This study addresses the illegitimate task-related stressor that establishes a threat to the employees’ self-image. The objective of this study is to provide a clear picture on how illegitimate tasks impact on employees’ mind who work in micro informal enterprises. No single study examined this relationship among employees of informal enterprises. An active employee of micro informal enterprises (MIE’s) within Lahore city is the unit of analysis of this study. The questionnaire of the study was sent to 500 employees of informal enterprises. Participants were 425 full-time employees in informal enterprises at various position levels, representing an 85 percent response rate. SPSS 21 and AMOS 16 statistical packages were used to analyze the collected data. Normality of variables was checked with the help of Skewness and Kurtosis scores. To test the hypotheses of this study, structural equation modeling (SEM) was implemented. The analysis comprises confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings of this study show that illegitimate tasks also boost the stress level of employees who work in informal entrepreneurship. Consequently, owners and managers of MIE should organize and design such training programs that increase the level of understanding about assigned tasks.

Cheating is not new in an academic line, but a continuous problem faced by educators. Many studies reported an increase trend of cheating among students from secondary or tertiary institutions from time to time. The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, attitude, and intention to cheat among undergraduate students. Also, the variable of justification to cheat is assigned as moderator variable in this relationship. The paper used a survey method for data collection, administered both in electronic and paper form. The Structural equation model with partial least square (PLS-SEM) was utilized to evaluate the data obtained from 917 undergraduate students in one of the public universities in Malaysia. The results provided support that justification, alongside subjective norms, perceived behavioral control were valid predictors of intention to cheat. However, Attitude was significant with the intention to cheat. Further, the findings showed that among the three constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior, justification could only significantly moderate the perceived behavioral control-intention to cheat relationship. The study was only conducted at one public university in Malaysia. Researchers are recommended to further examine the model in other universities and other countries. Implications for implementing strict anti-academic dishonesty policy and research are discussed.

Training and development have been applied in many aspects for organization performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between training and development and organizational performance. In addition, the study also analyzes the influence of organizational culture as a mediator in the relationship between training and development and organizational performance. The data are analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. IBM Statistical Package for the social sciences software (IBM-SPSS) version 23 and Smart Partial Least Square (SmartPLS) version 4.3 were used to evaluate the hypotheses of the study. The survey of the study involved 219 employees in courier service organizations in Malaysia. The finding of the study shows that there was a positive relationship between training and development and organizational performance. Furthermore, the finding also reveals that organization culture mediate the relationship between training and development and organization performance. Hence organizations should consistently train and develop their employees through formal and informal training programs as well as encourage employees to embrace organizational culture and values as well as cultivate the core values of organizational culture amongst employees to strengthen and improve organizational performance.

SMEs play a critical role for the economic growth of nations by providing the opportunity for individuals to develop their skills and to be self-employed. SMEs are flexible and are able to quickly acclimatize to the factors affecting supply and demand. In todays’ rapidly changing business environment, SMEs are faced with difficult challenges to effectively implement the practices that are frequently adopted by larger business rivals. This study will discuss the concept of entrepreneurial orientation, innovation performance, and learning orientation in the context of SMEs in Kuwait. This study assumes that Entrepreneurial Orientation has both direct and indirect impacts on Innovation Performance (IP) through the mediating role of learning orientation. This study used quantitative methods to investigate and test the hypothesis that the association of entrepreneurial orientation with innovation performance was mediated by learning orientation. The target population in the present study is the owners and CEOs of SMEs in Kuwait, and the stratified random sampling method was used to select 221 participants. This study used a structured questionnaire containing close ended questions to gather the data. The data was analyzed using the partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Results of the analysis show that learning orientation played a partial mediating role in the association of entrepreneurial orientation with innovation performance.

This study aims to review the factors which influence the form of green advertising and their impacts on green awareness improvement. The study is conducted with 200 students from Indonesia and Malaysia as respondents. Data from respondents is obtained through a questionnaire, and it is analyzed by two stages, which are confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model. It emphasizes the results conducted two research hypotheses based on the t-value. The research results state that respondents’ point of view associated with the media of green advertising was different between Indonesia and Malaysia, but the issue used in green advertising had similarities. It has known that green advertising is advertising media, which is formed from three dimensions; namely green theme, green impact, and green message. Furthermore, it is found that green advertising had an impact on green awareness improvement. The finding of this research is useful for a company that uses green marketing strategy, considering the factors assumed to be important from green advertising to improve customer green awareness on environmentally friendly products.

This paper aims to explore the influence of Accounting Information System (AIS) success or effectiveness factors namely system quality, information quality, service quality and training quality on the organizational benefits of listed Jordanian firms using a DeLone and McLean Information System (IS) success model. To achieve the purpose of this research, the collected data of 117 Chief Finance Officer (CFO) who are operating in the listed Jordanian firms that had already implemented AIS was analyzed via Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the research model. The results show that information quality, service quality and training quality had positive and a significant contribution on the organizational benefits. However, system quality did not have any significant impact on the organi-zational benefits in context of this research. Lastly, the implications of these results for both researchers and practitioners were discussed at the end of this paper.

E-sellers need to build buyer confidence in new transactions through a variety of transaction services so they can create retention behavior drivers. The research aim is to examine the driving factors for shaping customer retention by understanding the pattern of transaction characteristics and trust in online purchases in e-commerce. Questionnaire data collection came from buyers in the top six e-commerce in Indonesia with a purposive technique. We use PLS-based SEM analysis to answer hypotheses. As a result, we accepted all hypotheses, namely customization, contact interactivity, care, and character factors that had positive and significant effects on trust and buyer retention. Trust has proven to be an essential factor in shaping buyer retention on e-commerce sites.

An entrepreneurial mindset requires a solid foundation of various components. These compo-nents may possibly affect the entrepreneurial mindset and intention of the entrepreneurs either negatively or positively. Hence, to analyze such effect, this study attempts to examine the association among entrepreneurial education and the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), i.e., social norms, attitude and self-efficacy, and their effects on the Community College of Abqaiq students’ entrepreneurial intention. The structural equation modeling based on partial least square (PLS) was employed for analyzing the data of the study. The findings confirmed that the entrepreneurship education construct had a significant effect on attitude towards entrepreneurship. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant positive effect of attitude and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention. Finally, social norms did not disclose any significant effect on entrepreneurial intention.

This study attempts to conceptualize the direct implications of entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management on innovation performance and seeks to determine the mediation effect of marketing orientation on these relationships. This is the first attempt to construct such a model. The study empirically examines the conceptual model using a sample of 221 CEOs and owners of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kuwait. The data was collected using a close ended self-administered questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the model is tested using a measurement model and the structural model is constructed to understand the significance of the conceptual relationship posited in the hypotheses of the study. The findings of the study indicate that entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management had a considerable effect on innovation performance and that marketing orientation had a considerable influence on innovation performance. In addition, the findings indicate that marketing orientation mediated the effect of entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management on innovation performance. This study has provided some empirical evidence for the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as well as knowledge management in ensuring the success of SMEs; it also provides an explanation on the manner in which entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management improve the innovation performance of SMEs.

This empirical research aims to investigate the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, Person-Organization (P-O) fit and Job Satisfaction (JS) from the nurses’ perspective working in Private Hospitals in Jordan. This study examines the individual effect of HRM practices i.e. Recruitment and Selection (RS); Training and Development (TD); and Performance Appraisal (PA) on P-O fit and JS. In addition, it also examines the mediating effect of P-O fit on the relationship between HRM practices and JS. Total of 274 responses were collected directly using structured questionnaire via convenience sampling technique. The result was analyzed with PLS-SEM. Findings indicate that RS and PA were found to have significant effect on P-O fit. TD did not have any significant effect on P-O fit. In addition, P-O fit also had significant effect on nurse’s JS. In terms of mediating effect, P-O fit only mediated the relationship between RS and PA toward JS. However, there was no mediation effect on the relationship between TD and JS. This study may provide an initial blueprint for further investigation of other theoretical nurses’ job satisfaction and turnover intention related models. Finally, the study findings work as evidence about the new realization among the Jordanian organizations about the importance of adaption the HRM practices.