This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

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Islamic banks face restrictions in refinancing due to the guidelines of the Shari ́ah prohibiting financial contracts and transactions based on interest, gambling and speculation as same as due to the lack of liquidity sources such as an interbank market, a lender of last resort or an asset market. This is the first study with empirical cross-country results focusing on liquidity transformation ...

The field of business ethics has been active for several decades, but it has yet to develop a generally agreed upon applied ethical perspective for the discipline. Academics in business disciplines have developed useful science-based models explaining why business people behave ethically but without a generally accepted definition of ethical behavior. Academics in moral philosophy have attempte...

Mankind is progressing since inception. Science has improved our understanding of physical surrounding us and technology the reach conveniences through effective ways. Ethics are associated with moral human beings to guide them towards social acceptance. develop happiness among beings. directs individuals right directions save move in wrong direction. Present cutthroat competition market induce...

business and its main functions such as marketing has value regulations in islamic economy. the main purpose of this paper is the indicatation of islamic values in marketing mix decisions. to achieve this purpose , the islamic values in marketing mix decisions include product, price, promotion and place decisions emanated from quran and documented practices of the holy prophet (peace be upon hi...

While decision making scholarship in management has specifically addressed the objectivist assumptions within the rational choice model, a similar move within business ethics has only begun to occur. Business ethics scholarship remains primarily based on rational choice assumptions. In this article, we examine the managerial decision making literature in order to illustrate equivocality within ...