Md Imtiaz Mostafiz

Sheffield Hallam University | SHU · Sheffield Business School

Drawing on a contingency perspective of the resource-based view of the firm, we test the thesis that a relationship between international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) and the international performance of export-manufacturing firms is context-sensitive and contingent on innovation capabilities. Using time-lagged survey data from 369 Bangladeshi...

Purpose: This study investigates how firms build strong dynamic marketing capability (DMC) from open innovation (OI) to enhance the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Moreover, this study unfolds DMC's mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying inbound and outbound OI and performance relationships, respectively. Research methodology: To tes...

Advancing the literature on global value chains (GVCs), this study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immediate dynamics and long-term changes shaping the evolution of the garment GVC. We use a partially grounded, longitudinal approach to analyze data on seven cases of Bangladeshi garment manufacturers, supplemented by archival dat...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to test the thesis that the family firm’s success hinges on effective strategic knowledge management (SKM) capability coupled with an entrepreneurial orientation (EO). Contingency theory holds that entrepreneurial success is contingent on strategic capabilities and resource orchestration theory explains how well...

Purpose: Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms succeed when they can better marshal their knowledge resources into productive advantages, necessitating entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and knowledge management (KM) processes of knowledge acquisition, application, conversion and protection. However, configurations of EO and KM processes are unac...

This study examines the relationships between business relatedness of parent firms and international joint venture (IJV), accumulated knowledge stock, and parent firm performance with the moderating effect of organisational culture. Drawing on the knowledge-based view, the Growth curve model is used to investigate parent firms’ performance in 210 I...

The COVID 19 pandemic has changed the way that global businesses function, and has been the driving force behind a reevaluation of the factors that influence expatriate performance. This study empirically examines the mediating effects of perceived risk and sensitivity in the relationship between self‐initiated expatriates support mechanisms (perce...

Purpose Although both institutional export assistance and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) contribute separately and positively to export performance, the interplay between them has received little attention. This study examines the role of international EO in deriving performance benefits from governmental and nongovernmental export assistance. D...

Purpose This paper aims to address how national culture moderates the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine the most recent data collected from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in 2015 from a group of 33 countries. Hofstede's cultural model is used to represen...

This present study examines the relationship among competency development, empowering leadership, employee-organisation relationship, psychological flexibility and career success in the Chinese hotel industry. Using the survey data of 560 employees working in 45 hotels, the salient results of PLS-SEM suggest that the interplays of competency develo...

Entrepreneurial export-manufacturing firms marshal and ultimately succeed when they better avail and align various capabilities. Dynamic managerial capability (DMC) refers to the individual-level capabilities of managers and entrepreneurs to reconfigure a firm’s resources and competencies in order to ultimately enhance firm performance. A firm’s st...

Export-manufacturing firms survive and ultimately succeed when they can accumulate, harvest, and utilize foreign knowledge to better marshal their capabilities to recognize opportunities. Prior studies are replete with a single solution by combining foreign market knowledge (FMK) and firm performance. Separately, opportunity recognition capabilitie...

In the new and evolving digitalized world, the cybersecurity threats have placed the assets and information of corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals at constant risk. Banks are not an exception. Offering the low-interest rate is becoming the fundamental strategic move of the banks to sustain. Due to the high demand for a tailored...

Purpose Gender diversity in corporate boards is broadly studied in existing corporate governance literature. However, the role of board gender diversity on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of the banks is still unaccounted for. Drawing on resource dependence and legitimacy theory, this study addresses this pressing research is...

Purpose: The significance of market orientation (MO) in the industrial marketing literature is immense. Separately, the role of dynamic managerial capability (DMC) as an individual-level capability has been found to be beneficial to B2B transactions. However, the assessment of DMC as antecedent to complement MO in achieving firm performance are rar...

Purpose The development of family-based microenterprises has attracted the attention of regulators, microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in either developing or least developed countries. In the finance literature, several studies have examined the determinants of the family-based microenterprises development; however, there are several...

Purpose The international entrepreneurial capability has achieved its legitimacy in international business literature. Leveraging capabilities to recognise opportunities is considered a pivotal strategy to achieve success. Drawing on the entrepreneurship literature and opportunity perspective, this study aims to investigate the role of internationa...

Purpose The study aims to bridge entrepreneurial capability, export market orientation and the international performance of international new ventures (INVs). Thus, multi-scale entrepreneurial capabilities have been adopted to provide more profound insights into the literature on early internationalisation. Since little is known about the anteceden...

Main message: Accumulating foreign market knowledge is critically essential for international entrepreneurs operating in the export-manufacturing industry to recognise new international opportunities. Key points: Foreign market knowledge positively improves the international opportunity recognition process to achieve superior performance of export...

The phenomenon of born global has received significant attention by international business scholars because of its distinctive characteristics. Several theories, perspectives and frameworks have been adapted to investigate and scrutinise the characteristics of born global phenomenon. This study aims to review and critically evaluate the literature...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to perform a psychometric evaluation of dynamic managerial capability (DMC) scale in the context of early internationalizing firms from an emerging economy. Drawing on DMC theory, this study validates the measurement scales to operationalize DMC of entrepreneurs as managerial human capital (MHC), managerial soci...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the international opportunity identification (IOI) scale through psychometric evaluation in an emerging economy context. Design/methodology/approach Samples consist of international firms operating in the apparel industry in Bangladesh. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on the first wav...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the antecedents and outcomes of international opportunity identification (IOI) in export-manufacturing firms. The fundamental question addressed in this research is: How does dynamic managerial capability (DMC) of entrepreneurs contribute to IOI and success of the firms? Design/methodology/approach The resear...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to establish the antecedents and the outcomes of foreign market knowledge (FMK) accumulation in the context of emerging economies. The antecedent is dynamic managerial capability (DMC) with managerial human capital, social capital and cognition as its dimensions. The outcomes are financial and non-financial per...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use SERVQUAL to measure Generation Y’s (Gen Y) perceived service quality and its effects on their satisfaction toward the Malaysian hotel industry. Design/methodology/approach The required data were collected through questionnaire, distributed to 200 respondents in four areas of Klang Valley. The collected d...

The role of Human Resource Leaders largely dealing with administrative matters in relating to personnel relations including payroll, recruitment, employee disputes, benefits, and workplace policies and procedures. Perhaps, recruitment remains one of the biggest challenges whereby finding and retaining employees is arguably the most difficult task f...

During the recent years, a growing number of tourism and hospitality researchers have used partial least squares structural equation modeling in their studies. However, little is known about the application of PLS-SEM in Asian tourism and hospitality research. This chapter was conducted to fill this research gap by assessing to what extent Asian re...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents of international opportunity identification (IOI) in born global firms (BGFs). The fundamental question that is addressed in this research is: how does dynamic managerial capability (DMC) of entrepreneurs contribute to international opportunity identification process of BGFs? The study was...

There is no formal system in place for household e-waste management although e-waste from the industries were controlled and regulated according to Natural Resources and Environment Ministry in Malaysia. In fact, e-wastes are collected by buyers, non-governmental organizations or collectors; but many are improperly dismantled which can cause enviro...

Entrepreneurship is an alternative employment source of women in many nations. It has been shown that entrepreneurship is often a male-dominated sphere. However, women with proper skills, knowledge, learning, and support can flourish in entrepreneurial activities. The aim of this paper is to provide deeper insights on international women entreprene...

Background: A growing number of nursing studies have used structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis. However, there is little research assessing the use of SEM analysis in nursing research. Aim: To present a systematic review of nursing research that uses SEM. Discussion: The review revealed poor reporting of information about the determina...