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A structural equations approach to assessing alternative service quality metrics within an extended service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty model
Tsoukatos, Evangelos; Koulentaki, Maria - In: Global Business and Economics Review 13 (2011) 3/4, pp. 222-239
This study contributes to the setting/industry specific metrics vs. the SERVQUAL metric debate. It also revisits the causality of relationships between customer loyalty dimensions and the effects of customer satisfaction on the latter. Evidence drawn from Greek banking, was analysed under a...
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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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Islamic venture capital - A critical examination
Choudhury, Masudul Alam - In: Journal of Economic Studies 28 (2001) January, pp. 14-33
The well-known modes of raising and mobilizing venture capital in Islam known as mudarabah and musharakah (m&m) in … Islamic economics are critically examined. In the form as m&m presently exist, they are pointed out to be pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009744
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An Islamic capital asset pricing model
Selim, Tarek H. - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 24 (2008) May, pp. 122-129
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of the Islamic financing method based on direct musharakah to the conventional capital asset pricing model yielding several interesting hypotheses. Design/methodology/approach – Theoretical methodology, with maximin criteria,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011451
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A development planning application of relational epistemology
Hossain, Mohammad Shahadat - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 22 (2006) May, pp. 98-112
Purpose – Aims to conceptualise a relational epistemology of development planning emanating from the episteme of oneness of Allah as the worldview of unity of knowledge and to make it empirically viable by combining statistical quantification and real-time simulation in the spatial dimension....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011463
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Seigniorage of fiat money and the Maqasid al-Shari’ah: The compatibility of the gold dinar with the Maqasid
Kameel, Ahamed; Meera, Mydin; Larbani, Moussa - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 22 (2006) May, pp. 84-97
Purpose – Having argued in the part I paper that the interest-based fiat monetary system is not compatible with the objectives of the Islamic law or the Shariah, this paper seeks to argue why commodity moneys, like the gold dinar and silver dirham, are compatible with the maqasid....
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Islamic economics: still in search of an identity
Mahomedy, Abdulkader Cassim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 556-578
economics. Design/methodology/approach – A critical and comparative review of Islamic economics texts written by key proponents …-political context are contrasted. Findings – The proponents of Islamic economics have had little success in shaping a distinctive …, Islamic economics has not been able to shed its neoclassical moorings, the very paradigm it originally set out to replace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742462
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Who are the poor? Who are the rich? Evidence for Portugal
Crespo, Nuno; Moreira, Sandrina B.; Simões, Nádia - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 579-590
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants of the probability of a household being poor, middle class, or rich. Design/methodology/approach – A new and integrated approach to the measurement of inequality in income distribution, poverty, and richness was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742477
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Islamic economics: still in search of an identity
Mahomedy, Abdulkader Cassim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 556-578
economics. Design/methodology/approach – A critical and comparative review of Islamic economics texts written by key proponents …-political context are contrasted. Findings – The proponents of Islamic economics have had little success in shaping a distinctive …, Islamic economics has not been able to shed its neoclassical moorings, the very paradigm it originally set out to replace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685864
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Who are the poor? Who are the rich? Evidence for Portugal
Crespo, Nuno; Moreira, Sandrina B.; Simões, Nádia - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) May, pp. 579-590
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants of the probability of a household being poor, middle class, or rich. Design/methodology/approach – A new and integrated approach to the measurement of inequality in income distribution, poverty, and richness was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686090