scholarly journals India’s National Smart City Mission: Analysis of Project Dimensions Including Sources of Funding

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Bernhard Moik ◽  
Vito Bobek ◽  
Tatjana Horvat
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Mission Analysis ◽  
Emerging Country

The term smart city is defined, and based on India's National Smart City Mission, it is explained what an emerging country can do to start making its cities smarter. Thereby the goals and the program's implementation are analyzed, how it works, and how cities can participate. Moreover, Bhubaneswar and Pune are investigated regarding their smart city plans, goals, and first outcomes. Furthermore, challenges the program faced until now are mentioned and learnings for other emerging market cities on what went well in India and on what does not yet work out that well in the program.

CSR engagement and values in a pre-emerging and emerging country context

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1251-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Munro ◽  
Denni Arli ◽  
Sharyn Rundle-Thiele
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Values ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
Csr Strategy ◽  
Employee Identification

Purpose Internationalization has witnessed rapid growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in emerging markets, requiring reflection on how to operate within these markets. The purpose of this paper is to assist MNEs to adapt to these markets, and adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy with social initiatives (SIs), relevant to stakeholders, including their employees and the communities they reside in. The current paper does this by examining the relationships between employee identification with the organization’s SIs (SI-I) and their engagement in them (SI-E), alongside their perspective on the general importance of CSR (ICSR) and employee values to help with CSR (VCSR). The findings will better prepare managers in pre-emerging and emerging markets to design CSR strategy and SIs relevant to these markets and their communities. Design/methodology/approach Guided by social identity theory, this paper examines local employee identification of SI (SI-I) and engagement in SI (SI-E), in two MNE subsidiaries across varying emerging market levels in developing countries, utilizing a quantitative survey design. Structural equation modeling is utilized to analyze responses of N=544 employees in two South East Asian countries, namely, Indonesia (as an emerging country) and Vietnam (as a pre-emerging country), to determine any differences that may exist between the two countries. Findings The findings reveal that SI identification (SI-I) has a strong effect on employee engagement in SIs (SI-E) and also the importance they attach to organizations conducting CSR (ICSR). However, employee values to help with CSR activities (VCSR) has an effect on Vietnamese employees but not Indonesian employees. Likewise, SI-I mediates the effect between ICSR and SI-E for Vietnamese employees but not for Indonesian, suggesting differences exist between these two developing countries where the less developed country, Vietnam, is defined as pre-emerging and Indonesia as an emerging market (MSCI, 2016). Practical implications An awareness of the differences that may exist across employees in emerging markets will assist managers to design CSR strategy relevant to the level of market emergence of the host country, allowing for better CSR SIs identification and engagement in these countries. Originality/value The research model for this analysis utilizes constructs based on past Identification literature, while including new constructs for this study adapted from past literature, and underpinned uniquely by social identity theory in an International Business setting. The findings indicate differences between emerging and pre-emerging markets for particular constructs, which suggests the importance of considering the market level when implementing MNE CSR strategy. Limited research has been conducted examining the differences between emerging and pre-emerging markets, so further research is required to replicate these findings and provide insight into the differences that may exist for CSR SIs in emerging markets.

scholarly journals The development of trust over time in an emerging market context: the case of the Tunisian automotive sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1210-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tibor Mandják ◽  
Samy Belaid ◽  
Peter Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Trust ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how context influences the quality of business relationships. This theoretical question is studied from the point of view of trust, one of the important components of business relationship quality. The authors study how trust is related to the dynamics and management of the business relationship in the context of an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on qualitative interviews with 15 spare-parts resellers in the Tunisian automotive industry. The authors take a monadic view, interviewing resellers about their relationships with their wholesalers-importers. The decision to undertake the research in Tunisia is based on three factors. First, Tunisia is an emerging country and there is very little published research based in the Maghreb countries. Second, the Tunisian automotive parts market structure is relatively simple and, hence, easily understood, with most spare-parts being imported because of the low level of local production. Third, the actors in the study are all Tunisian companies, so research allows us to explore relationships between local companies in an emerging country. Findings The authors find that different kinds of trust play different roles over the dynamics of the relationship. Perceived trust is more important at the emergent stage of a relationship, and as the two parties learn from each other, experienced trust becomes more important in the established relationships. The initial perceived trust creates the possibility of building trust, and when mutual trust exists between the parties, it motivates them to maintain the relationship, but there is always the threat of the degradation of the quality of the relationship because of the violation or destruction of the trust. Research limitations/implications This paper shows that more care should be taken when using trust as the variable under scrutiny. Different aspects of trust manifest themselves at various stages of the relationship building cycle. Practical implications The results emphasize that when initiating a business relationship, managers first need to create perceived trust. Thereafter, once trust is built up, it is the trust that may “manage” or act to control the on-going relationship as long as the partners’ behavior or network changes do not violate the trust. Originality/value The results of this paper show that there is a mutual but not necessarily symmetrical or balanced influence of trust on the behavior of the partners involved. The influence of the different parties is dependent on the power architecture, the history of the relationship and the network position of the actors.

Anti-corruption reporting in emerging country multinationals

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 861-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Vale ◽  
Manuel Castelo Branco
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emerging Market Multinationals ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
International Report

Purpose Based on a lens of analysis combining legitimacy and stakeholder theories, this paper aims to explore some factors which influence anti-corruption (AC) reporting in large multinationals from emerging countries. Design/methodology/approach An ordinal logistic regression is used to assess the relation between the AC reporting and multinationals’ industrial affiliation, number of countries of operations, membership of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and public ownership. The sample was drawn from the 2016 Transparency International Report “Transparency in Corporate Reporting – Assessing Emerging Market Multinationals”. Findings Evidence suggests that in emerging countries, listed multinationals, which operate in a large number of countries or are members of the UNGC, present significant levels of AC reporting. Unexpectedly, results also suggest that such reporting is not significantly affected by the corruption risk level of the industries to which the multinationals belong. Finally, results suggest that in emerging markets, the dependency for resources may also affect AC reporting. Originality/value This paper contributes to the extant literature, by exploring different determinants of AC reporting, namely, a thus far unexplored one: public vs private ownership. This paper also contributes to the literature by providing insights into the relationships in a specific context: that of emerging countries. Finally, the reliance on the international community for the provision of resources is shown as a factor that potentially affects AC reporting.

scholarly journals The Formation of Environmentally Friendly Intentions of SME Owner-Managers in an Emerging Country: The Case of Tunisian’s Textile–Clothing Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azzedine Tounés ◽  
Erno T. Tornikoski ◽  
Fafani Gribaa
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
Recent Developments

We have little empirical evidence about the environmentally friendly, intention of owner-managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging country context despite recent developments of proenvironmental, practices. The main objective of our study is to address this gap by exploring the antecedents of environmentally friendly intentions among SME owner managers in, emerging market context. To achieve this objective, we test our, hypotheses in the textile–clothing industry in Tunisia. The textile–clothing industry represents high ecological risk due to the waste discharged into the environment. Our empirical observations confirm that the reasoned action approach is particularly robust to predict environmentally friendly intentions of SME owner-managers in an emerging market context.

scholarly journals Study of corporate governance in government hospitals: A case study of the emerging market

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Anurag Agnihotri ◽  
Shagun Arora
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
Government Hospitals ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Societal Responsibility

Governance in a government hospital setup is complicated due to its economic and financial dimensions but also incorporates societal responsibility. The current study focuses on the processes and procedures as the key factor of corporate governance. This paper presents evidence of a comprehensive range of procedures related to governing healthcare quality undertaken at the corporate governance level. The study explores the viewpoint of the stakeholders including patients, doctors, and the management. The aim of the study is to identify indicators of effective governance in an emerging country like India where the state regulates the health system. For this purpose, three major hospitals of Delhi – AIIMS, Safdarjung, and Ram Manohar Lohia hospitals – were studied. The response of 582 respondents was analyzed using logit regression. The study documents the comfort level of patients with the doctor, the ability of the doctors to address the concern of patience, registration time in the hospital, and easy availability of the medicine improves the corporate governance of the hospital. The main contribution of the research is analyzing the health care system in an emerging market like India which is characterized by the complexity of interaction between the environment and policies related to health care.

scholarly journals Smart City Puebla: measuring smartness

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. e15793
Author(s):  
Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto ◽  
Pablo Collazzo Yelpo ◽  
Katya Pérez Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Data Reduction ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Single Region

Objective of the study: this empirical study revisits the meaning and scope of the ‘smart city’ concept, measuring ‘smartness’ in an emerging market setting.Methodology / approach: a data reduction exercise is conducted through a principal component analysis of 22 smart city variables and a two-step cluster analysis for the 217 municipalities of the State of Puebla (Mexico), so as to identify the defining challenges to ‘smartness’ in a developing economy city.Originality / Relevance: the prevailing models that measure urban ‘smartness’, notably Giffinger’s and Cities in Motion, arguably miss to capture the socioeconomic challenges of cities in a developing market context.Main results: two distinctive factors emerge from the data reduction exercise, namely ‘marginalization’, referring to social and economic inequalities, and ‘access to services’, particularly public health and education, to define the challenges emerging market cities would need to address in their path to ‘smartness’.Theoretical / methodological contributions: we introduce a revised approach to measure city ‘smartness’, claiming that access to public services (education and health) helps reduce social inequality and marginalization, which are core indicators to redefine smart cities in emerging markets.Social / management contributions: even if the analysis is carried out on data from a single region, our findings could be a meaningful input to a more generalizable model to measure city ‘smartness’ in emerging markets, with implications to multiple stakeholders, particularly policy-makers, suggesting basic inequalities and access to education and health services should be addressed, before attempting to improve traditional smart city indicators. 

scholarly journals Investigation of Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Smart City Development: An Emerging Country

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Mohammed Arshad Khan ◽  
Mohd Shuaib Siddiqui ◽  
Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani ◽  
Shahid Husain
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
City Development ◽  
Emerging Country

Cause-related marketing and service innovation in emerging country healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 803-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Singh ◽  
Vijay Pereira ◽  
Erasmia Leonidou
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Healthcare Market ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Cause Related Marketing ◽  
Emerging Country

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the constituents of cause-related marketing (CRM) capabilities in the context of an emerging market healthcare sector, by incorporating the resource-based view alongside the dynamic capability perspective. Moreover, the authors aim to illustrate how the typologies of CRM capabilities help to achieve service innovation whilst taking into consideration the role of service flexibility (SF) and service climate. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a research framework through a representative and novel case study in the Indian healthcare market by utilizing and analyzing the subject-specific literature. Furthermore, a quantitative survey of healthcare professionals was conducted to assess the relationships utilizing PLS–SEM. Findings After identifying the constituents of CRM capabilities, the study confirms the mediating mechanism of SF between CRM capabilities and service innovation. Furthermore, findings from the study suggest that service climate positively moderates the relationship between CRM capability and SF. Research limitations/implications The study was conducted in the emerging country healthcare market of India. Thus, the generalizability of the framework needs to be tested in a similar or contrasting context. Furthermore, the sample size for the study was limited to healthcare professionals, and the customer’s perspective was missing. Originality/value This paper is a first step to identify the specific dimensions of CRM capability and explain it as a higher-order factor. The study further provides an integrative framework that includes CRM capability, service innovation, SF and service climate. More specifically, it enhances the understanding of the constituents of the CRM capabilities and their influence on service innovation.

scholarly journals Organizational Governance, Board of Directors, and the Influence of Context in Emerging Markets

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Madi M Almadi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into

This paper aims to build corporate governance theory to inform company success in the context of emerging markets. Success for a company listed in an emerging market is contingent on being able to effectively manage a range of business, economic, social and political considerations unique to that emerging country. This paper explains the significance of incorporating context with corporate governance systems to inform how can organizational governance and board of directors affect firm performance. Theory developed in the context of emerging markets provides the basis for more widely applicable emerging stock market insight into theory of context and practice of corporate governance.

Exploring the dark-side of E-HRM: a study of social networking sites and deviant workplace behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunanda Nayak ◽  
Pawan Budhwar ◽  
Vijay Pereira ◽  
Ashish Malik
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
Managerial Implications

PurposeRapid technological advancements and the ever-increasing demand for Internet and social networking sites worldwide have increased the opportunity for extensive use and misuse of these platforms. Research and practice have typically focused on the brighter side of social networking sites due to the adoption of EHRM (Electronic Human Resource Management). However, less is known about the dark side of EHRM, especially the drawbacks associated with the use of social networking (SNs) platforms in organisations. In addition, most of such studies have primarily involved the western country context, and in an emerging country scenario, these kinds of studies are limited. Hence, the study aims to investigate the complexities of the use of SNs as an e-HRM strategy in organisations in an emerging country context.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on 26 in-depth interviews of HR practitioners and analysing their narratives surrounding employees' use of social networking (both enterprise social networks [ESNs] and social networking sites [SNSs]), this study illuminates the dark or the adverse side of EHRM. Specifically, it focuses on the link between employees' deviant workplace behaviour and their usage of social networking (SN) platforms in organisations (i.e. SNs at workplaces influencing employee's unethical behaviour at work).FindingsThe empirical findings reveal the subtle intentional and unintentional indulgence of employees via SNs in various types of deviant behaviours such as sharing confidential information, bullying, harassment, breaching colleagues' privacy, etc., at the workplace in the emerging market context of India. Utilising the social networking perspective and the 4Ps of deviant theory, this article describes deviance behaviours in detail and explains the inadvertent complexities of leveraging SNs as an EHRM tool at the workplace. These insights then provide a starting point for discussing the theoretical and managerial implications of the research findings.Research limitations/implicationsDerived from the current research, this model offers an integrative frame-work for understanding DWBs in SNs platforms in general. This also shows that use of SNs at workplace often leads the employee engaging in non-productive activity. Hence future studies can explore the application of this framework in organizations in detail, thus further highlighting the usefulness of EHRM to understand the employee behaviours at the workplace by the organisations.Practical implicationsThe research offers several managerial implications concerning the use of SNs as EHRM strategy at the workplace, which is perceived as a global challenge nowadays. Primarily it offers suggestions for the social media professionals and HR practitioners regarding the use of SNs in organisations.Originality/valueThe study's findings highlight the complex process that explains how SNs as an EHRM strategy affect employee deviance behaviours in the workplace. Till date, no known study has considered the possible effect of SNs on deviance behavior at the workplace in an emerging country context.

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