Makhmoor Bashir

ICFAI Business School | IBS Hyderabad · Faculty of Marketing and Strategy

Purpose This paper aims to explore the importance of knowledge-oriented leadership in the context of business model innovation (BMI) and open innovation. This study also seeks to explore the existence of a mediating effect of absorptive capacity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using a survey, from the information technology indust...

Purpose This study aims to test the relationship between virtual knowledge sharing (VKS) and team effectiveness (TE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also explores the moderating role of collaborative technologies. Design/methodology/approach This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the service sector of India. A purposive sample of 321...

Purpose Research in the area of business model innovation (BMI) has focused on theoretical and exploratory discussions, thereby creating a lack of empirical evidence on the role of top management in BMI. The current study focuses on this research gap and provides empirical evidence by studying the impact of top managers’ managerial skills, manageri...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of strategic flexibility on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performance, and how such effects are mediated by business model innovation (BMI). Design/methodology/approach Data was collected in the form of surveys from 200 SMEs located in Saudi Arabia. The collected data were ana...

Despite the surge in academic and non-academic literature on business model innovation (BMI) and its implications on firm performance, research on the antecedents of BMI is still evolving. Building on institutional theory, we empirically advance extant knowledge by proving that managerial ties play a significant role in BMI and firm performance. We...

This study explores the influence of institutional and individual factors on knowledge hiding and team creativity. Data were collected using a supervisor–supervisee research design in two diverse samples of 300 and 200 knowledge workers in India and Saudi Arabia. The findings suggest that innovativeness, affiliation, and top management support redu...

Purpose This study aims to develop a framework that demonstrates the role of social capital in alleviating knowledge hiding behaviour in organisations while also considering the moderating roles of perceived organisational politics and the perceived value of knowledge in this process. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a systematic...

Sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) has recently drawn great interest among academia and in practice. However, notwithstanding the surge in related academic and non-academic literature, a validated measurement scale for SBMI is not yet available. This study attempts to fill the gap by proposing a scale for SBMI, using an initial sample of...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to look at the attitudes of the employees in terms of sharing knowledge during COVID-19 in an online environment and the various difficulties associated and to analyze knowledge sharing (KS) in a virtual office setting, using the conservation of resources theory. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approa...

Purpose The research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) has seen a surge over the years. However, the role of corporate reputation (CR), advertising strategy and market competition is still unclear. The purpose of this study is to consider this gap and test an integrative model of CSR-FP, in the context of India. De...

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of work-life balance and work overload on teacher’s organizational commitment, noting the mediating role of job engagement and the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. A random sample of 278 teachers was collected from the Qassim province of Saudi Arabia to validate the resea...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an instrument to measure the influence of coronavirus (COVID-19) on international travellers’ behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 500 respondents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to develop and validate a multi-item scale to measure international travel behaviour post-COVID-...

Mentoring programs have been on the increase in business schools in recent years. This study aims to look into the features of mentoring programs in business education in India and capture the mentees' opinions regarding the issues related to such programs. Using a qualitative approach, the study conducted 28 in-depth interviews of final-year busin...

Current study is undertaken to examine the role of Information & Communication Technology (ICT), motivational variables, and virtual competence towards students' e-learning effectiveness. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used for data analysis. Findings revealed that different components of ICT, except percep...

The major purpose of place branding is to attract tourists and investors by enhancing the value proposition of a place through its unique regional identity. We undertake two studies to test the impact of regional identity on destination brand loyalty, and thereby on investment attractiveness. Study 1 involves identifying the dimensions of customer-...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the literature on business model innovation by identifying its triggers, enablers, barriers, dimensions, outcomes and highlight avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach-A systematic literature review of papers on business model innovation was conducted based on the recom...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the linkage between knowledge management, business model innovation and firm competence. The study attempts to summarize a few important and essential issues which future research should address. Design/methodology/approach Researchers have conducted an extensive review of th...

Prior works on corporate reputation are primarily derived from the fields of marketing, management and sociology, yet, except for Jang et al. (Int J Sports Mark Spons 16(3):52–72, 2015), none of those works examine and measure reputation for sport teams. Even with Jang et al. (2015), a major limitation is that they use a small non-probability conve...

Oversupply of higher education services in emerging countries, like India, implies an ever-increasing cost of student acquisition despite large student populations. Hence, creating trust through effective service delivery supported with full institutional commitment remains the only way to create student loyalty and bring the subsequent acquisition...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model of business model innovation based on evidences from the past literature. The paper established a link between business model innovation (BMI) strategic flexibility, competitive advantage and firm competence. Design/methodology/approach The study was approached from a theoretical...

This paper attempts to measure ICT orientation of higher education teachers in Indian context. The study has identified 4 factors of ICT orientation and examined their impact on Job performance. To generate the items, their purification and validation this study has adopted well accepted and renowned scale development procedures by Churchill (Journ...

Zenefits, a San Francisco start-up gained short span glory on May 2015 for its $4.5 billion valuation, has faced challenges regarding regulatory issues from state regulators on its business practices involving insurance licenses. Mr. Parker Cornard Co-founder of Zenefits, a company providing free cloud service for human resources had resigned as...

Nobody can sell 2,112,010 handsets within 24 hours that too though the company’s online website (Mi.com) and create a Guinness world record unless and until it’s Xiaomi. Five seconds? Yes that is what it took Xiaomi to sell out its stock in India, when they went for the second round of online sale of Mi3 here in Indian market by the last week of Ju...

It was August 2014 when oil companies refused to refuel the Spice-jet airplanes citing payment issues, then to make matters worse for the already bleeding airline, ministry of civil aviation banned the airline for advance selling of tickets. The airline had profits in red since its acquisition by Sun group in 2010 and the ban deprived the company o...

This paper attempted to clarify how business model innovation can be a great source of value creation in businesses using a case study on "Connect Broadband," a data service provider headquartered in Mohali, Punjab, India. Connect Broadband in 2014 became the first company in the history of broadband industry to innovate their existing business mod...

Speaking at the IOD Annual Convention 2014 in London, Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber made a bold statement that "Uber is not a taxi service provider." This statement took everybody by surprise as Uber has become one of the biggest taxi service providers, having global presence in more than 55 countries and 200 plus cities worldwide. Uber has emerged...

This article provided brief insights into the current literature on business models, its components, and the relationship with other subject matters. The review brings to light the fact that despite huge surge in academic literature on business models, the concept is still underdeveloped and at a budding stage. This review also pointed out the fact...

This paper is an attempt to highlight how business model innovation can be a disruptive force in any industry which can shake the roots of a well-established firm by using a case study on Airbnb. Researchers have studied the business model of Airbnb and underlined how a technology a start-up has come from nowhere and became a 24 billion dollar comp...

This conceptual paper has been designed to discuss the concept of green marketing strategies, and how it could be used as an effective tool for CSR to gain the competitive advantage. It also includes how diffusion of innovation theory can be related to green marketing in a new way. This paper begins with the literature review of corporate social re...

The concept of business model innovation has received much attention from the academia and industry over the last decade. Widespread research has been done on the conceptualization of the term business model with almost all of the studies either conceptual or based on case studies. Researchers have stressed for more generalizable results involving...

The current study revolves around research in sport consumption motivations exploring Nationality and Gender difference across fan motivations to watch sports in a way similar to Kwon and Trail (2001) in Indian context, a subject neglected until now. Data was collected from 260 respondents from India’s largest Private University. Findings reveal Gr...