Environmentally sustainable design and construction of built environment requires resource conservation and re-defining the use of old buildings. The construction of new building and infrastructure exploits the natural resources. The life cycle costs of these new facilities are increasing with...

Using two variants of panel data analysis, we attempt to find the determinants of capital structure of KSE listed non-financial firms for the period 1994-2002. Pooled regression analysis was applied with the assumption that there were no industry or time effects. However, using fixed effect...

In this paper, we study the potential determinates of the capital structure of non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange. We analyse a sample of 445 firms listed on the KSE for the period 1997-2001. We have chosen tangibility of assets, size, firm growth rate, and profitability as...

We examine the empirical determinants of debt-maturity structure of 266 firms listed on the KSE over the period 2000 to 2004 using several variants of dynamic panel data models. We find mixed support for the agency cost hypothesis as our results show that debt-maturity increases with the size of...

Management of educational institutions to achieve the goals of excellence and quality is always. This study was conducted to know the management practices of Principals of federal government secondary schools named Islamabad Model Schools in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Fifty principals...

Research has been controversial regarding theorized findings of High Performing Work System (HPWS)/firm performance research due to several reasons. First, operationalization of variables differs drastically from one study to the next. Second, theoretical frameworks also vary greatly as does the...

Workplace bullying represents persistent behaviors that are both overt and covert. There is an increasing need for understanding this construct for the reason that it is directly linked to bringing the victim to a state of long lasting emotional distress. Alarmingly, such aggression usually is...

This paper investigates the conditional association between betas and returns in sample of 206 firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Results of this study show that the relationship between betas and stock returns is flat when tested unconditionally. However, when the data is split...

In this study, the relationship between corporate cash holdings and corporate governance variables is tested in Pakistan. The sample consists of 309 non-financial firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) over the time span of 2002 to 2010. The study uses several proxies for corporate...

This study analyzes the impact of corporate governance and ownership structure on earnings management for a sample of 372 firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange over the period 2003–10. We estimate discretionary accruals using four well-known models: Jones (1991); Dechow, Sloan, and...