Rajagiri Management Journal

Editorial Board

Editor RJSD — 2022-03-08

Editorial Board

Towards a Supply Chain 4.0 on the post-COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and strategic discussion for more resilient supply chains

Guilherme F. Frederico — 2022-03-08

This paper aims to present a grounded and strategic discussion regarding Supply Chain 4.0 as a
management system orientation for the post-COVID-19 period as well as propose some research directions
thereof.

Can the concept of “lean management” be applied to academic recruitment? – a quasi-theoretical discourse

Vic Benuyenah — 2022-03-08

This paper seeks to emphasise the need to re-evaluate university teacher recruitment processes.
The implementation of lean processes helps to improve organisational practices; in the case of university
recruitment, however, organisational processes have remained unchanged for decades. Although there is a
traditional justification for having academic recruitment as a rigorous and complex process (as a practiced
method by which to identify the most suitable applicants), the increase of competition across the sector, and
the internet revolution, has rendered these older methods partially ineffective. The author argues that
recruitment systems and practices need reviewing to overhaul inefficacious elements.

Life dissatisfaction among students: exploring the role of intrapersonal conflict, insufficient efforts and academic stress

Anju Amandeep — 2022-03-08

The study focuses on academic stress among the students due to insufficient efforts and
intrapersonal conflicts amid the COVID-19 situation. The purpose of this study is to measure the mediating
role of academic stress between life dissatisfaction and adequate steps and intrapersonal conflicts.

After-sales services, brand equity and purchasing intention to buy second-hand product

Muhammad Danish Habib — 2022-03-08

This study aims to examine the concept of brand equity and willingness to buy second-hand
products in the automobile context. The customer-based brand equity model is used as a theoretical lens to
examine after-sales services, brand credibility and brand loyalty as drivers of brand equity and willingness to
buy the second-hand product.