The 60th anniversary of China-Pakistan relations was celebrated in 2011. Pakistan was the third non-communist and the first Muslim country to recognize China in 1950. The diplomatic relations between ... Read More
Corporate governance remained most discussed issue in the 2000s during accounting standard adoption, and Asian financial crisis. This study intends to contribute toward the impact of corporate governa ... Read More
This research is an effort to detect the association amid Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) mediated via Organizational Commitment. The design of banking services ha ... Read More
High performance work systems (HPWS) and their effect on firm performance is examined using a single holistic case study design in which the Total Strategic Resource Approach (TSRA) is used to measure ... Read More
Abstract This research examines the impact of workplace bullying on organization related outcomes among Doctors. By using purposive sampling technique, data was obtained from 200 male and female docto ... Read More
Abstract In this paper, integration of financial markets in Pakistan with those in United Kingdom, have been investigated. For this purpose we have tested the presence of co integration among Call mon ... Read More
Foreign Direct Investment is of immense importance for the developing economies of the world in achieving their growth targets. The aim of our study is to find out the factors which are responsible in ... Read More
This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan using empirical evidence from time series data analysis. The issue of trade libe ... Read More
Balance incomplete block design and neighbor balanced deigns have their own importance in the field experiments such as agriculture, horticulture and forestry, etc. In the literature, theare are sever ... Read More
Affective commitment has been highlighted as a key determinant of positive organizational level outcomes by numerous international studies. However, the attempts to explore the antecedents of affectiv ... Read More
This paper describes the effect of customer oriented service (COS) on cost effectiveness of local authorities. Although a plethora of evidence had been unearthed regarding the usefulness of COS, parti ... Read More
Many Asian countries have been beneficiaries of quota abolition for textile and clothing sector since 2005. After the implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) in December 2004, me ... Read More
The immediate health cost of violent armed conflict is in the form of deaths and injuries of the combatants as well as civilians. However, these costs are mostly pertinent to major violent internal an ... Read More
This study has been conducted with a view to find out the relationship and impact of macroeconomic variables i.e. 3-Months, 6-Month and 12 Month Treasury Bill Rate (Proxy of Interest Rate), Consumer ... Read More
Pakistan is one of the developing countries in Asia. Destabilized economy is one of the major hurdles in the progress of Pakistan while inflation, interest and unemployment rates are three major indic ... Read More
High academic achievement is desired by everyone but a few students are able to reach top position in their class. This study aimed to find out those factors which may be responsible for higher academ ... Read More
The 60th anniversary of China-Pakistan relations was celebrated in 2011. Pakistan was the third non-communist and the first Muslim country to recognize China in 1950. The diplomatic relations between ... Read More
In this paper, a demographic study was conducted on Muslim Arians of Punjab, Pakistan. Hitherto no detailed demographic study has been conducted on Arians of Pakistan. The population composition of Ar ... Read More
Globally we are living in difficult times when peace and human security have become big challenges that could have negative implications if not addressed properly. University students –the future lead ... Read More
Counterproductive behavior at workplace has emerged as a major area of concern for researchers, theorists and managers in organizations due to its heavy cost and disruptive nature. Every organization ... Read More
The study was conducted with the main objective of analyzing the role of education in eliminating violence against women, and to identifying the nature and forms of violence against women prevailing i ... Read More
Abstract The study has been designed to determine the impact of emotional intelligence (EI) on turnover rate of first line managers of FMCG organizations in Karachi. It is generally believed that low ... Read More
This paper investigates Day-of-the-Week Effect in stock returns in the primary equity market Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) of Pakistan by employing OLS regression approach. Data consists of daily closi ... Read More
The present study was conducted with the objectives a). to evaluating general perception of university academia about using open educational resources (OERs) in higher education; b). to examining the ... Read More
Postcolonial writers reject the colonialist ideology of superiority and containment, disassociate themselves from cultural imperialism and celebrate the indigenous culture and identity in all forms an ... Read More
The importance of information and communication Technology (ICT) in education, and particularly in teacher education, is being widely acknowledged. An important prerequisite of ICT is knowledge and at ... Read More
The objective of the study is to analyze the cyclicality of Fiscal Policy among Institutions (Economic and Political) and governance indicators from 1980-2010 in major South Asian Countries. Fiscal po ... Read More
Creative writing has an important place in the educational institutions. It is ignored in Pakistani English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms. This study was designed to investigate the condition of ... Read More
The relationships among the macroeconomic variables and stock returns analyzed in both the developed and developing countries, but are not well estimated in Pakistan. The current study explores the ti ... Read More
This study was set out to investigate perceived social support and clinical anger among drug addicts of Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The research contained a sample of seventy (70) registered drug addic ... Read More
This study examines the value relevance of firm specific corporate governance and macroeconomic variables of public listed non-financial companies in Karachi stock exchange (KSE) and also answers how ... Read More
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal ... Read More
The main purpose of this study is to explore the effects of innovation types including product, process, marketing and organizational innovation on different aspects of firm performance such as innova ... Read More
The study is an empirical quantitative research. In light of intense literature review it proposes a new model for effectiveness of social commerce in Pakistan. It has three objectives. It firstly inv ... Read More
This descriptive and cross-sectional study looked at the relationships between leader behavior and employees’ job satisfaction in Pakistan. The data were collected from middle and first line managers ... Read More
The study has been designed to determine the impact of emotional intelligence on turnover rate of first line managers of FMCG organizations in Karachi. It is generally believed that low emotional inte ... Read More
This study attempt to test the effect of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices towards competitive advantage and organizational performance. The design of this research has quantitative approach. D ... Read More
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between public education expenditures and economic growth. The social benefits of education exceed its private benefits. Ther ... Read More
Neighbor balanced designs ensure that treatments comparisons will not be much affected by neighbor effects, therefore, these designs are more useful to remove the neighbor effects in experiments where ... Read More
In this paper, we present the computational procedure of the First-Order Model in Response Surface Methodology (RSM) in a new dimension. Firstly, we fit the First-Order Model to a 2k design by applyin ... Read More
Pakistan is an underdeveloped state with strong central government. At present there are three levels of government functioning in Pakistan i.e. the federal, provincial and the local. Due to the compe ... Read More
This study was undertaken to identify the factors affecting sugarcane production in Pakistan. Data were collected from 387 sugarcane growers from Sindh, Punjab and NWFP province. Data were collected d ... Read More
Advertisers often make use of endorsers or representatives as trustworthy sources of persuasion for consumers' attitudes. Promotion of products through celebrities is a trendy advertising practice aro ... Read More
When a hypothesis of the equality of several means is tested by using ANOVA and it is rejected for a given level of significance, Least Significant Difference (LSD) test is most commonly applied to kn ... Read More
Abstract The primary reason of this study is to test real interest rate and its impact on investment to the extent of Pakistan span from 1964 to 2012. To test the long-term nexus among level of income ... Read More
The concept of efficient market hypothesis has prevailed the financial markets for a long time which says that the prices of the securities reflect all available information. This approach was mainly ... Read More
Study was carried out to check the random behavior of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE 100 Index) during the period of past three financial years to know whether investors could generate abnormal profi ... Read More
The study attempts to find the impact of foreign direct investment on tax revenue in Pakistan. Foreign direct investment and gross domestic product per person employed are used as independent variable ... Read More
Considerable recent research both for the developing as well as the developed countries has provided evidence for the existence of the sheepskin effect to the economic returns in schooling investment. ... Read More
This study investigates whether spatial agglomeration of textile and leather industry facilitates to enhance its own productivity at establishment level in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The empiric ... Read More
Managerial Entrenchment means that management control a significant portion of the equity in the firm and his/her actions is inconsistent with maximizing aim of the Institute. This research examined t ... Read More
This study empirically reveals the influence of the TQM elements comprising leadership, people management, process management, customer focus, information & analysis and strategic planning on the orga ... Read More
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