ONLINE ISSN 2707-4986
PRINT ISSN 1998-3425
PRINT ISSN 1998-3425
EDITORIAL
I am honored to be selected for and excited to begin the role of editor-in-chief of the Skyline Business Journal (SBJ) of Skyline University College. I first want to thank to my previous Editor-in Chief, Prof. Mohammad In’airat, Vice Chancellor, Skyline University College and Prof. Amitabh Upadhya, former Dean School of Business, Skyline University College and their team for their work over the past years at the journal. A quick glance at any recent table of contents shows that they have done a good job by attracting a diverse set of papers that has furthered SBJ’s reputation as a top outlet for business and management research. I look forward to building on their success over the next 4 years. Our team primary goals are to continue to improve SBJ’s transparency and openness of the research, to further diversify Skyline Business journal, including in editors, reviewers and authors, and to attract and publish scientific studies that make important new contributions.
My vision for Skyline Business Journal is to maintain and build the reputation that the journal currently has for publishing the most valuable work in business and management, while acknowledging and embracing the diverse ways that value to the journal. In closing, I am grateful to the team of editors who have agreed to serve with me. We look forward to working with you in the coming years!
This is the 18th volume of Skyline Business Journal, consists of 5 papers, covers the areas of finance, SMEs, and workplace issues. The first paper by Jesús Cuauhtémoc Téllez Gaytán and Aqila Rafiuddin on ‘Hedging effectiveness of bitcoin on latin american equity indices: A multiscale analysis based on wavelets’, the authors use a wavelet approach to capture time scale behaving of MSCI LATAM equity indices against bitcoin and commodities under different market conditions, their findings suggest that bitcoin will act as a safe-haven device while gold is a better hedger device against oil which shows diversifier properties.
The second paper by AbdulQuddus Mohammed explored the ‘Strategies adopted by small and medium enterprises in United Arab Emirates to enhance innovative work behaviour of employees’, the opportunity enhancing strategies namely autonomy, task composition and feedback positively impacted innovative work behaviour of employees in UAE while ability enhancing strategy (training and development) and three motivation-enhancing strategies (reward and recognition, job security and employee involvement/ engagement) were not found to impact innovative work behaviour. SMEs employees need to implement the innovation successfully by giving an importance to these strategies, and the capabilities can be directed in the right direction to increase the potential of innovation success.
In the third paper by Oginni et al., on ‘Job Satisfaction and Job Contentment in the Context of the Nigerian Banks’ identified the six components of job satisfaction that drive job contentment such as job security, salary, human relations, promotion, organizational benefits, and job characteristics. The results show that the salary, job security, and organizational benefits drive job contentment more among employees in the banking industry but job security was considered to be the most potent drive of job contentment among all while the relationship among all the job satisfaction components with job contentment was a moderate relationship except human relations. It is recommended that the implementation of the organizational policies towards the components of job satisfaction should be fair, just, and free of any form of sentiments that can affect their perception and feelings about these components.
Mbizi et al., in paper four, examines The nexus between technological financial innovation and financial performance of commercial banks in Zimbabwe’, the authors result show that the use of automated teller machines and internet banking have strong positive relationship with financial performance, whilst a weak positive relationship was established between mobile banking and financial performance of commercial banks, and an insignificant association was established between electronic funds transfer and financial performance of the commercial banks.
Authors, Rmil Velinov and Vasko Vassilev in the last paper on ‘Corporate social responsibility practices impact on company performance across Bulgarian SMEs in the automotive sector’ is based on the ESG goals set by the United Nations. It is suggested that the development and implementation of CSR measures is critical for the success of the SMEs across the emerging automotive sector in the EU country and the corporate social responsibility practices impact on company performance across Bulgarian SMEs in the automotive sector.
Dr. Gouher Ahmed,
Editor- In-Cheif
Skyline Business Journal
My vision for Skyline Business Journal is to maintain and build the reputation that the journal currently has for publishing the most valuable work in business and management, while acknowledging and embracing the diverse ways that value to the journal. In closing, I am grateful to the team of editors who have agreed to serve with me. We look forward to working with you in the coming years!
This is the 18th volume of Skyline Business Journal, consists of 5 papers, covers the areas of finance, SMEs, and workplace issues. The first paper by Jesús Cuauhtémoc Téllez Gaytán and Aqila Rafiuddin on ‘Hedging effectiveness of bitcoin on latin american equity indices: A multiscale analysis based on wavelets’, the authors use a wavelet approach to capture time scale behaving of MSCI LATAM equity indices against bitcoin and commodities under different market conditions, their findings suggest that bitcoin will act as a safe-haven device while gold is a better hedger device against oil which shows diversifier properties.
The second paper by AbdulQuddus Mohammed explored the ‘Strategies adopted by small and medium enterprises in United Arab Emirates to enhance innovative work behaviour of employees’, the opportunity enhancing strategies namely autonomy, task composition and feedback positively impacted innovative work behaviour of employees in UAE while ability enhancing strategy (training and development) and three motivation-enhancing strategies (reward and recognition, job security and employee involvement/ engagement) were not found to impact innovative work behaviour. SMEs employees need to implement the innovation successfully by giving an importance to these strategies, and the capabilities can be directed in the right direction to increase the potential of innovation success.
In the third paper by Oginni et al., on ‘Job Satisfaction and Job Contentment in the Context of the Nigerian Banks’ identified the six components of job satisfaction that drive job contentment such as job security, salary, human relations, promotion, organizational benefits, and job characteristics. The results show that the salary, job security, and organizational benefits drive job contentment more among employees in the banking industry but job security was considered to be the most potent drive of job contentment among all while the relationship among all the job satisfaction components with job contentment was a moderate relationship except human relations. It is recommended that the implementation of the organizational policies towards the components of job satisfaction should be fair, just, and free of any form of sentiments that can affect their perception and feelings about these components.
Mbizi et al., in paper four, examines The nexus between technological financial innovation and financial performance of commercial banks in Zimbabwe’, the authors result show that the use of automated teller machines and internet banking have strong positive relationship with financial performance, whilst a weak positive relationship was established between mobile banking and financial performance of commercial banks, and an insignificant association was established between electronic funds transfer and financial performance of the commercial banks.
Authors, Rmil Velinov and Vasko Vassilev in the last paper on ‘Corporate social responsibility practices impact on company performance across Bulgarian SMEs in the automotive sector’ is based on the ESG goals set by the United Nations. It is suggested that the development and implementation of CSR measures is critical for the success of the SMEs across the emerging automotive sector in the EU country and the corporate social responsibility practices impact on company performance across Bulgarian SMEs in the automotive sector.
Dr. Gouher Ahmed,
Editor- In-Cheif
Skyline Business Journal