Dr Muddasar Ghani Khwaja's Outputs (27)

Perceived scarcity on workplace ethics: greed, social undermining, cutting corner and psychological entitlement (2025)
Journal Article
Burhan, Q., Faisal Malik, M., Ayub Siddiqui, M., & Khwaja, M. G. (2025). Perceived scarcity on workplace ethics: greed, social undermining, cutting corner and psychological entitlement. Management Decision, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-11-2023-2121

Purpose
This empirical study is built upon emerging research on ethical fading by investigating the influence of perceived scarcity on ethical fading in the workplace. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the study develops and tests a moderated and... Read More about Perceived scarcity on workplace ethics: greed, social undermining, cutting corner and psychological entitlement.

Configuring the Role of Brand Interactivity, Involvement, and Brand Orientation on Brand Loyalty: Testing of an Integrated Framework in the Hospitality Sector (2024)
Book Chapter
Imran, M., Ghani Khwaja, M., Zaib Abbasi, A., & Hameed, A. (2024). Configuring the Role of Brand Interactivity, Involvement, and Brand Orientation on Brand Loyalty: Testing of an Integrated Framework in the Hospitality Sector. In Consumer Brand Relationships in Tourism - An International Perspective (273–297). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59535-6_15

Assessing dynamics of ecotourism using multi-methods analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Ali, J., Khwaja, M. G., Alsolamy, M., Aljehani, S., Alblowi, K., & Alotaibi, M. G. (2024). Assessing dynamics of ecotourism using multi-methods analysis. Journal of Ecotourism, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14724049.2024.2414822

Purpose: Ecotourism promotes sustainable and responsible travel and tours. It preserves nature and sustains and promotes the environment. The study focused on assessing the dynamics of ecotourism and its impacts on socio-economic development. Methodo... Read More about Assessing dynamics of ecotourism using multi-methods analysis.

Requirement engineering and project performance: mediating effect of communication effectiveness, change readiness, stakeholder engagement and moderating effect of team cohesion (2024)
Journal Article
Ali Turi, J., Al Kharusi, S., Ghani Khwaja, M., Rezaur Razzak, M., & Bashir, S. (2024). Requirement engineering and project performance: mediating effect of communication effectiveness, change readiness, stakeholder engagement and moderating effect of team cohesion. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-12-2023-1273

Purpose
This study aims to investigate the influence of requirement engineering (RE) on project performance (PP) in the context of NEOM* in Saudi Arabia. The study also aims to examine the relationship between three components of RE, evolving market... Read More about Requirement engineering and project performance: mediating effect of communication effectiveness, change readiness, stakeholder engagement and moderating effect of team cohesion.

The role of benevolent human resource attributions in reducing occupational stress: empirical findings from the emerging market (2023)
Journal Article
Hameed, A., & Khwaja, M. G. (2023). The role of benevolent human resource attributions in reducing occupational stress: empirical findings from the emerging market. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1504/ijwoe.2023.132862

Stress levels in the organisations have been increasing which has been damaging employee's wellbeing and causing serious illnesses. Mutual gains model of human resource management endorses employee's well-being in the organisational sphere. The study... Read More about The role of benevolent human resource attributions in reducing occupational stress: empirical findings from the emerging market.

Employee stress management and well-being while working from home during the pandemic: the role of involvement HRM practices, self-efficacy and hope (2023)
Journal Article
Hameed, A., & Khwaja, M. G. (2023). Employee stress management and well-being while working from home during the pandemic: the role of involvement HRM practices, self-efficacy and hope. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmdm.2023.129841

Researchers have highlighted that as work from home (WFH) mechanisms have progressed during pandemic COVID-19, there is a likelihood that occupational stress levels may arise considerably. Mental health of the employees may deteriorate due to work r... Read More about Employee stress management and well-being while working from home during the pandemic: the role of involvement HRM practices, self-efficacy and hope.

Determining involvement HRM practices and benevolent HRM attributions' role in improving employees' engagement and reducing stress in sales-centric organisations (2023)
Journal Article
Ghani Khwaja, M., Hameed, A., & Zaman, U. (2023). Determining involvement HRM practices and benevolent HRM attributions' role in improving employees' engagement and reducing stress in sales-centric organisations. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 17(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijkl.2024.135389

Workplace stress has been characterised as a global occupational
phenomenon that causes adverse organisational outcomes; including serious employee’s illnesses and phenomenal productivity loss per annum. Human resource management (HRM) has always... Read More about Determining involvement HRM practices and benevolent HRM attributions' role in improving employees' engagement and reducing stress in sales-centric organisations.

Expediting Time to Market: Evaluating the Effects of Change Control Board Performance in Emerging Markets (2023)
Journal Article
Irfan, S., Ali, J., Hidayat-ur-Rehman, I., Khwaja, M. G., Rosak-Szyrocka, J., & Kovacs, A. (2023). Expediting Time to Market: Evaluating the Effects of Change Control Board Performance in Emerging Markets. Sustainability, 15(22), https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216085

This study aims to assess how the performance of Change Control Boards (CCBs) influences the relationship between requirements uncertainty and the Time to Market (TTM) of software projects in emerging markets. We collected data through a structured q... Read More about Expediting Time to Market: Evaluating the Effects of Change Control Board Performance in Emerging Markets.

The role of big data analytics and organizational agility in improving organizational performance of business processing organizations (2023)
Journal Article
Ali Turi, J., Khwaja, M. G., Tariq, F., & Hameed, A. (2023). The role of big data analytics and organizational agility in improving organizational performance of business processing organizations. Business Process Management Journal, 29(7), 2081-2106. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-01-2023-0058

Purpose
Business processing organizations are continuously focusing on customer knowledge management (CKM) due to the competitive business environment. CKM is being recognized as an essential source for improving organizational performance (OP). Thi... Read More about The role of big data analytics and organizational agility in improving organizational performance of business processing organizations.

Consumer engagement in tourism-based images on social networking sites and behavioral intention to visit a destination (2023)
Book Chapter
Hussain, K., Zaib Abbasi, A., Khwaja, M. G., & Ding Hooi, T. (2023). Consumer engagement in tourism-based images on social networking sites and behavioral intention to visit a destination. In Handbook of Customer Engagement in Tourism Marketing (201-217). Elgar Online. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802203943.00023

Consumer engagement dimensions consist of cognitive, affective and behavioral engagement. These dimensions can trigger consumer buying decisions. In the current study, we aim to investigate the cognitive, affective and behavioral engagement in the to... Read More about Consumer engagement in tourism-based images on social networking sites and behavioral intention to visit a destination.

Missing link in ‘new-normal’ for higher education: nexus between online experiential marketing, perceived-harm, social distancing concern and university brand evangelism in China (2023)
Journal Article
Aktan, M., Anjam, M., Zaman, U., Khwaja, M. G., & Akram, U. (2023). Missing link in ‘new-normal’ for higher education: nexus between online experiential marketing, perceived-harm, social distancing concern and university brand evangelism in China. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2023.2253743

Chinese universities were the first to experience the massive shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted higher education globally. Despite extensive research on higher education in the ‘new normal’, empirical evidence on the potential role... Read More about Missing link in ‘new-normal’ for higher education: nexus between online experiential marketing, perceived-harm, social distancing concern and university brand evangelism in China.

The missing link in knowledge sharing: the crucial role of supervisor support- moderated mediated model (2023)
Journal Article
Faisal Malik, M., Khwaja, M. G., Hanif, H., & Mahmood, S. (2023). The missing link in knowledge sharing: the crucial role of supervisor support- moderated mediated model. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 44(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj-04-2023-0199

Purpose
The purpose of current study was to investigate the impact of supervisor support on Knowledge Sharing Behavior through psychological well-being, psychological ownership, and Alturism. The study also took mindfulness as first path moderator i... Read More about The missing link in knowledge sharing: the crucial role of supervisor support- moderated mediated model.

Perceived Value of Images Carrying Tourism Location Information on Social Media and Customer Brand Engagement (2023)
Book Chapter
Hussain, K., Zaib Abbasi, A., Khwaja, M. G., Hussain, A., & Ding Hooi, T. (2023). Perceived Value of Images Carrying Tourism Location Information on Social Media and Customer Brand Engagement. In Brand Co-Creation Tourism Research. Apple Adacemic Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003336228

In this study, we aim to study the factors that affect the perceived value of images carrying the details of tourist locations posted on social networking sites (SNSs) and its effect on customer brand engagement in tourist locations. To empirically t... Read More about Perceived Value of Images Carrying Tourism Location Information on Social Media and Customer Brand Engagement.

Configuring optimal contextual performance and task performance in offshore business processing organizations (2023)
Journal Article
Hameed, A., Khwaja, M. G., & Umer, Z. (2023). Configuring optimal contextual performance and task performance in offshore business processing organizations. Business Process Management Journal, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-07-2022-0330

Purpose
Occupational stress is damaging to employee well-being, causes serious illnesses and costs organizations billions of dollars every year. Mutual gains model of human resource management (HRM) recommends that HRM practices should improve both... Read More about Configuring optimal contextual performance and task performance in offshore business processing organizations.

Are digital influencers social change catalysts Empirical findings from the online apparel industry (2022)
Journal Article
Khwaja, M. G., Zaman, U., & Hameed Butt, A. (2022). Are digital influencers social change catalysts Empirical findings from the online apparel industry. International Journal of Technology Marketing, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtmkt.2022.122442

Digital influencers have evolved the thinking and buying patterns of consumers on the social media platforms. The unorthodox approach of attracting the masses has considerably increased online purchase intentions. Especially during the global pandemi... Read More about Are digital influencers social change catalysts Empirical findings from the online apparel industry.

The impact of benevolent human resource management attributions on employees’ general work stress, with the mediating influence of gratitude (2022)
Journal Article
Hameed, A., & Khwaja, M. G. (2022). The impact of benevolent human resource management attributions on employees’ general work stress, with the mediating influence of gratitude. Journal of General Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/03063070221130872

Workplace stress can cause serious physical and mental illness and result in billions of dollars in lost productivity every year. Researchers have called for the development of frameworks through which Human Resource Management (HRM) practices can re... Read More about The impact of benevolent human resource management attributions on employees’ general work stress, with the mediating influence of gratitude.

Time Flies When You are Having Fun: The Mediating Effects of Project Opportunity Management in the Relationship Between Project Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Multidimensional Project Success (2022)
Journal Article
Zaman, U., Naeni, L., ul Huda, N., & Khwaja, M. G. (2022). Time Flies When You are Having Fun: The Mediating Effects of Project Opportunity Management in the Relationship Between Project Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Multidimensional Project Success. Project Management Journal, 54(2), 132-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728221134524

Numerous studies have linked various leadership styles with project success; however, the role of project leaders’ self-efficacy and project opportunity management has been rarely studied. The present study examines the effects of project leaders’ se... Read More about Time Flies When You are Having Fun: The Mediating Effects of Project Opportunity Management in the Relationship Between Project Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Multidimensional Project Success.

Exploring tourism-generated social media communication, brand equity, satisfaction, and loyalty: A PLS-SEM-based multi-sequential approach (2022)
Journal Article
Zaib Abbasi, A., RATHER, R., Hooi Ting, D., Nisar, S., Hussain, K., Ghani Khwaja, M., & Shamim, A. (2024). Exploring tourism-generated social media communication, brand equity, satisfaction, and loyalty: A PLS-SEM-based multi-sequential approach. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 30(1), 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/13567667221118651

Although social media-based brand equity has become a vital area of interest for brand managers, insights into its destination-based dynamics and applications remain scarce, specifically in the destination brand context. To address this gap, we devel... Read More about Exploring tourism-generated social media communication, brand equity, satisfaction, and loyalty: A PLS-SEM-based multi-sequential approach.

Employee Gratitude: A Win-Win for the Employer and the Employee (2022)
Journal Article
Hameed, A., & Khwaja, M. G. (2022). Employee Gratitude: A Win-Win for the Employer and the Employee. South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, 303-326. https://doi.org/10.1177/23220937221101261

Stress causes serious illnesses and damages employee well-being. The mutual gains human resource management (HRM) framework places HRM practices as the custodian of employee well-being in an organisation. This study presents a mutual gains HRM framew... Read More about Employee Gratitude: A Win-Win for the Employer and the Employee.

Linking Regenerative Travel and Residents’ Support for Tourism Development in Kaua’i Island (Hawaii): Moderating-Mediating Effects of Travel-Shaming and Foreign Tourist Attractiveness (2022)
Journal Article
Zaman, U., Aktan, M., Agrusa, J., & Khwaja, M. G. (2022). Linking Regenerative Travel and Residents’ Support for Tourism Development in Kaua’i Island (Hawaii): Moderating-Mediating Effects of Travel-Shaming and Foreign Tourist Attractiveness. Journal of Travel Research, 62(4), 782-801. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875221098934

“Leaving the place behind, better than before” is the regenerative state-of-mind approach to reset, rethink and move forward, beyond sustainable tourism. Despite growing global attention, empirical evidence supporting tourism developments through reg... Read More about Linking Regenerative Travel and Residents’ Support for Tourism Development in Kaua’i Island (Hawaii): Moderating-Mediating Effects of Travel-Shaming and Foreign Tourist Attractiveness.