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    • Drivers and challenges for implementing ISO 14001 environmental management systems in an emerging Gulf Arab country 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Knuteson, Sandra; Bartholomew, Aaron (Springer, 2017-11-13)
      Worldwide, ISO 14001 certification for organizations has become the norm, but the Arab world accounts for an insignificant portion of all the certified organizations. There is a dearth of research on environmental management ...
    • Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      This paper used time-series data to investigate the causal relation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in two MENA countries, namely Egypt and Jordan. The methodology used in this study follows Toda and ...
    • Social Cohesion and Optimal Redistribution in Economies with Long-Run Growth 

      Bandyopadhyay, Debasis; Tang, Xueli (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      We suggest that as social cohesion improves, the macroeconomic gains from progressive redistribution decline. Social interactions facilitate diffusion of nonrival knowledge. The consequent bridging of the knowledge gaps ...
    • Forecasting Energy Demand: The Case of United Arab Emirates 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      The purpose of this study is to forecast energy use in United Arab Emirates (UAE) using annual data over the period 1976-2009. The methodology used in this study follows the artificial neural networks analyses. We use four ...
    • Workforce localization in the UAE : recruitment and selection challenges and practices in private and public organizations 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Lindsay, Valerie; Belkhodja, Omar; Zhao, Fang (Tennessee State University College of Business, 2018)
      Workforce localization (WL) has become an issue of increasing importance in the Arab Gulf region, a key emerging market, where, in many cases, local citizens are the minority in terms of population, and compete with high ...
    • Prize-Linked Savings Games: Theory and Experiment 

      Jindapon, Paan; Sujarittanonta, Pacharasut; Viriyavipart, Ajalavat (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      We introduce a game in which each player can allocate her endowment in a prize-linked savings (PLS) account, which awards a fixed prize only to a randomly chosen winner. Like Tullock's rent-seeking contest, the probability ...
    • Stop-Go Monetary Policy 

      Chappell, Henry; Harris, Mark N.; McGregor, Rob Roy; Spencer, Christopher (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      We propose and estimate several discrete choice models of monetary policy decision-making that feature time-varying inertia. The models permit us to account for three stylized facts characterizing monetary policy making ...
    • Managers and organizational forgetting: a synthesis 

      Mariano, Stefania; Casey, Andrea; Olivera, Fernando (Emerald, 2018)
      Purpose - This paper evaluated how managers influence accidental and intentional organizational forgetting, i.e., knowledge depreciation, knowledge loss, and unlearning. Design/methodology/approach - The literature was ...
    • Parental Involvement and Children's Development: Can There Be Positive Side Effects? 

      Gahramanov, Emin; Hasanov, Rashad; Tang, Xueli (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      A growing body of literature indicates that meaningful time spent with parents has a significant influence on early childhood development, a future accumulation of a wide array of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and ...
    • Anticipated Discrimination, Choices, and Performance: Experimental evidence 

      Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Sanches, Ángela (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      This paper studies experimentally anticipated discrimination across gender, hiring patterns, and performance in tasks with different stereotypes in a labor-market setting. Participants are assigned to a seven-people group ...
    • Platform Adoption by Mobile Application Developers: A Multimethodological Approach 

      Song, Jaeki; Baker, Jeff; Wang, Ying; Choi, Hyoung Yong; Bhattacherjee, Anol (Elsevier, 2018-03)
      This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms by software developers and how those factors differ from those that influence IT adoption by end-users. We take a multi-methodological approach, ...
    • The Influence of Entrepreneurial Action on Strategic Alignment in New Ventures 

      Street, Chris; Galupe, Brent; Baker, Jeff (Elsevier, 2018-03)
      The alignment of IT strategy with business strategy has been among the top concerns of business leaders for several decades (Kappelman et al., 2014; Niederman et al., 1991). This interest from practitioners has stimulated ...
    • The Internet Dilemma: An Exploratory Study of Luxury Firms' Usage of Internet-Based Technologies 

      Baker, Jeff; Ashill, Nicholas; Amer, Noha; Diab, Ekram (Elsevier, 2018-03)
      Surprisingly, there exists a paucity of research examining the adoption of Internet-based technologies by luxury firms. This represents a major shortcoming in our understanding of how luxury firms maintain the image of ...
    • Combinations of absorptive capacity metaroutines: the role of organizational disruptions and time constraints 

      Mariano, Stefania; Al-Arrayed, Suad (Elsevier, 2018-04)
      This paper explores absorptive capacity metaroutines in a financial organization that experienced a large-scale misappropriation episode. We selected an instrumental case and collected individual semi-structured interviews, ...
    • Public sector expatriation 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Brewster, Chris (Springer, 2018-06-16)
      A public sector expatriate is an employee who is sent abroad by their organization, for an organizational mission, for a precise period of time, and expected to return to their home organization, in their home country, ...
    • Religiosity, neglected risk and asset returns: theory and evidence from Islamic finance industry 

      Azmat, Saad; Ali, Haiqa; Azad, A. S. M. Sohel; Hassan, M. Kabir (American University of Sharjah, 2018-11)
      This paper studies the sociological influence of religion on the risk and return in the financial markets with particular context of Islamic finance, a rapidly emerging and expanding financial industry. The paper builds a ...
    • Honesty, ability, norm, and socioeconomic status: experimental evidence from Bangladesh 

      Mahmud, Minhaj; Tasneem, Dina (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 ...
    • Transnational Links in Rhino Poaching and the Black Market Price of Rhino Horns 

      Lopes, Adrian (Wiley Online Library, 2019)
      The trends of rhino poaching in South Africa and India – major range states – have been remarkably similar over time. Organized criminal syndicates manage an illegal supply chain of rhino horns from poachers, middlemen, ...
    • Outcomes and Key Factors of Success for ISO 14001 Certification: Evidence from an Emerging Arab Gulf Country 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Knuteson, Sandra; Bartholomew, Aaron (MDPI, 2019)
      The objectives of this research were: (1) To examine the outcomes and key factors of success (KFS) related to ISO 14001 certification, (2) to compare and contrast these in private organizations (PRIVOs) and public organizations ...
    • Women, work and management in the Middle East 

      Rodriguez, Jenny; Ridgway, Maranda; Kemp, Linzi (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)
      The role and position of women in the Middle East continues to be the subject of much interest in discussion in the public arena and despite questions about their under-representation in work and management, their experiences ...