Despite huge global growth rates and a rapidly increasing importance of Islamic banking and finance, research in this area still needs to be classified as nascent. Recent economic events have led to an increasingly critical attitude towards the conventional banking and finance system, whereas...

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a new paradigm for managing the portfolio of risks that face organizations and delivers synergic value by exploiting natural hedges. Proponents of ERM claim that ERM is designed to enhance the shareholder value (SHV). Increasing numbers of...

Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses OR-relevant articles on social entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens of...