Paradigm: A Management Research Journal

This study examines the impact of financial risks in form of credit, interest rate and liquidity risk on the profitability of systematically important banks in Nigeria over the period from 2010 to 2016. The fixed effects regression model is estimated with Driscoll–Kraay standard errors in order to produce results that are robust to heteroscedaticity, autocorrelation, cross-sectional dependence and temporal dependence. After controlling for some bank-specific, industry-specific, macroeconomic and institutional factors, the empirical results show that credit and liquidity risks have a positive impact on bank profitability while interest rate does not have an impact. The results are robust to alternative measures of profitability.

The fundamental concept of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) constitutes a notion that there exists a work system of HR practices in an organization that may lead to better organizational performance. HPWPs have a positive impact on both individual level performance and organizational level performance. In this light, this paper tends to explore necessity of HPWPs for organizational level outcomes. Outcome variables are job commitment, job satisfaction and work-life balance. Data are analyzed with the help of Necessary Condition Analysis.

The importance of emotional branding (EB) strategy in building long-term and sustainable psychological links with consumers had been sufficiently highlighted in literature. However, very few research attempted to provide a structured tool for its measurement. This study proposed a 13-point four-factor multidimensional scale which could be used to measure EB formally. Dimensions measuring EB were derived from literature and then examined on three different brands in order to achieve a reliable and valid scale. Findings suggested brand loyalty, brand association, perceived quality and brand personality as constructs which would form the scale. The second part of the study was devoted to understand the role of these constructs in achieving ultimate goal of branding, that is, to infuse trust in consumers. A key finding suggested that emphasis on brand loyalty results in formation of trust and mitigates scepticism. Also, trust was positively and significantly impacted by brand loyalty and association, whereas a mismatch of brand personality with emotions reflected by brand could result in scepticism.

Healthcare sector is progressing towards digitalization in every aspect such as e-consultations, health surveillance, health education and various other healthcare services. Developing countries like India lacks infrastructure to conduct studies to evaluate impact of these e-health services on patient outcomes. Various developed countries have electronic health records which makes evaluation of patient outcomes much easier. This paper aims to evaluate effect of e-health on patient outcomes in Indian healthcare scenario and future consequences of these e-health services. The integrative literature searches were conducted using various databases such as pubmed, google scholar and SCC web edition using keywords such as ‘e-health’, ‘telemedicine’, ‘mhealth’, ‘electronic health records’, ‘patient outcomes’ and ‘data protection laws’. From the papers retrieved only few papers studied impact of e health services in patient outcomes. Other papers assessed e-health on basis of accessibility, feasibility and medium of education in clinical practice. It was concluded that e-health services such as diagnostic services like teleopthalmology and tele ECG, distant consultation with specialist through telemedicine and adherence aids like automated voice reminder and pictorial messaging have positive impact on patient outcomes. Though e-health services can help us in various ways but it will also open the new Pandora box of problems in handling personal information. The information technology rules in India have certain grey areas in protection of digital data. In future, besides improving the data content of information system to analyse the impact of various services provided to the patients, we will have to relook the legal system to protect the data.

This article puts forth the hierarchical sequence of ontology beyond the experience of the new institutionalism: arche, paradigm, pattern, structure and factors; thus, the analytic framework of the ontology and its axiomatism of complex organizations analysis framework is set. In the new research, the core of the complex organization is attributed to the structure of rights and interests, the dynamics base of complex organizations is attributed to the dynamic system and the right–interest relation, while the dynamic system is concentrated in two aspects: system function–system load and system efficiency–system consumption; the right–interest relation are concentrated on interest structures, human right structures and sovereignty structures. From the personal level to the national level, from the political field to the rest of the society, this series discuss the relationship between interests, human rights and sovereignty, where the right–interest relation, rule framework, game organization and ecological mode are interrelated and mutually determined.

This research paper inspects the comparative performance evaluation of banks sponsored Indian mutual funds using traditional measure. The data comprises 166 open-ended equity, debt, liquid and equity linked saving schemes (tax savings) schemes during the period of April 2006–March 2017. The evidence shows that all sample schemes are well diversified. Public sector banks sponsored get first ranked because good return, all positive and diversified schemes and efficient performance of portfolio management as compared to Private sector and UTI banks sponsored mutual funds.

According to the analysis of this series of papers, in the old civilized world for thousands of years, theocracies, tyrancracies and timocracies, along with the later deify-overlord’s sovereignty, party-tyrant’s sovereignty and plutocrat’s sovereignty are the major powers which dominate all things. This series of papers put forth the hierarchical analysis sequence of ontology: arche – paradigm – pattern – structure – factors, and thus the analytic framework of the ontology and its axiomatism for the power ecosphere of the world is set. For the new civilized world to be created, the recombination of interests, the reconstruction of human rights and the reengineering of sovereignty should be the basic content of the rebuilt of dynamic foundation. We should rebuild the sovereignty, with citizen’s sovereignties as the core. Thus this paper establishes the design basis of the ontological dynamics for the synthetic study of inter-discipline on the citizen-autonomous commonwealth.