Browsing by Author "Abbas, Manzir"

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Citation Count: 8
Exploring the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility, Trust, Corporate Reputation, and Brand Equity
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2021) Özkut, Uğur Tarık; Abbas, Manzir; Samma, Madeeha; Ozkut, Tarik; Munir, Mubbasher; Rasool, Samma Faiz; Sağlık Yönetimi / Healthcare Management
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate reputation (CR), and brand equity (BE). Building on the resource-based theory of the firm, this study proposes a theoretical framework. In this framework, CSR is theorized to strengthen CR and brand equity, directly and indirectly, through consumer trust. We used a questionnaire survey approach. In the questionnaire, 17 items were used with a 5-point Likert-Scale (1 stands for "strongly disagree," and 5 stands for "strongly agree"). Data were collected from the consumers of the banking sector in the vicinity of Lahore, Pakistan. To estimate the proposed relationships in the conceptual model, we use structural equation modeling (SEM) through Smart PLS 3.2. The outcomes of this study confirm that CSR significantly impacts CR and brand equity. It is also demonstrated that trust mediates positively and significantly in the relationship between CSR, CR, and BE. Results of the present study have several implications for the senior management, marketing expert, administrators, and policymakers. This study expresses how CSR boosts BE and CR. Moreover, this study also indicates that trust is an important factor that enhances BE and CR.
Citation Count: 1
National strategy for climate change adaptability: a case study of extreme climate-vulnerable countries
(Springer, 2023) Arshed, Noman; Saeed, Muhammad Ibrahim; Salem, Sultan; Hanif, Uzma; Abbas, Manzir
Countries face extreme climate-related adaptation challenges, but some countries are more vulnerable due to their geographic location and socioeconomic conditions. These differences in vulnerabilities between countries motivated us to examine the socioeconomic factors and climate change adaptation relationship. The objective is to capture the impact of the socioeconomic factors on the climate change adaptation index for selected developing countries that influence vulnerability or adaptation. Dynamic panel data from 1995 to 2019 are used for four developing countries. The results reveal that fossil fuel increases vulnerability in the long run. However, education, patents, and domestic credit to the private sector positively influence adaptation. Hence, the selected countries' governments must encourage renewable energy consumption with a special focus on municipal solid waste, which is abundant in selected developing countries.
Citation Count: 1
Natural habitat vs human in competition for breathing space: Need for restructuring clean energy infrastructure
(Elsevier, 2024) Arshed, Noman; Anwar, Aftab; Abbas, Manzir; Mughal, Waheed
Environmental quality is frequently explored as indicator of welfare and its linkage with cleaner energy use to fuel economic expansion, but the natural habitat capital and its diversity is often ignored as an important ingredient to sustaining a standard of living. International organizations point towards balancing renewable energy infrastructure development and conserving biodiversity, which calls for a non-linear effects analysis. This study explores the non-linear clean energy effects on biodiversity to find U or inverted-U shaped interaction, using the robust distribution Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag model for 66 countries. Furthermore, the Quantilewise estimates indicate that the short-run and long-run effects vary across different quantiles of biodiversity distribution. The long-run estimates infer that urbanization and globalization increase significantly enhances the environmental performance at 76 percentiles and all percentiles, respectively. While, output growth has a negative effect at 25 and 50 percentiles, and above the 50 percentiles, it positively affects environmental performance. The outcomes showed that clean energy has an inverted U-shaped effect on environmental performance. The research has found the best levels of green energy to match up with different levels of diversity in a country. Eventually, it guides further studies on why rapid renewable energies infrastructure development may harm biodiversity.