SAJMS - South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

Building Pakistan's country of origin image through the corporate image: Exploring optimal corporate brands for the image transfer

Research Article

Pakistan is facing a multi-dimensional attack on its country image. While it is imperative to triumph over negative factors causing Pakistan’s bad country image. This research aims to explore optimal corporate brands of Pakistan to build their country of origin (CoO) image in light of the consumer-related and company-related factors. Exploratory research approach has been deployed to explore potential [...]

By Hussain I. 2013
Keywords: Country of origin Image; Image Transfer; corporate image; brand management Read more...

Corporate Governance through Ownership Structure: Evidence from KSE-100 Index

Research Article

This paper examined the association between ownership structure, firm performance and dividend policy with respect to Governance perspective of companies present in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). A sample of 45 Nonfinancial KSE-100 Index listed firms for a period of 2010 to 2013 has been taken for analysis of this study. Multiple Regression Models are applied on the panel data to [...]

By Shabbir A. , Tahir S. H. and Aziz B. 2013
Keywords: Ownership Structure, Firm Performance, Dividend Policy, Entrenchment Theory, Family Ownership Concentration Read more...

Formulation of Advanced H-Index: The S-Index

Research Article

H-index is one of the famous tool for assessing the research authors, journals and publications ranking. With some demerits and limitations of H-index, this research study puts forward an enhanced version of H-index named as Sindex, which gives more accurate results in relevance to published papers and citations of a particular author (sum of various key factors of author’s [...]

By Subhani M. I. , Hasan S. A. , Osman A. , Saad M. and Mir S. 2013
Keywords: H-index, S-index, citations, self-citations Read more...

Granger Causality between Dengue Positive Cases Reported and Health Expenditures(A Case Study from Pakistan)

Research Article

This paper mainly aimed to interrogate the unidirectional causality from dengue positive cases reported in Pakistan to health expenditure of Pakistan. The data for the years ranging from (2006-2014) was deployed to test the proposition used while; unidirectional causality from dengue positive cases reported to health expenditure was investigated through granger causality test. Findings confirmed that neither the dengue positive [...]

By Ayaz M. , Rizwani G. and Nayaz M. 2013
Keywords: Dengue Positive Cases, Health Expenditures Read more...

Ambiguous Situations and Pro-Social Behavior across different Age Groups & Genders

Research Article

It is believed that the multi dimensional dilemma has been prevailing in the country for the last two decades in the field of economy, social development and politics which have caused scary reactions in the society in general and to youth in particular. As a result, a pro-social behavior in the society is hardly witnessed. This paper investigates the pro-social [...]

By Khan J. F. M. and Mukhtar A. 2013
Keywords: Pro-social behavior, Self report Altruism Scale, Personal Norms of Helping Behavior scale Read more...

Are the Inflation of World co-integrated?

Research Article

The hike in prices to any product and/or service is the common man’s fright. Inflation has faced upheavals regardless of the countries around the world. This study has specifically quantified the co- movement of inflation rates of different countries around the globe. Johansen Co-integration was used to analyze the co-movements of the inflation rates of the selected world regions [...]

By Subhani M. I. , Hasan S. A. , Osman A. and Minhas J. 2013
Keywords: Inflation, Co-integration Read more...

Teaching Methods and their impact on performance of University students

Research Article

There are many teachers trying new teaching techniques in the classrooms with the intention of making learning process more effective. In this research, comparison has been made between the spaced and massed learning methods to determine which teaching method is the most effective and helpful learning methods enhancing academic performance and retention rate of students. Results revealed that the performance [...]

By Usmani S. and Dawani K. 2013
Keywords: : Teaching, Education, Massed Learning, Spaced Learning Read more...

Pakistan's Monetary Aid Concerns

Research Article

Aid is unlikely to encourage the development and growth of the countries affected from natural disasters. This study scrutinizes that it is not necessary that every commitment has to be fulfilled. As in this research, it is found that the level of commitment of aid for the flood affected country of Pakistan was quite higher than the level of aid [...]

By Nayaz M. and Husain J. 2014
Keywords: Monetary aid, friend-countries. Read more...