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...