Purpose – The purpose of this seminal paper is to present the concept of sustainability in its purest form as conceived by Kautilya and bring out its relevance to the current issues and the areas of concern in the global perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – This paper goes with the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the feasibility of effectual ethics on foundations of micro and macro issues of economics. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the library research method has been used to reflect some ideas about the necessity of changing the concept...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic cost and social benefits of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) set up some years back by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combined qualitative and quantitative information to...

Purpose – The paper aims to compare the return on Mudharabah deposits (ROMD) to the return on equity (ROE) in Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach – The summary statistics of the ROMD and the ROE is used to make a comparison between them with a sample of nine Islamic banks, from seven...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine accounting and management practices in two Indonesian awqaf institutions. It intends to seek evidence with regard to how mutawallis discharge their accountability. Design/methodology/approach – Two case studies were undertaken on two awqaf...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of caste and religious diversity on human capital outcome and external effect of ethnic capital on human capital accumulation process based on social fragmentation of West Bengal state which is mainly shaped under caste and religious lines....

Purpose – The internationalisation of business and the process of globalisation raise many ethical issues about acceptable norms of conduct on the part of corporations. This article aims to evaluate whether there is progress in establishing standards for international business ethics....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of financial institutions in the escalation of the global economic melt-down (GEM) in America and how policy-makers in Nigeria can learn from South Africa to safe-guard the nation's financial institutions from economic shocks that...

Purpose – The paper's aim is to study the system of interest, its crippling of the market by monetary manipulation and creation of gross disparity and its consequences and to explore an efficient Islamic alternative. Design/methodology/approach – The application of science and its analytical...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the management of financial market scandals using two different approaches – regulatory and values-based. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the motivations behind financial scandals to occur and then explains in detail both the...