Osaro Aigbogun

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Program Manager at Con10th

The COVID-19 outbreak is a black swan event that has uncovered the delicateness of global supply chains and business architecture. Underpinned by the agency theory and institutional theory, a proposition for business continuity in the highly regulated pharma industry is presented in this paper. A cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out o...

Purpose Due to the proliferation of generic medicines, pharmaceutical marketing has become increasingly competitive, and marketing executives are now focusing their attention on understanding the prescribing behaviour of physicians to enable them to devise marketing strategies that would put them at a superior business position relative to their co...

Many consumers have shown positive attitude towards green consumption; nevertheless, these attitudes do not necessarily translate into intention and or behaviours. Human consumption patterns are responsible for approximately 40% of environmental challenges; therefore, consumer decisions and behaviours have a big impact on the environment. Food cons...

Immigrant status, especially a few years post arrival, is a major risk factor for depression in populations that have been adequately studied. While information on depression among Asian migrants, including those from India, China and Philippines, in Canada have been reported in previous studies, there is inadequate information about depression amo...

Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global supply of medical gloves, this chapter describes an exploration of resilience in the downstream sector of medical gloves supply chain with the aim of identifying practical strategies for improving supply during global health crisis. A qualitative study using an exploratory and phenomenological...

This study investigates long-term supply chain visibility in light of blockchain awareness. By examining the visibility of a sustainable supply chain, researchers have attempted to gain a deeper understanding of blockchain awareness. Additionally, it describes long-term supply chain information exchange for various levels of visibility on numerous...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to assess how full-time tenured academic staff promotion practices (SPP) in Malaysian private universities (MPUs) influence academic staff engagement (SE) and academic staff performance (SP). Design/methodology/approach The research used quantitative and descriptive methods, focusing on MPUs' academic staff...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role of collaborative leadership in government digital transformation in the Sultanate of Oman. To analyze collaborative leadership, the research examines four exogenous variables: self-directed team, power-sharing, relational intelligence and agility. The endogenous variable chosen to represent Oman's e-G...

This quantitative research scrutinizes how career competency (CC), career resilience (CR), and career success (CS) interrelate among higher learning faculty in academia, specifically within government-owned universities in Kano State, Nigeria. The study focuses on resilience’s mediation between competency and success, employing robust quantitative...

Purpose There is paucity of research on the significant criteria that non-Muslims consider when purchasing halal cosmetics. Consequently, this paper aims to apply the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and the health belief model (HBM) to investigate the effects of subjective norms (SN), perceived behavioural control (PBC), halal certification and h...

Several international pharmaceutical companies that were struggling to operate in Nigeria have departed the country, and others are preparing to follow suit. Unfortunately, these companies' withdrawal from Nigeria, coupled with the current inflation rate, has resulted in a significant surge in the cost of medications, with some essential drugs expe...

The need to carry out our daily activities without much human contact has never been so urgent, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the ever-evolving global market and dynamic customer expectations have led to an increased focus on improving organizational practices and processes by professionals. This drive for efficiency has beco...

This study examines how problem-solving skills act as a mediator between external motivation, internal motivation, emotional intelligence, and employee turnover intentions. In order to achieve the objective of this study, a quantitative research approach was employed, and the survey data was collected through purposive sampling from a sample of 101...

The lackluster performance of Malaysian SMEs was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to understand factors affecting SME survival in an environment characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), from a leadership perspective. A qualitative method was employed using a multiple case study design to be...

The high turnover rate of higher vocational graduates has had a negative impact on the graduates themselves, their families, employers and the whole society An excessive turnover rate will cause a waste of enterprise resources and negatively affect college students' career development and human capital accumulation The turnover rate of graduates in...

Regression analysis was carried out to examine the association between certain socio-demographic characteristics and substance use among internally displaced persons (IDPs). Using an adapted version of the Drug Use Disorder Identification Test (DUDIT) instrument, cross-sectional survey data were obtained from 520 IDPs living in three camps located...

Variations in the rates of involuntary admission (IA) reflect the influence of unexplained contextual variables that are typically too heterogeneous to be included in systematic reviews. This paper attempts to gather and analyze factors unrelated to the patients that have been linked to IA. The articles included in this review were selected by iter...

Background: Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are frequently subjected to traumatic events, making them vulnerable to using substances. This study explores predictors and types of substances used by IDPs, prevalence of substance dependence, and reasons for substance use. Methods: Cross-sectional survey data were obtained from 520 IDPs living in c...

While investigating how environmental factors affect the performance of construction enterprises has remained a topical issue in the literature, many concerns about these factors, particularly in developing nations, are still unresolved. This study empirically examines specific environmental drivers affecting construction firms' performance and est...

The extent of corporate tax evasion and underreporting globally is increasing and taking new dimensions. Multinational corporations are taking advantage of the certain tax system to evade tax across countries. Governments lose huge amounts of revenue from large corporation tax evasion behavior, it was estimated that countries lose about 4-10 percen...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to empirically explore the predictors of e-marketing use continuance intention in the pharmaceutical business to business (B2B) supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted survey research strategy, and data were collected from managers dealing with marketing in 1...

Despite the dangers of lead toxicity to population and environmental health, studies have revealed proliferation of above threshold concentration of lead in household paints in several locations. This paper presents the findings from an exploratory study in Peninsular Malaysia on the level of public awareness of the adverse effects of exposure to l...

Abstract: The lackluster performance of Malaysian SMEs was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to understand factors affecting SME survival in an environment characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), from a leadership perspective. A qualitative method was employed using a multiple case study de...

Purpose—As the construction industry evolves, a higher requirement is set on construction firms to improve their accountability to customers’ specifications by executing their projects based on specified criteria (time, cost, quality). However, several factors prevent effective and efficient performance management in construction firms. Efforts aim...

Green behaviour appears to be a pivotal panacea to the concerning situation of the dwindling environmental condition. Studies have indicated the importance of green behaviour to alleviate the continuous environmental degradation, especially among employees in the organizations. This study investigates the role of personal moral norms (PMN), environ...

While the mainstream of construction management research has paid attention to the causes of poor performance in construction projects, there is a dearth of empirical research that considers the influence of external environment and institutional pressures in the debate. The objective of this research was to examine the impact of external environme...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of talent management (TM) practices on employee performance (EP) and to explore the mediating role of employee engagement (EE) on the relationship between TM practices and EP in Malaysian private universities (MPUs). Design/methodology/approach The paper used both descriptive and quant...

The aim of this study is to investigate the mediating mechanism of customer satisfaction (CS) on customer relationship management (CRM) and customer loyalty (CL) among Nigerian consolidated banks. This paper used a survey research design, and the study unit of analysis consists of selected customers among Nigerian consolidated banks. This study use...

This article presents the results of a study that was undertaken to examine the impact of styles of leadership on employees’ performance, mainly the impact of transformational, transactional and laissez -faire leadership styles. In addition, especially, during rapid Covid-19 pandemic, leadership skills that effectively maintain organizational goals...

It has been argued that the successful adjustment of immigrants into a host culture is vital to their physiological, psycho-social, and mental well-being. This is also critical in their drive to compete and succeed in their new society. The presence of certain constraints, known as acculturative stressors, negatively affects this adaptation process...

Background Lately, there has been a surge of black African-born immigrants to Canada. It is critical to evaluate the extent to which depression has affected this vulnerable and understudied population. Methods Participants completed the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression scale. Descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analyses...

Hazardous waste has become one of the most alarming threats to the environmental as wellas socio-political aspects of Bangladesh. Sustainable waste management is a longer lastingchallenge for the developing countries like Bangladesh. In addition to this, because ofinadequacy of work force, antique waste management system, technical scarcity and ove...

A significant number of empirical studies have reported contrasting results regarding the effects of certain internal organizational factors (Leadership Style - Team competency and Skills - Effective Communication) on construction performance. As a result, generalizations remain sketchy, and a better understanding is needed. This study lends a...

This study evaluates the extent to which product, technology, service, and process innovations influence the sustainability of Healthcare service businesses. The context of the study is Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) Limited, Zimbabwe. A quantitative research, with a deductive approach was conducted using a self-administered structured...

The importance of adequate information infrastructure to enable effective and up-to-date communication cannot be overemphasized. This has been witnessed in such events as, recent major socio-political revolts in Middle Eastern countries, terrorist attacks, and geographical turbulence like natural disasters and epidemics. These are even worsened by...

Many of today's mission-critical networks in Oman public safety sector face a twofold challenge. First, modernization of communications infrastructure is required because the present-day requirements for real-time data, sophisticated control as well as monitoring functions surpass the capacity of the existing narrowband networks. Secondly, sustaini...

Based on the findings of scientific studies projecting the future course of COVID-19, the World Health Organisation recently stated that the pandemic might not be completely wiped out in the immediate future

Citation Aigbogun, O. (2020/05/13). You either swim or sink in COVID-19. Punch Newspaper. <https://punchng.com/you-either-swim-or-sink-in-covid-19/> While the internal business environment is within the control of business owners, the same cannot be said of the external business environment. The single most important influence in today’s external...

The goal of this study is to present the preliminary results of the reliability of the measurement scales used to gather data that investigates the effect of organizational factors on the performance of Syrian construction companies with “Institutional Pressures” as the potential moderator of the relationship between these factors and performance o...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an ongoing Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It was first discovered in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in China; however, it has now being diagnosed in many other countries, with some southeast Asian countries also affected. Some measur...

Students' standard of proficiency is among the important factors which could affect the teaching of the English language in a classroom. Often times, classrooms comprise of students of mixed proficiencies. This non-homogeneity poses a daunting task on teachers. With teachers governed by limited assistance, guided with a national curriculum and rigi...

Purpose: In this research, the Halal Pharmaceutical supply chain is being studied in relation to principals and agents' relationship in business. Conventional regulation governs this relationship by means of legislation, enforcement, control and monitoring. However, the Malaysian Halal regulatory authority (JAKIM) goes a step further by participati...

The context in which consumers acquires a product related information has undergone dramatic transformation in recent years. There have been arguments that the product type, characteristics of the consumers, as well as the context, have an influence on search information and media channel preference. This argument has not been extended to a lead-ba...

Resilience is the vital feature of supply chains that confers the ability to withstand the adverse effects of disruptive events. Most of the previous studies have been conceptual, theoretical, normative, or at best qualitative in approach, concentrating on identifying the elements of resilience. In spite of the proliferation of studies, an empirica...

This paper is a conceptual study that introduces the role of collaborative regulation into the supply chain resilience debate. The manufacturing supply chain of halal pharmaceuticals in Malaysia forms the context of the paper. In this paper, a critical review of previous studies on supply chain resilience, joint working relationships between supply...

This study examines the impact of Halal logistics on supply chain resilience. The study is underpinned by the agency theory. Halal logistics was studied as an Agent of governance and control in the multiple principal-agent model that exists in a typical supply chain. A field survey has been conducted and the research population is the Malaysian pha...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to model a system that incorporates Halal logistics dimensions into the pharmaceutical supply chain framework for enhanced resilience. Design/methodology/approach: The study involved the use of non-experimental exploratory research design. Three stages were involved in the methodological setup; Preliminary stud...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the vulnerabilities and the capabilities of the Malaysian Pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain. This is the first phase of a research to develop a framework for enhancing pharmaceutical supply chain resilience. The grounded theory method was applied from the managerial perspective. Semistruc...

This study focuses on the development of Health Care Tourism Industry in Malaysia in its present status and present model factors that shall propel the dimension of the industry to greater heights for the future. The study capitalized on the investigation of the factors that have an impact in sustaining Health Care Tourism and its ability to develo...