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Corporate Social Responsibility: An Islamic Perspective

Elasrag, Hussein - 2015

Islam provides a basis and guideline for living one’s life. Within this, there is a very detailed concept of ethical and social behaviour which allows us to deduce that the concept of social responsibility automatically has a role in Islam. This is a critical point that must be firstly...

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Credit Risks in Banking of the Countries in Transitional Phase and possible Ways of Their Reduction in Croatian Banking System

Stjepanek, Stjepan; Matić, Branko - 1999

Practically, there is no human activity without being connected with some form of risk. A complexity of the activity is … in a close connection with the risk level and, as a rule, the greater complexity leads to a greater risk. The importance … of risk is stressed to a large extent in some sectors, such as financial institutions, especially banks. Risk is not a …

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The significance of socioeconomic factors on personal loan decision a study of consumer banking local private banks in Pakistan

Azam, Rehan; Muhammad, Danish; Syed Akbar, Suleman - 2012

personal loan customers and also establish a better personal loan risk management forecasting model. The main purpose of the …

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Theory of the firm under multiple uncertainties

Moawia, Alghalith - 2009

uncertainty (and each single uncertainty) and change in risk aversion on each input demand. In so doing, we emphasize the …

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Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation

Waśniewski, Krzysztof - 2010

The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...

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Concorrenza senza equilibrio. La "scoperta imprenditoriale" nella Teoria Economica Austriaca

Marco, Passarella; Hervé, Baron - 2010

The aim of this paper is to supply both a description and an interpretation-key of the recent developments in the Austrian Economics, with particular attention for the role played by the concept of «entrepreneurial discovery». Without knowing exactly «what» he is looking for and without...

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Inflation and corporate investment in selected OECD countries in the years 1960-2005 – an empirical analysis

Ciżkowicz, Piotr; Rzońca, Andrzej - 2010

Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts to answer the question what are the direction and strength of this possible impact examining the relationship between corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD...

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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory

Pandey, S.S.D. - 1991

The focus of this study is on black markets which provide an important segment of the parallel economy. These markets operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore both theoretically and empirically. The problem,...

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Uncertainty, flexible labour relations and R&D expenditure

Grassi, Emanuele; Di Cintio, Marco - 2012

This paper examines the effects of uncertainty and flexible labour contracts on the Research and Development (R&D) expenditure. Using a panel of Italian manufacturing firms, we find a hump-shaped relationship between workforce flexibility and R&D outlays. Moreover, as predicted by the real...

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Un Modelo Principal-Agente Dinámico de Reducción de Perdidas de Energía Electrica en Tiempo Continuo

Zambrano, Juan Carlos; Astaiza-Gómez, José Gabriel; … - 2021

In this article we analyze the remuneration mechanism for the reduction of energy losses, through a dynamic principal-agent model in continuous time. The agent represents the power distribution company, which makes investments, or in other words, makes an effort to reduce energy losses. The...

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