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    • Capital Budgeting Practices: The Case of Qatar 

      Mustafa, Mohammad A.; Hindi, Nitham M. ( Qatar University , 2010 , Article)
      The purpose of this project was to investigate the capital budgeting practice in the largest firms in Qatar. A survey was conducted of the 170 largest firms and corporations. A total of 55 completed surveys were received, ...
    • CAPITAL MOBILITY AND GROWTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD : An Empirical Investigation 

      Varma, Sumati ( Qatar University , 2010 , Article)
      This paper investigates the link between financial liberalisation and growth for a cross – section of seventeen developing countries, including India, both theoretically and empirically. It also explores the different ...
    • A Case Study Of The Benefits Of The Iot In The Qatari Retail Industry 

      Al-Nabet, Nayef S. ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)
      Technological advancements have led to the creation of new paradigms like the Internet of Things (IoT). These technologies are moving the digital space into a period where they will power billions of devices leading to the ...
    • CFIUS post-Ralls: Ramifications for Sovereign Wealth Funds 

      Salladin, Anne W.; Schmidt, Amelia J. ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)
      Global capital is on the move and sovereign wealth funds, with significant assets, are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the increase in mergers and acquisitions activity, especially in the United States. At the ...
    • Challenges for Higher Education in Crisis Stricken Times – The Effects of Covid-19 in Preparing Universities for Future 

      Al-Maadeed, Mariam; Marques, Miguel Athayde; المعاضيد, مريم; ماركيز, ميغيل أتايد ( دار نشر جامعة قطر , 2020 , Article)
      This viewpoint analyses the status and transformation of Higher Education institutions during unpredicted great challenges such as the current Covid-19, which disrupted most of the economies on the planet. The changes ...
    • Champions of protection? A Text-as-data analysis of the bilateral investment treaties of GCC countries 

      Alschner, Wolfgang; Skougarevskiy, Dmitriy; Wang, Mengyi ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Article)
      Through the lens of state-of-the-art text-as-data techniques, this article examines the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) practice of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The analysis unveils two critical ...
    • The Changing Return Dynamics of the Hang Seng and the Shanghai Composite Indices. 

      French, Joseph J. ( Qatar University , 2008 , Article)
      Diversification benefits to international investors depend fundamentally on the dynamic correlations of returns between market indices. The relationship between the Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite indices are analyzed in ...
    • A Code of Conduct for Tourists Visiting Qatar for the World Cup 2022 

      Mattar, Mohamed Y.; مطر, محمد يحيى ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)
      This Code of Conduct for Tourist who are visiting Qatar for the World Cup 2022 covers the fundamental rights and duties that must be observed and implemented such as the right to movement, travel and safety and obtaining ...
    • Codifying the corporate opportunity doctrine: The (UK) Companies Act 2006 

      Lowry, John ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)
      Part 10 of the UK Companies Act 2006 codifies the fiduciary and common law duties of directors as a means of addressing the key policy considerations which underpinned the company law reform project launched by the Labour ...
    • Colonial cleansing: Laws for a summer resort in China 

      Tan, Carol G.S. ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)
      In the leased territory of Weihaiwei, China (1898–1930), public health and related laws played an important part in the local British government’s effort to create and maintain a summer resort for European visitors. These ...
    • A comparative examination of the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) consumer dispute resolution scheme 

      Dahdal, Andrew; داهدال, أندرو ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      In 2016, the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) introduced a Customer Dispute Resolution Scheme (CDRS) in Chapter 8 of the Conduct of Business Rules 2007. The CDRS is an alternative to litigation for QFC participants (retail ...
    • The Composition and Writing of the Qurʾān: Old Explanations and New Evidence 

      Farrin, Raymond K.; فارين, ريموند ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)
      يعارض هذا البحث الفكرة السائدة لدى الكثير من الباحثين الغربيين منذ مطلع القرن السابق بأن القرآن الكريم لم يكتمل ككتاب منزّل خلال حياة النبي بل أخذ شكله النهائي بعد وفاته بفترة غير قصيرة. ومقابل هذه الفكرة يسلط الضوء على ...
    • Compromise Management: Proposed Tool For Managing Tradeoffs 

      Derrabi, Mohamed; Leseure, Michel ( Qatar University , 2007 , Article)
      This paper is a conceptual sndy of trade-offs and compromises, both /rom the perspective of their formulation at the strategic level and of their daily use in worl<shops. It suggests tools that can be used for better ...
    • Conditions Precedent in Farmout Agreements – An Overview 

      Pereira, Eduardo G.; Lewis, Madeleine J.; بيريرا, إدواردو; لويس, مادلين ( Qatar University Press , 2019 , Article)
      Conditions precedent to Farmout Agreements (FOA) are critical in ensuring that an agreement is fulfilled under conditions that are protective of the parties’ interests in the agreement. Conditions precedent offer parties ...
    • Constitution-making in the 21st century 

      Saunders, Cheryl ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)
      Constitutions have been made or changed in major ways in more than half the countries of the world in recent decades. This article deals with contemporary approaches to constitution-making, organising the analysis around ...
    • Constitutional rights to supervised drug injection facilities in Canada 

      Bowal, Peter; Horvat, Kelsey ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)
      On September 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered the government of Canada to continue to exempt Vancouver's supervised narcotic injection facility from Canada's criminal drug laws. The controversial clinic, known ...
    • Construction mediation as a developmental process 

      Sidoli del Ceno, Julian ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)
      This paper seeks to argue that mediation has been hitherto conceived in the construction industry, and indeed by practitioners in other related disciplines such as property management, as largely a “problem-solving” ...
    • The Contagion "Disease" that affects Foreign direct investment In the MENA countries 

      Habash, Nojoud S. ( Qatar University , 2007 , Article)
      This paper aims to analyze the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investmer and different kinds of risks in the MENA countries, using the vector autoregressive tec\ on the country level for 11 MENA countries during ...
    • Convergence and divergence: the treatment of certain aspects of real property under the Civil Codes of Qatar and California 

      Schwabach, Aaron ( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)
      This paper compares and contrasts the treatment of certain aspects of real property under the civil codes of Qatar and California, two jurisdictions with very different histories and cultures but somewhat less different ...
    • Corporate Governance and Auditor Choice in Kuwait 

      Al-Hajri, Meshari O. ( Qatar University , 2018 , Article)
      Although auditor choice has been studied extensively in the audit literature, research examining this issue in developing markets has been scarce thus far. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of ...