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An extension of consumer environmental behavior research among expatriates
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
A wealth of research has explored different configurations of consumer environmental beliefs, attitudes, and values, and their influence on consumer environmental behavior. It is essential that a more comprehensive ...
An exploratory study of the determinants of the quality of strategic decision implementation in Turkish industrial firms
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Braybrooke Press
, 2014 , Article)
This paper investigates the determinants of quality of decision implementation. By drawing on a sample of 116 firms located in Turkey, the authors test whether the features of important team processes (i.e. trust and ...
Brand switching of high-technology capital products: How product features dictate the switching decision
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that underpin brand switching of medical imaging products by mass-market users. Most of the literature on brand switching is focused on competitive market ...
Financial portfolio management through the goal programming model: Current state-of-the-art
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2014 , Article)
Since Markowitz (1952) formulated the portfolio selection problem, many researchers have developed models aggregating simultaneously several conflicting attributes such as: the return on investment, risk and liquidity. The ...
Social media: Adoption and legal issues impact on business innovation
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Inderscience
, 2015 , Article)
Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This study explored the impact of the social media adoption, and the related legal issues on the business innovation within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), particularly ...
Integrating sustainability in cloud computing for managing sustainable knowledge in higher education
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IGI Global
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter aims to present a conceptual model in order to facilitate sustainability in cloud computing resulting in sustainability in organizational knowledge in education. From one perspective, while cloud computing has ...
The moderating role of business growth on the relationship between business development services provided by islamic microfinance institutions and customer satisfaction: A study on the SMEs in Yemen
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
, 2014 , Article)
This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of business growth on the relationship between Business Development Services (BDS) and SMEs owners' satisfaction on the Islamic Microfinance System in Yemen. Specifically, ...
Expert Systems
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Expert systems mimic the problem-solving activity of human experts in specialized domains by capturing and representing expert knowledge. Expert systems include a knowledge base, an inference engine that derives conclusions ...
A Qatari perspective on women in the engineering pipeline: an exploratory study
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Taylor & Francis
, 2010 , Article)
Under-representation of women in engineering has received a great deal of attention, but remained limited largely to a Western context. Thus, this article aims to unveil the barriers to progress, tracking the performance ...
IT outsourcing intent in academic institutions in GCC countries: An empirical investigation and multi-criteria decision model for vendor selection
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to understand the reasons behind the intent for information technology (IT) outsourcing in academic institutions in GCC countries. It also aims to develop a multi-criteria decision ...