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Career-ready education: beyond the skills gap, tools and tactics for an evolving economy
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019)
Elsevier Scopus Training
(Elsevier, 2019-03-07)
The Innovation Imperative: the buzz, the barriers, and what real change looks like
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019)
Move beyond the buzzwords and delve into the recent rise of the innovation movement to break barriers and effect meaningful change on your campus. The demand to innovate has become a rallying cry for leaders eager to push ...
Graduate Catalog 2019-2020
(2019)
Honesty, ability, norm, and socioeconomic status: experimental evidence from Bangladesh
(American University of Sharjah, 2019)
In a real effort task experiment, we study the (dis)honesty of undergraduate students in Bangladesh. Consistent with earlier studies, when they self-report their performance, a significant fraction of students cheats to ...
Corruption, lending and bank performance
(American University of Sharjah, 2019-11-03)
This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ...
The Roots of Misalignment: Insights on Strategy Implementation from a System Dynamics Perspective
(2019)
This essay advances the study of strategic alignment by explaining how and why misalignment occurs. We begin by summarizing why IT and business strategies evolve in unintended ways, a phenomenon known as strategic drift. ...
Information disclosure in dynamic research contests
(American University of Sharjah, 2019-09)
We study the design of information disclosure in a dynamic multi-agent research contest, where each agent privately searches for innovations and submits his best to compete for a winner-takes-all prize. We find that although ...
The Impact of Innovation on The Competitiveness of Building Construction Projects
(2019-07)
The construction industry contributes immensely to the socioeconomic development of nations by building extensive infrastructure and production facilities. Additionally, this industry, being the largest employer worldwide, ...