bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Mediating Role of Operations Management Practices on the Relationship Between the Dimensions of Manufacturing Flexibility and Competitiveness
Authors: Al-obaidy Omar F. Hassan , Ismael Imad Khaleel , Alshammary Ibrahim S. Abdullah 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine knowing the real role and impact of manufacturing flexibility on competitiveness through operations management practices, which is to determine the role and impact of manufacturing flexibility on competitiveness directly in the General Company for the Battery Industry. On the other hand, identifying the indirect role of flexible manufacturing systems in enhancing competitiveness.

Theoretical framework: The main purpose of the theoretical framework is to identify all the dimensions and variables included in the current study, and thus form a deep scientific view of the study and its variables.

Design/methodology/approach: field coexistence, personal interviews, and classification of data and information obtained in the questionnaire were adopted as the main tool used in the research and for a sample of 74 observations. Structural equations modelling was used to analyze the data using the programs (SPSS24, AMOS23).

Findings: the research reached important results that represent The most prominent of these is the significant impact of manufacturing flexibility in enhancing the competitiveness of the battery manufacturing company, and this effect is reinforced by improving operations management practices by the company.

Research, Practical & Social implications: The research was conducted in this company because it requires scientific research capable of solving many of its problems as a result of increased competition in the market, as well as the continuation of this company in production despite the cessation of many other companies as a result of.

Value: It stems from a vital issue related to aimed at a better future in terms of Operations Management Practices, Flexibility of Manufacturing, Operations Management Practices, and Competitiveness, especially after the crisis that led to a significant decline in the level of performance of organizations.
Awareness on Entrepreneurial Orientation Among Management Students in Vellore
Authors: Raj P. Sundar , Subbalakshmi A.V.V.S. 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze, by means of multivariate techniques, an instrument whose function is to measure the learning of teaching Entrepreneurship, verifying the change in the entrepreneurial profile between participants and non-participants of the entrepreneurial formation process. The research was carried out among university students of the Business Administration course, Vellore.

Theoretical Framework: Entrepreneurship is a socio-economic phenomenon that has been valued for its influence on the growth and development of regional and national economies. The main agent promoting this phenomenon is the entrepreneur; a subject endowed with multiple characteristics who act in a dynamic way and is focused on reaping results, the fruits of their personal efforts. The insertion and search for enterprising subjects in different societies have been noticeable in public, economic and educational programs and policies. Entrepreneurial education is highlighted as one of the most efficient ways to disseminate culture and train new entrepreneurs. From this perspective, the teaching of Entrepreneurship stands out as a resource used for the formation of new entrepreneurs.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The present study aims to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of students from four Institutions in Vellore, relating it to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and academic self-efficacy, and to try to understand which factors influence it. The sample of this study consists of 290 students from four Institutions in Vellore, of which 114 (39.3%) are male and 176 (60.7%) are female.

Findings: Regarding the degree of importance that students attribute to the Institution support structures for the creation of a company, there is a statistically significant difference, in which the GTEC students stand out, who are the ones who attach the most importance to ”Spaces and equipment for starting the business". With regard to the remaining questions, there are no statistically significant differences between the mean values of the answers given depending on the Institution.

Research, Practical/ & Social Implications: In the analysis of the differences between Institutions, it was verified the existence of statistically significant differences in the questions related to the desire to create their own company and to have a concrete business idea to create, in which SPIM showed a higher average in relation to the other three Institutions. Regarding the other two research questions, “I consider myself capable of creating a company”, and “I am able to work on my own”, there were no statistically significant differences between the four Institutions.

Originality/Value: The present study adds value among the management students with regard to the awareness on entrepreneurship which leads to the country’ economic development.
Comparative Analysis Between Banking and Insurance Sector on Perception of Transformational Leadership Styles
Authors: Pillai Rajani H , Arumugan A. 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in leadership styles prevalent in the public sector with those working in the banking and insurance industries. Cluster variables from both industries included in the analysis are as follows: Idealized influence, inspiring motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration are all components of leadership.

Theoretical Framework: Due to its apparent efficacy, transformational leadership has received a lot of attention from public sector researchers over the past decade. Successful leaders alter their teams by enlisting their followers' help in effecting change. A transformational leader is one who "transforms" their followers by inspiring them to make positive personal and professional shifts.

Design / Methodology / Approach:The study is exploratory research design using Quantitative data collected from the Banking and Insurance sector employees. The study uses a well-structured questionnaire using Likert scale items. The sample was chosen on Convenience basis from 5 select public sector Insurance companies and 5 select public sector Insurance companies. 100 Questionnaires each were distributed and 97 valid responses were selected for banking industry and 90 responses from Insurance Industry were selected for the study. Paired t test using SPSS software was utilised for analysing the data in the study.

Findings:The findings of the study show that there is significant difference between the leadership styles practices in Banking and Insurance industry. The banking sector employees showed a greater inclination towards transformational leadership with higher mean scores and statistically significant outcomes.

Research Implications: Banking and insurance each have their own distinct cultures and management philosophies; as a result, they cannot be studied as a single entity under the umbrella of the BFSI sector. Additional research on the various leadership styles currently in use within the banking and insurance sectors is necessary.

Originality/Value: There are no studies related comparative analysis between Insurance and Banking industry on the leadership styles in Public sector.
Cost Optimization in Disruption Conditions: A Case Study in Small Medium Enterprise
Authors: Tengtarto Mulya Adi Kredo , Singgih Moses Laksono , Siswanto Nurhadi 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The objective of this study was to design a cost optimization model that offers production improvement for SMEs.

Theoretical framework: Several studies related to production system disruption management have been conducted, with the majority focusing on large companies. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have limitations compared to large companies. Repairability is considered for cost optimization.

Design/methodology/approach: This research designed a cost optimization model that offers production improvement with repairability process for SME.

Findings: There is a need for repairability given the disruption caused by defective products in SMEs. There is a clear difference in total profit between the current state without repairability and proposed conditions with repairability. SMEs suffer massive losses in the absence of repairs, assuming they do not consider repairing defective products with a production defect rate of approximately 15%. The current state produces many downgraded products. However, repairability still needs to be improved to increase profits.

Research, Practical & Social implications: The study implied that there is a need to consider repairability for product defects at SMEs, especially those with a 15% product defect rate. The use of the proposed model optimizes profit and is designed to increase production capacity based on product improvements. Repairability was considered in this research, considering that SMEs are more susceptible to disruptions compared to large companies.

Originality/value: The novelty of this paper is adding process repairability to the cost optimization model for SMEs in the textile sector, then considering the product downgrade under the conditions in SMEs.
Does Islamic Banking Sector Matter for Income Disparity Reduction? Empirical Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Agustina Maulidar , Majid M. Shabri Abd. , Faisal Faisal , Musnadi Said 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: This empirical study aims to investigate the impact of the Islamic banking sector, economic growth, and inflation on the reduction of income disparities in Indonesia from the short-run and long-run perspectives.

Theoretical framework: Since the 19th century, the interaction between the financial sector, economic growth, and income disparity has been intensively researched and received attention both from financial economists and practitioners. The linkages between the financial sector, including the banking industry, economic growth, and income inequality have been a debatable issue, whether the financial sector affects economic growth and income inequality or vice versa. Within this theoretical framework, the study builds an empirical model to examine the contribution of the Islamic banking industry to economic growth and income inequality in the context of Indonesia.

Design/methodology/approach: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method is adopted to analyse the monthly time-series data from January 2015 to December 2020 to measure the short-run and long-run effects of Islamic banking performance, economic growth, and inflation on income disparity in Indonesia.

Findings: The results of the study revealed that Islamic banks contributed to the reduction of income disparity in Indonesia both in the short run and long run. In addition, economic growth and price stability also helped reduce income disparities in the country both in the short run and long run.

Research, Practical & Social implications: The findings of the study suggest the importance for Islamic banks to provide quality of balanced, effective, affordable, and high-quality financing to the priority real sector to enhance their impacts on economic growth and income disparity reduction. The Indonesian Monetary Authority should continuously strengthen the policy mix through various innovations to continuously ensure banks' ability to channel financing to the real economic sector and build an effective financing allocation mechanism to promote inclusive economic growth that reduces income disparity nationwide.

Originality/value: The study is among the first attempts to measure and evaluate the contribution of the Islamic banking industry to income disparity reduction in Indonesia using various indicators to measure Islamic banking performance and an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration.
Analysis of the Impact of International Migration on the Financial and Economic Cooperation of Countries
Authors: Savin Viktor , Yin Le , Chernobay Liana , Konokhov Serhiy , Vasiltsova Natalia , Mosiiuk Stefaniia 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The aim is to study the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of the analysis of international migration and identify its impact on the financial and economic cooperation of countries.

Theoretical framework: The development of cryptocurrencies by banking institutions operating in the online environment provides for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies on stock exchanges, not on crypto exchanges, allowing the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment and investment.

Design/methodology/approach: The methodological basis of the study is built on general and special methods of economic analysis and scientific cognition, namely: system analysis, synthesis, scientific abstraction, comparison, analogy, statistical analysis, functional-systemic approach, graphical and tabular methods, generalization, systematization, grouping, k-means clustering method.

Findings: The obtained results of the study allowed us to establish that in today's conditions the processes of international migration have significantly aggravated and have a significant impact on the formation of the basic principles of financial and economic cooperation of countries. The largest migration flows from Ukraine to European countries have been identified, which is due to the intensification of the financial, economic, humanitarian, and socio-political crisis caused by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It has been proven that the greatest destructive impact of international migration is experienced by such countries as Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Hungary, where the largest number of refugees and socially vulnerable populations is concentrated.

Research, Practical & Social implications: A significant level of financial support to Ukraine from highly developed countries has been established. This is manifested in the provision of significant amounts of credit and grant assistance. It has been suggested to strengthen interstate cooperation between countries in the field of migration to overcome the crisis.

Originality/value: proposals have been made to form a set of measures to regulate migration flows and balance the international labor market.
Knowledge Management as a New Strategy of Innovative Development
Authors: Koshelieva Oksana , Tsyselska Oksana , Kravchuk Olena , Baida Ihor , Mironov Volodymyr , Miatenko Nataliia 
Published: July 2023

Theoretical framework: The relevance of studying the growing role of knowledge management in the context of ensuring the innovative activity of enterprises is increasing. The results demonstrate a number of important conclusions that have made it possible to expand the existing theoretical and practical aspects of the knowledge management concept.

Design/methodology/approach: The conducted study in service companies has revealed a low culture of using this concept in the Ukrainian context. In the course of the research, it has been established similar and different features of the influence of knowledge management on innovation of service companies, direct and indirect relationship between variables, complex structure and indirect impact of production, integration, application of information on the speed, quality and number of innovations in enterprises.

Findings: The complex structure of the relationship between knowledge and innovative activity can be a consequence of insufficient level of personnel competencies, available information and data management technologies, methods and practices of production, integration and application. Therefore, the low innovativeness of the service companies under study in the context of system orientation and technological capabilities of the companies, in particular, in the practice of knowledge management, and the low impact of knowledge and information on the innovation of services and processes on the market of Ukraine have been revealed.

Research, Practical & Social implications: This is precisely why the strategy of personalization significantly prevails in its use in knowledge management compared to the codification strategy, which is manifested in the limited practice of using systems and technologies for the generation, accumulation, storage, use, dissemination of knowledge.

Originality/value: In addition, the use of the personalization strategy is explained by the fact that the service companies under consideration focus more on processes, the optimization of which significantly affects interaction with customers and the efficiency of operations.
The Effect of it Governance on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in Iraqi Banks
Authors: Hashem Mohammad Abas , Fakhari Hossein , Naftchli Eisa Akbari 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to understand the greater responsibility placed by various organizations on the social responsibilities of the organizations towards their stakeholders. It also aims to explore the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for daily operations of organizations to fulfill their social responsibilities to society.

Theoretical Framework: The study made assumptions based on in-depth review to investigate variables in Iraqi context. One of the comprehensive measurement criteria provided by Liao (2019) covers the three dimensions of effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency.

Design/methodology/approach: The statistical population contains all listed companies on the Iraqi Stock Exchange between 2015 and 2021. The hypotheses were tested employing a multivariate regression model. The hypotheses of the study were tested using a sample of 168 observations from listed Iraqi banks from 2015 to 2021 and a multiple regression model based on the panel data technique of the random effects model.

Findings: The results showed a positive and statistically significant relationship between social responsibility and bank performance. Also, information technology governance (ITG) moderates this effect. Additional methods (t+1, fixed effects, ordinary least squares) were employed to test the validity of the research models.

Research, Practical & Social Implication: As this is the first study to investigate this issue in emerging markets, it provides users, analysts, and legal bodies with valuable information regarding CSR, which substantially impacts banks' performance.

Originality/value: The finding suggests several consequences of IT governances and its effects on corporate social responsibility which contributing to the development of knowledge.
The Impact of Applying Quality Standards on the Internal Operations in the Public Sector in the Sultanate of Oman
Authors: Alharthy Fahad Said , Ajina Ayman 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify the impact of applying quality standards on the internal operations efficiency in public sector institutions in the Sultanate of Oman along with measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of operations after applying quality standards.

Theoretical framework: This study focuses on the definition of quality and its history, quality standards, its types, rational behind their application, continuous improvement methodology which is Deming cycle (plan, Do, check, Act), and defining internal processes and their dimensions.

Design/Methodology/Approach: To achieve the objective of this study , the questionnaire was used as a main tool for data collection. Questionnaires were distributed to a simple random sample of 115; 107, questionnaires were retrieved and (102) were suitable for analysis. The data was then analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques (arithmetic means and standard deviations, multiple linear regression analysis using the stepwise method, and Cronbach alpha for stability).

Findings: The main findings in this study was identifies that prove there is a gap between quality standereds applications in planning of operations, readiness, and outputs.

Research /Practical /Social Implications: This study is significant since it focuses on the influence of applying quality standards in terms of results and effect, specifically on processes and whether there is continuous process improvement. In social indicator it is impacting individuals satisfactions specially when speaking about the customers experience. Moreover, in enconmoical indocators it is indicates improvement of the institutional performance.

Originality/ Value: This study is distinguished from previous studies in that it focuses on the impact of applying quality standards in terms of results and effect, specifically on processes. Moreover, this study specially build based on Oman experience.
The Impact of the Correlation Between Working Capital and the Value of the Company in the Environment of Iraqi Banks
Authors: Afloogee Shaymaa Nihro Jabal , Sallal Farqad Faisal Jadaan , Hameed Ali Mahdi 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The research aims to measure the impact and correlation relationship between working capital and the value of the company in Iraqi banks.

Theoretical framework: and the research shows a conceptual approach to working capital and its intended importance, policies and indicators. In addition, it reviews the value of the company and the factors affecting it, and the role of working capital on the value of the company.

Design/methodology/approach: In order to achieve this, the authors selected a sample of the commercial banking sector listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange, where four commercial banks were selected, namely (the Iraqi investment bank), (the Bank of Baghdad), (Kurdistan bank), (Ashur international investment bank) and for the years from (2016-2020) and according to their availability in the market to be the research sample. In order to measure the research variables, the authors used the model of the amount of change in working capital, to measure the variable of working capital, and the modified (Tobin's Q) model was used to measure the value of the company, in addition, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used, and the regression equation to measure the correlation and impact relationship.

Findings: The results indicate the existence of a positive impact relationship with a significant significance between the working capital and the value of the company at a significant level of 0.05, as an increase in working capital and the value of the company at a significant level of 0.05 by one unit leads to an improvement of (0.602) , and the results also showed a significant impact relationship with a value of (T) of (13.251), and the regression coefficients with a value of (F) amounted to (103.224), and this contributed to the explanation of the amount of (0.240) of the permissible discrepancy between working capital and the company's value is at a significant level of( 0.05).

Research, Practical & Social implications: The need to pay attention to current assets and current liabilities and invest optimally in them because they are an important element along with fixed assets and long-term liabilities in order to achieve high profitability ratios and then achieve optimal performance and try to maximize the wealth of the owners.

Originality/value: The management of Iraqi banks should intensify interest in managing working capital in a good and scientific way, for the sake of the best expected performance, and it has to do with achieving better results, through paying attention to the careful analysis of the components of current assets, and the corresponding current liabilities, to achieve the required efficiency in managing capital The Worker.