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Project Management Maturity In Pakistan: An Empirical Investigation, Syed Ahsan Mustaqeem, Rameez Khalid, Syed Irfan Nabi Jan 2020

Project Management Maturity In Pakistan: An Empirical Investigation, Syed Ahsan Mustaqeem, Rameez Khalid, Syed Irfan Nabi

Business Review

This research assesses the current level of PMM in Pakistan, evaluates the gaps in the prevalent project management practices and formulates a framework to improve PMM level in Pakistan. 123 Pakistani organizations were assessed for their levels of PMM and project performance using standard project management maturity models. The average PMM level in Pakistan was found to be 2.32 (on the scale of 1 to 5) and only 24% of the projects carried out were found to be successful. This means that the prevalent project management practices are not yet fully institutionalized. Furthermore, project management training, use of project management …


Corporate Governance And Capital Structure As Driving Force For Financial Performance: Evidence From Non-Financial Listed Companies In Pakistan, Zahid Bashir, Ghulam Ali Bhatti, Asad Javed Jan 2020

Corporate Governance And Capital Structure As Driving Force For Financial Performance: Evidence From Non-Financial Listed Companies In Pakistan, Zahid Bashir, Ghulam Ali Bhatti, Asad Javed

Business Review

This research examines the intervention of capital structure with different characteristics of corporate governance and different measures of financial performance. Data was collected from 113 PSX listed firms ranging from 2013-2018. The study uses multiple regression approach for testing the required set of hypotheses. The results reveal that insider shareholding, and board size significantly but negatively affect financial performance whereas, audit committee’s size positively, and significantly affects financial performance. Furthermore, about 20% of CEOs hold dual positions in listed firms, which also has a positive impact on financial performance. The results also reveal that capital structure positively influences financial performance. …


An Analysis Of The Asymmetric Effect Of Fiscal Policy On Economic Growth In Pakistan: Insights From Non-Linear Ardl, Ibrar Hussain, Muhammad Rafiq, Zahoor Khan Jan 2020

An Analysis Of The Asymmetric Effect Of Fiscal Policy On Economic Growth In Pakistan: Insights From Non-Linear Ardl, Ibrar Hussain, Muhammad Rafiq, Zahoor Khan

Business Review

This paper evaluates the current state of monetary and non-monetary rewards systems in place in the UK banking sector in an attempt to identify reasons for the preference of monetary rewards over non-monetary rewards. Data was collected from two banks, LLOYDS TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland. The selection of these two banks emanates from their recent bonus crises and the fact that they are both part nationalised, hence the need for a prudent reward system. Questionnaires were used to obtain data and the Evidence Based Reward Management (EBRM) methodology was used to highlight the effectiveness as well as the …


General Emotional Labor Scale: Development And Establishing Psychometric Properties, Falak Zehra Mohsin, Nadia Ayub Jan 2020

General Emotional Labor Scale: Development And Establishing Psychometric Properties, Falak Zehra Mohsin, Nadia Ayub

Business Review

This study outlines the process followed in the development of the General Emotional Labor Scale-English (GELS-E). The scale construction process was divided into different phases. The first phase entailed the item generation and the second phase was the pilot study. Phase three and four dealt with developing the norms and establishing the psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of the final 30 items. It can be concluded that the GELS-E was developed as a measure that can be used by researchers to assess emotional labor in professionals. Such a measure of emotional labor can prove to be beneficial for researchers and …


Optimization Of Non-Monetary Reward Provisions: Evidence From The Uk Banking Sector, Ese Okpebholo, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh Jan 2020

Optimization Of Non-Monetary Reward Provisions: Evidence From The Uk Banking Sector, Ese Okpebholo, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh

Business Review

This paper evaluates the current state of monetary and non-monetary rewards systems in place in the UK banking sector in an attempt to identify reasons for the preference of monetary rewards over non-monetary rewards. Data was collected from two banks, LLOYDS TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland. The selection of these two banks emanates from their recent bonus crises and the fact that they are both part nationalised, hence the need for a prudent reward system. Questionnaires were used to obtain data and the Evidence Based Reward Management (EBRM) methodology was used to highlight the effectiveness as well as the …


Deciphering Brand Loyalty Through Brand Association And Emotional Confidence, Amber Gul Rashid, Wajid Hussain Rizvi, Huma Amir Jan 2020

Deciphering Brand Loyalty Through Brand Association And Emotional Confidence, Amber Gul Rashid, Wajid Hussain Rizvi, Huma Amir

Business Review

This paper investigates the influence of emotional confidence and brand association on brand loyalty and whether there is a statistically significant difference in the brand loyalty of consumers having low or high emotional confidence. Data was collected outside fast food restaurants across Karachi using systematic sampling. Every fourth person exiting the restaurant was approached to fill a questionnaire. The data was analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results suggest that both brand association and emotional confidence have a statistically significant influence on brand loyalty. The variance explained in brand loyalty was higher when emotional confidence was included in the model. …


تحالف العلامة التجارية وعلاقته بأدراك الزبائن العراقيين لمنتجات شركات السيارات دراسة تحليلية لعينة من زبائن شركتي هيونداي وكيا من العراقيين, احمد منخي كشيش Dec 2019

تحالف العلامة التجارية وعلاقته بأدراك الزبائن العراقيين لمنتجات شركات السيارات دراسة تحليلية لعينة من زبائن شركتي هيونداي وكيا من العراقيين, احمد منخي كشيش

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


دور المعرفة التسويقية في تحسين القدرة التنافسية دراسة تطبيقية على الصناعات الكهربائية الأردنية, ظاهر رداد قرشي Dec 2019

دور المعرفة التسويقية في تحسين القدرة التنافسية دراسة تطبيقية على الصناعات الكهربائية الأردنية, ظاهر رداد قرشي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


مدى مساهمة معوضات القيادة في التأثير بجاذبية الايدلوجية التنظيمية لكليات الأهلية بحث تحليلي لآراء عينة من التدريسين في الكليات الاهلية في محافظة كربلاء, ضياح فالح بناي Dec 2019

مدى مساهمة معوضات القيادة في التأثير بجاذبية الايدلوجية التنظيمية لكليات الأهلية بحث تحليلي لآراء عينة من التدريسين في الكليات الاهلية في محافظة كربلاء, ضياح فالح بناي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


تحليل وقياس أثر العوامل التي تحدد سعر الصرف في العراق, عاطف لافي مرزوك, اكرم نعمة علي Dec 2019

تحليل وقياس أثر العوامل التي تحدد سعر الصرف في العراق, عاطف لافي مرزوك, اكرم نعمة علي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


الفساد الاداري والمالي في القطاع الصحي واثره على تحقيق التنمية المستدامة بحث تطبيقي في احدى دوائر الصحة, حنان عبد الامير كاظم Dec 2019

الفساد الاداري والمالي في القطاع الصحي واثره على تحقيق التنمية المستدامة بحث تطبيقي في احدى دوائر الصحة, حنان عبد الامير كاظم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


دور الحوكمة الالكترونية في تحقيق التقدير الذاتي للتحاسب الضريبي في الشركات العراقية دراسة تطبيقية لعينة من الشركات الصناعية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, ليلى بدوي مطوطك Dec 2019

دور الحوكمة الالكترونية في تحقيق التقدير الذاتي للتحاسب الضريبي في الشركات العراقية دراسة تطبيقية لعينة من الشركات الصناعية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, ليلى بدوي مطوطك

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


استعمال بطاقة العلامات المتوازنة في تقويم الأداء بحث تطبيقي في محطة انتاج الكهرباء في السماوة, عصام حميد الشايع, ستار جبار مبيدر Dec 2019

استعمال بطاقة العلامات المتوازنة في تقويم الأداء بحث تطبيقي في محطة انتاج الكهرباء في السماوة, عصام حميد الشايع, ستار جبار مبيدر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


دور التكامل بين تقنيتي بطاقة العلامات المتوازنة وإعادة هندسة العمليات في تقويم وتحسين الأداء الاستراتيجي دراسة تطبيقية في مصنع إطارات الديوانية للمدة (2016-2017), علي تحسين كاظم الخفاجي Dec 2019

دور التكامل بين تقنيتي بطاقة العلامات المتوازنة وإعادة هندسة العمليات في تقويم وتحسين الأداء الاستراتيجي دراسة تطبيقية في مصنع إطارات الديوانية للمدة (2016-2017), علي تحسين كاظم الخفاجي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


دور جودة الابلاغ المالي في جذب الاستثمار الاجنبي المباشر دراسة استطلاعية لاراء عينة من موظفي هيئة استثمار المثنى, علي ناظم عبد الامير الشيخ Dec 2019

دور جودة الابلاغ المالي في جذب الاستثمار الاجنبي المباشر دراسة استطلاعية لاراء عينة من موظفي هيئة استثمار المثنى, علي ناظم عبد الامير الشيخ

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


قاعدة محاسبية محلية مقترحة للمحاسبة عن عقود الايجار, ليث جواد كاظم, عادل حميد صنكور, وعد هادي عبد الحساني Dec 2019

قاعدة محاسبية محلية مقترحة للمحاسبة عن عقود الايجار, ليث جواد كاظم, عادل حميد صنكور, وعد هادي عبد الحساني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


القطاع الزراعي ودوره في معالجة البطالة في محافظة المثنى للمدة من 2003-2017, مقداد جاسم عبد, وضاح رحيم راهي, حيدر طالب موسى Dec 2019

القطاع الزراعي ودوره في معالجة البطالة في محافظة المثنى للمدة من 2003-2017, مقداد جاسم عبد, وضاح رحيم راهي, حيدر طالب موسى

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


اثر قياس كفاءة راس المال الفكري على الأداء المالي للوحدات الاقتصادية دراسة في عينة من الشركات الصناعية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, علي عبد الرزاق العبودي, سعود جايد مشكور, جعفر فالح ناصر Dec 2019

اثر قياس كفاءة راس المال الفكري على الأداء المالي للوحدات الاقتصادية دراسة في عينة من الشركات الصناعية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, علي عبد الرزاق العبودي, سعود جايد مشكور, جعفر فالح ناصر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


راس المال الروحي: منظور معاصر لاستنهاض سلوك المواطنة التنظيمية: من خلال الدور الوسيط للملكية النفسية, كمال كاظم الحسيني Dec 2019

راس المال الروحي: منظور معاصر لاستنهاض سلوك المواطنة التنظيمية: من خلال الدور الوسيط للملكية النفسية, كمال كاظم الحسيني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

No abstract provided.


Predicting Market Trends: Effects Of Gdp And Pmi On Changes In Stock Closing Prices, Charley Renna Dec 2019

Predicting Market Trends: Effects Of Gdp And Pmi On Changes In Stock Closing Prices, Charley Renna

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

In an effort to learn more about the impact of certain economic variables on the stock market, I chose to analyze the impact that the Purchasing Managers’ Index and U.S. Gross Domestic Product have on three major stock indices: S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq 100. The PMI is an index of the direction of economic trends in the manufacturing and services sector. Released on the first business day of every month, it consists of a diffusion index that summarizes whether market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. An index level greater than 50 percent suggests …


Legal And Regulatory Framework For The Mortgage Industry In Nigeria, Kehinde Ogundimu Dec 2019

Legal And Regulatory Framework For The Mortgage Industry In Nigeria, Kehinde Ogundimu

Economic and Financial Review

This article examines the legal and regulatory framework for the mortgage industry in Nigeria. The article examines the concept of housing as a global need and provides an overview of the Nigerian Housing Market with a population of 183 million people and increasing rapidly, a huge housing deficit of around 17 million units. This is further compounded by a rapid rising need for housing by about 20 per cent a year in cities like Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, and Abuja. At least 700,000 housing units across different segments are needed annually to keep up with demand, whereas, production was around 100,000 …


Issues, Challenges, And Prospects In The Housing Sector: Operator’S Perspective, Festus Adebayo Dec 2019

Issues, Challenges, And Prospects In The Housing Sector: Operator’S Perspective, Festus Adebayo

Economic and Financial Review

This article provides an operator’s perspective on the issues, challenges, and prospects in the housing sector in Nigeria. Topics covered include existing housing situation in Nigeria; and issues and challenges affecting affordable housing in Nigeria. The article also examines the prospects for Nigeria housing sector and made key recommendations which include: Creating enabling policies around land title documentations; Fast track the passage of foreclosure bill into law to legally resolve default issues in the sector; Advance the ongoing partnership between the Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria (MBAN) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with regards to the underwriting standards …


The Land Use Act And The Nigerian Housing Sector, Yusuf Yahaya Dec 2019

The Land Use Act And The Nigerian Housing Sector, Yusuf Yahaya

Economic and Financial Review

The article discusses the Land Use Act and the and how it has affected developments in the Nigerian housing sector. Prior to the Land Use Act, all the existing tenure systems encouraged land holding without an obligation to develop them, fragmentation and uncoordinated alienation, hoarding speculatively for value appreciation and without precise documentation. Consequently, the Land Use Act was enacted to: make land easily accessible to all Nigerians; prevent speculative purchases of communal land; streamline and simplify the management and ownership of land; make land available to government at all levels for development; provide the system of government administration of …


An Ai Approach To Measuring Financial Risk, Lining Yu, Wolfgang Karl Hardle, Lukas Borke, Thijs Benschop Dec 2019

An Ai Approach To Measuring Financial Risk, Lining Yu, Wolfgang Karl Hardle, Lukas Borke, Thijs Benschop

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

AI artificial intelligence brings about new quantitative techniques to assess the state of an economy. Here, we describe a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the penalization parameter (λ" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 18px; text-indent: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">λλ) of a linear quantile lasso regression. The FRM is calculated by taking the average …


The Unexpected Activeness Of Passive Investors: A Worldwide Analysis Of Etfs, Si Cheng, Massimo Massa, Hong Zhang Dec 2019

The Unexpected Activeness Of Passive Investors: A Worldwide Analysis Of Etfs, Si Cheng, Massimo Massa, Hong Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The global ETF industry provides more complicated investment vehicles than low-cost index trackers. Instead, we find that the real investments of ETFs may deviate from their benchmarks to leverage informational advantages (which leads to a surprising stock-selection ability) and to help affiliated OEFs through cross-trading. These effects are more prevalent in ETFs domiciled in Europe. Moreover, ETF flows seem to respond to additional risk. These results have important normative implications for consumer protection and financial stability. (JEL G20)


Do Real Estate Agents Have Information Advantages In Housing Markets?, Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Tien Foo Sing, Changcheng Song Dec 2019

Do Real Estate Agents Have Information Advantages In Housing Markets?, Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Tien Foo Sing, Changcheng Song

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We use a large housing transaction data set in Singapore to study whether real estate agents use information advantages to buy houses at bargain prices. Agents bought their own houses at prices that are 2.54% lower than comparable houses bought by other buyers. Consistent with information asymmetries, agent buyers have more information advantages in less informative environments, and agent buyers are more likely to buy houses from agent sellers. Agent discounts are from both “cherry picking” and bargaining power, and bargaining power contributes more to the agent discounts. Agents’ advantage consists in their information of available houses and previous purchase …


Long-Term Index Fund Ownership And Stock Returns, Ekkehart Boehmer, Wanshan Song, Ashish Tiwari, Zhe Zhang Dec 2019

Long-Term Index Fund Ownership And Stock Returns, Ekkehart Boehmer, Wanshan Song, Ashish Tiwari, Zhe Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We examine the implications of stock ownership by index funds for shareholder value. Consistent with recent findings that stock ownership by passive funds contributes to improved governance, we document a strong positive relation between the duration of passive fund holdings and subsequent stock performance. This positive relation is more pronounced for firms with recent poor performance, and for smaller firms and firms with higher allocation weights in passive funds’ portfolios. Our results support the view that index funds, although passive in their investment decisions, successfully contribute to long-term value creation by actively engaging with firms on matters of governance.


The Bluebox Practicum: Integrating Technology, Culture, And Academic Service-Learning, Charles Braymen, Dustin Ormond Nov 2019

The Bluebox Practicum: Integrating Technology, Culture, And Academic Service-Learning, Charles Braymen, Dustin Ormond

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Advancing education in marginalized communities has been more difficult compared to more privileged communities due to the lack of infrastructure, which in part results in an absence of educational materials. The BlueBox Project was created to minimize this divide by bringing a wealth of information to these communities. Using a small digital computer, faculty, staff, and students across many disciplines built the BlueBox, a stand-alone digital library which hosts an array of books, articles, educational games, and videos to inspire learning in a variety of subjects including science, technology, math, music, and literature. The BlueBox is powered by solar energy, …


European Central Bank Tools And Policy Actions A: Open Market Operations, Collateral Expansion And Standing Facilities, Chase P. Ross, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Andrew Metrick Nov 2019

European Central Bank Tools And Policy Actions A: Open Market Operations, Collateral Expansion And Standing Facilities, Chase P. Ross, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

Beginning in August 2007, the European Central Bank (ECB) responded to market turmoil with a variety of standard and non-standard monetary policy tools. This case discusses the operational framework of the ECB’s open market operation tools and standing facilities before and during the financial crisis. Specifically, this case describes the ECB’s use of its main refinancing and longer-term refinancing operations, the expansion of collateral eligible for use in Eurosystem credit operations, and the ECB’s standing facilities, including its marginal lending and deposit facilities.


Ireland And Iceland In Crisis C: Iceland’S Landsbanki Icesave, Arwin G. Zeissler, Thomas Piontek, Andrew Metrick Nov 2019

Ireland And Iceland In Crisis C: Iceland’S Landsbanki Icesave, Arwin G. Zeissler, Thomas Piontek, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

At year-end 2005, almost all of the total assets of Iceland’s banking system were concentrated in just three banks (Glitnir, Kaupthing, and Landsbanki). These banks were criticized by certain financial analysts in early 2006 for being overly dependent on wholesale funding, much of it short-term, that could easily disappear if creditors’ confidence in these banks faltered for any reason. Landsbanki, followed later by Kaupthing and then Glitnir, responded to this criticism and replaced part of their wholesale funding by using online accounts to gather deposits from individuals across Europe. In Landsbanki’s case, these new deposits were marketed under the name …