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The Impact of Technology on Regional Price Dispersion in the US
(VGTU, 2021)We analyze the behavior of inflation in the era of fast pace information thanks to technological advances, especially internet. Owing to readily available information, prices/inflation should quickly converge under perfect ... -
Attitudes towards climate change and energy sources in oil exporters
(Elsevier, 2021)Switching to energy mixes that use more non-fossil fuels is critical to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change. Climate change poses a major challenge to oil exporting Gulf countries, like the rest of the ... -
An integrative study of the implications of the rise of coworking spaces in smart cities
(Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, 2020)Coworking practices have proliferated around the world being embraced not only by remote workers, start-up employees and freelancers but also by larger organizations. coworking spaces in public libraries, business districts ... -
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs are More Prone to Exit than Non-Immigrant Entrepreneurs?
(Springer, 2021-04)Due to various cultural and social barriers, immigrant entrepreneurs are considered more vulnerable to external shocks than their non-immigrant counterparts. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the plight and pushed ... -
Two decades of research into SIEs and what do we know? A systematic review of the most influential literature and a proposed research agenda
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021)Purpose. This paper aims: to undertake a systematic literature review on SIEs, examining twenty years of literature published between 2000 and 2020, focusing on the most-cited empirical work in the field; to analyse the ... -
The Impact of Host Country Characteristics on Self-Initiated Expatriates’ Career Success
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter examines the impact of host country characteristics, the particularities of a location, on self-initiated expatriate (SIE)'s career success. For the SIE, therefore, the host country's institutional characteristics, ... -
I Hear You: Constructing Common Knowledge Practices in the Context of Organizational Meetings
(Emerald, 2021)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a granular description of how organizational members construct common knowledge practices in the context of organizational meetings. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal ... -
A Review of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Healthcare Industry: A United Arab Emirates Perspective
(2021)The last few decades have seen an unprecedented scope and intensity of disruptors to key industries globally. Among the most impactful of these disruptors is artificial intelligence (AI), which has manifested in numerous ... -
Addressing Issues and Challenges in Managing Migratory Tuna Resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
(Ubiquity Press, 2021)Tuna resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean are the world’s largest and most valuable fisheries of their type and are vital to the economy and the sustainable development of the region. However, the region ... -
Groundnut spread likability, sensory properties, and intent to pay for quality certification
(Swedish Nutrition Foundation, 2020)Quality-certified, nutritious novel groundnut spread has great commercialization possibilities due to evolving urban lifestyles in Africa, but lack of information about likability, sensory attributes, and consumer safety ... -
Spatiotemporal Mapping and Monitoring of Mangrove Forests Changes From 1990 to 2019 in the Northern Emirates, UAE Using Random Forest, Kernel Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes Tree Models
(Frontiers, 2020)Mangrove forests are acting as a green lung for the coastal cities of the United Arab Emirates, providing a habitat for wildlife, storing blue carbon in sediment and protecting shoreline. Thus, the first step toward ... -
The Recruitment, Selection and Preparation of Expatriates
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)For organisations and for individuals, effective recruitment, selection and preparation of new employees or employees in new circumstances are always important. This issue is exacerbated in the case of international ... -
Workforce Localization in the Arab Gulf Countries: How Do Organizations Socialize the Members of a Powerful Minority?
(MDPI, 2020-07)This paper addresses a key social–cultural aspect of sustainability in the Gulf region: Workforce localization (WL). Our research objective is to empirically explore organizational socialization (OS) practices in the context ... -
Does Property Ownership by Women Reduce Domestic Violence? A Case of Latin America
(American University of Sharjah, 2020-06-01)It is widely believed that empowering women via various material means increases women’s outside options and, thereby, makes them less vulnerable to intimate partner violence. However, the effect of such empowerment on ... -
Organizational forgetting Part I: a review of the literature and future research directions
(Emerald Publishing, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to systematically review and synthesize the literature on organizational forgetting. A systematic literature review approach was used to synthesize current theoretical and empirical studies on ... -
Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
(Elsevier, 2011)This paper examines the random walk hypothesis (RWH) and the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) for the Australian dollar and five Asian emerging currencies relative to three benchmark currencies. We use Wright’s (2000) ... -
A Market Efficiency Comparison of Islamic and Non-Islamic Stock Indices
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015)This article examines the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) and the random walk hypothesis (RWH) for nine conventional and nine Islamic stock indices: Asia-Pacific, Canadian, Developed Country, Emerging, European, ... -
Outcomes and Key Factors of Success for ISO 14001 Certification: Evidence from an Emerging Arab Gulf Country
(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 ... -
Expatriate time to proficiency: individual antecedents and the moderating effect of home country
(Emerald Insight, 2019-09-09)The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct impact of individual variables (cultural openness, social orientation, willingness to communicate, confidence in own technical abilities, active stress resistance, prior ... -
Women, work and management in the Middle East
(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 ...
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