Purpose: Although religiosity and advertising messages have been extensively examined in the existing literature separately, studies which correlatively examine both these aspects are very limited. This paper aims to reveal the influence of the widely used religious messages on consumer...

Purpose: This paper aims to offer a review of the concept of wasta, as a form of social capital in Arab societies. Furthermore, this paper seeks to elucidate the main implications of the use of wasta among human resource management (HRM) practices on the workplace environment and the overall...

Purpose: Bank consolidations in many Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have been proceeding at a rapid pace, leading to a decline in the number of banks and an increase in market concentration. This may raise concerns regarding the impact of such increase in concentration on the...

Purpose: This study aims to empirically compare the performance of Islamic indices vis-à-vis to their conventional counterparts in India. Design/methodology/approach: The performance of the Islamic and selected conventional indices is evaluated using various risk-adjusted performance measures...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial uncertainty vary according to different financial assets type: conventional and Islamic. Design/methodology/approach: Common factors are related to risk or known information. For this, the authors use general dynamic factor model to extract...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of tax audit, tax rate and tax penalty on sales tax compliance and examine the moderating effect of patriotism on the associations between tax audit, tax rate and tax penalty with sales tax compliance among Jordanian manufacturing...

Purpose: Recently, banks have focussed on teaching marketing skills, especially customer orientation. This issue, according to previous studies, has led to improved employee and bank performance. In this regard, Tejarat bank (an Iranian Bank) also organised specialised customer orientation...

Purpose: Shari’ah provides the basic tenets of the Islamic finance industry and advocates banks to share their profits and losses with investors. But what it means for a firm to be “Shari’ah-compliant” and what form of connections it can have, even in theory, to either the firm’s...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationships between Islamic work ethic, deviant organizational behaviours and person-organization fit within the context of the hotels. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was conducted with the participation of 243 employees working at five-star...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore Istisna’a as a tool of monetary policy (MP) and examines its effectiveness in achieving full employment income and price stability. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses Istisna’a as a tool of MP and examines its effects on key macroeconomic...