The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...

The principle of Wa'd or promise can be used to structure innovative shariah compliant hedging instruments. Conventional hedging products such as forward currency contracts and currency swaps are prohibited in Islamic Finance principally due to the issue of riba and to the violation of bay...

Purpose – This paper analyses a case study of Islamic cooperative and the problems it faced in the Islamic financial system of Indonesia. Accordingly, it proposes a financing innovation, an enhanced structure of Shari`ah compliant hawalah financing scheme, which could improve operations of the...

A ‘Classification Scheme' is a way of organizing a large amount of information or material in a way that helps users finding the required information quickly. Classification schemes are used widely in all fields. In academics, one type of classification schemes is subject-based...