Waqas Mehmood
Biographic Data
| ID | 229296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waqas Mehmood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waqas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehmood |
| SIGNATURE | MEHMOOD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7975-220X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diversity as a Social Challenge
This study explores how ethnic and religious diversity impacts social unrest and homicide rates across 187 countries, categorized into high-income, middle-income, and low-income groups. Although diversity is a complex social fact, it has context-dependent and sophisticated connections with social stability. Robust panel data analysis, utilizing OLS, fixed/random effects, and GMM techniques, was employed to assess the effects of diversity alongsid…
Systematic Literature Review of CSR in the GCC
Companies face increasing pressure to address a wider array of social responsibilities beyond legal and environmental obligations. This push prompts them to adopt a more comprehensive approach to their operations. Therefore, the objective of this study is to review the studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR), including empirical and theoretical literature, due to the substantial growth of CSR over the last two decades. This study extract…
Corruption's Shadow on Sustainability
This study investigates the relationship between the Corruption Perceptions Index and the ecological footprint across 41 countries in the Asia‐Pacific region. Additionally, income status, information technologies and digitalisation are included as moderators in the relationship between the corruption perception index and ecological footprint. Pooled OLS regression and robustness testing using 2SLS are applied to data from 41 Asia‐Pacific countrie…
Financial Development's Role in Reducing the Ecological Footprint of Energy Consumption in BRICS
This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and environmental degradation in BRICS countries from 1995 to 2022, focusing on how financial development moderates this relationship. The key objective is to explore the potential of financial development to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of energy consumption, mainly through promoting cleaner energy alternatives and improving energy efficiency. To achieve this, the stud…
A bibliometric and visual analysis of revisit intention research in hospitality and tourism
Purpose One of the issues currently being discussed around the globe, and especially in the tourism industry, is revisit intention. This study uses a bibliometric analysis strategy based on the Web of Science (WOS) database to examine the literature on revisit intention. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a sample of 482 articles was analyzed. The R programming language was used to process the data and graph the results. Findings The resu…
Corona-phobia violated human rights? Impact of Covid-19 on patient’s well-being
Purpose This study aims to measure whether admittance in the quarantine ward due to COVID-19 can affect one’s mental health. Nowadays, many countries worldwide are battling with the threat of the COVID-19 contagion, and it is difficult to understand how the pandemic leaves psychological impacts on one’s well-being. Design/methodology/approach This research used qualitative and quantitative approaches to assess the psychological impacts of quarant…
Social capital and social well-being among youth
This study examines the relationship between various types of social capital (such as bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. This study also explores whether self-efficacy moderates the relationship between three types of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. The data were collected from 852 students selected randomly fro…
Inclusive mapping of initial public offerings
Modern slavery
This article reviews and analyses the empirical and theoretical literature on modern slavery, a topic that has received substantial attention in recent years. A qualitative and quantitative meta‐literature review was carried out on modern slavery literature published between 1999 and 2021. A total of 280 works on the topic were analysed using citation analysis (Harzing's Publish or Perish and VOSviewer software) and content analysis. Several note…
Environmental pollution, trade balance, human development index, foreign direct investment, and natural resources rent impacts on initial public offering (IPO) variability in Pakistan
Institutional quality and economic growth
The current study investigates the relationship between institutional quality and economic growth, focusing on South‐Asian countries entailing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, from 2002 to 2018. The data are analysed using the dynamic heterogeneous panel (panel autoregressive distributed lag [ARDL] model) approach, specifically the dynamic fixed effect (DFE), mean group (MG), and pooled mean group (PMG). Based on the fin…
Silent cries behind closed doors
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of fear of COVID-19 and situational depression on the quality of life (QOL) of Pakistani citizens. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted on Pakistani citizens via the snowball sampling technique. A total of 377 respondents (256 males and 121 females) participated in this study from August to October 2020. Adapted scales were validated using confirmatory factor analysis, and partial least…
Institutional quality and initial public offering underpricing
The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of institutional quality on the underpricing of IPOs in Hong Kong. Besides, ordinary least squares presented in the study used quantile regression as a robust technique to investigate the association of institutional quality and the underpricing level of 986 IPO from January 2000 to December 2017 in the Hong Kong stock market. Through research findings, it is asserted that voice and…
Financial Development's Role in Reducing the Ecological Footprint of Energy Consumption in BRICS
This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and environmental degradation in BRICS countries from 1995 to 2022, focusing on how financial development moderates this relationship. The key objective is to explore the potential of financial development to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of energy consumption, mainly through promoting cleaner energy alternatives and improving energy efficiency. To achieve this, the stud…
Social capital and social well-being among youth
This study examines the relationship between various types of social capital (such as bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. This study also explores whether self-efficacy moderates the relationship between three types of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. The data were collected from 852 students selected randomly fro…
Silent cries behind closed doors
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of fear of COVID-19 and situational depression on the quality of life (QOL) of Pakistani citizens. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted on Pakistani citizens via the snowball sampling technique. A total of 377 respondents (256 males and 121 females) participated in this study from August to October 2020. Adapted scales were validated using confirmatory factor analysis, and partial least…
Silent cries behind closed doors
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of fear of COVID-19 and situational depression on the quality of life (QOL) of Pakistani citizens. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted on Pakistani citizens via the snowball sampling technique. A total of 377 respondents (256 males and 121 females) participated in this study from August to October 2020. Adapted scales were validated using confirmatory factor analysis, and partial least…
Institutional quality and initial public offering underpricing
The main objective of this research is to investigate the impact of institutional quality on the underpricing of IPOs in Hong Kong. Besides, ordinary least squares presented in the study used quantile regression as a robust technique to investigate the association of institutional quality and the underpricing level of 986 IPO from January 2000 to December 2017 in the Hong Kong stock market. Through research findings, it is asserted that voice and…
Institutional quality and economic growth
The current study investigates the relationship between institutional quality and economic growth, focusing on South‐Asian countries entailing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, from 2002 to 2018. The data are analysed using the dynamic heterogeneous panel (panel autoregressive distributed lag [ARDL] model) approach, specifically the dynamic fixed effect (DFE), mean group (MG), and pooled mean group (PMG). Based on the fin…
Inclusive mapping of initial public offerings
Modern slavery
This article reviews and analyses the empirical and theoretical literature on modern slavery, a topic that has received substantial attention in recent years. A qualitative and quantitative meta‐literature review was carried out on modern slavery literature published between 1999 and 2021. A total of 280 works on the topic were analysed using citation analysis (Harzing's Publish or Perish and VOSviewer software) and content analysis. Several note…
Environmental pollution, trade balance, human development index, foreign direct investment, and natural resources rent impacts on initial public offering (IPO) variability in Pakistan
A bibliometric and visual analysis of revisit intention research in hospitality and tourism
Purpose One of the issues currently being discussed around the globe, and especially in the tourism industry, is revisit intention. This study uses a bibliometric analysis strategy based on the Web of Science (WOS) database to examine the literature on revisit intention. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a sample of 482 articles was analyzed. The R programming language was used to process the data and graph the results. Findings The resu…
Corona-phobia violated human rights? Impact of Covid-19 on patient’s well-being
Purpose This study aims to measure whether admittance in the quarantine ward due to COVID-19 can affect one’s mental health. Nowadays, many countries worldwide are battling with the threat of the COVID-19 contagion, and it is difficult to understand how the pandemic leaves psychological impacts on one’s well-being. Design/methodology/approach This research used qualitative and quantitative approaches to assess the psychological impacts of quarant…
Social capital and social well-being among youth
This study examines the relationship between various types of social capital (such as bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. This study also explores whether self-efficacy moderates the relationship between three types of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) and social well-being among youth in Pakistan. The data were collected from 852 students selected randomly fro…
Systematic Literature Review of CSR in the GCC
Companies face increasing pressure to address a wider array of social responsibilities beyond legal and environmental obligations. This push prompts them to adopt a more comprehensive approach to their operations. Therefore, the objective of this study is to review the studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR), including empirical and theoretical literature, due to the substantial growth of CSR over the last two decades. This study extract…
Corruption's Shadow on Sustainability
This study investigates the relationship between the Corruption Perceptions Index and the ecological footprint across 41 countries in the Asia‐Pacific region. Additionally, income status, information technologies and digitalisation are included as moderators in the relationship between the corruption perception index and ecological footprint. Pooled OLS regression and robustness testing using 2SLS are applied to data from 41 Asia‐Pacific countrie…
Financial Development's Role in Reducing the Ecological Footprint of Energy Consumption in BRICS
This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and environmental degradation in BRICS countries from 1995 to 2022, focusing on how financial development moderates this relationship. The key objective is to explore the potential of financial development to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of energy consumption, mainly through promoting cleaner energy alternatives and improving energy efficiency. To achieve this, the stud…
Diversity as a Social Challenge
This study explores how ethnic and religious diversity impacts social unrest and homicide rates across 187 countries, categorized into high-income, middle-income, and low-income groups. Although diversity is a complex social fact, it has context-dependent and sophisticated connections with social stability. Robust panel data analysis, utilizing OLS, fixed/random effects, and GMM techniques, was employed to assess the effects of diversity alongsid…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Finance (3 works)