| Abstrakt: |
The prime purpose of the research was to examine, through empirical study, and help determine the government's role as moderator in the relationship between Porter's diamond firm strategy, structure, and rivalry construct and firm's performance in Pakistan's automotive sector. In the study, research philosophy was positivism and deductive approach applied for the main reason to establish generalization in the results. With a view to determine the magnitude, direction and significance; researchers emphasized on descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Data was solicited from 166 sample respondents through structured questionnaire. To establish the reliability perspective and validity context in the questionnaire constructs, pilot study constituted part of the research study. Parametric and nonparametric statistical techniques also became the integral part of analysis for drawing objectively based conclusions. For moderation purpose, the tool was macro, PROCESS v3.0 (model 1). The study findings aptly indicate that in theoretical context, the relationship is not significant whereas the practical perspective reflects that the government policy does influence industry firms' performance, however, mediating role of government between Porter's construct viz. firm strategy, structure, and rivalry and industry firms' performance documented no impact. In the constituencies of academia, automotive sector players, and policymakers the moderation results shed light on the theoretical and practical contextualization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
