Browsing School of Business Administration (SBA) by Title
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Firm Growth and Political Institutions
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-06)Using a large sample of 115,534 firm-year observations from 46 countries over the period 1992 to 2007, we investigate the impact of political institutions on firms' growth. We find that high levels of political constraint ... -
Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-13)In 1790, a U.S. paper dollar was widely held in disrepute (something shoddy was not 'worth a Continental'). By 1879, a U.S. paper dollar had become 'as good as gold.' These outcomes emerged from how the U.S. federal ... -
Forecasting Energy Demand: The Case of United Arab Emirates
(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 ... -
Governance and Short Sales
(American University of Sharjah, 2015)This paper investigates the relationship between short sales and governance. We argue that short sales are reversely linked to the overall level of corporate governance of a firm and that sellers react contemporaneously ... -
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 ... -
Has the Financial Crisis had an Adverse Effect on Bank Competition?
(American University of Sharjah, 2015-01-25)This article investigates whether the recent financial crisis has had any adverse impact on bank competition for 24 emerging and 25 advanced countries with large and small-size banks over the sample period 2001-2010. The ... -
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 ... -
HRM Reform in the Public Sector: Is it Enough?
(Edward Elgar, 2009)Our objective here is to describe and discuss changes in HRM practice as they have emerged in public organizations undertaking new management reforms. In the first section, we present a conceptual framework that will allow ... -
Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates
(Edward Elgar, 2016)This chapter reviews the current state of the research literature on HRM in the UAE, in part because more work has been published on "HRM in the UAE" than on any other country in the GCC country or even the Middle East ... -
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 ... -
The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
(Tennessee State University College of Business, 2016)The time required by expatriates to become proficient in their new positions is important to both employers and employees. The existing literature on expatriate success is largely blind to what may be significant factors ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Implications of Cost Behavior for Analysts' Earnings Forecasts
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-03-27)Recent work in management accounting offers several novel insights into firms' cost behavior. This study explores whether financial analysts appropriately incorporate information on two types of cost behavior in predicting ... -
The Influence of Entrepreneurial Action on Strategic Alignment in New Ventures
(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 Influences on Female Participation and Progress in the Labor Force: Implications for Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates
(American University of Sharjah, 2013)This paper reports on the first qualitative research study of women’s life histories in an investigation of their participation and progress in the labor force of the United Arab Emirates. Data were collected through ... -
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 ... -
Integration des expatries dans leur nouveau poste : une analyse contingente et quantitative
(Presses HEC, 1997)L’expatriation est une forme particulière de transfert (Feldman et Thompson, 1992; Carter, 1989). Plusieurs études (Hall, 1990; d’Iribarne, 1989) montrent que les différences inter-culturelles peuvent avoir des implications ... -
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 ... -
Intergenerational and Intercultural Differences in Work Values in Quebec and the United Arab Emirates
(Université Laval, 2011)The purpose of this research is to examine whether differences exist in the work values of several generations among 186 respondents in Quebec and 252 Arab respondents in the United Arab Emirates. We used an abridged version ...
