Irfan Ahmed, PhD

When organizing a quantitative research study, as a quick check, ask the following questions 1. What is your hypothesis (your research question)? 2. What is already known about the problem (literature review)? 3. What sort of design is best suited to studying your hypothesis? (method) 4. What data will you collect to test your hypothesis? (sample) 5. How will you analyse these data? (data analysis) 6. What will you do with the results of the study? (communication) These questions are broken down in more detail below. (These are mostly taken from Rubin et al. (1990), and have also appeared in Balnaves and Caputi (2001).) Hypothesis _ What is the goal of the research? _ What is the problem, issue, or critical focus to be researched? _ What are the important terms? What do they mean? _ What is the significance of the problem? _ Do you want to test a theory? _ Do you want to extend a theory? _ Do you want to test competing theories? _ Do you want to test a method? _ Do you want to replica...

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Deadline to submit an abstract (2nd Call): 14th of March 2011 (Decisions are reached in less than 4 weeks after the abstract submission) Deadline to register with a paper presentation : Please see your acceptance letter sent to you after submitting the abstract. Deadline to register without a presentation: One month before the conference subject to approval. Deadline to submit full papers for accepted abstracts: 4th of June 2011. Conference Venue: TBA 1-2 Weeks before the conference ( Please click here ) Abstract and Paper Acceptance Policy ( Please click here ) Paper Guidelines ( Please click here ) Conference Hotel ( Please click here ) Contact Person: Dr. Sharon Bolton, Head, Management Research Unit , ATINER & Professor, University of Strathclyde, U.K. Organizing and Academic Committee: Academic members of the Management Research Unit and the members of the Academic Committee of the Institute.

Structured abstracts Emerald introduced structured abstracts to all journals in 2005. This development was undertaken as part of the strategy of continuous improvement in the delivery and dissemination of papers. Use of structured abstracts ensures that better information is supplied and that there is more consistency across the journals and database. Ultimately, readers and researchers searching the database are more likely to access the paper when the abstract provides useful information. In the past, author-written abstracts were very variable both in terms of content and quality. Structured abstracts ensure we no longer have this problem.  In an electronic environment, abstracts are more important that they have ever been. Sometimes this “snippet” is the only thing a reader or researcher will see and it is the one chance we have of persuading them to download the full text of the paper. Structured abstracts act like signposts, they provide: Consistency and clarity. Much ea...

Dr. Kashif Ur Rehman was born in Chaman Pakistan. He completed his preliminary education from Quetta. He holds a B.Sc degree from university of Balochistan. Dr. Kashif Ur Rehman earned Doctorate degree in Business Administration from Philippines School of Business Administration Manila in 1997 when he was 26 years old. He joined Bahria University as Assistant Professor in 2000. Currently he is connected with Iqra University Islamabad as Associate Professor. He initiated MS / Ph.D program at Iqra University Islamabad. Dr. Kashif Ur Rehman is an approved supervisor of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. He has supervised 10 Ph.D and 14 M.Phil scholars successfully in the field of business administration. He has supervised 58 independent studies as MS / Ph.D level. Dr. Kashif Ur Rehman has more than eighty (80) research papers   published in international journals. Out of these, eighteen (18) papers have been published in ISI-impact factor journals . He is a reviewer o...

The United States Educational foundation in Pakistan is pleased to announce the Fulbright Master's/PhD 2011 scholarship award. For both the Master’s and Ph.D. programs, all academic disciplines are eligible, except clinical medicine. Who is eligible for these scholarships? Pakistani citizens, residing and working in Pakistan, with strong academic histories in all disciplines except clinical medicine are welcome to apply. In addition to academic work, persons selected for Fulbright programs are expected to share information about Pakistani life and culture with their U.S. colleagues and with community groups in the U.S. When will the program begin? Fall of 2012 What do the grants fund? The grants fund tuition, required textbooks, airfare, a living stipend, and health insurance. USEFP also assists with the visa process. Additional requirements? The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for all applicants. A minimum score of 300 is required on each section of the ...

France, Paris, June 28-30, 2011 The VII. International Conference on Economics, Business Management and Marketing aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Economics, Business Management and Marketing, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The International Refereed Conference Proceedings will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers and indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus, Compendex, Thomson Reuters, WorldCat, EBSCO, GALE,   Embase, Reaxys, Engineering Village / Engineering Index (EI), DOAJ, Library of Congress, British Library, Electronic Journals Library will be internationally distributed both in Electronic CD-ROM Format   and   Proceedings Book. The Refereed Conference Proceedings Book and CD (pISSN 2010-376X and eISSN 2010-3778 ) will be included ...