Administrative and Management Sciences Journal

Digital Transformation Strategies and SME Performance: The Role of Innovations

Muhammad Jamil Khan — 2025-03-10

This research aims to investigate the empirical relationships between digital facilitators, digital transformation strategies, and the overall performance of SMEs. Additionally, it examines the influence of innovation on these relationships by exploring its moderating role between digital facilitators and overall SME performance, as well as between digital transformation strategies and overall SME performance. To achieve this, data was collected through a questionnaire survey targeting manufacturing SMEs in the Pakistan. The study employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the proposed hypotheses, and found positive relationship between digital facilitators and overall performance of SMEs which implies that digital facilitators empower SMEs to approach to the online renting services or available outsourcing. It provides the access to different digital technologies such as digital communication, digital transportation, intellectual systems and data analysists which help the firms to perform better. Secondly, the research identifies a positive relationship between digital transformation strategies and the overall performance of SMEs, indicating that such strategies contribute to streamlining business processes through the adoption of advanced technologies. Thirdly, the study reveals that innovation significantly moderates the relationships between digital facilitators and SME performance, as well as between digital transformation strategies and SME performance. This finding highlights that innovation is a key prerequisite for digitalization, as digital products continue to evolve through the integration and refinement of digital components driven by innovation.

Islamic Spirituality as a Moderator in the Organizational Justice- Job Satisfaction Nexus: Evidence from Pakistani SME

Muhammad Adeel — 2025-04-21

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between organizational justice, job satisfaction, and Islamic spirituality in the context of SMEs within Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. It addresses a very serious gap in the existing literature, which concerns the function of Islamic spirituality as a moderator in the relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction—a highly relevant question in
those areas of the world where religious persuasions mark both cultural and professional life. This research adopted a quantitative design; 350 employees of different SMEs in the region were surveyed. The research found strong positive relationships between organizational justice and job satisfaction, with Islamic spirituality emerging as a significant moderator variable. The findings from this
study show that there is a higher level of job satisfaction for those employees who perceive higher levels of organizational justice. In addition to this, Islamic spirituality also extends this relationship. Employees that have strong spiritual inclinations are likely to interpret these organizational practices in an Islamic- values lens which results in enhancing perceptions of just treatment and
subsequently boosting levels of job satisfaction. The research has added to the literature of organizational behavior in highlighting cultural and spiritual dimensions and their linkages with workplace dynamics, especially in SMEs which are part of low-income localities like Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. It also suggests that incorporating religious and ethical aspects into the frameworks of organizational justice will keep the moral and spiritual expectations

Evaluating the Impact of Capital Budgeting Parameters on Economic Prosperity in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis Using the ARDL Model

Abu Bakar Siddique — 2025-04-26

This study analyses the role of capital budgeting on economic growth in Pakistan while taking into consideration the current economic indicators apart from inflation rates, including interest rates along with foreign direct investment and exchange rates. The study will analyze 43 years of data, covering the period from 1980 to 2022, investigating vital relationships among the economic variables applying ARDL modeling for the short and long term. In the case of ADF, a stationarity state test was needed in order to increase the reliability of the outcome; hence, tests conducted on ARDL Bound confirmed that meaningful relationship existing between all these variables studied over the long-run. Its finding enhances our knowledge of capital budgeting with respect to its relevance with economic growth for Pakistan, offering very relevant implications for all policymaking strategies to investors and to all other academic research groups working towards development in all the economic sector segments.