scholarly journals Technology-Performance Nexus during Covid-19: A Case of Commercial Banks from Selected South Asian Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-267
Author(s):  
Syed Muhammad Abdul Rehman Shah ◽  
Kashif Raza ◽  
Asif Raza ◽  
Ismat Nasim
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Supervisory Support ◽  
Asian Economies

Technology acceptance affects performance of employees in emerging organizations. This study explores the relationship between technological transformation and performance of the employees of commercial banks from selected Asian economies during Covid-19 pandemic. We also analyze the effect of moderators; training, supervisor support and incentives on this relationship. We have tested the hypotheses by means of the survey of 400 employees of commercial banks from selected South Asian economies of Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Pakistan. The Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression techniques are utilized to investigate the research problem. The identity theory and social learning theory reflects that the individuals get satisfied while relating themselves with the objectives of organization and the goals of nation. Further, they participate in the organizational and national development through technical innovation process if provided with supervisory support, training and incentives. This study recommends to executive management to adopt modern technology for sake of the higher objectives of firms’ performance in a Post- Covid depressed economies.     

Economic Implications of Asian Integration

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1850139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Francois ◽  
Ganeshan Wignaraja
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Spider Web ◽  
Integration Schemes ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
Northeast Asian

The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives in Asia, highlighting the bridging of the East and South Asian economies. We place emphasis on the alternative prospects for insider and outsider countries. We work with a global general equilibrium model of the world economy, benchmarked to a projected 2017 sets of trade and production patterns. We also work with gravity-model based estimates of trade costs linked to infrastructure, and of barriers to trade in services. Taking these estimates, along with tariffs, into our CGE model, we examine regionally narrow and broad agreements, all centered on extending the reach of ASEAN to include free trade agreements with combinations of the northeast Asian economies (PRC, Japan, Korea) and also the South Asian economies. We focus on a stylized FTA that includes goods, services, and some aspects of trade cost reduction through trade facilitation and related infrastructure improvements. What matters most for East Asia is that China, Japan, and Korea be brought into any scheme for deeper regional integration. This matter alone drives most of the income and trade effects in the East Asia region across all of our scenarios. The inclusion of the South Asian economies in a broader regional agreement sees gains for the East Asian and South Asian economies. Most of the East Asian gains follow directly from Indian participation. The other South Asian players thus stand to benefit if India looks East and they are a part of the program, and to lose if they are not. Interestingly, we find that with the widest of agreements, the insiders benefit substantively in terms of trade and income while the aggregate impact on outside countries is negligible. Broadly speaking, a pan-Asian regional agreement would appear to cover enough countries, with a great enough diversity in production and incomes, to actually allow for regional gains without substantive third-country losses. However, realizing such potential requires overcoming a proven regional tendency to circumscribe trade concessions with rules of origin, NTBs, and exclusion lists. The more likely outcome, a spider web of bilateral agreements, carries with it the prospect of significant outsider costs (i.e. losses) both within and outside the region.

scholarly journals Support for the Development of Technological Innovations at an R&D Organisation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12469
Author(s):  
Beata Poteralska
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Original Matrix ◽  
Organisational Capabilities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Innovation Processes

Effective development of technological innovations requires efficient management at the stages of their generation, realisation, and their implementation. For this aim, concepts such as foresight, technology assessment, and organisational capabilities assessment can be applied; however, so far they have been used mainly individually or sometimes combined but to a very limited extent. Moreover, they are not used comprehensively, but only selectively, e.g., at some stages of the innovation processes. The research problem undertaken in the paper concerns the effectiveness of the integration of these concepts: future research (mainly foresight), technology assessment, and organisational capabilities assessment for the needs of supporting innovation processes. The paper is aimed at presenting an original approach assuming the integration of the aforementioned triad. The proposed approach has been developed individually by the paper’s author on the basis of (1) state of the art analysis comprising both theoretical approaches and practical examples of individual and combined application of the concepts analysed, and (2) the author’s practical experience resulting from research projects conducted collectively. The research result comprises an original matrix approach where the individual concepts of the triad are applied in a way enabling their mutual complementation at all successive stages of the innovation process. The approach proposed comprises modules referring to the succeeding stages of the innovation process, namely generation, realisation and application of technological innovations. The areas of the approach application and possible directions of its further development are presented.

scholarly journals The effect of ethical leadership on employees’ empowerment: Field study at Al- Azhar University in Assuit - Arab Republic of Egypt: أثر القيادة الأخلاقية على تمكين العاملين: دراسة ميدانية على العاملين في جامعة الأزهر بأسيوط - جمهورية مصر العربية

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Mokhtar Sewify
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
The Impact

Empowering employees is one of the recent administrative trends in human resource development, which is responsible for increasing productivity and improving quality and profitability in organizations. In order to permit the organization to achieve this, it needs to adopt an ethical leadership style that provides the appropriate climate to support the empowerment of workers. The study aimed to investigate the impact of ethical leadership on employees’ empowerment at Al- Azhar University in Assuit. The research problem of the current study was represented in the following inquiry: Does ethical leadership affects employees’ empowerment at Al- Azhar University in Assuit branch? The study relied on the descriptive-analytical approach. The researcher used Pearson correlation to measure the strength of association between the two variables of this study (ethical leadership and employees’ empowerment) and their dimensions and direction of the association. The researcher used simple regression analysis to test the hypotheses and relationships of the independent and dependent variables. The study sample included (317) people from Al- Azhar University where data was collected using a survey list prepared for the purpose of the study and only 255 questionnaires were received, rates about 80%. And the study reached several results; the most important of which is that the degree of exercise for the two study variables came with an average degree for each of them, where the average value for ethical leadership reached (3.57) and for employee empowerment the average was (3.53). Furthermore, it was found that there was a significant effect of ethical leadership behaviors on employees’ empowerment, as the value of (T) was (1.98), which is significant at the level of (0.01). The study recommended the need to support the values ​​of ethical leadership ​​and their basic dimensions through holding training courses and workshops to spread the tenet ​​of ethical leadership in the organization and its values as well. Last but not least, we recommend the organizations to adopt an effective system that permit them to monitor the application of the concept of employees’ empowerment.

Economic Freedom and Private Capital Inflows in Selected South Asian Economies: A Dynamic Panel Data Evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assad Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Anees ◽  
Zahid Ali ◽  
Muhammad Ayub Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
The Relationship

Greater inflows of private capital are regarded to be very beneficial for the economic development. This study explores the relationship between economic freedom and private capital inflows in selected South Asian economies. The study comprises of six South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives). Data from 2002 to 2011 have been utilized, and the model is estimated by employing the system generalized method of moments (GMM) approach. Empirical results reveal a significant positive relationship between economic freedom and private capital inflows. The study transpired that economic freedom is potent determinant of private capital inflows. The results further established that growth in market size and official development assistance has significant positive association with private capital inflows, whereas exchange rate exhibits significant negative relationship with the inflows of private capital, thereby confirming the existing literature. Moreover, the relationship among inflation, natural resources and private capital inflows came out to be inconclusive. To lure more inflows of private capital towards the region, management authorities need to ensure high degree of economic freedom. Creation of investment-friendly climate, corruption-free environment, tax breaks in selective sectors, removing trade barriers, equity market liberalization and consistency in the government policies is advisable in this regard.

Dynamics between green innovation and environmental quality: new insights into South Asian economies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wen ◽  
Waheed Ali ◽  
Jamal Hussain ◽  
Nadeem Akhtar Khan ◽  
Hadi Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Asian Economies

Measuring Patients’ Perceptions and Social Influence on Home Telecare Management System Acceptance

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Chen ◽  
Shih-Wei Chou
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Management System ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Social Influence Theory ◽  
System Acceptance ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
The Impact

Successful implementation of a Home Telecare Management System (HTMS) requires acceptance by the users, especially when technical innovation is applied to manage chronic healthcare in elderly patients, who are unaccustomed to using modern technology. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Social Influence Theory (SIT), a Home Telecare Management System (HTMS) Acceptance Model is proposed and tested to improve the understanding of patients’ acceptance of HTMS and the impact of social influence on patients’ attitude and behavioral intentions in using HTMS. Via empirical research and analysis of 221 patients’ questionnaires, the partial least squares (PLS) technique indicates that most of the model’s hypotheses are significant. Implications for both theory and practice are also provided.

Do market size and financial development indicators affect human capital of select south Asian economies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 887-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayan Sethi ◽  
Bikash Ranjan Mishra ◽  
Padmaja Bhujabal
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate whether market size and its growth rate, along with financial development indicators, affect human capital in selected south Asian economies over the time period from 1984 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach The stationarity of the variables are checked by LLC, IPS, ADF and Phillips–Perron panel unit-root tests. Pedroni’s and Kao’s panel co-integration approaches are employed to examine the long-run relationship among the variables. To estimate the coefficients of co-integrating vectors, both PDOLS and FMOLS techniques are used. The short-term and long-run causalities are examined by panel granger causality. Findings From the empirical results, the authors found that both the market size and financial development play an important role in the development of human capital in the selected south Asian economies. It is evident that a large market size and faster degree of financial development in the selected countries result in better human capital formation. Originality/value There are a number of studies on the impact of financial development indicators on human capital and economic growth, but there is hardly any study that considers market size and its growth rate along with financial development indicators with human capital in the context of south Asian economies. The study fills this research gap.

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