An empirical survey of individual consumer, business firm and financial institution attitudes towards Islamic methods of finance

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 783-808

  Gait, Alsadek ^a   Worthington, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banking; Finance; Financial services; Islam

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349119209     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068290810905423     Document Type: Article

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