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Item Overcoming the challenges and obstacles in the Implementation of Industry 4.0 in the Pharmaceutical Industry of Pakistan(UMT, Lahore, 2022-11-17) AFIFAItem Reinforcing Resilience on the Supply-side(UMT. Lahore, 2022-07-02) Muhammad Bilal AkbarThe purpose of research study is to investigate the impact of supplier integration on Supply-side resilience with the interventions by supplier sustainability and supplier flexibility. The researcher was also interested to explore and examine that how these two distinct intervening variables supplier sustainability and supplier flexibility can act in conjunction and sequentially mediate the linkage between supplier integration and supply-side resilience. The research is theoretically grounded in the dynamic capability view (DCV) and the researches hypothesize that integration of the focal firm with its suppliers leads to sustainability on the supplier’s side, which makes them more flexible to work with during disruptive circumstances and results in reinforcing resilience on the supply side. The authors conducted the research country wide through a cross sectional design, with a research survey as a data collection tool, targeting SCM professionals in various industries resulting in the final sample size of 181 for the final analysis. The research findings confirmed the postulated notion and the resulted outcome from every hypothesis turned out to be significant. These findings establish and support the authors conjectures that supplier integration impacts supply-side resilience in a positive manner. The results also confirm the existence of sequential mediation through intervention of supplier sustainability and supplier flexibility between the focal and the factor variables. This research advances the body of knowledge and contributes theoretically in the supply chain research by identifying the underlying mechanisms through which supplier integration augments Supply-side Resilience both independently and sequentially through supplier sustainability and supplier flexibility.Item Impact of risk management strategies on supply chain disruptions(UMT,Lahore, 2022-01-22)Purpose – The aim of this research is to test a research model for overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions (SCDs) by implement supply chain risk management (SCRM) strategies in the firm. The research conceptualizes the SCRM as buffering and bridging strategies (BBS) that enable firms to redefine their Supply Chain (SC) to cope with SCD. The relationship between Environmental management practices (EMPs) and SCDs is also analyzed. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 167 Supply Chain Managers of manufacturing firms by using the PLS-SEM technique.Item IMPACT OF WORK FAMILY CONFLICT ON SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONALS JOB PERFORMANCE AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS(UMT.Lahore, 2022-07-18) UMAIR KHAN ABBASIItem EXAMINING THE CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS(UMT.Lahore, 0015-02-22) Muhammad Yasir AmjadItem Effect of E-Procurement on Strategic Sourcing in Multinational Organizations in Pakistan(UMT.Lahore, 2022-02-15) Ali AsgharThe increasing pressure of competitiveness is affecting the sourcing practices of not only the business but also the multinational corporations. The practitioners, as well as the thinkers, are emphasizing upon proposing and assessing new methods of sourcing to sustain through the rein of competitiveness. It is evident from the relevant literature that the multinational corporations are at the cutting edge of changing their strategic and operational sourcing practices to keep themselves ahead of their competitors. Information and communication technology (ICT), in this regard, is reported among the most adopted interventions by the organizations, especially the multinational corporations. The technology interventions are giving new means to the classic organizational practices, such as transforming the procurement process to e procurement. Such transitions in the strategic sourcing practices of multinationals bring intrinsic and extrinsic effects as they not only call for the change in internal organizational processes, but also at the end of their suppliers and vendors. This study focuses on the effects of e-procurement on the strategic sourcing in the multinational corporations operating in Pakistan. This study follows the positivist philosophical guidelines and uses the deductive method to identify the effects of e-procurement on strategic sourcing. The instrument adopted from the work of Chipiro (2009) was adapted and used for collecting primary data. The self-administered questionnaire was sent to 500 supply chain management professionals working in the multinational corporations in Pakistan. 236 responses were received. 17 responses were discarded due to incomplete responses during the screening process, whereas, 219 responses were finally analyzed in SPSS. Correlation and regression analysis was performed to test the hypotheses. The results show a positive moderate to strong correlation between e procurement and strategic sourcing. It shows that a unit change in e-procurement results in 0.502 percent change in strategic sourcing which is moderate effect. The results, interpretation, discussion, conclusions, directions for future research and recommendations are also reported after the statistical analysis.