The current research aims to analyze the impact of institutional shareholding on the dividend payout policy of Islamic mutual funds in Pakistan and Malaysia. A sample of 185 Islamic funds, including 85 Pakistani and 100 Malaysian funds, is used for the analysis. The data for the analysis spans...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the association of behavioral biases like overconfidence bias and self-attribution bias, and information acquisition with individual investors decisions. This study also extends its contributions in understanding the role of information...

Purpose This study aims to comparatively analyze the systematic, idiosyncratic and downside risk exposure of both Islamic and conventional funds in Pakistan to see which of the funds has higher risk exposure. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes different types of risks involved in...

Purpose: This study aims to comparatively analyze the systematic, idiosyncratic and downside risk exposure of both Islamic and conventional funds in Pakistan to see which of the funds has higher risk exposure. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes different types of risks involved in...

This study analyzes the impact of different governance related variables on the corporate governance disclosure level of Pakistani manufacturing firms. The study period is one year i.e. 2014 and it used a sample of 50 manufacturing firms which are classified into five different categories. The...

Contract employment is potential instrument to shorten unemployment duration and might increase or decrease the future earnings, Marloos(2005). An attempt is made to study the variables like absenteeism ratio, satisfaction level, preference of people,sense of achievement, happiness of life,...

The purpose of this research study is to explore the advance fundraising techniques in the nonprofit, charitable, philanthropic organizations for the purpose of fundraising. This research study completed on the basis of primary data that is taken from NGO's in the region of Punjab. Frequency...

The prime objective of the current study is to investigate the major determinants of firm's open innovation performance in Malaysian small and median-sized enterprises (SMEs). Recently, Malaysian SMEs have suffered from low open innovation performance. These SMEs are still struggling to get...

The prime objective of the current study is to investigate the major determinants of firm’s open innovation performance in Malaysian small and median-sized enterprises (SMEs). Recently, Malaysian SMEs have suffered from low open innovation performance. These SMEs are still struggling to get...