Purpose: Halal supply chain management (HSCM) is an emerging research area and is in the early stage of evolution. This study aims to identify 11 critical factors towards effective management of a Halal supply chain (HSC) and provides a framework for the HSCM by evaluating Halal practices'...

The purpose of this study is to find out the impact of political general elections of Pakistan on KSE-100 index. We employed Event study methodology on closing prices of KSE-100 index over the time period January, 1998 to May, 2013. During our sample period, 3 events of political general...

The purpose of this study is to capture Pakistani stock market dynamics in response to political- and budget events. The study of political events and budget announcements together is quite reasonable in that: swift transformations of governments are likely to change annual budget policies, so...

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the response of Pakistani banking customers towards corporate social responsibility initiatives. This study also seeks to investigate the importance level of each initiative as per the customers' perceptions. The sample includes 300 banking...

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: This research aims to comprehend the level of corporate social responsibility in Pakistan. The need of the hour is to assess and identify the coverage of the corporations toward its social responsibility. How much each of the elements has its...

We examine the relationship between bank’s equity ownership and corporate financial performance based on cross-sectional data through 2SLS estimation model. Our evidence is based on listed 3203 non-financial firms of 16 Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states with dual-banking...

This article strives to work out the causal relationship between natural disasters and economic growth in Pakistan. The study empirically tests the linkage using econometric techniques autoregressive distributed lag bound model by Pesaran (2001) and Granger causality test. We develop a proxy for...

This research intends to explore the presence of the "turn-of-the-month-effect (TOME)" in the Pakistani stock market. The TOME is the temporary increase in prices of registered shares on the last operating day of the month and the initial 3-4 days of the following month. The selection...