With a rapidly evolving business environment due to the process of intense techonological innovations, a new and competitive paradigm in which intellectual capital has become a critical driver of business performance has emerged. This paper conducts an initial characterisation of the...

Corporate governance has become an increasingly important issue in recent years, both as a result of corporate scandals and because more than 20 transition economies in the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe are in the process of converting their economies from a central planning...

Islamic finance has become an increasingly popular subject in recent years. Some Islamic investment vehicles have even become popular in the non-Islamic world, although the growth in their popularity has been dampened by lack of knowledge of their existence, their nature and their relative...