RESEARCH AT IoBM

Research being a core competence, is accorded top priority at the Institute of Business Management.

• All full time faculty members have a contractual obligation to complete one major research study per year.
• MBA at CBM is research intensive and every optional course is designed to include a research component.
• IoBM’s Research Director is Honorary Economic Advisor to the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Pakistan Business Review

IoBM publishes Pakistan’s first refereed academic business research quarterly. PBR is abstracted and indexed by the American Economic Association in the ECONLIT, the Journal of Economic Literature, USA and recognized by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). It is supervised by an International Advisory Board of Business Academics from national and international organizations such as the London School of Economics, the University of Sussex, the University of San Diego, Bochun University, Germany, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Association for Clean Technology, Austria, the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the Applied Economic Research Center, the University of Karachi, Indiana University and The Aga Khan University, Karachi. All full time faculty members are on the editorial board and contribute research papers on a regular basis. Pakistan Business Review is in its twelfth year of continuous publication.

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International Conference

An international Conference, funded by the HEC is held on an annual basis. The Second Sindh International Conference was held in January 2010 to discuss the Sindh Economic Survey 1972-2008 prepared at IoBM. Two international conferences are planned for the current academic year 2010-2011 one on Management Capacities and the other on Labor Policies in Pakistan. These conferences provides a platform for the presentation of research at IoBM.

Textbooks

IoBM is concerned about the lack of textbooks which reflect Pakistan environment and practices for business students. Several textbooks by IoBM faculty have been published. These include:

1. Money and Banking in Pakistan (now in its sixth edition)
2. Financial Management in Pakistan
3. Business Ethics in Pakistan

Another textbook on Financial Institutions in Pakistan is under preparation and will be published by the Oxford University Press in 2011.

External Research

Consultancy work has been undertaken for the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, The Aga Khan Education Service, Karachi, the Institute of Bankers in Pakistan, Deloitte, Touche International Chartered Accountants, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, SBP, Doha Bank FPCCI, TDAP and the Government of Sindh. Research papers from CBM are regularly presented at the annual meetings of the Pakistan Society for Development Economics, Islamabad.

Online Accessibility

IoBM subscribes to the Business Collection of JSTOR, an online access to a vast collection of business academic journals. It allows access to 46 multidisciplinary and discipline specified collections. In addition, the HEC has allowed us online access to almost 5000 research journals. These publications carry theoretical and applied research findings in fields such as Accounting, Business, Computing, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Law, Management, Marketing, etc. The fast internet link of IoBM provides an easy access to download articles and research reports. Studetns are encouraged to avail the browsing facility available at the campus. The faculty is also encouraged to use these research journals, give assignments and group discussion exercises based upon the articles of specific fields.