Muhammad Safdar Sial
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6733876 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Muhammad Safdar Sial |
| NOMBRES | Muhammad Safdar |
| APELLIDO | Sial |
| FIRMA | SIAL M S |
| AFILIACIONES | COMSATS University Islamabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5473-8882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Predicting Stock Market Returns Using Sentiment in Business News Articles
This study aims to predict stock returns by leveraging sentiment derived from daily financial news articles published in leading newspapers. The dataset combines firm-level financial indicators with a sentiment index constructed from online news coverage, covering daily data of 98,750 observations from September 2010 to December 2020. Employing the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, the findings demonstrate a significant relationship between ne…
The nexus of good e-governance, e-trust, and digital citizenship behaviour
E-governance fosters good digital citizenship behaviour through the advancement of openness, involvement, accessibility, trust, and education of the public. Current research examines the direct impact of electronic governance on digital citizenship behaviour with the mediation of Electronic Trust amongst the Jordan public. In this regard, a questionnaire was floated and a sample of N = 302 was collected for further analysis. Descriptive analysis …
The Nexus of Good E-Governance, E-Trust, and Digital Citizenship Behaviour
E-governance fosters good digital citizenship behaviour through the advancement of openness, involvement, accessibility, trust, and education of the public. Current research examines the direct impact of electronic governance on digital citizenship behaviour with the mediation of Electronic Trust amongst the Jordan public. In this regard, a questionnaire was floated and a sample of N = 302 was collected for further analysis. Descriptive analysis …
Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students' Depression Level and Academic Performance
Current research examines the impact of academic and familial stress on students' depression levels and the subsequent impact on their academic performance based on Lazarus' cognitive appraisal theory of stress. The non-probability convenience sampling technique has been used to collect data from undergraduate and postgraduate students using a modified questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. This study used the SEM method to examine the lin…
Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Job Performance of Working Mothers
The current study takes its philosophical roots from organizational behavior and psychology domains to investigate the impact of sleep deprivation on the job performance of mothers working in primary, secondary, and higher education institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan. It also examines the mediating role of workplace deviance in the relationship between sleep deprivation and the job performance of working mothers. The authors followed the non-probabi…
Application of internal environmental locus of control to the context of eco-friendly drone food delivery services
This study was designed to apply the concept of internal environmental locus of control (INELOC) to the context of eco-friendly drone food delivery services. In particular, this study examined how four subdimensions of INELOC, namely, green consumers, activists, advocates, and recyclers, affect anticipated emotions, such as positive and negative anticipated emotions. In addition, the effects of positive and negative anticipated emotions on intent…
What Are The Channels Through Which Bank Liquidity Creation Affects GDP? Evidence From an Emerging Country
Gross domestic product (GDP) depends on myriad factor and financial intermediaries especially banks play a very important role in economic growth and development of a country. They not only lend loans rather also generate liquidity—which is very important for the smooth functioning of an economy. Therefore, this study explores the channels through which bank liquidity creation affects GDP. It uses the data from listed and unlisted Chinese banks r…
The Impact of Environmental Uncertainty on Corporate Innovation
The paper analyzes the effect of environmental uncertainty on corporate technological innovation from the perspective of an innovation value chain under the institutional background of China. This paper not only discusses the intermediary effect of agency problems on environmental uncertainty and corporate technological innovation but also deeply explores the influence of information transparency, government subsidies, and other mechanisms to all…
An Examination to Explain the Mechanism of Employees’ Environment-Specific Behavior through CSR and Work Engagement from the Perspective of Stewardship Theory
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an imperative for every sector globally. Yet, for a long time, the concept of CSR has been regarded from an organizational perspective. However, the importance of CSR in shaping the extra-role behavior of employees, such as their pro-environmental behavior (PEB-E), has been under-explored in the literature. Against this backdrop, the current study aims to investigate the impact of CSR on PEB-E …
A Contemporary Issue of Micro-Foundation of CSR, Employee Pro-Environmental Behavior, and Environmental Performance toward Energy Saving, Carbon Emission Reduction, and Recycling
The contemporary literature has largely addressed corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the macro or institutional level, whereas its effect at the micro-level is largely ignored. In addition, contemporary researchers have also ignored the importance of employee pro-environmental behavior to reduce the environmental footprint of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With this background, the present study attempts to decrease the environmental …
Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees
Environmental quality strongly depends on human behavior patterns. Many environmental challenges are rooted in human actions, and thus, it is believed that these problems can be reduced through the promotion of pro-environmental behaviors (PB). Owing to this reality, the current study aims to reduce the environmental footprint of a hospital by promoting its employees' environment-specific behavior via corporate social responsibility (CSR) and eth…
Exploring the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication through Social Media on Banking Customer E-WOM and Loyalty in Times of Crisis
Previous studies have largely explored corporate social responsibility (CSR) for organization-centric outcomes to achieve organizational performance, organizational commitment, or organizational citizenship behavior. However, the importance of CSR to achieve customer-centric outcomes is underexplored to date. Contemporary researchers have recently turned their attention toward CSR from the viewpoint of customer-centric outcomes. Therefore, the pr…
The moderating role of CSR in board gender diversity and firm financial performance
The current study aims to investigate the moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in board gender diversity and firm financial performance. We used the panel data regression (fixed effect) in our analysis to check the moderating role of CSR in the board gender diversity and the firm financial performance. We collected the data of Chinese listed companies from the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges from the China stock market a…
Does higher population matter for labour market? Evidence from rapid migration in Canada
Canada has been a host country to migrants for decades through its attractive immigration policy. To enrich the literature, this article analyses the impact of immigration on the Canadian labour market at the regional level. For this purpose, 10 provinces of Canada have been selected for this study with the data spanning over 12 years from 2006 to 2017. Through the empirical analysis, the article finds there is a significant negative impact of im…
The effect of the revision of intangible assets accounting standards on enterprise technology innovation
Against the institutional background of building an innovative country, this article constructs the influence mechanism of the accounting standards for intangible assets for enterprise technology innovation. We select panel data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2002 to 2015. We focus on the two dimensions of innovation input and innovation output and use Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, zero expan…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism Industry
In terms of tourism companies, the corporate social responsibility commonly known as (CSR) can be addressed as basic guidelines for tourism business which enable them to assimilate environmental, socio-economic, and political concerns of indigenous people and local businesses in line with their own goals and objectives. In the modern era corporate social responsibility is seen in the context of multiple stakeholders. These stakeholders are not on…
Does corporate social responsibility matter to management forecast precision? Evidence from China
This article investigates whether socially responsible companies differ from other firms in the quality of earnings forecasts issued by management. Specifically, using 5192 earnings forecast observations of 669 Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2016, we examine whether companies that perform better in corporate social responsibility (CSR) still provide higher-precision management earnings forecasts compared with companies with poor CSR perfor…
Institutional investors’ site visits and corporate social responsibility
Analyzing the effects of Covid ‐19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies
This study is aimed at analyzing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We applied pooled ordinary least square (OLS) regression as a baseline methodology to determine the effects of COVID pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We found that the small- and medium-sized companies are most affected by this pandemic, in addition to that our analysis has revealed that ser…
What Factors Affect Patient Satisfaction in Public Sector Hospitals
Patient satisfaction can identify specific areas of improvement in public sector hospitals. However, the Pakistani healthcare system, and quality of service delivery is rarely assessed through the perspective of patient satisfaction. Our study demonstrated the performance of public healthcare systems in Pakistan by interacting with physical services (tangible and environmental), doctor−patient communication, and pharmacy and laboratory services b…
Prevalence of Burnout among Primary Health Care Staff and Its Predictors
Burnout, which is an emerging challenge in health systems, is very common among primary health care (PHC) workers. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of burnout among PHC workers, and its predictive factors, in a region in the west of Iran.In this cross-sectional study, all the health network staff ( n = 539) were enrolled. The data collection instrument was the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), which consists of 22 items and the t…
Institutional investors’ site visits and corporate social responsibility
Analyzing the effects of Covid ‐19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies
This study is aimed at analyzing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We applied pooled ordinary least square (OLS) regression as a baseline methodology to determine the effects of COVID pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We found that the small- and medium-sized companies are most affected by this pandemic, in addition to that our analysis has revealed that ser…
What Factors Affect Patient Satisfaction in Public Sector Hospitals
Patient satisfaction can identify specific areas of improvement in public sector hospitals. However, the Pakistani healthcare system, and quality of service delivery is rarely assessed through the perspective of patient satisfaction. Our study demonstrated the performance of public healthcare systems in Pakistan by interacting with physical services (tangible and environmental), doctor−patient communication, and pharmacy and laboratory services b…
Prevalence of Burnout among Primary Health Care Staff and Its Predictors
Burnout, which is an emerging challenge in health systems, is very common among primary health care (PHC) workers. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of burnout among PHC workers, and its predictive factors, in a region in the west of Iran.In this cross-sectional study, all the health network staff ( n = 539) were enrolled. The data collection instrument was the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), which consists of 22 items and the t…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism Industry
In terms of tourism companies, the corporate social responsibility commonly known as (CSR) can be addressed as basic guidelines for tourism business which enable them to assimilate environmental, socio-economic, and political concerns of indigenous people and local businesses in line with their own goals and objectives. In the modern era corporate social responsibility is seen in the context of multiple stakeholders. These stakeholders are not on…
Does corporate social responsibility matter to management forecast precision? Evidence from China
This article investigates whether socially responsible companies differ from other firms in the quality of earnings forecasts issued by management. Specifically, using 5192 earnings forecast observations of 669 Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2016, we examine whether companies that perform better in corporate social responsibility (CSR) still provide higher-precision management earnings forecasts compared with companies with poor CSR perfor…
Institutional investors’ site visits and corporate social responsibility
Analyzing the effects of Covid ‐19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies
This study is aimed at analyzing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We applied pooled ordinary least square (OLS) regression as a baseline methodology to determine the effects of COVID pandemic on the financial performance of Chinese listed companies. We found that the small- and medium-sized companies are most affected by this pandemic, in addition to that our analysis has revealed that ser…
Application of internal environmental locus of control to the context of eco-friendly drone food delivery services
This study was designed to apply the concept of internal environmental locus of control (INELOC) to the context of eco-friendly drone food delivery services. In particular, this study examined how four subdimensions of INELOC, namely, green consumers, activists, advocates, and recyclers, affect anticipated emotions, such as positive and negative anticipated emotions. In addition, the effects of positive and negative anticipated emotions on intent…
What Are The Channels Through Which Bank Liquidity Creation Affects GDP? Evidence From an Emerging Country
Gross domestic product (GDP) depends on myriad factor and financial intermediaries especially banks play a very important role in economic growth and development of a country. They not only lend loans rather also generate liquidity—which is very important for the smooth functioning of an economy. Therefore, this study explores the channels through which bank liquidity creation affects GDP. It uses the data from listed and unlisted Chinese banks r…
The Impact of Environmental Uncertainty on Corporate Innovation
The paper analyzes the effect of environmental uncertainty on corporate technological innovation from the perspective of an innovation value chain under the institutional background of China. This paper not only discusses the intermediary effect of agency problems on environmental uncertainty and corporate technological innovation but also deeply explores the influence of information transparency, government subsidies, and other mechanisms to all…
An Examination to Explain the Mechanism of Employees’ Environment-Specific Behavior through CSR and Work Engagement from the Perspective of Stewardship Theory
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an imperative for every sector globally. Yet, for a long time, the concept of CSR has been regarded from an organizational perspective. However, the importance of CSR in shaping the extra-role behavior of employees, such as their pro-environmental behavior (PEB-E), has been under-explored in the literature. Against this backdrop, the current study aims to investigate the impact of CSR on PEB-E …
A Contemporary Issue of Micro-Foundation of CSR, Employee Pro-Environmental Behavior, and Environmental Performance toward Energy Saving, Carbon Emission Reduction, and Recycling
The contemporary literature has largely addressed corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the macro or institutional level, whereas its effect at the micro-level is largely ignored. In addition, contemporary researchers have also ignored the importance of employee pro-environmental behavior to reduce the environmental footprint of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With this background, the present study attempts to decrease the environmental …
Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees
Environmental quality strongly depends on human behavior patterns. Many environmental challenges are rooted in human actions, and thus, it is believed that these problems can be reduced through the promotion of pro-environmental behaviors (PB). Owing to this reality, the current study aims to reduce the environmental footprint of a hospital by promoting its employees' environment-specific behavior via corporate social responsibility (CSR) and eth…
Exploring the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication through Social Media on Banking Customer E-WOM and Loyalty in Times of Crisis
Previous studies have largely explored corporate social responsibility (CSR) for organization-centric outcomes to achieve organizational performance, organizational commitment, or organizational citizenship behavior. However, the importance of CSR to achieve customer-centric outcomes is underexplored to date. Contemporary researchers have recently turned their attention toward CSR from the viewpoint of customer-centric outcomes. Therefore, the pr…
The moderating role of CSR in board gender diversity and firm financial performance
The current study aims to investigate the moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in board gender diversity and firm financial performance. We used the panel data regression (fixed effect) in our analysis to check the moderating role of CSR in the board gender diversity and the firm financial performance. We collected the data of Chinese listed companies from the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges from the China stock market a…
Does higher population matter for labour market? Evidence from rapid migration in Canada
Canada has been a host country to migrants for decades through its attractive immigration policy. To enrich the literature, this article analyses the impact of immigration on the Canadian labour market at the regional level. For this purpose, 10 provinces of Canada have been selected for this study with the data spanning over 12 years from 2006 to 2017. Through the empirical analysis, the article finds there is a significant negative impact of im…
The effect of the revision of intangible assets accounting standards on enterprise technology innovation
Against the institutional background of building an innovative country, this article constructs the influence mechanism of the accounting standards for intangible assets for enterprise technology innovation. We select panel data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2002 to 2015. We focus on the two dimensions of innovation input and innovation output and use Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, zero expan…
Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students' Depression Level and Academic Performance
Current research examines the impact of academic and familial stress on students' depression levels and the subsequent impact on their academic performance based on Lazarus' cognitive appraisal theory of stress. The non-probability convenience sampling technique has been used to collect data from undergraduate and postgraduate students using a modified questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. This study used the SEM method to examine the lin…
Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Job Performance of Working Mothers
The current study takes its philosophical roots from organizational behavior and psychology domains to investigate the impact of sleep deprivation on the job performance of mothers working in primary, secondary, and higher education institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan. It also examines the mediating role of workplace deviance in the relationship between sleep deprivation and the job performance of working mothers. The authors followed the non-probabi…
The nexus of good e-governance, e-trust, and digital citizenship behaviour
E-governance fosters good digital citizenship behaviour through the advancement of openness, involvement, accessibility, trust, and education of the public. Current research examines the direct impact of electronic governance on digital citizenship behaviour with the mediation of Electronic Trust amongst the Jordan public. In this regard, a questionnaire was floated and a sample of N = 302 was collected for further analysis. Descriptive analysis …
The Nexus of Good E-Governance, E-Trust, and Digital Citizenship Behaviour
E-governance fosters good digital citizenship behaviour through the advancement of openness, involvement, accessibility, trust, and education of the public. Current research examines the direct impact of electronic governance on digital citizenship behaviour with the mediation of Electronic Trust amongst the Jordan public. In this regard, a questionnaire was floated and a sample of N = 302 was collected for further analysis. Descriptive analysis …
Predicting Stock Market Returns Using Sentiment in Business News Articles
This study aims to predict stock returns by leveraging sentiment derived from daily financial news articles published in leading newspapers. The dataset combines firm-level financial indicators with a sentiment index constructed from online news coverage, covering daily data of 98,750 observations from September 2010 to December 2020. Employing the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, the findings demonstrate a significant relationship between ne…
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