Organizations are consistently looking ways to reduce occupational stress to improve the productivity of their employees. It is matter of great interest for them to find out potential causes of occupational stress. Mobbing is relatively new concept for behavioral scientists, which illustrates in...

The main purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence the portion of debt financing. We have selected the whole fuel and energy firms for the purpose of analysis which comprises of 18 listed firms. The analyses are for the period 2006-2010. Regression results showed that...

The relationship between economic freedom and pro-poor growth is examined in Pakistan from 1995-2010. The concept of pro-poor growth is derived from the literature of Kakwani and Pernia (2000) and Kakwani and Son (2003). The domino effect shows that there is a strong link between economic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify major macroeconomic factors that enhance foreign direct investment (FDI) for Pakistan through the co‐integration and error correction model over a 28‐year time period, i.e. between 1980 and 2008. Design/methodology/approach – The study...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationship between electricity consumption per capita (ELEC) and real per capita income (Y), as the direction of causation of this relationship remains controversial in the existing literature. It also seeks to explore the relationship between energy...

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors (i.e., population growth; urbanization, industrialization, exchange rate, price level, food production index and live stock production index) and renewable energy in Pakistan over a period of 1975-2012. In...

The objective of the study is to examine the possible linkages between economic freedom indicators and energy utilization in Pakistan, for the time period during 1995-2013. The study used three most promising energy variables i.e. coal, electricity and oil energy consumption, which serves as...