Presentation of scientific papers is associated with the creation of new scientific journals and the maintenance of established periodicals. This paper discusses and analyzes two challenges to publishing scientific journals in Bulgaria -first, securing a pool of suitable reviewers and second...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the leader's change-promoting behavior on employee's readiness for change and whether the organizational culture mediates this relationship. A sample of 205 responses is drawn from employees having junior or senior level of managerial...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of brand equity of QMobile users. A random survey was taken using a systematic sampling of colleges and universities in a metropolitan city, Karachi, Pakistan. The questionnaire was used to collect data. The impact of each determinant was...

This paper attempts to study the impact of pre-specified set of macroeconomic factors on firm's stock returns for nine non-financial sectors listed in Karachi Stock Exchange. The macroeconomic factors included are consumer price index, industrial production index, market returns, risk free...

This study aims to test the feasibility of using a data set of 90-day bank bill forward rates from the Australian market to predict spot interest rates. To achieve this goal I utilized the application of Kalman lter in a state space model with time-varying state variable. It is documented that...

Online purchase, in the clothing industry of Pakistan, is on a historical high. There are various factors that affect the brand trust of online consumers. This research is aimed to find the correlation between security and privacy of personal information, name of the brand, word-of-mouth, prior...

This paper examines how media exposure, self esteem, and religiosity influence body image of Pakistan consumers.The underpinning of this study is based on Social Comparison Theory with two additional variables (religiosity and self esteem) for understanding understand consumer attitude towards...

This paper examines the impact of the listing of index futures trading on spot market volatility, market efficiency and volatility asymmetric responses. In order to model the effects of the introduction of index futures contracts, a modified GJR-GARCH model has been applied to examine the...

In the intense competitive Grocery Stores’ industry, increasing and retaining customers is not an easy job. There are studies in relevance to the characteristics of stores. This study determines the relationship between the store characteristics and the store choice. Multinomial Logistic...

This paper quantifies factors which are responsible for the bullwhip effect within the specific theatre, e.g. Middle East. A comprehensive analytical understanding of the phenomenon is derived by considering at least twenty critical factors including Advertising, Sales Promotions, Seasonal...