Over the years, Islamic banking has emerged as a viable alternative to conventional banking, especially after the global financial crises of 2008. Despite the fact that the existing literature emphasizes on this significant ...

This study aims to extend the signaling theory, by offering the buy-side sovereign wealth fund’s (SWF) affiliation as a signal of the acquisition premium. Using the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) deals’ data from Asia-Pacific, ...

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the influence of price and promotion on brand equity, which eventually leads to the determination of consumer’s preference for a particular brand. This research aims to add value ...

Under the influence of the framework that defines the Resource Based View, the purpose of this paper is to examine the contribution of the strategic resources (intellectual capital) that create value for the firm. More ...

This paper identifies the determinants that contribute towards the variation in financial assets that make up a firm’s total cash reserves, specifically in two important regions of the world i.e. Asia Pacific and Europe. ...

This paper examines and compares the relationships between capital regulations, risk and efficiency of Islamic banks with conventional banks in Pakistan from 2003 to 2015. By employing seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) ...

In this empirical study, the authors examined the extent to which financial sophistication and personality effects stock market participation. Using archival research methodology, our hypothesis has been tested on a random ...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether an organization can create customer engagement by practicing market orientation, personalization and using multi-channel marketing. The proposed conceptual framework is ...

This paper models the individual-level social capital effect the credit market constraints that reduce the accumulation of costly human capital. Human capital, in turn, improves an individual’s income as well as the ...

This paper utilizes three Multivariate General Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (MGARCH) models to determine variance persistence in the Greater China region from 2009 to 2014. The first approach applies the ...