This groundbreaking study looked at the issue of pollution of the environment in the E7 countries from 2002 and 2022. We implemented ARDL to investigate how GDP, institutional quality, trade openness, and technological innovation affect CO2 emissions, CH4 emissions, and N2O emissions, which are regarded as indicators of environmental pollution. The findings show that the variables have a lasting, substantial association and all the factors e.g institutional quality, technology innovation, economic growth and trade openness are important factors to effect environmental pollution, except institutional all other factors cause increase in environmental damage because these variables bring increase in CO? emission whereas institutional quality plays a supportive role in environment. In contrast to institutional quality, which has a negative and statistically significant relationship with CO?, trade openness, economic growth, and innovation in technology all have positive and statistically significant relation with carbon dioxide emission. On the other hand, IQ, TOP, and GDP has significant and positive association with Nitrous oxide (N20). Trade openness and Methane (CH4) have a negative relationship which means trade helps to reduce methane emission in the examined countries, although GDP and CH4 have a positive relationship. These E-7 countries should follow an environmentally friendly path to achieve their desired level of GDP. These countries should check the quality of their institutions law and order situations, accountability and control of corruption to improve the condition of environment in the case of N?O.

The literature on social media (SM) use in government organizations primarily focuses on service delivery, publicity, and public relations. But, how a public sector security organization’s use of social media is related to electoral politics in a country is least understood. This paper conceptualizes the Pakistani military’s use of digital media, drawing on the theory of organizational impression management (IM). It further explores the impact of military-related social media activists (SMAs) on electoral politics in Pakistan. Structural equation modeling was used to test the conceptual model, demonstrating that the citizens’ connectedness with military-related SMAs is significant and positively associated with their voting realignments during the 2018 elections in Pakistan. The results revealed that the citizens’ greater online political participation increases their likelihood of connecting with military-related SMAs. On the contrary, their engagement with the offline political process reduces the chances of consuming the military’s impression management content over social media.

Dialogic learning is an approach that uses dialogue to help students think, learn, and solve problems. Research shows that Think Pair and Share (TPS) is one of the most commonly used techniques to implement a dialogic classroom learning process. However, this method has inherent limitations in engaging all students because of the pupil’s inability to evaluate and present coherent thought processes extemporaneously without any written script. So, to solve this problem, we introduce a modified model of TPS in a mathematics lesson and investigate its impact on students’ learning outcomes using an action research framework. The Paired Sample t-tests indicate that the new model significantly impacted students’ critical thinking and understanding of maths lessons. However, it had an insignificant impact on pupils’ confidence. Moreover, all three variables were positively and significantly correlated in their pre- and post-test findings. The study has implications for policy, planning, and practice of pedagogy.

Past studies have focused on organizational use of social media (SM) for service delivery, publicity and public relations, but, how can a public sector organization influence the country’s politics through the use of SM is unknown in literature. Drawing on the theory of Organizational Impression Management (IM) and the concept of authoritarian legacies, this study investigates that how a public sector security organization (Pakistani military) linked with country’s authoritarian past can use the Social Media Activists (SMAs) to influence citizen’s political participation. A random sampling (n=407) technique was used while conducting the survey. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesis, which demonstrate that the SM user’s connectedness with the military aligned SMAs is significant and positively associates with their voting realignments and online political participation. The results also indicate that the offline political participation compliments online political participation and political disposition positively relates with online political participation. Our study introduces a new conceptual construct of SMAs aligned with authoritarian legacies and test it empirically. The study adds new prospects for the use of organizational IM theory in relation to the digital media, politics and authoritarianism.

Purpose –This study investigates how institutional quality in developed markets moderate the relationship between the strategic assets (SAs) and the inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) coming from emerging markets (EM) firms. Design/methodology/approach – The authors build upon resource based theory and institutional theory to investigate the impacts of Institutional frameworks on the strategic asset seeking (SAS) IFDI from China in 31 developed countries (OECD) for a period from 2013-2018. A stepwise general linear regression is used to test the hypothesis. The study uses process macros to validate the moderation results obtained from regression modelling. We also conduct multiple robustness tests to ensure that the data is free from idiosyncrasies related to time series data. Findings – The results demonstrate that the institutional quality in developed countries is not associated with inward FDI from China; however, it negatively moderates the relationship between SAs and IFDI. The results also indicate that IFDI from China is strongly associated with SAs and insignificantly associated with natural resource endowments in host countries. Practical Implications – The study has managerial implications for EM firm’s SAS drive during the current wave of anti-globalization. Originality/value – The role of institutional quality on IFDI disaggregated by the sectors of the economy is least understood in literature. Our study attempts to bridge this gap by bringing a cross sectional view of Institutional quality at various levels— while interacting with SAS IFDI, at a time, when the World is heading towards de-globalization.