Muhammad Zafar Yaqub

King Abdulaziz University · Department of Business Administration

In today's dynamic, complex and interconnected environments, interfirm networks in its various forms (e.g. franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, clusters, public-private partnerships, digital platforms) are becoming increasingly important in helping firms improve their competi...

The study's primary purpose has been to examine the association between Green Digital Transformational Leadership, Green Digital Mindset, and Green Digital Transformation Under Varying Permutations of Organizational Green Digital Culture. Using the Stimuli-Organism-Response theory and the transformational leadership theory as the underpinning theor...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities of supply chains (SCs) and has further accentuated the importance of creating resilient, agile and sustainable SCs. The present study assesses the role of SC technology capabilities in supporting organisations to enhance their SC resilience, thereby improving them on the sustainability front. Dra...

The rise of cutting‐edge technologies motivates corporations to undertake and carry forward green innovation, aiding economic development by maintaining environmental sustainability. Using A‐share listed firms from 2013 to 2022 as the research sample, the paper empirically examines the impact of digital transformation on corporate green innovation...

This study aims to enhance the understanding of green consumption behavior dynamics by exploring the influencing factors, perceptions, motivators, barriers, and consequences of green consumerism. The study utilizes a qualitative approach, collecting data from 68 respondents from the USA and UK with the help of open-ended essays from a representativ...

Purpose This study investigated leaders’ decision-making during crises. Using grounded theory research, we explored whether leaders’ use of either individualistic or collectivistic decision-making styles is based on the context of a crisis. In addition, the authors looked into the components of building leaders’ efficacy during a crisis event and g...

Purpose Evolving business landscapes have highlighted the crucial role of innovative digital transformation strategies (DTSs) in reimagining organisational operations and responses to optimise performance, regardless of organisational size or employee composition. The study suggests that DTS is a process that occurs continuously, rather than being...

The importance of attaining carbon neutrality (CN) has progressively increased in addressing climate change, and consequently, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) has emerged as a promising tool in this pursuit. Nevertheless, a dearth of scholarly discourse exists about the factors that drive the implementation of CCUS in the context of...

Technology alignment in managing end-of-life products to overcome sustainability issues has drawn increasing attention in the food and hospitality industry. Recent literature on sustainable and agile practices in the food and hospitality industry recognizes the importance of reusing food waste materials at their end of life. The current study exami...

This study elucidates the moderated-mediated role of transformational leadership (TL) in engendering innovative behaviors among employees (EIBs) while considering perceived self-efficacy (PSE) and perceived stress (PS) as the two mediators and perceived organizational support (POS) as the critical moderating contingency. The underlying theories hav...

This study investigated the moderating effect of collectivism as a national culture on the interaction between organizational culture (measured in terms of clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy cultures) and commitment in the context of SMEs. A total of 1200 questionnaire surveys were delivered to 155 SMEs, of which 356 were deemed valid. The hypo...

Purpose Metaverse is one of the decade’s most exciting and transformative technological innovations. While the metaverse holds immense promise, it has potential risks and dark sides. This research aims to investigate and identify the crucial dark dimensions associated with the metaverse platforms. Design/methodology/approach Employing a qualitative...

Plant-based meats (PBMs) are being projected as novel and sustainable alternative protein sources amid rising ecological and health issues associated with traditional meat production and consumption. Notably, the plant-based meat retail market is at its nascence stage, and there remains a dire need to comprehend the meat-eater's perceived green val...

This study critically evaluates the extant research on green cryptocurrency (GC). It incorporates the systematic literature review (SLR) approach of research executed through the analysis and compilation of 54 relevant studies. The focus is on identifying and interpreting the thematic foci and existing gaps about GC to inform potential areas of fut...

Purpose Appealing to the resource-based view and the resource advantage theory, this research aims to ascertain the complementarity of entrepreneurial and market orientation in enhancing the performance of small and medium enterprises. Design/methodology/approach Following a survey design, a self-administered questionnaire containing scales adapte...

Appealing to the componential theory of creativity and social exchange theory, this study examines the roles of green transformational leadership, employee green passion, and green climate in nurturing green creativity in employees. It further delves into the moderating role of green perceived organizational support in the employee green passion-gr...

Purpose This study aims to integrate and extend leading contemporary underpinning frameworks such as the Stimulus Organism Response (S-O-R) model, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to assess the determinants of M-commerce usage during COVID-19 times. Besides direct effects, the study ex...

The present article investigates the literary corpus on knowledge management (KM), management accounting and control (MAC) systems, and sustainability implementation. The adopted method is a systematic literature review (SLR) analysis on articles listed on Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). The authors followed a rigorous research protocol that led t...

Psychological entitlement has appeared as a significant topic for research in the field of management and Psychology. From the perspective of social comparison theory, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of psychological entitlement on engagement in learning activities and psychological anxiety in the hotel industry. Furthermore, beni...

The study examines the influence of knowledge acquisition from foreign partners on the firm's dynamic capabilities in the context of international strategic alliances. The study also explores the determinants of knowledge acquisition, i.e., cultural intelligence, language barriers, disagreements and workplace friendship, emanating from the nexus of...

In today’s turbulent and complex environments, international business networks (IBNs) in various forms (e.g., strategic alliances, franchise chains, export and licence relationships, cooperatives, global production networks, joint ventures, public-private partnerships, and digital platforms) are becoming increasingly important in helping multinatio...

Purpose: Based on the intellectual capital theory and the resource-based view, the paper seeks to elucidate the direct and indirect relationships between intellectual capital and competitive advantage in SMEs. Therewithal, besides examining the mediating role of innovation capabilities in the intellectual capital-competitiveness link, it scrutinize...

This study examines the role of using algorithmic HRM to make strategic decisions pertaining to HR activities in organizations. The study develops a scale to measure algorithmic HRM usage in its first phase, and in the second phase, it finds that algorithmic HRM having significant impact on the strategic HR decision making that helps and enables or...

Using sustainable family business theory as the primary underpinning framework, the study strives to explain the instrumentality of a family's religious and spiritual values in inducing social responsibility behaviors in small family firms' strategies. Performing PLS-based structural equation modeling on data collected from 167 owner-managers' of s...

The ultimate purpose that entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises should endeavor for is to achieve a sustained competitive advantage over their competitors.The objective of this study was to investigate the significance of, and emphasis put on dynamic, valuable, rare,inimitable, heterogenous, and non-substitutable managerial capabilities in...

Besides various other potent efforts to contain and consolidate, post-pandemic crisis management requires an adequate display of green transformational leadership. Green transformational leaders exhibit a formidable commitment to sustainability in making managerial choices and subsequently inspiring and motivating their employees to participate vig...

Although exploring the dark side of leadership through destructive forms is becoming more popular, more work must be conducted to understand exploitative leadership's theoretical underpinnings and explore its outcomes. Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and equity theory, the paper investigated whether exploitative leadership aff...

Past studies have examined the direct and indirect impacts of organisational trust on firm performance, but no studies have endeavoured to explain if its effect is channelled through knowledge sharing. While extending the knowledge-based and relational views of the firm to the micro level, the primary aim of this study has been to study the impact...

Mobile wallets (m-wallets) are getting increasingly customary worldwide as mediums of financial transactions because of their expediency and other benefits in performing such transactions. However, notwithstanding these benefits, m-wallets are still travailing attributable to the shackles impeding their adoption. The critical challenges that m-wall...

With tremendous technological advancements, traditional retailing has progressively been transformed into an omnichannel retail environment. While making an appeal to the behavioral reasoning theory, this paper explicates consumers’ (hedonic and utilitarian) value expectations and behavioral reasoning patterns as key antecedents of the maturing of...

Whereas the general undertone of environmental uncertainty might feel minacious, it is not always an effing contingency. It might at times lead to the prudent concurrences like supply chain flexibility incrementing. While making appeals to the contingency theory, strategic alignment theory, and the dynamic capability view, this paper elaborates upo...

Continual reconfiguration is a critical process for successful business growth and survival. There has been a lack of studies on reconfiguration in inter-organizational relationships (IORs), and literature had called for future studies that concentrate on how businesses can create the dynamic capability to reconfigure frequently and effectively. By...

To attain Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030’s goal of developing leadership, we need to understand the key issues that have emerged in the context of learning skills relating to leadership in non-profit organizations (NPOs) to enhance their efficacy for management positions. This study elaborates upon the relevant abilities of leaders of NPOs. A qualitati...

Dear Colleagues, Please consider the Special Issue on (Re)Configurations in Digitally Transformed Dynamic Networks in the Managerial and Decision Economics. Looking forward to your great contributions! Thanking you.

The use of plastic bags has long been a global concern due to its hazardous contributions to the environment. Firms, governments, and special interest groups (like Greenpeace) have always earnestly ventured, through their individual or collaborative initiatives, strategies and/or (demarketing) campaigns, to discourage the use of plastic bags to ens...

Purpose The current research proposes a model that integrates certain psychological and demographic factors in developing and strengthening young Saudi women's perceptions of entrepreneurial resourcefulness, which eventually may lead to the development and enhancement of their entrepreneurial intentions. The study also examines the ways in which ch...

Digital transformation, which significantly impacts our personal, social, and economic spheres of life, is regarded by many as the most significant development of recent decades. In an industrial context, based on a systematic literature review of 262 papers selected from the ProQuest database, using the methodology of David and Han, this paper dis...

While making an appeal to the social exchange theory, self-determination theory and the uses and gratification theory of motivation, the study seeks to investigate the efficacy of social media platforms in promoting knowledge sharing in contemporary times, which are marked by widespread digital transformation and knowledge-driven governance. Throug...

Online purchasing is increasing because customers are shifting to digital wallets and digital money, as these services are provided by different microfinance and other commercial banking sectors, and different online brands are working in Pakistan to support environmental sustainability. The objective of this study was to demonstrate to what extent...

The primary purpose of this study has been to investigate the association between Quality Management Practices in Purchasing (QMPPs) and purchasing performance within supply chain relationships in the service industry. A set of hypotheses derived from the key aspects of quality management practices in purchasing and purchasing information system pr...

The prime objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between training, job satisfaction, loyalty, retention, employee commitment/engagement and employee performance. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to collect the data. A total of 28 questions relevant to the study were designed using a five-point Likert scale. The sample...

Whereas plenty of research has examined the relationship between knowledge governance mechanisms (KGMs) and the firm level performance outcomes, while employing various mediating and/or moderating conditions, there is dearth of research investigating the role of corporate knowledge governance mechanisms in affecting employee-level outcomes and/or b...

In this paper, we explore trans-local relationships and their changing dynamics over time, particularly emphasizing their knowledge flows. The underlying proposition is that the clusters are not isolated entities and that inter-cluster ties are as significant as local ties in sustaining the co-evolution of clusters. We use historical and retrospect...

There could be witnessed an increasing tendency, in recent research, of using relationship quality as an all-inclusive/higher order construct that may lead to the loss of certain useful information. The paper highlights the need and importance for research to take into consideration the internal structure of relationship quality construct. With a t...

There could be witnessed an increasing tendency, in recent research, of using relationship quality as an all-inclusive/higher order construct that may lead to the loss of certain useful information. The paper highlights the need and importance for research to take into consideration the internal structure of relationship quality construct. With a t...

The primary aim of this paper is to extend the interfirm exchange relationships’ literature by examining antecedents of the transitions that take place in the life cycles of business relationships. While making an appeal to the relational exchange theory, transaction cost economics, (network) bargaining power theory, and the organizational control...

This paper takes an account of the progress in the business relationship lifecycle (BRLC) research over the years. A search for the relevant literature in the ABI/INFORMS database using David and Han (2004) methodology (along with some snowball additions) generated 157 research papers. A review of these articles reveals two key streams of BRLC rese...

After performing structural equation modelling over 284 supplier-intermediate buyer dyadic relationships, it has been found that the making of value-creating relational investments by focal firm together with creating high relationality in the exchange environment engender high satisfaction, trust and commitment in the exchange partners. This ultim...

The research extends inter-firm exchange relationships’ literature by examining antecedents of transitions that take place in lifecycles of business relationships. While making an appeal to relational exchange theory and relationship lifecycle theory, the authors advance a model that reflects of the relational antecedents of changes that take place...

The research extends inter-firm exchange relationships’ literature by examining antecedents of transitions that take place in lifecycles of business relationships. While making an appeal to relational exchange theory and relationship lifecycle theory, the authors advance a model that reflects of the relational antecedents of changes that take place...

This study integrates and extends insights from transaction cost economics, value-exchange model, relationship quality model and dependence perspective to discuss the efficacy of value-creating relational investments in affecting certain revenue-enhancing (relational) behaviours in different contexts of supplier—intermediate buyer dyadic relationsh...

span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> The paper integrates insights from transaction cost economics and relational exchange theory to discuss the efficacy of value-creating relational investments in affecting certain relational outcomes in context of supplier-intermediate buyer dyadic relationships. After performing PLS path...

Previous research in the relational exchange theory has discussed efficacy of the relational norms as an important driver of the performance of exchange relationships. A number of studies, in different business contexts, have shown that the relational norms (altogether, the relational governance) positively affect the relational outcomes like satis...

This study integrates and extends insights from transaction cost economics, value-exchange model, relationship quality model and dependence perspective to discuss the efficacy of value-creating relational investments in affecting certain revenue-enhancing (relational) behaviours in different contexts of supplier–intermediate buyer dyadic relationsh...

The paper explains the effects of internal and external team learning behaviors on the performance of marketing teams. The survey was conducted in the context of a multinational Pharmaceutical Corporation marketing its products in Turkey. Data were collected from members of marketing team which included medical sales representatives, specialized me...

Conventional wisdom, when blended with unorthodoxies in innovativeness, can produce miraculous success stories like Der Wiener Deewan. The restaurant's marketing strategy is full of such unorthodox gimmicks and has a great deal of learning potential for the small business entrepreneurs who are capable, willing and brave enough to denounce the stagn...

In this paper, we delve into the Pakistani small business sector to investigate the motivations, perceived success factors, and challenges for the micro-entrepreneurs. The study was conducted in Bahawalpur, a major city of southern Punjab, Pakistan. In-depth interviewing was employed to gain insights from 26 micro-entrepreneurs. The results partial...

The paper integrates and extends insights from relational exchange theory and value exchange model to discuss the efficacy of relational governance and value-creating relational investments to affect certain revenue-enhancing (relational) behaviours. It is postulated that value-creating relational investments made in a highly relational environment...

A conceptual model has been presented where the author has integrated and extended insights from relational norms perspective and commitment-trust theory (CTT) to discuss the efficacy of relational governance to affect performance of the supplier firms in collaborative arrangement with intermediate buyers. It is postulated that higher degrees of pe...

Boundary spanners are increasingly getting important in developing and executing successful strategies in a global, complex and increasingly chaotic external environment. Despite widespread research utilizing a boundary spanning perspective in disciplines such as strategic management and organization theory, there has been lack of focus on the stra...

while making an appeal to the expectancy, equity, agency and control theories of motivation. They postulate that the partners in a network arrangement exhibit greater degrees of motivation in a relational space that characterizes a higher alignment of interests, positive perceptions about the instrumentality of network goals towards the attainment...

In 2004 the UK Central Government announced merger of its two main central tax departments, the Inland Revenue, and HM Customs & Excise. The two big departments had different historical origins and administrative structures. Their organizational cultures were also perceived to be quite different. This paper considers the background of the merger an...

Firms' social capital can profoundly be regarded as a dynamic capability which, through yielding equifinal idiosyncratic patterns of ties and interactions among the participating nodes, results in transaction efficiency as well as maximization of relational rents for the firms which are embedded in an innovative web of relationships. In this paper,...

It has been argued that a higher propensity to complain in the customers and a lower degree of complaints-aversion in a firm/vender is important for the success of these business enterprises. The firms need to establish efficient systems and create a supportive climate to facilitate the consumers in registering complaints and then make sincere effo...

Profitability may be regarded as the most objective criterion of a supplier's performance in the downstream networks. The transaction cost economics, which so far has dominated the relationship performance research, explains the profit-maximization from a (transaction) cost-minimization perspective. The author, while getting transaction cost analys...

The relationships in any socio-structural arrangements are probable to last long if driven by trust (not deterrence) and having power symmetry is a necessary if not the sufficient condition for culmination of trust in strategic networks. But in very fewer instances the organizations are embedded following this pattern. Usually there exists some pow...

The authors have conducted an exhaustive literature survey of the experimental studies on Expected-utility Theory (EUT) in order to account for the violations of its axiomatic foundations. Beyond identifying and classifying the (behavioral) bias phenomena according to the axiom(s)-violated, the possible background conditionals for such violations a...

The quality of output from a process, to a substantial extent, depends upon quality of the input. The performance of an educational institution badly suffers when it faces a 'wear out' in the quality of its in-take. Sometimes it is a deficient induction criterion due to which inappropriate elements hold majority in admitted population of an institu...

In the Strategic Management literature, the problem of cooperation arising from conflicts of interest has been described as the problem of motivation. Under assumptions of self-interest, or its stronger forms (such as opportunism), collectively beneficial outcomes do not result for because of the actions motivated by the self interests of individua...

Considerable conceptual and empirical evidence in relational view of strategic networks reflects the fact that commitment is the ultimate outcome with causal precedence of satisfaction and trust. Geyskens et. al., (1999) state that over the time, satisfaction develops first, trust develops in the medium term, and commitment emerges only in the long...

A conceptual model is presented which integrates and extends insights from relational exchange theory (RET) and value exchange model (VEM) to discuss the efficacy of relational governance and value-creating relational investments (VcRIs) to affect certain revenue-enhancing (relational) behaviours (ReBs). It is postulated that value-creating relatio...