It seems challenging to detect the benef iciary students of the Academic Paid Writing Services, which refers to a practice in which authors or students appoint professional writers to produce scholarly work (including research papers, university assignments, research reports, and so on) with a predef ined style. This study aimed to explore the factors leading the students in higher education to choose the paid Academic Writing Services (PAWS), which affects their performance and personal development due to contract cheating and make them realize that learning is better than grades as through self-explorations only a person can get something better. By employing quantitative approach to obtain information associated with PAWS, data was gathered from 117 business students enrolled in six Higher Education Institutes in Karachi, Pakistan, using adopted questionnaire having close-ended questions with 5-point Likert scale, measuring students' attitude towards class assignments, their awareness about plagiarism, and their attitude about academic paid writing services. The results revealed that male students were more inclined towards paid writing services than their counterpart female students were and the increase in Students' Attitude towards Assignments brought the increase academic paid writing services. Therefore, academic professionals servicing in universities are recommended to take due care of the two factors to prevent the increased paid academic wiring services.
This paper investigates the role of quality management practices in software industry of Pakistan.We present a comparison between the more-experienced and less-experienced firms with respect to the critical factors of quality management. The critical factors of quality management practices in the software industry are first identified from the literature survey and validated through an empirical study. The study attempts to probe the influence of "age of quality" and "use of software" over software quality management practices and programs. The results of the study shows that the 'age of quality" and "use of software" have partial influence over the software quality management.
The study has considered awareness, knowledge, liking and preference as the predictors of consumer’s intention to purchase leading to an actual purchase behavior over social media channels such as Facebook. Also, intention to purchase was considered as a mediator in the study. The quantitative approach has been used in this research. The total responses for the study were 296 collected from the target population to examine the construct developed based on the underpinned hypothetical framework. This research has used a questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale which has been adapted from earlier studies. The convenience sampling technique has been used in our research. PLS-SEM was used to examine the proposed research model.
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