International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 5 Issue 2

Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) for the Indian commodity market

Sheeba Kapil, Kanwal Nayan Kapil

The Indian commodity market requires large investments and enhanced trading activity both in the national as well as the regional commodity markets. The participation of…

Challenges and opportunities in developing a high‐tech business in Central and Eastern Europe: The case study of NC Software Applications Solutions

Darek Klonowski, Daria Gołębiowska‐Tataj

The purpose of this paper is to provide academics, practitioners, and students with an opportunity to understand the dynamics of growing an entrepreneurial business in the…

Issues faced by SMEs in the internationalization process: results from Fiji and Samoa

Gurmeet Singh, R.D. Pathak, Rafia Naz

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the issues, challenges, and impediments coming in the way of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalization in small…

An investigation of perceptions of company annual report users in Sri Lanka

Anura De Zoysa, Kathy Rudkin

The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of how users of company annual reports in the emerging market of Sri Lanka view those reports. Since limited studies exist that…

The role of consumer ethnocentrism in a buy national campaign in a transitioning country: Some evidence from Slovakia

Kojo Saffu, John H. Walker, Marica Mazurek

The goal of this paper is to examine the link between consumer ethnocentrism (CE) and the attitudes of two consumer groups to a buy local campaign in a transitioning economy…

The Saturday effect in emerging stock markets: a stochastic dominance approach

Osamah Al‐Khazali, Taisier A. Zoubi, Evangelos P. Koumanakos

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the Saturday effect in three emerging stock markets (Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia) by taking into consideration the…

Editorial

Yusaf H. Akbar