Publications
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What enables Islamic banks to contribute in global financial reintermediation?
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal2017Abstract: Conventional banks which once were competing with non-banking financial institutions and capital markets today face the new challenge of being reintermediated by Islamic banks. Earlier...Edit link: -
A tripartite inquiry into volatility-efficiency-integration nexus - case of emerging markets
Emerging Markets Review2017Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the time-varying changes of the three parameters, volatility, efficiency and integration on stock markets across emerging markets. We do this...Edit link: -
To include or not to include? A poetics perspective on the Muslim workforce in the West
Human Relations2017Abstract: Organizations in the West have to contend with an expanding Muslim workforce, an issue of considerable importance in contemporary workplaces. The dilemma of inclusion versus exclusion is...Edit link: -
Portfolio optimisation with high moments of risk at the Pakistan Stock Exchange
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja2017Abstract: Stock markets play an important role in spurring economic growth and development through diversification opportunities. However, diversification cannot be truly achieved if we continue to...Edit link: -
Fear of floating in Asia and the credibility of true floaters?
Research in International Business and Finance2017Abstract: Quite often, countries commit to free floating exchange rate (ER) regimes but do not allow their ERs to float freely, exhibiting a fear of floating. We revisit ER regimes in Asia following...Edit link: -
Intersectionality at Work: South Asian Muslim Women’s Experiences of Employment and Leadership in the United Kingdom
Sex Roles2017Abstract: Drawing on qualitative interviews with 20 South Asian heritage, Muslim, female leaders, managers, and supervisors in the United Kingdom, we examine the multi-layered issues and challenges...Edit link: -
Comparative risk adjusted performance of Islamic, socially responsible and conventional funds: Evidence from United Kingdom
Economic Modelling2017Abstract: This study investigates the risk and return characteristics of Islamic funds in comparison with SRI and the conventional open-end mutual funds for the UK, which, having attracted over £11...Edit link: -
Gendered work engagement: qualitative insights from Jordan.
International Journal of Human Resource Management2017Abstract: Work engagement is assumed, implicitly, to be gender-neutral where women and men have equal opportunities to demonstrate their engagement in the workplace. This paper questions this...Edit link: -
Under western eyes: A transnational and postcolonial perspective of gender and HRD
Human Resource Development International2017Abstract: Much of the critical research on human resource development (HRD) is positioned within Western constructions of knowledge and orthodoxy. Barring a few exceptions (e.g. there is little...Edit link: -
Contextualising diversity management in the Middle East and North Africa: a relational perspective
Human Resource Management Journal2017Abstract: This study examines the clash between diversity policies as designed in the West and the challenges in implementing these in the Middle East and North Africa region. We contribute to the...Edit link: -
Foundations of Relating: Theory and Evidence on the Formation of Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workplace Networks
Public Administration Review2017Abstract Despite the importance of peers in forming role expectations, fostering group identity, and facilitating job learning, limited theory and empirical evidence exist on the antecedents of...Edit link: -
The short-and long-run impacts of financial crises on youth unemployment in OECD countries
Applied Economics2016Abstract The impact of financial crises on the youth unemployment rate (YUR), compared to the total unemployment rate (UR), is estimated for a panel of OECD countries over the period 1981–2009...Edit link: -
Investigating stock market efficiency: A look at OIC member countries
Research in International Business and Finance. Volume 36, Pages 402–4132016Abstract: The tremendous growth of emerging and developing markets bring forth new arenas of research. One such area is the efficiency of stock markets. In light of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (...Edit link: -
Leveraging Values Diversity: The Emergence and Implications of a Global Managerial Culture in Global Organizations
Management International Review. Volume 56, Issue 2, pp 227–2542016Abstract: The debate about divergence and convergence of managerial values has focused on the effect of macro-level influences on values. In contrast, little attention has been paid to micro-level...Edit link: -
Does Microfinance Enhance Gender Equity in Access to Finance? Evidence from Pakistan
Feminist Economics. Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 160-1852016Abstract: This paper descriptively analyzes longitudinal microfinance outreach numbers and interview data from 140 practitioners and borrowers in Pakistan to examine whether the claim that...Edit link: -
Financing constraints on the size distribution of industrial firms: the Chinese experience
Applied Economics. Volume 48, 2016 - Issue 412016Abstract: We investigate whether financing constraints affect the size distribution of Chinese industrial firms from 1998 to 2007. Although the firm size distribution does not follow ...Edit link: -
Age dependency and labour productivity divergence
Applied Economics. Vol. 48, Issue 502016Abstract: This study finds strong empirical evidence in favour of the hypothesis that the age composition of population matters for labour productivity growth. We applied the fixed effects panel...Edit link: -
Supply chain strategy and the role of suppliers: evidence from the Indian sub-continent
Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 23 Iss: 7, pp.1658 - 16762016Abstract: Purpose Supply chain strategy is widely recognized as being a crucial component of a broader corporate strategy. However, the relationships between a firm’s...Edit link: -
Developing a scale for service quality measurement in banks
International Journal of Services and Operations Management (2016) Vol. 23 No. 2, pp 153-168.2016Abstract: Socio-cultural contexts determine different aspects of service quality; therefore, the definition of service quality varies from one setting to another. The measures of bank service...Edit link: -
Analysis of the efficiency-integration nexus of Japanese stock market
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications2016Abstract This paper attempts a novel approach in analysing the Japanese economy through a dual-dimension analysis of its stock market, examining the efficiency and market integration. Taking a...Edit link: -
Investor’s choice of Shariah compliant ‘replicas’ and original Islamic instruments
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization2016Abstract This paper offers a behavioral perspective on why Islamic capital markets are dominated by those financial instruments that almost replicate conventional financial products (i.e. Islamic...Edit link: -
Coverage, survivability or response time: A comparative study of performance statistics used in ambulance location models via simulation–optimization
Operations Research for Health Care. Volume 11, December 2016, Pages 1–122016Abstract: Rapid response to medical emergencies is one of the main goals of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems. Ability to provide timely response is affected by fleet size and the locations...Edit link: -
From Rhetoric to Reality: a Multilevel Analysis of Gender Equality in Pakistani Organizations
Gender, Work & Organization2016Abstract Despite numerous governmental attempts to improve women's employment and equality in Pakistan, statistics suggest that these efforts have not been entirely fruitful. Steps taken by the...Edit link: -
Do Islamic stock indices perform better than conventional counterparts? An empirical investigation of sectoral efficiency. Review of Financial Economics
Review of Financial Economics. 31 (2016) 108–1142016Abstract Literature is rife with studies on efficiency of stock markets and financial performance aspects. One such aspect is the measurement of sectoral efficiency amongst stock markets. While...Edit link: -
A Macro‐National Level Analysis of Arab Women's Work Engagement
European Management Review2016Abstract This paper reviews the macro-national level factors that influence women's work engagement in Arab countries. First, it offers an overview of the notions of work engagement and gendered work...Edit link: