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Researching fractured (information) landscapes
Lloyd, Annemaree - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 1, pp. 35-47
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a range of sensitising themes that may help to frame the emerging concept of fractured landscapes. Design/methodology/approach Key concepts are drawn from the forced migration field, from social theory and from Library and information science...
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Value concepts, value information and cycles on the real estate market
Lind, Hans - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 23 (2005) 2, pp. 141-147
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is discuss value concepts that can be a complement to current market value, and discuss whether information about these value types can reduce the risk of bubbles. Design/methodology/approach – The study is primarily a critical comment on concepts and...
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An empirical investigation of development assistance and growth for the case of Fiji
Gounder, Rukmani - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 3, pp. 278-294
Presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between development assistance and economic growth for the case of Fiji. Foreign aid to the island economies is a major source for foreign exchange and resource needs. A neoclassical production function is applied in this study to estimate the...
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The link between Islamic banking and microfinancing
Shahinpoor, Nasrin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 10, pp. 996-1007
compatible since microfinance allows interest payments on loans and Islamic banking prohibits interest payment based on Islamic … entrepreneurship by giving collateral‐free loans to the poor. The two practices, therefore, are ideologically linked. This paper shows …
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The socio‐economic time dimension in Talmudic literature
Ohrenstein, Roman A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 357-369
Attempts to analyse some of the aspects of economic time as presented in biblical and apocryphal sources, and as debated in the Talmudic tomes. Also asks, what is time and what is its social significance? The notion of time and its proper utilization is a major topic of discussion and...
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Real options: a commercial bank lending application
Choi, Yoon K.; Smith, Stanley D. - In: Managerial Finance 28 (2002) 12, pp. 25-43
costs (liabilities) and output (loans) price is quite high and positive since both depend heavily on interest rates. Finally …, bank loans may be subject to a high degree of irreversibility (e.g., substantial loss in defaults). The real option model ….g., interest rate risk, they decrease another type of risk, e.g., lending risk as measured by loans/assets.  …
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Role of rate of return on loans in the Islamic banking system of Iran
Makiyan, Seyed‐Nezamaddin - In: Managerial Finance 29 (2003) 7, pp. 62-69
Since 1984 Iranian banks has been operating under Islamic principles. This paper investigates dynamics of loans and the … increase in the supply of loans. Many factors could affect the behaviour of lending activities including rate of return … of loans in Iranian banks in terms of the causal relationship between the main factors, which affect the supply of loans …
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Statistical audit sampling for portfolio‐at‐risk in microfinance
Schreiner, Mark - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) 12, pp. 990-998
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a rigorous, statistically correct, and low‐cost way to audit sample a lender's loan portfolio, be they a microlender or other type of lender. No other paper applies this method to loan portfolios, even though it is a high demand application....
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The business activities of Jewish women entrepreneurs in medieval England
Berman Brown, Reva; McCartney, Sean - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 9, pp. 699-709
Recounts how medieval English Jewry began when Jews were invited to immigrate by William I and ended with their expulsion by Edward I in 1290. The Jewish community was important and for most of its existence it was prosperous, owing to its particular social function – being the bankers,...
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Cultural values and personal selling
Shyan Fam, Kim; Merrilees, Bill - In: International Marketing Review 15 (1998) 4, pp. 246-256
This paper compares the promotional practices and perceptions between two countries of disparate cultural backgrounds, namely Australia and Hong Kong. The paper argues that the preference for a particular promotional tool is influenced by the degree of cultural orientation as measured by...
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