Zubair Ahmad

• Bahauddin Zakariya University

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of internal characteristics of Modarabas (e.g. size, leverage, liquidity, operating expenses, management fee charged by Modarabas and age) on profitability measured as profit margin, return on investment and earnings per certificate. Data was taken from financial statement analysis (FSA) of fin...

Purpose This study seeks to deepen the understanding of the political process underlying the establishment and evolution of corporate governance (CG) regulations in a developing country. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on regulatory space concept (Hancher and Moran, 1989) and Oliver's (1991) typology of strategic responses, the authors identif...

Though family businesses have a huge contribution to the economy. But these businesses have a high failure rate. Usually, these businesses get fail in the third generation. Qualitative research was used to explore MAPs in family businesses through the theoretical lens of Socioemotional wealth. Qualitative research was adopted to move away from a co...

Decision-making practices in family business are crucial and usually involve several stakeholders. To determine the decision-making mechanism in the family business, qualitative research approach was carried out. 30 semi-structured interviews were conducted involving family owners and non-family managers. Thematic analysis was used to analyze data....

Depreciation in the dollar price have been blamed for inflation but how it affects the macroeconomic activities prevailing in developing countries is still missing in literature. Thereby this study explores the transmission of dollar shocks on inflation in Pakistan for a time period from 1980-2018 using the explanatory variables: past inflation, do...

Basic objective of this research was to discover the impact of Leverage on Risk and Profitability. For this purpose main focus of research was SMEs and Commercial sector of Pakistan. Leverage has three types DOL, DFL and DTL. And these three types of leverage are independent variables for this research while dependent variables of this research are...

Basic objective of this research was to discover the impact of Leverage on Risk and Profitability. For this purpose main focus of research was SMEs and Commercial sector of Pakistan. Leverage has three types DOL, DFL and DTL. And these three types of leverage are independent variables for this research while dependent variables of this research are...

Drawing upon Weber's work (1958, 1961; 1968; 2009) and Weberian framework developed by Colignon and Covaleski (1991), this paper seeks to understand Board of Directors (BODs) practices in familial controlled listed companies in Pakistan. This study used multiple data sources including semi-structured interviews, secondary data collected from variou...

The aim of this research is to investigate the link between different proxies of social visibility such as company size, company profitability, environmental sensitivity, and multinational subsidiary with CSR disclosure. This study used a content analysis method to extract CSR-related information from the annual reports of 253 listed companies of P...

This study seeks to deepen our understanding of the roles of national politico-legal environment, economic and historical settings, key actors, organisational structure, and power relationships in influencing and shaping corporate governance (CG) codes in the ‘regulatory space’ (Hancher and Moran, 1989) of Pakistan. Data collected from interviews w...

This research paper aims to understand the impact of corporate governance (CG) on economic, social, and environmental sustainability disclosures. This paper adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach. The data regarding corporate governance and sustainability disclosure were collected from top 100 companies listed on the Pakistan Stoc...

The main objective of the study is to analyze the impact of risk management on the sustainable growth rate of Islamic banks in Pakistan. The study include the Islamic banks operating in Pakistan. Annual reports of 4 Islamic banks were used to analyze for 8 years (2009-2016) the impact of risk management on the sustainable growth rate. Descriptive s...

This paper seeks to understand the relationship between corporate environmental disclosure and corporate environmental performance in a Pakistani context. Also, this paper aims to understand whether patterns of environmental disclosure varies between the different categories (good, bad and mixed) of environmental performance. The data were taken fr...

Current research explores the effect of self-congruity (matching one"s self with brands) on brand attitude causing purchase intention. Mostly marketers communicate the conception that their brand matches with how ideally consumers want to see themselves. So, there is an imperious self-congruity effect applied to most brands universally. This resear...

There always subsists a gap between quality perceived by the customers and the quality delivered to them. There have been many attempts to fill out this gap. This study aims to spot out the result of demographic factors on quality perception. This paper is an attempt to understand the service perception as Johnston (1995) suggests that identificati...

This paper analyzes the post-privatization performance and organizational changes of a Pakistani State Owned Enterprise (SOE). Drawing on the concept of sustainable development, this study examines the performance of the firm from three perspectives-economic, social and environmental. The analysis is based on data gathered from annual reports, publ...

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to review existing dominant theoretical perspectives used in corporate social and environmental accounting research, identify their limitations and to suggest some alternative theoretical perspectives for further research. Methodology: In order to identify relevant research papers, on the use of different th...

Research objectives: The main objective of this paper was to understand the diffusion of CG codes around the world. More specifically this paper examined what types of CG codes have emerged around the world? What causes the diffusion of shareholder centric model of CG around the world? What areas are still unexplained to better understand the diffu...

This study attempts to deepen our understanding of the influence of powerful actors on accounting regulation. It uses the concept of regulatory space to examine pressures and responses in the initiation and implementation of corporate governance regulation, in the context of the emerging economy of Pakistan. Empirical data came from interviews cond...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the state of corporate governance practices in family-controlled listed companies in Pakistan. This paper demonstrates that multiple rationalities are in conflict and Anglo-American model of corporate governance is producing unintended consequences in traditional society of Pakistan. Drawing upon Weber’s work...