Asif Hussain Samo, A. Bhatti, Mushahid Hussain Shah, Shaikha Abdullah
Mergers and acquisitions have gained huge importance over the years. Despite huge investments, mergers and acquisitions have failed to achieve desired results. The sole purpose of this study is to explore the aftermath of mergers and acquisitions in Pakistan from the employee perspective. Existing literature suggests that there are more failures than successes in mergers and acquisitions, the reason being the poor implementation of such events. Mergers and acquisitions have consequences, and these consequences are subject to the nature and behavior of the individuals. This study was carried out to explore mergers and acquisitions from an employee perspective and what issues they come to face. With the interpretivist approach and qualitative strategy, the phenomenological methodology was implied to understand the issues of the employees from their lived experiences. Interviews were collected with snowball sampling from the employees who have experienced this transformation. For triangulation of the data, focus group discussions were also conducted among the participants. Moreover, the interview transcripts were validated with a member checking approach. After performing axial coding, constant comparison of the collected data was used, and themes and their relations were developed. Results unearthed several issues employees face, some are job-related, and others are personal life issues. In the former category, employees face the problem of job security, lost experience, communication gap, while in the latter they experience a disturbance in their social circles and personality issues such as stress and anxiety. These issues ultimately culminate into a negative influence on their growth.
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Shafique Ahmed, Suman Talreja, M. Shah, Muhammad Asad, Sakina .
The purpose of this study is to provide relative information on mergers & acquisition events of banks in Pakistan. To evaluate the profitability and microeconomic factor of banks in Pakistan, financials for thirteen years (2006-2017) were examined with the help of financial ratios. The research applied secondary data which were gathered from the financial statements of banks, and their websites. In this research, every financial decision-making process, ratio analysis by timeline method is most often utilized. The outcomes illustrate that the pre-merger performance of banking sector of Pakistan in the dimensions of profitability and loan/deposits was fairly satisfying. It clarifies that merger activity was unsuccessful in increasing the financial productivity of the bank, but banks become one with other small and the same sized banks simply to increase market shares, to increase their assets and to reveal concealed morals.
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This paper designs a 2x2-experiment research model within the subjects to analyze the effects of the “Islamic” bracketed brand name vs ordinary brand on consumer’s behavioral outcome-perceived quality and purchase intentions in the food industry of Pakistan. Islamic branding is a growing phenomenon and a large number of retailers in Islamic countries are using the word “Islamic” in brand design strategies. Two-way ANOVA for factorial analysis of variance is used with help of SPSS. The research findings reveal that Islamic origin brand names have a positive and significant impact on the perceived quality of products and consumer purchase intentions. Findings have important implications for retailers and SME businesses in Islamic countries in the brand-building process.
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Developments around new technology are opening new avenues for business, commerce, and management. From instantaneous, low-cost transaction processing, clearing, and settlement to the management of government & commercial banking ledgers, disruptive technologies like blockchain has numerous applications in financial engineering and innovative product development. Distributed ledger technology can be used to develop innovative Shariah-compliant products including financial instruments that are beneficial for the growth and development of the Islamic finance industry along with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this paper, blockchain technology is proposed to develop Sukuk to finance development infrastructure projects in Pakistan. With adequate governance, innovative products along with legal and regulatory support, Islamic finance has the potential to make a reasonable contribution towards the development of infrastructure along with the rising standard of living for people, eventually supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030. Rigorous infrastructure is the key to the successful implementation and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
{"title":"Blockchain Based Retail Sukuk for Infrastructure Development and Financial Inclusion in Pakistan","authors":"Sara Iftikhar","doi":"10.58921/jobams.4.1.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58921/jobams.4.1.76","url":null,"abstract":"Developments around new technology are opening new avenues for business, commerce, and management. From instantaneous, low-cost transaction processing, clearing, and settlement to the management of government & commercial banking ledgers, disruptive technologies like blockchain has numerous applications in financial engineering and innovative product development. Distributed ledger technology can be used to develop innovative Shariah-compliant products including financial instruments that are beneficial for the growth and development of the Islamic finance industry along with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this paper, blockchain technology is proposed to develop Sukuk to finance development infrastructure projects in Pakistan. With adequate governance, innovative products along with legal and regulatory support, Islamic finance has the potential to make a reasonable contribution towards the development of infrastructure along with the rising standard of living for people, eventually supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030. Rigorous infrastructure is the key to the successful implementation and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).","PeriodicalId":184567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Administration and Management Sciences (JOBAMS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125815794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faris Mahar, Syed Zain Ahmed, M. Danish, Wajahat Mobin
The aim of this study is to measure the model of brand equity to investigate the effect electronic word of mouth in context of social media, data was taken from past research papers. Quantitative method is used with survey strategy and the data was collected from sample of 330 consumers with the help of online survey on instrument adopted from previous research. Hypotheses were tested with regression technique on SPSS software. The findings of this research suggest that the electronic word of mouth has substantial and positive effect on all the attributes of brand equity, namely, brand loyalty, perceived quality, brand awareness, brand associations, brand image. This study recommends marketers to pay extra heed to eWOM in creation of brand equity.
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