Empirical Study Of Performance Research Articles

Sustainable Banking in India: An Empirical Study of ESG Scores and Financial Performance

The research study on the relationship between ESG scores and financial performance in the banking sector of India reveals significant insights into the dynamics of sustainable finance. The analysis, conducted using data from eight banking companies over a five-year period, indicates a weak negative correlation between ESG scores and the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of stock prices. Conversely, moderate positive correlations are observed between ESG scores and the CAGR of both return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Regression analysis reinforces these findings, highlighting a weak linear relationship between ESG scores and financial metrics. Theoretical implications suggest alignment with stakeholder theory, agency theory, and institutional theory, emphasizing the importance of considering stakeholder interests, aligning incentives, and navigating institutional pressures. Managerial implications underscore the need for strategic integration of ESG factors into decision-making processes, stakeholder engagement, and investment in ESG education and training programs. The study identifies limitations, including inadequate ESG data availability and sector-specific focus, and suggests future research directions exploring diverse sectors and financial indicators beyond banking. Overall, the research contributes to advancing our understanding of sustainable finance and its implications for long-term value creation

The impact of specialised translator training and professional experience on legal translation quality assurance: an empirical study of revision performance

ABSTRACT The relevance of translation and law degrees as pathways to professional legal translation is the subject of persistent debate, but there is limited research on the relationship between legal translators’ backgrounds and competence levels in practice. This study compares the revision performance of several groups of institutional translators (44 in total) according to their academic backgrounds (legal translation specialisation, translation degrees with no legal specialisation, law degrees or other degrees) and legal translation experience (more or less than three years). The scores of justified, missing and over-corrections, among other indicators, corroborate the crucial impact of legal translation specialisation and subject-matter knowledge in ensuring legal translation quality, while experience can serve to partially fill certain training deficits. Qualified translators with a legal specialisation stood out as the most efficient revisers, followed by law graduates, translation graduates without a legal specialisation and other translators. A subsequent holistic assessment of the revised target text yielded results globally in line with the revision scores, as well as mixed perceptions of the target text as potential machine output. The findings support the added value of legal translator training, and are of relevance for translator recruitment and workflow management. They also challenge the rationale behind ISO 20771:2020 qualification requirements.

The empirical study of digital marketing strategy and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

In the digital environment, key to corporate positioning is Digital Marketing (DM), linked with factors such as innovativeness, proactiveness, organizational agility, and managerial capabilities, which are pivotal in the organization's strategy. In business strategy, the performance of an organization is a fundamental and crucial variable that significantly influences its overall success and effectiveness Thus, to analyze the link between these factors, 148 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan are examined. The outcomes derived from structural equation modeling (SEM) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) The study demonstrates that innovativeness, proactiveness, and managerial capabilities play a pivotal role in influencing the adoption of DM strategies, and additionally, the adoption of DM strategies has a discernible impact on organizational performance.

An Empirical Study of Independent Director Network and ESG Performance

An Empirical Study of Independent Director Network and ESG Performance

Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews

This article makes the first empirical corpus-based study of the actual performance of the discourse marker (DM) nǐ zhīdào (NZ) in Chinese media interview conversations from the perspective of synchronic Construction Grammar (CxG).1 The main objective is to pair the prosody of NZ at varying utterance positions (‘form’ properties at prosodic and discourse structural levels) with its pragmatic functions (‘meaning’ properties at the discourse communicative level), to enhance our understanding within the existing literature, specifically in relation to pragmatics in spontaneous speech, and provide implications for the broader study of discourse markers. The analysis of the ‘form’ properties of NZ reveals distinct, context-specific attributes of such prosodic metrics as duration, tempo, pause, F0, and intensity at varying utterance positions; the analysis of its ‘meaning’ properties discovers pragmatic functions with characteristic utterance distributions; and the form-meaning pairing between prosody and pragmatics highlights the roles of prosody in deciphering and materializing pragmatics and of pragmatics in underlying and motivating prosody. This study has shown that insights gained from CxG can enhance our understanding of the fields of pragmatics, discourse, and interaction, and specific linguistic phenomena whose importance has been entrenched in these domains can be sufficiently explained using CxG. It follows that the notion of construction can be extended to the discourse (e.g., dialogue and conversation) level to approach the complexities of spoken language and address diverse elusive pragmatic issues like DMs effectively.

An empirical study of cold chain issues and performance: Applying structural equation modeling

AbstractThe food industry suffers from huge wastage and losses in food products, and reducing this waste and loss is an issue in the food industry. Improvement in cold chain performance will result in the minimization of food losses and wastage. The reason for this review is to look at the causal connection between different issues with cold chain performance through empirical validation. According to the goal of the review, seven theories were proposed dependent on a thorough writing survey on issues in the cold chain of the frozen food industry. Evidence was found for proposed speculations. The results of hypothesis testing showed infrastructural facility, safety and quality, awareness and handling practices, and responsiveness to positively influence cold chain performance while increased efforts are required for appropriate implementation of integration, sustainability, and traceability. While the performance of the supply chain and parameters affecting it has been a critical exploration theme for more than many years, scarcely any examination has been led that centers explicitly on issues considered synergistically.

The empirical study of Joomla CMS map extension and location performance

Thousands of extensions can be installed on the Joomla CMS with various functions. One of them is the map and location extension, which is useful for meeting the needs of content that display information in the form of visual maps and locations. The Phoca Maps and MX Maps extensions are two of the many map and location extensions available on the Joomla Extension Directory website, downloadable and widely used. This study aims to provide a reference for Joomla CMS users in terms of managing content related to maps and locations through empirical studies of the performance of Phoca Maps and MX Maps extensions. In measuring extension performance, Google Lighthouse is used to audit all quality aspects that support the performance of a web application. The research results found that, in general, the desktop and mobile performance of the Phoca Maps and MX Maps extensions was unsatisfactory. This can be seen from the performance testing results for First Contentful Paint, Speed Index, Largest Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, Total Blocking Time, and Cumulative Layout Shift.

An empirical study of performance of block cipher algorithms in cloud computing environment

An empirical study of performance of block cipher algorithms in cloud computing environment

An Empirical Study of Leadership Styles and Employee Job Performance in the Malaysian Private Industry

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between leadership styles and employee job performance in the Malaysian private industry. The independent variables of this study are transformational and transactional leadership whereas the dependent variable is employee job performance. The research design of this study employs a quantitative and cross-sectional approach. An online survey questionnaire was used to collect data and yielded 384 responses. The findings of this study revealed that transformational and transactional leadership were significantly related to employee job performance. This research can provide practical implications to the organizations’ leaders and managers to exhibit appropriate leadership styles by the employee performance outcomes in the Malaysian private industry.

Learning-by-doing in non-homogeneous tasks: An empirical study of content creator performance on a music streaming platform

With the development of high-speed internet and better mobile connections, online streaming platforms with user-generated videos are becoming popular. The success of these platforms relies on content creators who can effectively enhance user engagement (e.g., subscribing to a content creator’s channel). As opposed to homogeneous production scenarios (e.g., assembling automobiles in a factory), creating user-generated videos is a more complex task in which learning might happen. In this study, we empirically test the effect of prior experience on content creators’ performance. Furthermore, we examine the role of specialization in learning. We use a dataset from NetEase Cloud Music, one of the most popular music streaming platforms in China, with 21,549 content creators and 252,762 user-generated videos. The findings indicate that: (1) prior experience has a positive effect on creators’ performance; (2) specialized experience across distinct video categories has a nonlinear effect on creators’ performance. These results have implications for improving user engagement for online user-generated video streaming platforms.

Uncertainty shocks, network position, and inventory

PurposeThis paper aims to conduct an empirical study to investigate whether an industry’s position affects the transmission of information and economic shocks.Design/methodology/approachThis paper conducts an empirical study of inventory performance based on a large panel of 71 industries in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail sectors over a 10-year period (2007–2016).FindingsIt is found that the position of a focal industry in the supply chain network moderates the impacts of macroeconomic uncertainty shocks and shocks from supplier/customer industries on the focal industry’s inventory. On the one hand, more central industries are more sensitive to macroeconomic uncertainty shocks as well as spillover shocks from their supplier and customer industries. On the other hand, uncertainty shocks from more central industries have higher impact on their partner industries than those from less central industries.Practical implicationsA manager needs to take into account the network positions of suppliers/customers in supply network when making inventory decisions. For example, when sharing information with partners, the network position of a partner affects how important its information is.Originality/valueThe key novelty of this paper is the introduction of network structure that represents the supplier–customer relationships in the entire economy, and the modeling of uncertainty shocks transmitted through the supply chain network.

Pengaruh Income Smoothing, Firm Size, Dan Financial Leverage, Terhadap Company Performance

Before making a decision, investors will analyze the company's performance first, one of the ratios used by investors to measure the level of success of a company's performance in assessing shares, the difficulty of investors regarding the valuation of undervalued shares, requires investors to analyze fundamentally, one of which is price to book value. PBV) which shows stock prices are categorized as expensive and cheap in buying and selling shares, investors will definitely choose cheap stocks to maximize profits (return), so the authors are interested in conducting a more in-depth empirical study of the company's performance through proxied stock valuation. with PBV and the factors that influence it. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of income smoothing, firm size and financial leverage on company performance in the consumer goods industry sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the 2017-2019 period. The research method used in this research is descriptive and associative methods. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that income smoothing and firm size have a positive and significant effect on company performance, while financial leverage has a negative and insignificant effect on company performance.
 
 Keywords: Income Smoothing, Firm Size, Financial Leverage, Company Performance
 

An Empirical Study of Emotional Distress, Motivation, and Work-related Performance among College Teachers

On account of high job demands and the minimum availability of resources, college teachers experience serious emotional distress at work. This distress reduces work motivation and adversely affects the work performance of teachers. For addressing this critical issue, the current study aims to investigate the impact of emotional distress on college teachers’ motivation and work performance. It is a cross-sectional research. For gathering the required information, data was collected from 150 college teachers who were selected through convenient sampling technique. Additionally, standardized research measures were employed to collect the data from the participants. DASS-21 was used to assess emotional distress. Work Task Motivation Scale (WTMS) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) were used to assess the motivation and work performance of the teachers. Later, SPSS version 21 was used to carry out the statistical analysis. The results revealed that emotional distress is a true predictor of a lack of motivation and low work performance among college teachers. The findings of the current study can help policymakers in developing policies to improve organizational settings, reduce emotional distress and address other mental health issues among college teachers. Furthermore, the study also provides evidence for promoting job resources and enhancing the work performance of teachers.

An empirical study of green supply chain management practices and environmental performance of Indian manufacturing organisations

Green supply chain management (GSCM) has emerged as a key business practice for organisations to make a balance between their operations and environmental performance. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of GSCM practices on environmental performance of organisation. Six GSCM practices were identified and propositions related to these GSCM practices were put forward. A research model was developed to examine the relationship between different GSCM practices and environmental performance outcomes. Data were collected from 171 respondents who are working as operations and supply chain professionals in manufacturing organisations. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used for analysing data and hypotheses were tested through structural equation modelling (AMOS). The results of the study postulate that internal environmental management practices, management support practices and investment recovery practices have positive impact on environmental performance of organisation.

The Empirical Study of Board Structure and Firm Performance—Innovative Small Enterprises in China

The Empirical Study of Board Structure and Firm Performance—Innovative Small Enterprises in China

An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Multiple Intel Optane Solid-State Drives

Cloud computing as a service-on-demand architecture has grown in importance over the last few years. The storage subsystem in cloud computing has undergone enormous innovation to provide high-quality cloud services. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technology has attracted considerable attention in cloud computing by delivering high I/O performance in latency and bandwidth. Specifically, multiple NVMe solid-state drives (SSDs) can provide higher performance, fault tolerance, and storage capacity in the cloud computing environment. In this paper, we performed an empirical evaluation study of performance on recent NVMe SSDs (i.e., Intel Optane SSDs) with different redundant array of independent disks (RAID) environments. We analyzed multiple NVMe SSDs with RAID in terms of different performance metrics via synthesis and database benchmarks. We anticipate that our experimental results and performance analysis will have implications for various storage systems. Experimental results showed that the software stack overhead reduced the performance by up to 75%, 52%, 76%, 91%, and 92% in RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 6, respectively, compared with theoretical and expected performance.

Can Multiple Choice Exams Be Used to Assess Legal Reasoning? An Empirical Study of Law Student Performance and Attitudes

The purpose of this article is to examine whether legal reasoning skills can be appropriately assessed in a law degree, using multiple-choice question assessment. The use of multiple-choice assessment in university law schools is common, although not universally accepted as an effective pedagogical tool. In this article, both quantitative and qualitative empirical research methods have been adopted to examine whether the unique skill of legal reasoning is amenable to being tested through multiple-choice assessment. The position argued is that multiple-choice assessment, when properly constructed using identified guiding principles, is an efficient and effective way to assess legal reasoning abilities.

The Shift to Online Assessment Due to COVID-19: An Empirical Study of University Students, Behaviour and Performance, in the Region of UAE

The education system has dramatically changed from physical to online due to COVID-19. Millions of learners around the world have been affected due to the pandemic caused by coronavirus. The emergence of COVID-19 has forced educational institutions to divert all strategies from physical to online platforms for the safety of the students, instructors, and all the other staff members. The processes of examining students and their assessment strategies are heavily affected due to the sudden adoption of online education than physical education at campus. The research in this paper discusses issues relevant to online assessments and the strategies used by the universities due to COVID-19 in the region of UAE. The research collected data through an online questionnaire from 312 undergraduate university students in UAE to understand their behaviour. Furthermore, their performance of online assessment is gauged through the analysis of exams transcripts and comparison is made with their previous GPA and CGPA to understand the effects of COVID-19 on their overall performance. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to discuss issues related to e-assessment and recommendations are made to improve the online assessment process in universities. The research proves that students have benefited from the online assessment.

The effect of work motivation on performance with job satisfaction as an intervening variable in the Faculty of Economics and Business, UIN Walisongo Semarang

Purpose – This study aims to determine the effect of work motivation on performance with job satisfaction as an intervening variable.Method – The population in this study were all employees at the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business UIN Walisongo Semarang with a total sample of 58 respondents. The analysis in this study uses path analysis technique.Result – The results showed that work motivation had a significant effect on job satisfaction, work motivation had a significant effect on performance and job satisfaction variables had a significant effect on performance. The results of the path analysis conducted showed that work motivation had a direct effect on employee performance, while work motivation had an indirect effect on performance through intervening work.Implication – This study assists the management of higher education to create working design for a better performance.Originality – This study enriches the empirical study of job performance in higher education context in Indonesia.

Evaluation of Integrated Library System (ILS) Use in University Libraries in Nigeria: An Empirical Study of Adoption, Performance, Achievements, and Shortcomings

Objective - The aim of this study was to evaluate Integrated Library System (ILS) use in university libraries in Nigeria in terms of their adoption, performance, achievements, and shortcomings and to propose a rigorous model for ongoing evaluation based on use of candidate variables (CVs) derived from the approach used by Hamilton and Chervany (1981) and from evaluation criteria suggested by Farajpahlou (1999, 2002). Methods - The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Nigeria is made up of six geo-political zones including: North-East (NE), North-West (NW), North-Central (NC), South-South (SS), South-East (SE), and South-West (SW). The population for this study comprised Systems/IT and E-librarians in the university libraries from all six of the geo-political zones of Nigeria. Because of the large number of universities in each of the zones in Nigeria, a convenience sampling method was used to select six universities representing federal, state, and private institutions from each of the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. A purposive sampling method was used to select the Systems/IT and E-librarians who were directly in charge of ILS in their various libraries. Therefore, the sample for this study was made up of 36 Systems/IT and E-librarians from the 36 selected universities in Nigeria. The instrument used to elicit responses from the respondents was an online questionnaire and was distributed through the respondents’ email boxes and WhatsApp. The questionnaire administration received a 100% response rate. Results - Findings revealed that university libraries in Nigeria have made remarkable progress in the adoption and use of ILS for library services. The findings also showed that much has been achieved in the use of ILS in library services. Evidence in the study indicated that the performance of the ILS adopted in the selected university libraries in the area of data entry and currency, accuracy, reliability, completeness, flexibility, ease of use, and timeliness was encouraging. Conclusions - Adoption and use of ILS in libraries is changing the way libraries deliver services to their patrons. Traditional methods of service delivery are different from the expectations of the 21st century library patrons. The transformation seen in the university libraries in Nigeria using ILS was tremendous and is changing the narratives of the past. However, several shortcomings still exist in the adoption and use of ILS in university libraries in Nigeria. Overcoming some of the limitations would require a conscious effort and decisiveness to ensure that librarians and library patrons enjoy the best services that ILS can offer. ILS developers should consider the dynamic needs of libraries and their patrons and incorporate specific candidate variables (CVs) in their ILS designs to enhance the quality of the services being offered to the library patrons.