Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the difference between the financial position of Omantel and Ooredoo and to investigate performance efficiency of Omantel and Ooredoo.Design/methodology/approach: The secondary data was obtained from the annual reports of Oman's major telecom...

Environment and climate change are generally considered a systemic risk, not as part of the systematic risk. The view of Islamic finance industry and institutions is no different. However, with greater awareness about the existential threat of climate crisis, there is call for treating it as...

The objective of this study is to engage parties in dialogues and trade for conflict management and thus establishing peace, security and harmony across the nations. This study is based on a theoretical multiple regression model and attempts to conceptualize the real world challenges in everyday...

Ever-increasing unemployment or underemployment of educated youth is taking its toll on Bangladesh as it is giving birth to new social unrest in the country. While its national average unemployment rate is 4.2 per cent, the rate is 2.7 per cent among those who have studied up to primary level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines how the challenge of poverty can be effectively addressed by broadly adopting Islamic value based cooperative model (IVCM) where the members come together to overcome and eventually eradicate the curse of poverty for themselves and for their future...

A key factor behind the chronic crises in modern economies is the growing dominance of financialization and the resulting disconnect between the real economy and the financial sector, to which conventional financial industry is a key contributor. In contrast, Islamic finance claims to be...

Pricing is primarily a domain of cost and management accountants' professional expertise. Right pricing strategies of an entity providing goods and services can ensure its sustainable growth. This paper has highlighted various aspects of pricing issues (pricing and strategies therefor, non-cost...