Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the Islamic character of entrepreneurial activity along with its systemic, ideological and ethical particularities in contrast to the tech-based entrepreneurial model of Silicon Valley. Design/methodology/approach: Hollingsworth’s framework...

Purpose: There are many entrepreneurial communities in the Asian subcontinent, which are known for their economic resilience and religious orientation but have received limited attention in extant literature. These communities include Memon, Delhiwala, Chinioti, Ismaili and Bohri, which have...

This paper employs Wittgenstein language-games to analyze strategy language used by leaders of Islamic finance industry to envision its future. The analysis infers that the explicit market orientation of strategy language and modern knowledge of finance has redefined various concepts related of...

This paper examines & explores the original sociocultural & economic context where musharakah & mudarabah, or shirkat, have been widely practiced in history until the emergence of western style markets & political transformations in the Muslim world. The idealists in Islamic banking and academia...