The Lahore Journal of Business is aimed at providing a specialized forum for dissemination of qualitative and quantitative research in various areas of business administration. The LJB invites researchers, policy makers and analysts to submit original theoretical and empirical papers that explore and contribute to the understanding of various areas in the business domain. The Journal aims at bringing together state-of-art research findings, particularly from emerging markets, in various business disciplines including (but not limited to) accounting, banking, management, marketing, finance, investments, human resource management and organizational behavior.
The Impact of Grade Incentives and Gender on Student Performance: An Experiment Mehreen Amjad Furqan, Sohnia Salman and Sohail Zafar Download Abstract This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of grade incentives and gender on student performance at the university level. We perform a two-way analysis of variance on a sample of three groups … Read more
Workplace Bullying and Employee Performance Among Bank Personnel in Pakistan Hafsa Hussain and Qais Aslam Download Abstract This study investigates the prevalence of workplace bullying for a sample of bank employees in Lahore. It also examines whether workplace bullying (measured as work-related bullying and person-related bullying) affects employees’ performance in this context. On analyzing the … Read more
Demutualization in Developing and Developed Country Stock Exchanges Muhammad Hammad, Adil Awan and Amir Rafiq Download Abstract This study considers seven different stock exchanges in order to measure the impact of demutualization announcements on stock market return volatility. This is measured based on the daily index prices of all seven indices: the Toronto Stock Exchange … Read more
The Impact of Consumer Ethnocentrism on Purchase Intentions: Local Versus Foreign Brands Mehrukh Salman and Uswa Naeem Download Abstract This study evaluates the impact of consumer constructs, including ethnocentrism, attitudes toward brands, and celebrity endorsement, on purchase intentions for beverages in Pakistan. A quantitative survey was administered to collect the data and a path analysis … Read more
SMEs and Economic Growth in Nigeria: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach Ishola Wasiu Oyeniran, Oladipo Olalekan David and Oluseyi Ajayi Download Abstract This empirical study adopts an autoregressive distributed lag approach in order to examine how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have contributed to economic growth in Nigeria between 1981 and 2013. We find that … Read more