International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 14 Issue 1

Exposure to interbank investment and financing risk by Islamic banks: a dynamic panel analysis of Malaysia

Mohammad Taqiuddin Mohamad, Ahmad Azam Sulaiman, Meguellati Achour

The Government of Malaysia has developed an Islamic Interbank Money Market since January 1994 with the objective to facilitate funding for the Islamic banking sector in the…

Does Sharia compliance affect financial reporting quality? An evidence from Muslim majority countries

Gökberk Can

Sharia compliance states that the compliant company operates not only under regulations but also to the restrictions and permission of Islam. This study aims to reveal whether…

Households’ acceptance of affordable Islamic public-private housing co-operative model (IPHCM) in Malaysia

Dzuljastri Abdul Razak, Muhammad Bilal, Hanudin Amin

The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants influencing low- and middle-income households in accepting the Islamic public-private housing co-operative model (IPHCM…

Financial uncertainty valuation: does Shariah compliant screening matter?

Fatma Alahouel, Nadia Loukil

This paper aims to investigate the financial uncertainty vary according to different financial assets type: conventional and Islamic.

The antecedents of job embeddedness and their effects on cyberloafing among employees of public universities in eastern Iran

Amir Mohammad Fakoor Saghih, Saeid Nosrati

To perceive the reasons for misusing the internet at work, an activity known as cyberloafing, efforts were made to find a new approach to reduce this negative behavior among…

Do ‘Shariah’ indices surpass conventional indices? A study on Dhaka Stock Exchange

Md. Bokhtiar Hasan Aarif, Muhammad Rafiqul Islam Rafiq, Abu N.M. Wahid

This paper aims to examine whether the Sharīʿah indices outperform the conventional indices as evident from Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). To achieve the objective, the study, first…

Conceptualization of wasta and its main consequences on human resource management

Fadi Alsarhan, Marc Valax

This paper aims to offer a review of the concept of wasta, as a form of social capital in Arab societies. Furthermore, this paper seeks to elucidate the main implications of the…

Performance of Shari’ah-compliant and non-Shari’ah-compliant listed firms: a case study of Malaysia

Irum Saba, Mohamed Ariff, Eskandar Shah Mohd Rasid

Shari’ah provides the basic tenets of the Islamic finance industry and advocates banks to share their profits and losses with investors. But what it means for a firm to be…

Shari’ah-compliant benchmark and Shari’ah-based “raf’ al-haraj” benchmark on prohibition of riba

Yasushi Suzuki, Mohammad Dulal Miah

This paper aims to propose two benchmarks “Shari’ah-compliant” benchmark and “Shari’ah-based” “raf’ al-haraj” (the removal of hardship) benchmark. The former benchmark can be…

The effect of Islamic work ethic on person-organization fit and workplace deviance in hotels

Ebru Düşmezkalender, Cihan Secilmis, Veysel Yilmaz

This paper aims to examine the relationships between Islamic work ethic, deviant organizational behaviours and person-organization fit within the context of the hotels.

Forecasting Islamic equity indices alpha

Nadia Anjum, Suresh Kumar Oad Rajput

This paper aims to investigate whether Islamic and conventional equity indices offer some alpha. These indices are expected to offer no alpha being value-weighted, passive and…