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Platform Adoption by Mobile Application Developers: A Multimethodological Approach
(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, ...
Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
Combinations of absorptive capacity metaroutines: the role of organizational disruptions and time constraints
(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, ...
Stop-Go Monetary Policy
(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 ...
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 ...
Public sector expatriation
(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, ...