Purpose - The purpose of this study is to look at the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) progress toward economic diversification and becoming a knowledge-based economy. Design/methodology/approach - The World Development Indicators (WDI) and GlobalEconomy websites provided all secondary data for...

Purpose - Corporate social responsibility (CSR) aims at upholding socio-economic condition of deprived communities prevailing in society as well as bringing profitability for corporate companies themselves. This study investigates to what extent the CSR initiatives of financial institutions in...

The primary driver of this study is to find out key indicators of Entrepreneurial Capability milieu and test these components empirically in the Association with South East Asian Nations-05 economies. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to understand the determinants of...

This paper considers how a system of profit and loss sharing arrangements as an alternative to the interest system curbs financial instability and modifies banking and government's economic role. The profit-loss sharing system would result in a more stable level of investment and financial...

The discovery of oil in 1929 has been a major political and economic event in the modern history of Brunei Darussalam. After the great oil crunch of the 1973-74 and the subsequent increase in the oil price, the society and economy of Brunei stepped into the threshold of a transformation process....

The primary driver of this study is to find out key indicators of Entrepreneurial Capability milieu and test these components empirically in the Association with South East Asian Nations-05 economies. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to understand the determinants of...