AbstractGiven the effects COVID-19 pandemic on the financial sectors across the
world, this study examined the reaction of stock returns of 201 firms listed in
the Nigerian Stock Exchange to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policy. We
deployed both Pooled OLS and Panel VAR as estimation methods. Generally, the
results from POLS show the stock market returns of the Nigerian firms reacted
negative... hiện toàn bộ
Valerie Onyia Babatope, Jude Ogechukwu Okoye, Ibrahim Ayoade Adekunle, Johnson Fejoh
AbstractWhile psychological, emotional, and physical exhaustion has contributed
to unproductivity across various dimensions of work life, how work burnout has
shaped the organisational commitment of medical professionals who are at the
forefront of health and well-being remains underexplored and less understood.
This study offers new and insightful perspectives on work burnout and variations
in th... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThe objective of this study is to examine the aspects of investment in
human capital like training of employees, education level of employees,
knowledge level of employees, and skills of employees that influence the
performance of a bank and to provide some comments to improve the banking
sectors. This research included a conceptual model along with hypotheses. This
empirical study is base... hiện toàn bộ
Dennis Boahene Osei, Yakubu Awudu Sare, Muazu Ibrahim
AbstractThe existing literature highlights the determinants of trade openness
with disregard to the income classifications of countries in examining whether
the determinants differ given their income levels. This study, therefore,
re-examines the drivers of trade openness in Africa relying on panel data with
special focus on the role of economic growth. More specifically, we perform a
comparative ... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic undesirably affected the hospitality industry, and
therefore, preventive measures have been advocated as crucial when revitalizing
or rejuvenating the industry. This study investigated the interplay of
predicting role of COVID-19 preventive measures, perceived brand ethicality, and
brand legitimacy in the hospitality industry in Tanzania during the period of
reviving ... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThe study examines the role of the knowledge economy (KE) in Asian
businesses in 45 countries for 2000–2019. KE indicators include education,
economic incentives, innovation, institutional regime, and information and
communication technology. The business indicators used in the study are
starting, doing, and closing business. The empirical analysis is carried out by
applying principal comp... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractWork–family conflict is a subject of interest for researchers in the
field of organizational behavior for decades because of its negative impact on
an individual’s life. The existing literature identified that workplace
stressors contribute to work–family conflict and Perceived Organizational
Politics emerged as an aversive workplace stressor. From empirical pieces of
evidence, it is obser... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThe pandemic novel Coronavirus disease and the resulting lockdowns have
contributed to major economic disturbances around the world, forcing
organisations to extend the work-from-home (WFH) option to their employees
wherever feasible. The current major challenge of this option is maintaining the
efficiency and productivity of the employees across the organisations. It is
therefore importan... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractThe present study focused on one of the important South Asian
nations—Sri Lanka—to examine the role of idiosyncratic volatility in asset
prices. A four-factor model with idiosyncratic volatility was designed for
capturing the market, size, value and idiosyncratic risk yields better than Fama
and French’s (J Financ Econ 33:3–56, 1993) three-factor model and performance of
the model. Fama–Ma... hiện toàn bộ