The Philippines was one of the pioneers in the establishment of Islamic banking in 1974 through the creation of Philippine Amanah Bank. However, the Bank has been struggling from various challenges including low public awareness and lack of regulatory framework. This study aims …
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This research discusses the opportunity of introducing Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) in the province of Manitoba. The ethnographic analysis concluded that there are 3 possible approaches to introduce IBF model in Manitoba province, where each approach has its own opportuniti…
Islamic banks ensure Shariah compliance and hence its operation is essentially ethical and responsible by nature. The theory of Islamic banking assigns significant social responsibility roles to Islamic banks. Recent strategic business trends show that from business sustainabili…
This thesis examines market discipline exercised by Indonesian depositors and peer banks from January 1980 to December 1999. Discipline exists if risky banks are forced to pay higher interest and suffer deposit withdrawals. However, to be effective, market discipline requires mo…
Advances in information technology and telecommunications are resulting in new delivery channels for bank products and services in the developing countries. As banks in developed countries continue to be more advanced and innovative, banks in less developed countries are prepari…
The objective of this research is to investigate service quality attributes along with a measure of perceived value and satisfaction to determine the direct and indirect effect on bank customer's loyalty. The study also seeks to identify the most important attributes/cues in ban…
This dissertation develops an analytic framework to explain the emergence of Islamic banking: a "least likely case" of cultural persistence in the technocratic field of finance where the compulsion to standardize practices is most intense. I maintain that the origins and repercu…
Globalization of economic activities and advances in technology are continuously shaping the relationship between governments, regulatory bodies and private sectors. In facing such changes, governments and regulatory bodies have to reconsider their economic policies. In my disse…
This dissertation presents three essays. The first analyzes the determinants of the fiscal costs and output loss for a broad sample of countries experiencing a banking crisis. It explores three hypotheses: crisis countries with a greater supply of financial professionals, all el…
This research study explored the difference between subordinates' perceptions of their leaders' leadership style within the banking industry in Lebanon and the United States. This was done through exploring their differences toward the consideration and initiation structure dime…
This quantitative study used correlational and casual-comparative methods to examine how leadership behaviors or strategy contribute to organizational performance in Nigeria's banking industry. Using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire transformational leadership behaviors,…
A great deal of research has been conducted to determine factors that influence the adoption of a specific technology. Numerous models have been developed and proposed to enhance the understanding of this issue. While we may use any of these models, the decomposed theory of plan…
This qualitative grounded theory study applied a systematic approach to exploring effects of employee performance management on employee learning and development within the Nigerian banking industry. Non-probability purposeful quota sampling yielded 29 one-on-one interviews with…
This thesis studies bank privatization in Mexico and Turkey, which are two important peripheral countries. The central problem of this thesis is how and why the forms of banking institutions have changed in different phases of capitalist development and what the social impacts a…
Bank mergers and acquisitions can affect small and medium business lending. This study used a qualitative, case-study approach to examine the impact of bank mergers and acquisitions on small and medium business lending in Sebhā, Libya. Researchers have studied the reasons and th…
La Central de Riesgos es un registro de riesgos financieros, crediticios, comerciales y de seguros a cargo de la Superintendencia de Banca Seguros y AFP, donde se registra el endeudamiento financiero de las personas naturales y jurídicas, así como su conducta de pago representad…
I conceptualized this study from a transmodern perspective, defining transmodernity as an emergent conceptual and historical space in which the discourses of modernity and those of postmodernity combine to create both problematics and possibilities. For subaltern/non-Western cul…
Until the beginning of the 1980's, the Indonesian financial system was tightly controlled by the government. The government established ceilings on the interest rates on deposits of state-owned banks and strict geographic restrictions on branching by the private banks. As a resu…
The Grameen Bank has improved the lives of several million poor people in rural Bangladesh by providing them with credit. Using an innovative group lending program, the bank has been able to recover 97% of its loans. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the intricacies …