Purpose: This study aims to empirically evaluate the performance of commercial banks operating in India. Design/methodology/approach: The efficiency of the commercial banks is evaluated using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. We measure the technical, pure technical and scale...

Purpose: With the advancement in technology, the day-to-day life of people has gone through an immense transformation. The use of smart devices for day-to-day life is greater than before, and people are moving towards smart work rather than doing hard work. In this paper, a novel framework is...

Purpose: This study aims to empirically compare the performance of Islamic indices vis-à-vis to their conventional counterparts in India. Design/methodology/approach: The performance of the Islamic and selected conventional indices is evaluated using various risk-adjusted performance measures...

Purpose: This paper investigates the style timing and liquidity style timing vis-à-vis the market, size, value and momentum factors of the actively managed Indian equity mutual funds. Design/methodology/approach: We examine the style timing of the funds using the augmented Carhart four-factor...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stock market performance of companies featured in the survey “Best Companies to Work For” as a proxy for corporate culture. Design/methodology/approach: The authors employed the portfolio formation and event study methods from finance...