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Institutional convergence of Turkish Islam and European social democracy on the political economy of social question
Akan, Taner - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) December, pp. 70-96
Conservative Democracy in Turkey in their politico-economic strategies for dealing with the social question with the thought that … contextualised into the evolutionary cycles of the socialism ? social democracy ? the Third Way in Europe and the Just Order … ? Conservative Democracy in the Ottoman-Turkish territory. Initially focusing on the first cycle, the paper then turns to examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644177
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Institutional convergence of Turkish Islam and European social democracy on the political economy of social question
Akan, Taner - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) 1, pp. 70-96
Conservative Democracy in Turkey in their politico‐economic strategies for dealing with the social question with the thought that … contextualised into the evolutionary cycles of the socialism → social democracy → the Third Way in Europe and the Just Order … → Conservative Democracy in the Ottoman‐Turkish territory. Initially focusing on the first cycle, the paper then turns to examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805645
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Knowledge-induced technological change: A study involving the automobile innovation in Malaysia with layers of techniques
Choudhury, Masudul Alam; Azid, Toseef; Klasra, Mushtaq Ahmad - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) November, pp. 744-765
Purpose – To apply the Tawhidi epistemology in the automobile industry as the paradigm of the Islamic socio-scientific order in terms of its inherent knowledge-centered worldview. Design/methodology/approach – The concepts of unity and unification of knowledge in a system-wide sense are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081300
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A paradigm of Islamic money and banking
Choudhury, Masudul Alam; Hussain, Md. Mostaque - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) March, pp. 203-217
Purpose – Theological perspectives in ethics, values and their functional application in the real world are vividly covered by the theory and practice of Islamic banking in recent times. This paper seeks to formalize the theological paradigm of the unity of God (Tawhid) and to make the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081320
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Global financial crisis: dharmic transgressions and solutions
Dilmaghani, Maryam - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) January, pp. 55-80
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between religiosity and labour market outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Ethnic Diversity Survey, the author: examines how religious belief and practice relate to earnings in Canada; considers the impact of the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421150
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Human resource management based on the index of Islamic human development: The Holy Quran's approach
Zangoueinezhad, Abouzar; Moshabaki, Asghar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) November, pp. 962-972
of Islam and The Quran. Design/methodology/approach – This paper applies the hermeneutic method and considers the … question: “what are the proper human resource (HR) economic-managerial indexes from the viewpoint of Islam?”. Findings … situation of the human development from the viewpoint of Islam and finally, it proposes human development economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365029
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Malaysian consumers' preferences for Islamic banking attributes
Echchabi, Abdelghani; Olaniyi, Oladokun Nafiu - In: International Journal of Social Economics 11 (2012) October, pp. 859-874
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the preferences of Malaysian banks' customers for Islamic banking attributes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses mixed methodology. The quantitative approach consists of the collection of primary data through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610856
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Developing economy banking: the case of Islamic banks
Ghannadian, Farhad F.; Goswami, Gautam - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) July, pp. 740-752
By 2003, there was a total of 176 Islamic banks around the globe with their total assets close to $147 billion. This article shows that this form of specialized banking may help in promoting growth in these developing economies. During the transition phase of a developing growth economy to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513341
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Clients of conventional and Islamic banks in Bahrain: How they choose which bank to patronize
Al-Ajmi, Jasim; Hussain, Hameeda Abo; Al-Saleh, Nadhem - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) October, pp. 1086-1112
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a study into: the motives that dispose customers in Bahrain to choose a specific bank; the level of familiarity of customers with the most widely used services/products offered by Islamic banks; and the extent of use of those products....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522658
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An empirical survey of individual consumer, business firm and financial institution attitudes towards Islamic methods of finance
Gait, Alsadek; Worthington, Andrew - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) October, pp. 783-808
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the attitudes, perceptions and knowledge of Islamic financial products and services. Design/methodology/approach – A synoptic survey of empirical analyses about Islamic financial products and services and comparison with the literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970258