Shafique Ur Rehman

Shenzhen University · College of Business

Purpose This study aims to explore how search engine optimization (SEO), website interaction and the moderating influence of customer relationship management can impact customer purchasing behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Taking an analytical approach, the study technique was chosen to examine how search SEO and website engagement with the p...

Purpose The sustainable performance of manufacturing companies may commence with employees’ eco-friendly initiatives. The management is responsible for employee green initiatives, requiring the human resource department to develop and implement green strategies. Therefore, it is essential to investigate how green human resource management enhances...

Purpose This study aims to examine the unique and interaction effects of farmers’ pesticide safety knowledge and their past pesticide-related health problems experienced in the adoption of protective pesticide behaviors. The study further aims to explore whether attitude toward pesticide use mediate the relationship between pesticide safety knowled...

The current research examines how green entrepreneurial orientation affects environmental performance in Pakistan’s manufacturing industries. It also examines the function of environmental innovation as a mediator in this relationship. In addition, stakeholder pressure is a moderating variable between green entrepreneurial orientation and environme...

Purpose This study investigates the influence of knowledge hiding in organizations (KHOs), knowledge sharing in organizations (KSOs) and big data knowledge management (BDKM) on knowledge management success. Monitoring (MNT) is used as a moderator between KHO and knowledge management success. Besides, knowledge management success and digital busines...

Industry 4.0 techniques play a crucial role in an organizations success. This study uses dynamic capabilities theory and institutional theory to examine the association between industry 4.0 technologies and the international performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the mediating role of ambidextrous dynamic capabilities. Environmenta...

Purpose The study examines the influence of quality management practices (QMP) on project performance (PP) and the indirect association of QMP with PP through the mediating role of intellectual capital (IC). QMP may be one of the most successful strategies to improve project performance. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and institutional th...

The aim of this paper is to examine big data management practices and big data knowledge management (KM) to determine competitive advantage, with the mediating role of innovation capacity. A quantitative approach was followed and PLS-SEM used to test the hypotheses. A total of 589 questionnaires were used for analysis. The results indicated that bi...

Purpose The main purpose of this study is to determine the antecedent factors of smart government service apps intention and its impact on actual use by extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) in the Jordanian context. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the main purpose, a quantitative method was used to test c...

Purpose – This study examines the unique effects of Industry 4.0 technologies and servitization on firm performance and explores whether servitization mediates the Industry 4.0 and firm-performance relationship. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 76 manufacturing firms in Pakistan using an online survey questionnaire. The partia...

Purpose Drawing on resource-orchestration theory (ROT), this study investigates the influence of market intelligence and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on international performance of born global (BG) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets with the mediating role of global technological competence. Quality focus is used as a mode...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that may have an influence on the continuous intention to use mobile money as one of the Financial Technology (FinTech) products beyond the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. Design/methodology/approach This study has empirically tested the expanded post-acceptance model (Extend-PAM) and...

Purpose: This study focuses on tourists with physical disabilities and examines their perceptions of service robots in hotels and their influence on the overall experience, behavioral intentions, and hotel attachment. Methodology: A survey was conducted via the Prolific platform to collect data from 409 respondents. Partial least squares-based SEM...

Purpose-The research investigates the relationship between halal credence, awareness, certification, need for cognition (NC), effort, health consciousness, and satisfaction towards halal food (STHF). In addition, observe the influence of STHF on purchase intention explored. Finally, religiosity is examined as a moderator between STHF and halal purc...

Despite its ambitious “economic sustainability” objectives, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been the subject of growing environmental anxiety. Considering the CPEC developments, it is clear that Pakistan is ready to fully embrace this new industrial chapter and take advantage of its major benefits to solve social, energy, infrastruct...

This study examines the influence of Blockchain technology utilization (BTU), industrial internet-of-things (IoT), and resource-based management initiatives (RBMI) on innovation performance with the mediating role of organizational resilience in light of the resource-based view (RBV). Moreover, risk-taking tolerance is used as a moderator between o...

Recent literature in environmental management implies that employee behaviour is imperative for improving environmental sustainability. Despite this, little effort has been made into how human resource management (HRM) relates to green creativity. This research aims to examine if an organization's green HRM (GHRM) practices can foster green creativ...

Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, the current research examined the effect of moral norms and injunctive norms on hotel employees’ intention not to waste food. Besides, the moderating role of environmental concern was also investigated. Data were collected from 586 food and beverage employees in Egyptian hotels, by quantile regression, whi...

Purpose This study aims to focus on exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the students’ academic performance in Jordanian higher education during the outbreak of the pandemic, evaluating the e-learning education and evaluating online education in practical lessons during the pandemic according to the university type, educational level, a...

This research observes the relationship between industry 4.0 technologies (i.e., Internet of Things or IoT, machine learning, blockchain technology, and big data) and supply chain performance (SCP) with the mediating role of technological intensity in manufacturing firms using a resource-based view (RBV). Marketing strategy alignment is used as a m...

Purpose This study aims to contribute to the International Business literature by investigating the marketing stimuli that drive impulsiveness and perceived value in mobile shopping (MS) platforms and their impact on consumer response. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a sample of 891 MS platform users and applies structural equation mod...

Purpose This study embarks on a comprehensive investigation into the intricate relationship between consumer trust in e-commerce platforms and the adoption of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). It delves into a multifaceted analysis of how these dynamics influence the landscape of online shopping, with a specific focus on four critical dimension...

Purpose Sustainability issues are crucial in today’s competitive environment. The integration of technology plays a vital role in the attainment of sustainability objectives. The study aims to investigate the relationship between green intellectual capital (IC), green information systems (IS), green management initiatives (GMI) and green technology...

This research observes the impact of environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green supply chain management (GSCM) on green competitive advantage in Chinese manufacturing SMEs. Top management commitment is used as a mediator between environmental CSR, GSCM, and green competitive advantage. Moreover, a pro-environmental business strat...

Purpose The environmental sustainability of manufacturing firms may begin with employees' green initiatives. Consequently, there is a need to examine how green human resource management (GHRM) promotes green creativity among manufacturing employees. This study aims to ascertain whether manufacturing employees' environmental-felt responsibility (EFR...

This study examines the acceptance of mobile Learning Management Systems (LMS) in the telecom sector of Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employs the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that affect the acceptance of LMS among workers and how it is affected...

The present study aims to explore the perceived role of the government during this pandemic situation. The study, through the perception of general masses examine the government's role during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is believed that this is the first empirical study conducted on this issue. The study was conducted on general masses in the norther...

Purpose This paper aims to model the mediating effects of facilitating conditions and innovativeness in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and blockchain technology (BT) on manufacturing supply chain performance (MSCP). Design/methodology/approach Partial least square structural equation modelling was used to test the goodness of the model f...

The working pattern of the food industry has entirely changed with the emergence of mobile food delivery apps (MFDAs), which deliver an innovative method to interact with and offer high-quality services to customers. This study pinpoints the imperative factors affecting the customer's attitude and continued intention in light of the task technology...

Purpose The research on consumerism has been dramatically rising in recent decades. However, in the food industry, little research has been empirically conducted in the beverage industry. This research empirically tests the consequences of consumer perceptions: perceived price (PPR), perceived quality (PQ), perceived packaging (PPG) and perceived t...

We aim to see the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green intellectual capital on green competitive advantage with the mediation of green innovation in the manufacturing SMEs of a developing country. Moreover, big data analytics adoption intention (BDAAI) is used as a moderator between green innovation and green competitive adv...

Purpose The authors examined the impact of environmental concerns, knowledge of organic/novel food, food neophobia, food neophilia, health consciousness and social norms on satisfaction toward organic food leading to the intention to purchase organic food (IPOF). Moreover, perceived barriers are used as a moderator between satisfaction toward organ...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of green shared vision (GSV) and green knowledge sharing (GKS) on eco-innovation types and further investigates the impact of these types on sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and sustainable business performance (SBP) within the food manufacturing and food processing small- and medium-sized en...

PURPOSE: The motive behind this study is to determine the influence of green transformational leadership and green intellectual capital (IC) on sustainable performance with the mediating role of green capability. In addition, top management commitment is used as a moderating variable between green IC, green transformational leadership, and green ca...

Purpose The purpose and current research objective is to determine sustainable hotel performance through hotel environmental management initiatives (HEMI) with the mediating influence of employee’s’ eco-friendly behaviour (EEB), and to determine the moderating role of environmental strategies (ES) in the relationship between HEMI and EEB. Design/m...

The banking industry has undergone significant shifts as innovations have enabled new banking services and created new customer requirements. While banks strive to incorporate innovation and change systems, they also face various obstacles. The primary aim of this qualitative exploratory case study is to determine the key perceived barriers to chan...

This study examines the influence of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and green culture on green performance in the manufacturing sector through the mediating effect of proactive environmental strategy (PES) and green product innovation (GPI). A quantitative approach was followed, and partial least squares structural equation modeling...

Purpose Organic food consumption decreases the risk of becoming obese or overweight. This study intends to see the influence of customer perceived value, COVID-19 fear, food neophobia, effort and natural content on the intention to purchase organic food (IPOF) that leads to the actual purchase of organic food (APOF). Moreover, organic food availabi...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of knowledge management (KM) practices on innovation performance. It also examines whether organisational creativity and organizational learning mediate the relationship between KM practices and innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a quantitative method by s...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between quality management practices (QMP) and inter-organizational project performance (IPP), as well as the moderating effects of inter-organizational communication (ICOM), relationship, and process conflicts in Pakistan’s-government healthcare organizations (NGOs) and public he...

This research investigates the antecedents of employee engagement in Pakistan’s banks to conceptualize the idea of employee engagement. For this, the study examines the relationship between transformational leadership (TL), despotic leadership (DL), and the mediation of psychological distress (PD) with an outcome variable, employee engagement (EE)....

Purpose The organizations focus on environmental factors as stakeholders exert pressure to reduce the environmental influence arising from production tasks. This study aims to see the influence of the environmental management control system (MCS) package and perceived environmental uncertainty on green performance with the mediating role of green d...

Purpose The increase in mobile telephone penetration has offered new opportunities for technology to improve payment operations all over the world. Little research has examined the issues related to the decision-making (DM) of mobile payment systems usage in the Jordanian context. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that may have an...

Purpose This study aims to observe the influence of environmental management accounting (EMA) and environmental knowledge management (KM) practices on environmental performance with mediating role of top management support (TMS). Moreover, green work climate perception (GWCP) is used as a moderator between TMS and environmental performance. Design...

Despite the increasing research to determine the influence of environmental sustainability orientation (ESO) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on environmental performance, our understanding is to see the mediating effect of green capability between ESO, CSR, and environmental performance is lacking. Data were collected by using survey ques...

Purpose The study seeks to evaluate the extent and quality of environmental reporting following a longitudinal analysis and covering a wide spectrum of industries in a single frame. The study also attempts to identify the set of most favored environmental reporting items by firms and items which are least disclosed. Furthermore, the study attempts...

Purpose This paper analyzes and compares segments disclosure practices of listed companies of Pakistan and Bangladesh under International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 8 with companies from India under Accounting Standard 17 over three-year period from 2013 to 2015. Furthermore, the purpose of this paper was to investigate that how the select...

Like many different and relevant sectors, the leather industry is currently facing a major environmental issue that may affect the competitiveness of all the stakeholders across the value chain. Drawing the conceptual model on the natural resource-based view (NRBV), this study seeks to examine the mediating role of individual green values (IGV) bet...

Purpose This study aims to see the influence of a balanced scorecard (BSC) to determine the performance of banks in Palestine. Among the institutions that influence the economy of any country is the banking sector. Despite the influence of this sector on the economic policies and implementation in Palestine, there appears to be the difficulty of th...

Purpose Customers' focus increasingly turns to the green practices of firms. Organizations need to rethink their strategies and position themselves concerning their environmental responsibility. The idea behind this study is to observe the influence of hotel website quality and hotel environmental management initiative (HEMI) on green customer loya...

A huge amount of textual information is available on Web, Facebook, blogs and Wikipedia, everyday rising new techniques, algorithms and tools extract the useful information. Therefore, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is very important technique to recognize the noun entities like such as names, date or time, location, medicine names etc. Many resear...

The social association of the buyers on the web contributes in shaping the social commerce. This study aims to measure the relationship between social commerce constructs, social support (SS) and perceived trust. The sample of the study was constituted of 289 social networking website users selected from northern India. The information regarding so...

Purpose This study aims to explore the effectiveness and reliability of the performance of internal auditor by the stakeholders for their decision making. The absence of rules and regulations generates the debate that the non-standard reporting of the assessment of the internal controls system’s assessment by internal auditor and reliance by the ex...

Purpose The authors observe the influence of intellectual capital (IC) on innovation performance with the mediating role of interorganizational learning (IOL) in the Pakistani automotive industry. Besides, industrial Internet of things (IoT) technology is used as moderating variables between IOL and innovation performance. Design/methodology/appro...

Purpose This study explored the relationship between local food consumption value and satisfaction with local food, leading to behavioral intention. Moreover, tourist's involvement is used as a mediator, and COVID-19 fear moderates between satisfaction with local food and behavioral intention. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeli...

The purpose of this research is to study financial risk, product risk, privacy risk, and convenience risk influence on internet buying behaviour with trust as moderator. For this purpose, data were gathered from students that are studying in HEC recognized universities in Punjab, Pakistan. Five hundred fifty questionnaires were used for analysis by...

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of intellectual capital and knowledge management on competitive advantage with the mediation role of innovativeness in the Pakistan manufacturing industry. Moreover, differentiation strategy is used as a moderator between innovativeness and competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach The data...

Purpose This paper draws on resource-based theory (RBV) to examine the impact of the management control system (MCS) package on business performance through the mediating role of entrepreneurial competencies and the interaction role of business strategy in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A total of 372 questi...

This study examines the influence of job demands and job resources on cyberloafing behavior through the mediating role of job stress and work engagement and the contingent role of employee motivation at universities. The research model draws on border theory and the JD-R model. The partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) techniq...

This study investigates the moderating effect of the Companies Act 2013 on the relationship between Non-audit Services (NAS) and Earnings Management (EM). Furthermore, it investigates the effect of the Companies Act 2013 on the relationship between the presence of independent directors on the board and earnings management. To achieve these objectiv...

This research study examines the issues and challenges of distance & online business education in Pakistan in the scenario of the turmoil of COVID-19. The basic objective of this research was to highlight the problems of faculty members and students. Many issues and challenges may occur due to the sudden shift from traditional education system to o...

Purpose This study explores central questions related to the connection between intellectual capital (IC) and the innovative performance of organizations through the mediating role of management control systems (MCS) and business strategies, as well as the moderating role of innovation capabilities. Design/methodology/approach The data was collect...

The purpose of this research is to study financial risk, product risk, privacy risk, and convenience risk influence on internet buying behaviour with trust as moderator. For this purpose, data were gathered from students that are studying in HEC recognized universities in Punjab, Pakistan. Five hundred fifty questionnaires were used for analysis by...

Extant literature suggests that green intellectual capital (GIC), green human resource management (GHRM), and green innovation (GI) impacts the environmental performance of firms. In this paper, we argue that the relationship between GIC, GHRM, GI and environmental performance is more complex than previously suggested. We propose that neither GIC n...

Purpose The purpose of this study determines how environmental management control system (MCS) packages influence ecological sustainability and sustainable performance through the mediating role of environmental strategies. Furthermore, this applies organizational capabilities as moderating variables between environmental strategies, ecological sus...