ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal
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description: ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal (ANMJ) is a peer-reviewed, quarterly scholarly publication dedicated to advancing contemporary management research, theories, and practices. The journal serves as a global platform for academics, researchers, and industry professionals to explore emerging trends, innovative strategies, and critical challenges in management sciences.
publisher: ACADEMIA (PVT) LTD
language: en
publication name: ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal
issn: 3106-4272
items: Financial Reporting Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from the Pakistan Stock Exchange
items: Role of Transformational Leadership, Psychological Empowerment, and Organizational Justice in Enhancing Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
items: Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Stock Market Development in Pakistan
items: Social Aspects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
items: Impact of Capital Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Size on Firm Performance in Emerging Markets
items: Determinants of Teachers’ Satisfaction at Secondary Level in Case of D.G Khan
items: AI-Driven Leadership: Redefining Decision-Making and Human Capital Management in the Era of Automation
items: The Role of Gamification in Employee Motivation
items: Impact of Renewable Energy and Financial Development on Economic Growth of Pakistan
items: Does Financial Stability Enhance Employee Retention and Productivity? Evidence from Pakistan’s Service Industry
items: The Role of Employee Motivation and Financial Performance in Enhancing Organizational Competitiveness: Evidence from the Banking Sector of Pakistan
items: Impact of Green HRM Practices on Employee Performance in the Banking Sector in Islamabad, Pakistan
items: The Impact of Knowledge Management Systems on Organizational Innovation and Firm Performance
items: Management in the 21st Century: Functions, Frameworks, and Emerging Trends
items: Innovation Management in Startups vs. Established Firms
items: Management: Evolution, Functions, and Future Directions
items: Customer Experience Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
items: Consumer Perception and Brand Loyalty in the Era of Social Media Marketing
items: Impact of Strategic Alliances on Business Growth in Emerging Markets
items: The Role of Digital Transformation in Modern Business Management: Opportunities and Challenges

Financial Reporting Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from the Pakistan Stock Exchange
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description: The transparency withinside the economic reporting is instrumental in growing investor confidence, minimizing statistics asymmetry, and growing performance withinside the capital markets. This paper seems at the relationship among transparency of monetary reporting and organization cost in the framework of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). As a made of the employer principle and disclosure idea, the look at hypothesizes that obvious monetary reporting decreases enterprise conflicts and is likewise a trademark of credibility to buyers consequently improving marketplace valuation. Conceptually, the observe proposes that the better the disclosure fine and income transparency the better the probabilities of a organization being subjected to a higher valuation withinside the rising markets the usage of marketplace-primarily based totally danger checks of corporation fee measurement (Tobin, Q and marketplace-to-ee-e book ratio). The article additionally talks of the regulatory modifications which have been enforced in Pakistan to beautify the monetary reporting requirements and company governance practices the studies factors out that transparency lowers value of capital and will increase liquidity that in the long run creates fee to the corporation. The outcomes provide regulators, company managers and traders implications via way of means of stressing the strategic relevance of obvious monetary reporting in reinforcing the capital markets withinside the growing economies.
subject: Articles
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subject: Transparency in financial reporting
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subject: Firm value
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subject: Pakistan Stock Exchange
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subject: Information Asymmetry
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subject: Agency Theory
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subject: Corporate disclosure
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subject: emerging market
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subject: Corporate governance
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creator: Furqan Naseer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Furqan Naseer (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-13
publication date: 2025-12-13
starting page: 55
ending page: 69
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.4.2025.1594

Role of Transformational Leadership, Psychological Empowerment, and Organizational Justice in Enhancing Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
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description: Colleges and universities have turn out to be very aggressive and dynamic and as such, the organization of better learning (HEI) can not do with out committed college and team of workers to supply institutional excellence and sustainability. The management style, belief of equity and mental empowerment has been discovered to be the important thing determinants of the organizational dedication of personnel. This paper gives the connection among transformational management, mental empowerment and organisational justice and their results on the extent of organisational dedication in HEIs. Based at the Social Exchange Theory and Organizational Support Theory, the studies hypothesizes that transformational management allows in imparting mental empowerment and perceptions of justice which ultimately complements the affective attachment and dedication of personnel to their institutions. Transformational leaders have the cappotential to inspire, have an highbrow stimulus and keep in mind their subordinates in my view accordingly developing an ecosystem of believe and motivation amongst them. At the identical time, the distributive, procedural, and interactional justice perceptions have an effect at the worker belief in their organization. The intrinsic motivation and loyalty of personnel is in addition extended with the aid of using mental empowerment, which incorporates meaning, competence, self-willpower and effect. Instead of documented in isolation, the studies has integrated those constructs right into a unmarried framework making it to play a position withinside the literature on management and organizational behaviors, specially withinside the context of HEIs. The outcomes will offer each theoretical and sensible implications to the college directors who need to beautify the dedication of the college and the overall performance of the college.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Transformational leadership
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subject: Psychological empowerment
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subject: Organizational justice
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subject: Organizational commitment
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subject: Higher education institutions
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subject: Social exchange theory
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creator: Iram Fatima
creator: Muhammad Arshad
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Iram Fatima, Muhammad Arshad (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-04
publication date: 2025-12-04
starting page: 41
ending page: 54
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.4.2025.1592

Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Stock Market Development in Pakistan
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description: This paper is an evaluation of ways Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has contributed to the improvement of the inventory marketplace in Pakistan. The examine explores the results of inflows of FDI available in the marketplace capitalization, inventory turnover, and the liquidity in standard the use of secondary statistics of the duration 2000-2022 the use of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Through empirical have a look at, it's been proved that FDI performs an critical position withinside the improvement of the inventory marketplace with the aid of using elevating the performance of the inventory marketplace, boosting buyers self belief and elevating liquidity. The consequences additionally imply that macroeconomic stability, excellent of law and economic infrastructure are a number of the foremost mediating variables in FDI-inventory marketplace relationship. This paper highlights the importance of drawing in sustainable FDI flows with the intention to beautify the boom of the capital markets in Pakistan and recommends coverage movements to accumulate investment-conducive environments.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
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subject: Stock Market Development
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subject: Market Capitalization
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subject: Liquidity
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subject: Pakistan
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subject: Investor Confidence
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subject: Financial Markets
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creator: Muhammad Muzammil Asghar
creator: Muhammad Faisal Razzaq
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Muhammad Muzammil Asghar, Muhammad Faisal Razzaq (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-17
publication date: 2025-11-17
starting page: 29
ending page: 39
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.4.2025.1585

Social Aspects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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description: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were implemented by United Nations in 2015 form a very huge international agenda of changing societies by 2030. Although much had been reached particularly in the area of economics and the environmental factors; the social side as highlighted in the matters of poverty eradication, good education, health and wellbeing, gender equality, reduction of inequalities and inclusion, all tend to work out better on platform of providing equal sustainable development. The given paper will focus on the concepts of SDGs, and that is why social underpinning to the latter is required to specify how the objectives will be able to assist in the improvement of human well-being and social motivation. Depending on the systematic review and the thematic analysis of the interdisciplinary literature, the paper develops the key social issues related in the framework of SDG and evaluates the problem and opportunities in actualization of the social agenda. The findings in this regard indicate that the social sustainability is in the middle of the achievement of SDGs and that there should be cohesive policies in place to handle inequality, inclusion and equitable access to important services. The paper follows a conclusion at the end and recommends the importance of emphasizing more on social aspects in countries and international policies on development.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Thematic areas
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subject: Sustainable Development Goals
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subject: social sustainability
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subject: inclusion
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subject: equity
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subject: health
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subject: education
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subject: inequality
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creator: Khuram Farooq
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Khuram Farooq (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-08
publication date: 2025-11-08
starting page: 13
ending page: 27
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.4.2025.1584

Impact of Capital Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Size on Firm Performance in Emerging Markets
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description: This paper has analyzed how the capital shape, company governance and the scale of the company have an effect on the overall performance of publicly indexed corporations in Lahore, Pakistan. The have a look at become primarily based totally on 50 corporations the use of secondary facts supplied in 2018-2023 and investigated the hyperlinks among the debt-to-fairness ratio, board independence, the presence of the audit committee, the dimensions of the corporation, and the profitability indicators (ROA and ROE). The proposed relationships had been examined the use of descriptive statistics, correlation evaluation and a couple of regression evaluation. The findings screen that a slight leverage has a incredible contribution to enhancing company overall performance and an powerful company governance mechanism which include unbiased forums and useful audit committees has a effective effect on profitability. Firm length did now no longer have the sort of great impact and it's far feasible to mention that organizational scale isn't always a substantial determinant of overall performance. These effects suggest how vital the monetary and governance techniques are in improving the overall performance of companies withinside the rising marketplace surroundings in Pakistan. The studies advises businesses to make sure that they have got an top of the line degree of capital shape and decorate suitable governance practices which will achieve sustainable profitability.
subject: Articles
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subject: Capital Structure
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subject: Corporate Governance
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subject: Firm Size
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subject: Firm Performance
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subject: Emerging Markets
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subject: Leverage
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subject: Board Independence
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creator: Muhammad Naeem Shah
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Muhammad Naeem Shah (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-24
publication date: 2025-10-24
starting page: 01
ending page: 11
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.4.2025.1582

Determinants of Teachers’ Satisfaction at Secondary Level in Case of D.G Khan
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description: The quality of teaching, student achievement and school performance largely depends on the satisfaction of teachers. In Pakistan, teacher satisfaction is characterized by a number of personal, institutional as well as socio-economic factors, particularly in districts like Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G. Khan). This paper examines the factors that define teacher satisfaction in secondary level schools in D.G. Khan. The research is based on the available literature and theoretical insights to determine such factors as the level of salary, working conditions, administrative support, quantity of work, professional recognition, and career development opportunities. The results imply that the satisfaction of teachers cannot be attributed to one single factor; on the contrary, the level of satisfaction can be attributed to the complex interplay of motivation and organizational factors. These determinants are significant to educational policymakers in understanding and enhancing the school settings and retaining the teachers.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Teacher Satisfaction
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subject: Secondary Education
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subject: Working Conditions
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subject: Motivation
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subject: D.G. Khan
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subject: Pakistan
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creator: Muhammad Farhan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Muhammad Farhan (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-15
publication date: 2025-09-15
starting page: 25
ending page: 34
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.3.2025.1089

AI-Driven Leadership: Redefining Decision-Making and Human Capital Management in the Era of Automation
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description: Introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the manner of dealing with human capital is what triggers the paradigm shift of management and human capital management. The information mined knowledge, predictive analytics, and wise selection making structures are reshaping the normative chief frameworks that have been being mainly primarily based totally at the human judgment, intuition, and experience. A current phenomenon of AI-primarily based totally management is mentioned withinside the paper because the implementation of automation and device mastering has supplanted the location of leaders in choice-making, motivation of employees, and improvement of talents. With connection with the cutting-edge educational reassets and case studies, the item is devoted to the duality of the effect of AI, the propensity of AI to make paintings extra efficient, extra just, and extra strategic, and the propensity of AI to elevate the priority of morality and trust, worker mistrust, and reliance on technologies. The paper presupposes the qualitative method withinside the methodology, that's primarily based totally at the synthesis of the to be had literature and organizational practices to decide the opportunity of reconciliation of technological adoption with human-orientated values with the aid of using managers. Findings suggest that a hit AI-primarily based totally management calls for technical capabilities, and vitality, versatility, and integrity. The article concludes that AI will now no longer update the function of the management, however, it's going to supplement it, and the leaders will make extra knowledgeable, inclusive, and future-pushed selections in dealing with human capital.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Artificial intelligence
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subject: Leadership
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subject: Human capital management
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subject: Automation
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subject: DecisionMaking
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subject: Digital transformation
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subject: Ethical AI
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subject: Future of paintings
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creator: Mehwish Mukhtar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mehwish Mukhtar (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 45
ending page: 54
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.2.2025.843

The Role of Gamification in Employee Motivation
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description: Motivating employees is one of the most vital elements of organizational success including productivity, engagement, innovativeness, and retention. Gamification, or the use of game design elements and mechanics in non-game contexts, has emerged as a new way to motivate employees in recent years. This paper reviews the state of gamification as a motivational tool as it provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical bases, use in workplaces, case studies, limitations, and future directions. Uses of motivational theories such as Self-Determination Theory, Expectancy Theory and Flow Theory, were used as analytics to examine gamification elements for motivating employees, including points, badges, leaderboards and participatory simulation. A review of available data and various corporate examples illustrates how gamification motivates employees, which has an overall positive impact on engagement, performance and satisfaction. Potential limitations pertaining to reliance on extrinsically based motivation, practitioner ethical concerns, and cultural considerations, are also discussed. The evidence demonstrates that when gamification designs are specifically directed towards the interests of multiple stakeholders and consistent with organizational goals, then gamification has promise in motivating employees. Ultimately the success of gamification in the long term resides on the degree to which, the gamification design fosters positive incentives for employee engagement to enhance intrinsic motivators, perceived transparency, and personalization. Future avenues of growth suggest AI-driven adaptive gamification and immersive technologies (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality). In sum, gamification is an effective but dual-edged strategy for organizations that wish to engage, motivate, and develop high performing workforces.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gamification
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subject: Employee Motivation
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subject: Workplace Engagement
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subject: Intrinsic Motivation
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subject: Human Resource Management
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subject: Organizational Behavior
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subject: Self-Determination Theory
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subject: Gamified Work Systems
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creator: Kinza Ahmed
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Kinza Ahmed (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 25
ending page: 43
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.2.2025.842

Impact of Renewable Energy and Financial Development on Economic Growth of Pakistan
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description: This study analyzes how the consumption of renewable energy and financial development affect the economic growth of Pakistan between 1990 and 2023. The analysis results indicate that both renewable energy and financial development have the positive and statistically significant impacts on the economic growth of the country. The consumption of renewable energy was identified to have a greater influence on growth than financial development, which implies that the significance of the availability of reliable and sustainable energy supply is core to the stability of the economy and the productivity of the sector. The results indicate that as a nation, Pakistan has, in the past, relied on imported fossil fuels, which have helped to create an energy shortage, inflation and fluctuating industrial production. With the growth in the use of renewable forms of energy, there are beneficial effects to the economy in the form of lower fuel import prices, increased energy supply, and assistance to the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors. Likewise, monetary growth encourages the availability of credit, investment conditions, corporate growth, and employment. Nevertheless, it can fully be exploited to its advantage only in a situation when energy supply is predictable to facilitate productive activity. Hence renewable energy and financial development cannot be regarded as separate forces but as mutually supporting and complementary ones in sustainable economic development.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Renewable Energy
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subject: funds
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subject: economic progress
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subject: Pakistan
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subject: Energy policy
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subject: sustainable development
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creator: Haseeb ur Rehman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Haseeb ur Rehman (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 47
ending page: 55
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.3.2025.1091

Does Financial Stability Enhance Employee Retention and Productivity? Evidence from Pakistan’s Service Industry
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description: The paper examines the connection between financial stability, employee retention, and productivity in the service sector in Pakistan based on panel data between 2012-2023. It discusses the effect of liquidity, profitability, and leverage on the workforce stability and the performance of the firms. Findings indicate that financial stability firms, i.e., those that are better liquid and profitable, perform better in terms of employee retention and productivity whereas excessive leverage has a negative impact on both. These results indicate that well-managed financial means allow the organizations to invest in human resource, training and the welfare of the workforce leading to increased productivity and decreased turnover. The research combines the knowledge of the human resource and financial management theory and presents new evidence in the setting of an emerging economy. The suggestions to the policy include ensuring working-capital reserves, minimizing financial risk, and balancing financial and HR policies towards sustainable growth.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Financial Stability
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subject: Employee Retention
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subject: Productivity
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subject: Pakistan
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subject: Service Industry
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subject: Liquidity
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subject: Profitability
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subject: Leverage
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subject: Human Capital
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creator: Muhammad Junaid Iqbal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Muhammad Junaid Iqbal (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-22
publication date: 2025-09-22
starting page: 35
ending page: 46
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.3.2025.1090

The Role of Employee Motivation and Financial Performance in Enhancing Organizational Competitiveness: Evidence from the Banking Sector of Pakistan
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description: In the contemporary banking industry, organizational competitiveness relies greatly on employee motivation and financial performance of the firms. In the banking industry with the high competition and service quality as one of the main differentiators, motivated employees are significant to develop customer trust, operational efficiency, and innovative service delivery in Pakistan. This paper will look into the relationship between employee motivation and financial performance as well as a combination of the two in improving organizational competitiveness. On a mixed-method basis and based on the chosen commercial banks in the large cities of Pakistan, the research discovered that employee motivation has a significant positive impact on job performance, service quality, and customer satisfaction that eventually leads to financial outcomes. Moreover, the results shown suggest that banks having a greater financial stability can invest more in employee development, rewards and workplace conditions which leads to a strengthening cycle of motivation and competitiveness. The research has some strategic value in the performance drivers of human resource motivation in the banking industry.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Employee Motivation
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subject: Financial Performance
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subject: Organizational Competitiveness
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subject: Banking Sector
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subject: Pakistan
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creator: Muhammad Muzammil Asghar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Muhammad Muzammil Asghar (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-31
publication date: 2025-08-31
starting page: 13
ending page: 23
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.3.2025.1088

Impact of Green HRM Practices on Employee Performance in the Banking Sector in Islamabad, Pakistan
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description: This research paper explores how Green HRM practices influence the performance of employees working in the banking industry of Islamabad in Pakistan. Green HRM strategies such as green recruitment, green training, green performance management, and green rewards are meant to synchronize the behaviors of the employees towards the organizational levels of sustainability. As environmental issues and regulations become a stronger force, banks are progressively implementing green programs, and little researches have been done on the impact of such programs on employee productivity in Pakistan. The research method in this study was quantitative in nature in which 120 employees of the public and private banks were used in gathering the data through structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data to measure the associations between Green HRM practices and employee performance. The findings suggest that there is a positive and significant correlation between the practices of Green HRM and employee performance with the factors of green training and green rewards being the strongest. The paper highlights that sustainable HRM practices do not only lead to better environmental performance; they are also effective in boosting the employee motivation, efficiency, and productivity, which also help in improving the performance of the organization. The results have implications on banking managers, HR professionals and policymakers seeking to find a way of embedding sustainability on human resource strategies.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Green HRM Practices
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subject: Employee Performance
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subject: Banking Sector
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subject: Islamabad
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subject: Pakistan
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creator: Shehzad Yousaf
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Shehzad Yousaf (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 01
ending page: 11
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.3.2025.1087

The Impact of Knowledge Management Systems on Organizational Innovation and Firm Performance
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description: During the digital age, Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are central to the processes of allowing organizations to effectively manage intellectual capital and promote the innovation process and, consequently, improve the performance of firms. This research paper discusses the role played by the implementation of KMS in increasing the innovation capability and the competitive advantage of firms. The study adopts know-based view (KBV) and dynamic capability Theory (DCT) theoretical viewpoints incorporated in a literature-based approach and secondary data (2000 to 2025). This analysis establishes the essential elements of KMS as knowledge creation, sharing, storing, and using and discusses the integration of their effect in innovative capacity and organizational effectiveness. The results indicate that successful KMS does not only increase the flow of knowledge, but also increases strategic flexibility, employee teamwork, and long-term profitability. This study has value to theory and practice by identifying KMS as strategic facilitator of the performance based on innovation and offering real world guidance to managers who need to enhance their competitive advantage by applying systemized knowledge management practices.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Knowledge Sharing
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subject: Strategic Flexibility
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subject: Intellectual Capital
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subject: Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
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subject: Innovation Capability
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subject: Competitive Advantage
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subject: Knowledge-Based View (KBV)
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subject: Dynamic Capability Theory (DCT)
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subject: Organizational Performance
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subject: Knowledge Creation
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creator: Afzal Khan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Syed Wahaj Ali (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 43
ending page: 50
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.1.2025.1051

Management in the 21st Century: Functions, Frameworks, and Emerging Trends
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description: Management constitutes the fundamental backbone of organizational success, encompassing the systematic coordination of resources, people, and processes to achieve predetermined objectives. This comprehensive analysis examines the multifaceted nature of management, exploring its historical evolution, core functions, theoretical frameworks, and contemporary applications. The article delves into the four primary management functions planning, organizing, leading, and controlling while addressing specialized areas including strategic management, human resource management, operations management, and change management. Furthermore, it explores emerging trends such as digital transformation, sustainable management practices, and the evolving role of leadership in the modern organizational landscape This article delivers an encompassing view of management as both art and science, with its greatest importance in addressing the uncertainties of 21st century business settings. The discussion illuminates that being an effective manager requires some mix of technical ability, future-focused ability, adaptable across different organizational contexts, and social contexts.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Management
  topic: keywords
subject: Leadership
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subject: Strategic Planning
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subject: Organizational Behavior
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subject: Human Resource Management
  topic: keywords
subject: Operations Management
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subject: Change Management
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subject: Digital Transformation
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subject: Organizational Culture
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subject: Performance Management
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subject: Decision Making
  topic: keywords
subject: Team Management
  topic: keywords
creator: Ahmed Raza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ahmed Raza (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 77
ending page: 92
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.2.2025.845

Innovation Management in Startups vs. Established Firms
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description: Innovation has become essential to the growth of current organizations, allowing them to respond flexibly to unstable marketplaces, evolving customer demands, and increased competition in a global economy. While both startups and established organizations recognize the importance of innovation, they manage it in very different ways. Startups, which are typically characterized by their agility, limited resources, and entrepreneurial nature often pursue disruptive innovations that challenge incumbents' position in an industry. Established organizations, on the other hand, leverage their resources, established processes, and brand recognition to pursue incremental, sustainable innovation. This study reviews the theoretical foundations, organizational characteristics, and strategic practices of innovation management in startups and established organizations. Through a comparative literature review supported by real cases from practice, the article explores the specific advantages of, and challenges faced, by firm type in innovation management, while also considering hybrid models for innovation management namely, corporate venture capital, and accelerators. The dialogue ends with suggestions for facilitating innovation across contexts and considerations at the end of innovation management in a world defined by digital transformation, sustainability, and global cooperation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: innovation management
  topic: keywords
subject: startups
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subject: established companies
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subject: disruptive innovation
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subject: corporate entrepreneurship
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subject: open innovation
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subject: dynamic capabilities
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creator: Tariq Khan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tariq Khan (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 55
ending page: 76
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.2.2025.844

Management: Evolution, Functions, and Future Directions
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description: Management, both as a practice and discipline, has changed rapidly in the last hundred years. In its purposeful definition, management is "planning, organizing, leading, and controlling use of organization resources to achieve organizational goals." The article provides an insight into the management literature's history and its classical theories along with contemporary theories and its everyday practices with strategic management, human resources, operations, and digital transformation. As globalization and technology is transforming industries, management is shifting in the direction of agility, innovation, and sustainability. While this article engages directions in theory, the major contexts in management, and modern day management practices with increasing complexities of the digitalization, cross-cultural management, and corporate social responsibility. The future movement considers adaptive leadership, artificial intelligence, and sustainable practices. Understanding patterns helps to establish a rich understanding of management as a multi-disciplinary discipline that continues to change with increasing globalization and organizational complexities.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: management
  topic: keywords
subject: strategic management
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subject: leadership
  topic: keywords
subject: organizational behavior
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subject: globalization
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subject: digital transformation
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subject: sustainability
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creator: Abid Siddique
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Abid Siddique (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-30
publication date: 2025-06-30
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.2.2025.840

Customer Experience Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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description: In the digital marketplace, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a key driver of brand recognition, customer loyalty, and business performance. As organizations strive to differentiate themselves in an increasing competitive environment, incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Customer Experience Management (CEM) is becoming a game-changer. With a range of AI technologies now available, from chatbots and recommendation engines, to predictive analytics and sentiment analysis, firms can provide customized, contemporaneous, and data-based customer interactions at scale. AI is fundamentally changing the way organizations understand and alter customer behavior, assess future performance, and react instantaneously at the point of interaction with customers at multiple touchpoints. This paper will review the changing roles of AI in CEM and how AI-enabled solutions allow organizations and customers to engage efficiently and with improved consistency and personalisation throughout the customer journey. The paper will demonstrate the ways in which AI enables improved decision-making at the organizational level and how AI can increase satisfaction and retention for customers. Also included is a discussion on potential challenges posed by its implementation in terms of data privacy, ethical issues, and the balance between AI and empathetic human support. Based on prior literature, industry examples and expert opinions, the aim of this research is to provide a new understanding of the possibilities and limitations of AI in this space.Ultimately, this research provides a broad understanding of how organizations can use AI in delivering great customer experiences while maintaining trust and authenticity in the exchanges. It also provides useful recommendations for organizations who want to deploy AI efficiently in their customer experience management strategies that achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the digital economy.
subject: Articles
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subject: Customer Experience Management
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subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Digital marketplace
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creator: Ammar Ali Syed
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal
date: 2025-03-26
publication date: 2025-03-26
starting page: 31
ending page: 42
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.1.2025.416

Consumer Perception and Brand Loyalty in the Era of Social Media Marketing
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description: The marketing field is seeing significant change with the speed of the growth of social media, resulting in a new structure of consumer-brand relationships. The marketing environment now includes social media channels like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter), which serve as promotional forums for brands, but include real-time consumer interactions as well. This research examines the complex relationship between consumer perception and brand loyalty, with a focus on how a company's social media strategy affects consumer attitudes, trust in the brand, emotional connection, and loyalty (long-term commitment). Using a mixed-methods approach that includes quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, we examined how consumers intersect with branded content, influencer marketing, user-generated content, and online customer service across different industries. In our study, we found that when social media campaigns create authentic communication, genuine responsiveness, and individualization within their social media approach of branded content, influencer marketing, and user generated comments, the positive perceptions were much stronger. In addition, consumers were more loyal to brands that understand their values, respond to their feedback in a timely manner, and create communal belonging. The study also found areas of potential obstacles, such as oversaturation of content, phony endorsements, and consumer skepticism, that can contribute to a lack of trust in brands. The influence of peer reviews and online reputation has become a powerful contributor to shaping perceptions, often terms it has limited traditional advertising. In conclusion, the digital market has changed brands that to be loyal are earned through constant, transparent, engaging, social media practices as opposed to product quality or price. Understanding the changing consumer perception, businesses can improve their social media marketing by turning it into such a value for their so…
subject: Articles
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subject: Social media marketing
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subject: consumer perception
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subject: brand loyalty
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subject: influencer marketing
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subject: user-generated content
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creator: Sofia Ali Khan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal
date: 2025-03-25
publication date: 2025-03-25
starting page: 21
ending page: 30
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.1.2025.413

Impact of Strategic Alliances on Business Growth in Emerging Markets
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description: Strategic alliances have emerged as a critical platform for firms to grow and remain competitive, especially in emerging markets. Strategic alliances are a relationships between two or more companies, especially if they are across borders, established for the purpose of exploiting joint competencies, filling an experience gap, or to develop access to new markets and technologies. This study addresses the effect of strategic alliances on the economic growth of business in emerging economies. Emerging economies are identified by dynamic conditions, associated resource constraints, city-states with declining institutional contexts, and continuous business conditioning as a sustainable development challenge. The various facets of strategic alliances such as leveraging market access, leveraging innovation capabilities, financial performance, and knowledge transfer, will be studies comprehensively to determine the ways in which strategic alliances contribute to growth. Emerging markets typically have greater potential for forming strategic alliances because they are growing rapidly. Emerging markets have not fully developed regulation, therefore are progressing in fulfilling the needs of change resistant consumers. There are also some attributes in emerging markets that allow lesser forms of alliances considerable leverage in pursuing joint production. Political stability, weak legal infrastructure, and the cultural diversity in emerging markets have characteristics that allow for unique collaboration. Strategic alliances may also function as an essential mechanism to extend exposure and control uncertain and parochial economies, in which business may create synergies with either local or international partners. This study will also include how governance aspects, trust, compatibility, and resource sharing may contribute to meaningful, effective, and sustainable strategic alliances.The study design in this article was a mixed-method design. Quantitative data was provided …
subject: Articles
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subject: Alliances
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subject: Business Growth
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subject: Emerging markets
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creator: Syed Wahaj Ali
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-24
publication date: 2025-03-24
starting page: 9
ending page: 20
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.1.2025.393

The Role of Digital Transformation in Modern Business Management: Opportunities and Challenges
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description: The current study engages with the topic of digital transformation and business management in the current digital age. As technology changes and adapts at a rapid pace, businesses in nearly all industries have to think about how they can and want to change. This article examines several opportunities and challenges presented to organizations due to their digital transformation inside their business. Based on current literature and descriptive methodology, it discusses opportunities organizations should take advantage of as they implement digital tools in their business for increased efficiencies, improvements to customer data, engagement and satisfaction, and development of innovations. Furthermore, the article highlights some challenges that organizations face in digital transformation such as knowing where to start, embracing change, maintaining a strategy shift, risks of cyber security, and user training with regard to the digital skill gap. The conversations presented in the article about the challenges or points of consideration, will have implications for managers and other stakeholders. Lastly, the article provides suggestions and recommendations that organizations may consider implementing as they start integrating digital into their organizations.
subject: Articles
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subject: Digital transformation
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subject: business management in the digital age
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subject: innovation
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subject: challenges
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subject: opportunities
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subject: change from the digital transformation
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creator: Farah Qureshi
creator: Hassan Raza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ACADEMIA Nextgen Management Journal
date: 2025-03-23
publication date: 2025-03-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 8
doi: 10.63056/anmj.1.1.2025.392