World Development Indicators (WDI) 2020. Overall design of study consists of review of literature, data extractio...

Aim of the study is to appraise women development in selected thirty-six countries with special reference to Pakistan. The design of the study comprises of survey of literature, data elicitation and analysis. The study uses grey incidence analysis model (usually known as Grey Relational Analysis or simply GRA). The model has been applied on the sec...

“Cause” is the word of positive-valence stimuli and increasing the like-hood intend to be a pair with it. Linking of consumer purchase with social cause is common and in rising trend. It’s a favorable tool of an organization to engage consumer and make his emotional attachment in charitable cause and increase sales volume. Previous Cause Related Ma...

The role of brand satisfaction as a predecessor of brand loyalty has been acknowledged by researchers, academicians, and practitioners for long. Various concepts, theories, and models have been presented in the literature to understand the antecedents and predictors of brand satisfaction. It has been propounded that advertising supports to incite b...

Design of study consists of a discourse of literature review, data collection and analysis. ISM approach has been used to recognize, investigate and rank problems coupled with MICMAC analysis. Eleven problems of women entrepreneurship have been identified from literature. ISM depicts that lack of finance occupies bottom level and is the most critic...

Although the nature of Social Media (SM) marketing is thriving, the nuances and impacts between women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) seem to be poorly studied in the literature. The objective of the current study is to improve and expand the understanding of the Performance Benefits (PB) and motivations of SM accumulated by women-owned S...

Abstract: Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) adversely affect financial performance of banks which is a persistent problem of banking. NPLs are time and again built-up in banking sectors and drag economies towards crises. Search for better solutions to problem is high on agenda of research. This study is aimed to provide a better solution to problem of NP...

Purpose In current vista of corporate governance (CG), whistleblowing (WB) has become critical for practitioners, researchers and other stakeholders. This study aims to identify, prioritize and analyze the interrelationships of determinants of effective WB on the basis of opinion of a medium-sized panel of experts. Design/methodology/approach It i...

This study explores importance of Tacit Knowledge (TK) sharing for formal loan makers in Pakistan. Main objective of the study is to expound, conceptualize and hierarchicalize the factors of TK critical to credit decision making. The study follows positivist approach and overall research design consists of literature review, field survey and data a...

Identifying, ranking, exhuming and classifying the relations among the critical resemblances between Islamic and conventional banking is aim of this study. It also discusses the structure of these resemblances and devises valuable guidelines for discerners. It follows qualitative paradigm of research philosophy and overall design consists of review...

The study has been conducted to empirically test mediating role of organizational commitment between corporate social responsibility (CSR) & proactive personality and job performance. It is a quantitative study designed to evaluate multiple regression equations based on data collected from two major service sectors of Pakistan i.e. banking and tele...

Enormous fluctuations inExchange Rates have been observed during the last three decades as compared to the 1950s and 1960s.Numerous explanations have been extended to capture the movement of exchange rates with the help of available theories in hand. But some factors can be identified which influence the process of exchange rate determination. By f...

Enormous fluctuations in exchange Rates have been observed during the last three decades as compared to the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous explanations have been extended to capture the movement of exchange rates with the help of available theories in hand. But some factors can be identified which influence the process of exchange rate determination. By...

Islamic Banking (IB) is one of the growing constituents of banking sector. This research article aims to evaluate and rank Islamic banks in Pakistan using CAMELS model in combination with Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to examine the efficiency and soundness of banks. Overall design of the study is comprised of review of literature, data collection...

Developing relationships, interactions and networks are central part of marketing (Gummesson, 2017). Grönroos (1996) highlighted the importance of direct marketing for developing successful relationships and emphasized on other marketing strategies. In 1990s, digital economy has changed customers' expectations and experiences which necessitated a s...

Aim of the study is to identify what are the barriers in promoting tourism in Pakistan and imposing structure on complex interrelationships among these barriers. It is an exploratory study which uses literature discourse for identification of barriers, binary matrices for structuring issue and cross impact matrix multiplication applied to classific...

Islamic banking is criticized worldwide on a variety of grounds. But despite criticism, Islamic banking co-exists with conventional banking and contemporary research is fertile in this area. It has become imperative to buttress driving criticisms on Islamic banking, therefore aim of this study is to identify different types of criticisms and impose...

Asian countries, while on the road to industrialization catch-up, are facing enormous change. Corporate structures in most of these countries follow Anglo-American Corporate Governance (CG) model and that "one size" is fit to all. The principle "one size fit to all" ignores corporate/sectoral peculiarities. Contemporary CG models do not address str...

Universities play a crucial role to educate societies. Students select high-quality educational institutes by vetting their ranking criteria for advancement in career and growth. Aim of this study is to evaluate research performance of nineteen major universities of Pakistan. The overall design of the study consists of reviewing relevant literature...

The study aims to identify, prioritize and analyze relationships of pressures built on credit managers of banks since banks are institutions of systemic importance. Overall design of study is comprised of literature review, data collection and analyses. Primary data has been collected through a suitable questionnaire from a panel of experts. Panel...

China-Pakistan Economic corridor is a game-changing project between China and Pakistan. This corridor provides opportunities for economic Development to Pakistan especially to the people of Balochistan. This research paper determined the concept of CPEC in the specific context of socioeconomic life of local people. It will look the positive and neg...

Quality has always been center of gravity for superior competitive advantage. TQM has captured attention of both practitioners and academicians because it is an important management practice for improving performance. This research is aimed to provide insight of the challenges faced by readymade garment industry of Pakistan for implementation of TQ...

Brand credibility has been a topic of interest for both consumer and service markets for many years. Mobile network service providers loose brand credibility once fail to provide service. The purpose of this study is to explore that how service quality failure and complaint handling impact on customer satisfaction and brand credibility in the conte...

Aim of the study is to apply ISM on disordered chaotic hierarchy of employees’ emotional behaviors that result in failed mergers. It is an exploratory research that uses in depth literature review for identification of behaviors, ISM for exploring causal relations, analyzing interactions & prioritizing them and MICMAC analysis for classifying them...

The purpose of this study is to structure a model of relationships among barriers in the implementation of CG in Pakistan. It also points out a key barrier in embarking on the regime of CG. The design of research consists of a literature review, data collection and analyses. Modeling methodology entails ISM coupled with MICMAC. Findings revealed th...

This study is aimed to expound the structure of slyer ways of tunneling in Pakistan. It also analyzes relationships among these factors. Design of study encompasses on review of contemporary literature, survey for collection of data, analysis, and modeling. Review of literature is used to prepare a list of ways of tunneling, ISM is affianced for mo...