3rd SAICON Conference Proceedings Version I
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Sr No Paper ID Research Paper Title
1 11-1305 A Model of Professional Excellence through Personality Quotients
2   Advertising Effects on Firm Performance
3 1252A AN ANALYSIS OF IN-STORE SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT ON CONSUMERS' IMPULSE BUYING: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN
4 1296 ANALYZING THE NATURE OF LINK BETWEEN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OUTPUT GROWTH: ATIME SERIES EVIDENCE FOR PAKISTAN
5 1292 Antecedents and Experience of Sexual Harassment at Individual and Group Level
6 11-1298 ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVE USE OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHER TRAINING
7 11-1275 ASSESSING THE TRADE ARRANGEMENTS OF PAKISTAN: BY GRAVITY MODEL 
8 1015 Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction among Faculty members of Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur Mirs compare with University of Sindh Jamshoro
9 1279 Conflict Management Style and Gender-Role of Boss and Subordinates
10   Consumer Attitudes Towards Supermarket Shopping: “A Case Study of Samsun Province”
11 11-1220 Corporate Cash Holdings: A Growth and Mature Firm Perspective in Pakistani Context
12 11-1196 Corporate Governance in Family Owned Businesses in Pakistan: A Conceptual Framework
13 11-1039 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE ISLAMIC BANKING INSTITUTIONS OF PAKISTAN: WAKING LEGAL AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES
14 11-1072 Demographical antecedents in decisional autonomy of women entrepreneurs 
15 11-1140 Determinants of Disclosure Quality in Pakistani Corporate Culture 
16 11-1104 Determining the Optimal Level of Taxes in South Asia
17 11-1099 Dividend Policy and Stock Prices - A Case of KSE-100 Index Companies
18 11-1003 Do bank mergers lead to efficiency gains? The case of bank mergers in Pakistan (working paper)
19 11-1165 Does The Hedonic Editing Hypothesis hold in Pakistani Stock Exchange?
20 11-1230 Does the Loan Loss Provision affect the Banking profitability in case of Pakistan?
21 11-1110 Earnings Management and Privatizations: Evidence from Pakistan
22 1017 Education Management: Case Study to Turnaround Academic Performance of Underperforming Students
23 11-1284 Effective Working Capital Management Affects Profitability: Evidence from Asia
24 1201 eGovernance for Innovation in the Public Services
25 11-1250 Enhancing Entrepreneurial Marketing Education; the Student Perspective
26 11-1114 Enhancing financial performance by applying Knowledge Management Practices
27 11-1051 Estimation of Consumption Function under the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Evidence from Pakistan
28   Factors affecting Brand Loyalty: a perspective of fast food restaurants
29 1227 Factors affecting Job Satisfaction among Faculty Members 
30 1021 FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
31 11-1204 FACTORS AFFECTING JOB SATISFACTION IN BANKING SECTOR OF PAKISTAN- A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT OKARA AND SAHIWAL
32 11-1027 Factors Impacting on Customer Satisfaction in E-Banking: Some Survey Study for an Iranian Bank
33 1023 Factors Influencing Vision of an Organization
34 1087 Failure of Corporate Governance @ Mehran Bank Limited
35 1088 Failure of Corporate Governance at ZARCO Exchange Company (Private) Limited
36 11-1095 Failure of Corporate Governance: Privatization of PTCL Pakistan
37 11-1304 FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SAARC COUNTRIES
38 1158 Forecasting Performance of Alternative Error Correction Models 
39 1036 Greening of Corporate Governance: Wealth Effects of Sustainability Officer Hiring
40 11-1083 History of Advertising in Pakistan
41 11-1317 How Do Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behavior influence Sales Performance of FMCG Sales Force?
42 11-1308 How is Corporate Governance utilized to meet the Strategic Marketing Goals of an Organization?
43 1102 How micro-credits by a local NGO instigate the socio-economic uplift of urban poor: A case study of Benarsi cloth weavers at Orangi Township in Pakistan
44 11-1203 Human Resource Practices and Enterprise Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises of Pakistan 
45 1216 Impact of Analysts’ Recommendations on Stock Prices: Impact of Analysts’ Recommendations on Stock Prices
46 1235 Impact of FDI on Productivity and Financial Development: A study on Asian countries
47 11-1115 Impact of Foreign Aid Volatility on Economic Growth in Pakistan
48 1038 IMPACT OF GOLD PRICES ON STOCK EXCHANGE: A CASE STUDY OF PAKISTAN
49 11-1302 IMPACT OF GROUP BASED REWARDS ON EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS
50 1274 Inference on Stock Performance under Monte Carlo Simulations
51 1130 Institutional changes in traditional societies: an example from rural northwest Pakistan
52 1047 INTEGRATED MODEL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN
53 11-1314 Intellectual Capital and Organizational Performance
54 1300 Interest vs. Interest-Free: A Socially Responsible Option 
55 11-1233 Investigating the Relationship between Environmental and Economic Goals: The Case of Developing Countries
56 1294 INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF STOCK MARKET AND BANKS FOR OUTPUT GROWTH: A TIME SERIES EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN
57 1263 Leadership in Change Context- A Literature Review
58   Learning and Development Initiatives Implementation: Organisational and Individual Consequences
59 11-1046 Learning Orientation, Innovation Capability, and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Banking Sector of Pakistan
60 11-1113 Macroeconomic Conditions and Firm’s Choices of Capital Structure: Evidence from Pakistan’s Manufacturing Sectors
61 1209 Making it Work in Government Sector: Issues and Challenges
62 11-1024 Measuring the Stance of Monetary Policy for Pakistan's Economy
63 1316 MEDIATING ROLE OF ALTRUISM FOR WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY – SALES PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP
64   Multidimensional Poverty and Expanding Role of Microfinance Institutions
65 11-1129 Ownership Structure, Board Composition and Dividend Policy in Pakistan
66 wasj-1252 PERCEPTIONS OF PROSPECTIVE SPECIALISTS AND NON-SPECIALISTS TOWARDS TECHNICAL TERMS IN MARKETING
67 11-1074 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FACULTY MEMBERS' PERFORMANCE IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS
68 11-1259 Poverty, Corruption and Fatalism: A Case Study of Slum Areas of Karachi, Pakistan
69 1193 Primary Education Expansion, Income Inequality and Poverty Reduction
70 11-1231 Prioritization of Manufacturing Entrepreneurial Cooperatives by Principle Component Analysis and Numerical Taxonomy Approach, 
71 11-1281 PROFITABILITY OF DOMESTIC PAKISTANI BANKS: PANEL DATA EVIDENCE FOR THE PERIOD 2001-2010
72 1301 Religion in the United States: Focusing on Islamic Interest Free Financing idea for The American Market.
73   Relationship of Intellectual Capital with the Organizational Performance of Commercial Banks in Islamabad, Pakistan
74 11-1310 Role of Employees Involvement and participation in Strategic Organization
75 11-1085 Sample Size Required For Statistical Techniques
76 11-1303 SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES AS ENGINE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS
77 11-1169 Social Media and Social Marketing - Catalysts of Social Change
78 1182 Socioeconomic Determinants of Prenatal-care Utilization in Pakistan
79 11-1254 Software Effort Estimation Framework in Iterative and Incremental Development; Issues and Proposed Solution
80 11-1073 Terrorism and Migration: A Case Study of Pakistan
81 11-1159 The Drivers of Brand Equity: Brand Image, Brand Satisfaction and Brand Trust
82 11-1280 The Empirical Linkages of Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage
83   The Enduring Phenomenon of Hawala– Past, Present and the Future
84 1040 The Impact of Person Environment fit in creating Social Capital
85 1234 THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON SAVINGS: A CASE OF PAKISTAN
86 11-1195 The Impact of Worship on Individual’s Wellbeing
87 1126 The legitimacy of Limited Liability in Islam
88 11-1071 THE RELATIONSHIP OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS WITH FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF THE ENGINEERING SECTOR OF PAKISTAN
89 1175 To Trade or not to Trade’: Ethical Considerations in Islam, Judaism and Christianity”
90 1065 Towards Developing Knowledge Area on Social Responsibility for Project Management
91 11-1082 Use of personality inventories in non-English country like Pakistan: A comparison of Costa & McCrae’s NEO-PI-R and Goldberg’s IP-IP
92 11-1313 Why Small is Still Beautiful? E.F.Schumacher and His Economics in Dangerous Times
93 11-1251 Why the Children are not in Schools in Punjab
94 1238 Work Motivation and Performance Level of the Employees Working in Day and Night Shifts