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Azeem, Muhammad
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Given Name
Muhammad
Muhammad
Surname
Azeem
UNE Researcher ID
une-id:mazeem
Email
mazeem@une.edu.au
Preferred Given Name
Masood
School/Department
UNE Business School
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- PublicationExamining the antecedents and consequences of perceived shopping value through smart retail technology(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-01)
; ; ; Mortimer, GaryThis study examines the antecedents and consequences of perceived shopping value through smart retail technology. Specifically, we propose that perceived complexity, perceived advantage, perceived novelty and perceived risk of using smart retail technologies determine consumers’ perceived shopping value, which, in turn, influences their store loyalty and intentions to adopt smart retail technology. Further, we propose that consumer innovativeness moderates these relationships. Survey responses from 338 actual shoppers with prior experience of smart retail technology were used to test the research model, while structural equation modelling was used to develop the proposed hypotheses. The present study offers a better understanding of consumer adoption of smart retail technology that may help managers to develop adoption strategies for successful implementation of smart retail technology in-store. - PublicationDoes functional diversity in interfirm collaborations lead to innovation diversity? Firm‐level evidence from the Australian food industry*(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022-07)
; ; ; Research on the collaboration–innovation nexus emphasises that collaborations and innovation are multidimensional. Despite this emphasis, there is limited evidence on how firms' collaborative diversity affects their innovation diversity. This paper addresses this gap by examining the relationships between (i) a firm's functional diversity of collaboration (FDC) and innovation diversity, and (ii) innovation diversity and firm growth. We used longitudinal data from 738 Australian food firms, and our findings suggest that the positive relationship between FDC and innovation diversity reaches a point of saturation, beyond which additional collaboration negatively influences firms' innovation diversity. Moreover, innovation diversity depends on the motives behind alliance formation and the firm's focus on innovation. Finally, the association between innovation diversity and growth performance is heterogeneous across firms' conditional growth rate distribution.
- PublicationCo-designed scoping study to unlock the power of digital(Agrifutures, 2020-06)
; ; ; ; Food Agility CRCThe 'power' of digital innovation within the Australian chicken meat sector is projected by many analyses to lie in digitally enabled advances surrounding traditional strengths of productive efficiency, consumer acceptance, and relatively low retail prices. The power also lies in variations to conventional models so as to innovate into value-added products, particularly those bearing information-related attributes such as traceability. This report characterises the nature of benefits available and the prerequisites and mechanisms for capturing them. However, there is considerable variation among stakeholders in the industry and each is motivated by contextually specific potential gains and unique capabilities in securing them.
This scoping study collects, evaluates and presents available information so as to map relevant literature, experience and knowledge to the field of digital transformation in the Australian chicken meat industry.
- PublicationExamining the impacts of future land use/land cover changes on climate in Punjab province, Pakistan: implications for environmental sustainability and economic growth(Springer, 2020-07)
; - PublicationCharacterizing the changing profile of employment in Australian agriculture(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-01)
; ; Existing methods of quantifying agricultural employment mask the changing profile of agricultural employment occurring in response to the pressures of competitive productivism, general progress in scientific and technical knowledge, an increasingly complex value chain and changing consumer expectations. This article critically reviews the traditional sources of data used to inform the quantification of the agricultural labor force data and presents a method, the Professional Agricultural Services Sector (PASS) Trident, which measures employment in the agriculture sector more fully, by including employment in professional services and capturing key demographic characteristics. Applying the PASS Trident, our analysis of the industry and occupation level data indicates that the existing method of measuring agricultural employment under-counts the contribution of agribusiness professionals. Moreover, people employed in the professional agricultural services sector are highly educated, younger than the traditional on-farm workforce and reside in urban areas. The methodology proposed in this paper provides a framework for future studies for monitoring shifts in agricultural employment. - PublicationHow to Be Fair in Prioritizing Support in the Aftermath of Disasters: Pakistan's Housing Reconstruction Challenges Following the 2010 Flood DisasterIn 2010, Pakistan was hit by the worst flood in the century. A total of 1.6 million homes were damaged and 0.9 million utterly destroyed or washed away (World Bank, 2010), meaning that more than 5 million people were left homeless. This is equivalent to a quarter of the Australian population. The task of rebuilding was, and always is, a formidable one for cash-constrained developing countries like Pakistan. This holds both for individual households who have lost their home and for the government that might wish to help them. Because resources and funding are limited, government must set priorities and often make hard choices. If help is to be offered to the victims, what is to be rebuilt first and what later? Who is to be helped first and whom later? Should the amount of help differ between victims and if so, how?
- PublicationFood shoppers' share of wallet: A small city case in a changing competitive environment(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
; ; ; ; Australia's highly concentrated food retail environment is examined in the context of competitive entry in a small city. Based on a conceptual framework that draws on existing literature, food stores' customers' share of wallet (SOW) is measured in a survey (n=379) which brackets the opening of a new supermarket. A number of variables are recorded in the survey that are not available from other data collection methods. The drivers of SOW are determined using a 2-limit Tobit model which incorporates the direct and interactive aspects of the pathways identified in the Conceptual Framework. At one of the stores (Woolworths), the influence of loyalty schemes is found to vary with customers' perceptions of stores, with implications for enhanced customer targeting by food retail managers. The impact of loyalty programs is found to be mitigated by the entry of a competitor, particularly in the case of price-conscious customers. Senior citizens are found to allocate higher SOW to small rather than large stores, and there are small effects due to the sex of the customer. There are few indications of a bespoke small city model of the drivers of SOW, but a number of interactions are identified for future research. - PublicationDo functional diversity of interfirm collaborations (FDC) lead to innovation diversity? Firm level evidence from Australian food industry(Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), 2019)
; ; - PublicationResponse to stockout in grocery stores: A small city case in a changing competitive environment(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-07)
; ; ; ; Empirical studies of customers' response to their favored brands' being out of stock (OOS) have focused on customers' characteristics and have been almost exclusively conducted in metropolitan areas of Europe and North America. Less is known about the effect of new retail market entry on customers' OOS response and the associated implications for retailers and manufacturers in the context of small regional centers and cities. This paper investigates customers' response to OOS in the context of a small Australian city experiencing market entry by a new supermarket. A Multinomial Logit model is used to analyze the primary survey data from 378 food shoppers. Prices for a selection of food items were also tracked for the relevant period. Our results show that changing competitive environment is likely to be a driver of customers’ switching store in response to OOS. Overall, most of the influential variables are positively associated with switching stores rather than switching brands, and this indicates that OOS is more costly for retailers than for manufacturers. - PublicationFood Shoppers' Experience of Supermarket Entry in a Small Regional City: The Case of Aldi in Armidale NSW(Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), 2019)
; ; ; ; Griffith, Gary