32 articles in this issue
Yuli Andriansyah,M. Bekti Hendrie Anto
This research is aimed to analyse government spending in Indonesia based on its types and functions according to Islamic economic perspective. Data used in this research are government spending classified based on type and function which were secondary on... see more
Mohammed Yussoff Ibrahim,Zulkipli Ghazali,Haseeb Ur Rahman
The rapid change in climate and the high cost of controlling it are the issues caught much attention around the world especially during the last two decades. The CCSU (Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization) is widely believed the mechanism to control bo... see more
Abdolhossein Zameni,Othman Yong
The study aims to investigate the lock-up provisions of initial public offering’s (IPOs) and its effects on trading volume changes around the lock-up expiry date of Malaysian IPOs by using both the event study methodology and the comparison period returns... see more
Rakhshanda Kousar,Farah Naz,Tahira Sadaf,Sultan Ali Adil,Tayyab Zeeshan Shahid,Shahid Mushtaq
Internal-migration is the process of displacement of people within a country, mostly for better employment. Pakistan is among those South-Asian countries who have high rate of internal-migration. Poverty is considered to be an important factor in this con... see more
Zul-Atfi Ismail,Azrul A. Mutalib,Noraini Hamzah
The implementation of a maintenance management system faced many issues due to defect repetition and lack of proper structure management planning. A case study was undertaken among complex and high-rise Industrialised Building System (IBS) buildings in Ma... see more
Hanita Kadir Shahar,Azira Abdul Adzis,Nureliana Baderi
This study investigates the relationship between ownership structure and firm specific characteristics with capital structure of Malaysian middle-capital pubic listed firms. Although there are many studies conducted on capital structure, very few examine ... see more
Mohammed Yussoff Ibrahim,Ayoib Che Ahmad,Muhammad Anees Khan
This paper proposes to investigate the postulations of renowned agency theory and shareholder value (SHV) in relation to Corporate Governance (CG) attributes. Shareholder value is of a great concern to the shareholders of firms. Shareholder value have bee... see more
Mercy Ejovwokeoghene Ogbari,Adunola Oluremi Oke,Adeyemo A. Ibukunoluwa,Musibau Akintunde Ajagbe,Andrew Cat Ologbo
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of business ethics on corporate performance. The hypotheses were set using four main objectives. Data were obtained using both primary and secondary sources. The primary data was obtained by using a st... see more
Hui-Shan Lee,Fan-Fah Cheng,Shyue-Chuan Chong
Capital Asset Pricing Model is widely used by investors to estimate the return or the moving behavior of the stock and Markowitz Model is employed to achieve portfolio diversification. This study examine whether CAPM is valid to forecast the behaviour of ... see more
Faiz Zamzami,Nabella Duta Nusa,Rudi Prasetya Timur
Some cases of corruption have taken place in several universities in Indonesia. To prevent and handle the cases, internal auditors play pivotal roles in detecting and preventing fraud. Therefore, effective methods to detect and prevent f... see more
Seyed Taghi Pardis,Saudah Sofian,Dewi Fariha Abdullah
Corporate Governance (CG) foster dynamic economic growth, increase financing, reduces costs of capital, manage stakeholder interest which ultimately increase corporate performance (CP). Researchers have argued that employees must be inspired by CG practic... see more
Jalal ud Din Akbar,Zulkipli B. Ghazali
In the plant turnaround, the operating assets and machinery of the organization shut down for overhauling and some capital work. This activity is very expensive and the time allocated is very low. Therefore, a good management system is required for planni... see more
A. Widya-Hastuti,Noraini Bt Abu Talib,Kuan Yew Wong,Abbas Mardani
A focus on innovation alone is not sufficient for sustainability in the current hostile business environment. Environment awareness and social impact as well as economic place demands on firms to contribute to sustainable development. As such, there is in... see more
Hock Lye Koh,Su Yean Teh,Wai Kiat Tan
The world has witnessed a succession of three global financial crises in the past two decades. During each crisis, many financial institutions failed. Credit became either unavailable or too costly for business, as seen in the recent financial turmoil in ... see more
Pang Elvin,Nik Intan Norhan Bt Abdul Hamid
Based on previous studies, ownership structure is not standardized across different country and economic sectors. In other words, each country or economic sector might have different types of sustainable ownership structure that contribute to the competit... see more
Yusuf Abdul Azeez,Abdullahi Saliu Ishola
The Takaful (Islamic Insurance) is not only a key branch of the Islamic Financial System (IFS) but also one of the important Islamic financial instruments and a strong tool for managing individual risks and business overturns. In terms of operational mode... see more
Hacine Gherbi Elhachemi,Mohammad Azmi Othman
This paper use empirical analysis to examine short run and long Iran’s Islamic banking and financial market development in terms of size -growth-crisis nexus and identify the Granger causality relationship among them over the period of 1990Q1 to 2010Q4 fo... see more
Muhammad Suhaimi Mohd Yusof,Abd Rahim Romle,Mashitah Mohd Udin,Mohd Khirul Azwan Mohd Kamal,Muhammad Aqmarul Azri Azmi
Since the past decades, humans watched the changes of politic and economy in the world from the small campaign into huge riot. This kind of events happened all over the world due to the demand for the better administration and ruler had increased until to... see more
Logasvathi Murugiah
Financial world is crucial as people assume more responsibility for their own financial security. For that reason, financial literacy play a critical role in helping individual to manage their money wisely. Moreover, the needs to study into a national wid... see more
Abdullahi Saliu Ishola,Yusuf Abdul Azeez,Norfadhilah Mohamad Ali
There is no modern activity premised on Islamic Law that does not have a link with one of the traditional practices in the classical Islamic Law society. Failure to find its root in the past may even be a justification for such activity to be rejected as ... see more
Muhammad Zulqarnain Safdar,Muhammad Zahid Awan,Zeeshan Ahmed,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Tafakhar Hasnain
Keeping in mind the Keynes of the Pakistan’s Sugar Industry in its overall economic well-being, the current work objects to examine the liquidity-profitability trade off in Sugar Industry of Pakistan. Secondary data of the non-financial companies which ar... see more
Zeeshan Ahmed,Muhammad Zahid Awan,Muhammad Zulqarnain Safdar,Tafakhar Hasnain,Muhammad Kamran
Amongst all the issues of financial management, the issue of routine capital management is critical one. The reason is; it always elucidates a direction to help out a firm to acquire energy in short run. In broader sense, working capital is the sum of tho... see more
Maryam Mirzaei,Suresh Ramakrishnan,Mahmoud Bekri
The accurate prediction of corporate bankruptcy for the firms in different industries is of a great concern to investors and creditors. Firm-specific data accompany with industry and macroeconomic factors offer a potentially large number of candidate pred... see more
Aamir Iqbal Umrani,Satirenjit Kaur Johl
SMEs serve as the financial backbone of the developed and developing economies, and a major contributor in many countries’ GDP. A sustainable SME sector is vital for a developing country like Malaysia where SMEs represent 99.2 % of the overall business es... see more
Zulkipli Ghazali,Muhammad Zahid,Tan Siok Kee,M. Yussoff Ibrahim
Public awareness is crucial to mitigate negative impacts on the environment. The aim of the study is to explore the level of public awareness in five states of Malaysia (Perak, Melaka, Johor, Pahang and Terengganu) regarding CO2 emissions, climate change ... see more
Asim Rahman,Naveed Shahzad,Kiran Mustafa,Muhammad Fayaz Khan,Faizan Qurashi
Organizational justice has been considered as an important contributor for commitment of employees towards their organization. Only two dimensions (Distributive and procedural justice) of organizational justice were focused in this study. This resea... see more
Suresh Ramakrishnan,Agha Amad Nabi,Melati Ahmad Anuar
Default prediction provides a way to control and direct firms in achieving their goals. The common approach in this regard has been to study the relationship between set of explanatory variables and financial distress. The study served specific objectives... see more
Suresh Ramakrishnan,Agha Amad Nabi,Zulkarnain Daud,Melati Ahmad Anuar
Pakistan has a long history of involvement in politics. Since independence in 1947 the country has experienced four coups that directly rule of the country over time. Most recently in 1999 the armed forces took over the democratic government. Accumu... see more
Faiza Saleem,Mohd Norfian Alifiah,Muhammad Sohail Tahir
Recently, financial crisis and high profile corporate scandals in the United States, Europe and East Asia, have brought corporate governance and audit quality issues to the forefront in developing countries, emerging markets and transitional economies. In... see more
Muhammad Sohail Tahir,Mohd Norfian Alifiah,Muhammad Usman Arshad,Faiza Saleem
This study reviews the role of different financial theories such as, trade off theory, pecking order theory and free cash flow theory in the decision making of corporate cash management practices. The review also shed a light on the ground breaking study ... see more
Muhammad Usman Arshad,Mohammed Effandi Yusoff,Muhammad Sohail Tahir
The present era has witnessed intensive changes in last few decades. The transformation of conventional financial system to Islamic financial system is one of these drastic changes the world has faced. Islamic banking is the major constituent of the Islam... see more
Ibrahim Danjuma,Ibrahim Abdullateef Kola,Badiya Yusuf Magaji,Hauwa Modu Kumshe
This study investigates the effect of credit risk management on customer satisfaction in tier-one deposits money banks in Adamawa state, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to examine relationship between credit risk management and customers’ satisf... see more