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This PhD research will examine the development, performance and impact of Malaysian REITs in the local, Asian and global REIT investment market; particularly focusing on Islamic REITs in Malaysia. This issue is important as REITs have emerged as a topic of considerable interest to the academic...
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This paper explores the ethical mandates of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) and then studies the recent performance of IBF on the positive level. The ethical section is divided into four parts: (1) promotion of trade and cooperation, (2) prohibition of ribā and of profiting without risk, (3)...
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Die Arbeit gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Iran in den vergangenen fünf ….Die Gliederung der Arbeit orientiert sich an den verschiedenen historischen Phasen der ökonomischen Entwicklung des Iran in der …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and contents of Islamic management practices and their consequent implications for human resource management (HRM) in Arab countries. In addition, it aims to examine the implications for multinational companies (MNCs) operating in...
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The impact of entrepreneurial activity on the economies of both industrialised and developingcountries has been well established and theorised in the normative literature. However, it is besideseminent that the development of entrepreneurial activities and behaviour, through facilitation...
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We examine two data sets, one from the UK (n = 15,750) and one from the US (n = 3239), to show that SME financial behaviour demonstrates substantial financial contentment, or ‘happiness’. We find fewer than 10% of the UK firms seek significant growth and only 1.32% of US firms list a...
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For a field of social science to have usefulness, it must have a conceptual framework that explains and predicts a set of empirical phenomena not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields (Shane 2000).This study explored entrepreneurial oppòrtunities...
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Economic anthropologists studying craft commercialization have typically focused on changes in work organization associated with new international commodity chains linking artisans, development organizations, wholesalers, and store owners. Few researchers, however, have carefully examined the...
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Most of the world's equipment is produced in a small number of rich countries. In 1996, countries in the top decile of cross-country income distribution produced 61% of world equipment and countries in the bottom decile produced only 0.2%. Rich and poor countries also differ in their dependence...
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