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A strategic framework for transformational leadership development in megaprojects
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)Project managers’ leadership has a direct and an indirect effect on project success. Extant literature has established that transformational leadership style positively affects project success in a major way. The main aim ... -
Strategic interventions to improve women entrepreneurship in GCC countries: A relationship modeling approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: In Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, entrepreneurship is not a very popular option among women. The low rate of entrepreneurship as a career choice among females is attributed to factors that are specific ... -
Strategic orientations and capabilities' effect on SMEs' performance
( Emerald , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to: first, examine the effect of interaction orientation (IO) and brand orientation (BO) on marketing capabilities and small and medium enterprises' (SMEs') performance, and second, assess the ... -
Strategic planning for environmental sustainability in supply chains: an ISM and MICMAC approach
( Inderscience Publishers , 2023 , Article)The research reported in this paper relates to the environmental dimension of sustainability in SCs in large manufacturing organisations in Qatar. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and cross-impact matrix multiplication ... -
Structuring IT function: Imperative for the new millennium
( Taylor and Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)Globalization of the world economy is made possible only by advances in information technology (IT). The IT function has come a long way from being organized as a centralized function to becoming a more distributed ... -
Student co-creation behavior in higher education: the role of satisfaction with the university experience
( Routledge , 2015 , Article)This study explores what constitutes students' satisfaction with university experience and examines the influence of overall satisfaction with the university experience on students' co-creation behavior - namely, participation ... -
A Study of Cheating Beliefs, Engagement, and Perception – The Case of Business and Engineering Students
( Springer Nature , 2019 , Article)Studies have found that academic dishonesty is widespread. Of particular interest is the case of business students since many are expected to be the leaders of tomorrow. This study examines the cheating behaviors and ... -
Studying the Joint Effects of Perceived Service Quality, Perceived Benefits, and Environmental Concerns in Sustainable Travel Behavior: Extending the TPB
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)The importance of the sustainability concept has gained increasing attention from scholars and practitioners. In this context, the aim of this study was to examine the determinants of intention to continue to use the new ... -
Suitability of the Openly Accessible 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands for War-Wounded Children
( Frontiers , 2021 , Article)The field of rehabilitation and assistive devices is being disrupted by innovations in desktop 3D printers and open-source designs. For upper limb prosthetics, those technologies have demonstrated a strong potential to aid ... -
Supplier selection for a sustainable supply chain: Triple bottom line (3BL) and analytic network process approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to integrate the "triple bottom line (3BL)" approach in the supplier selection decision. It also aims to consider the feedback effect of the decision on strategic factors that determine ... -
Supplier-initiated ingredient/component branding
( Emerald , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to understand the process of initiating ingredient/component (IC) branding from the supplier's perspective. It proposes modeling entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as an antecedent factor and ... -
Supply chain management through the stochastic goal programming model
( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)Supply chain (SC) design problems are often characterized with uncertainty related to the decision-making parameters. The stochastic goal programming (SGP) was one of the aggregating procedures proposed to solve the SC ... -
Supply chain resilience under economic-political risk: A case of developing economy
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)The aim of this study was to identify enablers of supply chain resilience to economic-political risks and establish the relationships among them using interpretive structural modelling. A comprehensive review of the ... -
Supply chain risk and resilience in startups, SMEs, and large enterprises: a systematic review and directions for research
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This systematic literature review analyzes the academic literature to understand SC risk and resilience across different organizational sizes and industries. The academic literature has well discussed the causes ... -
A Surrogate Assisted Quantum-Behaved Algorithm for Well Placement Optimization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2022 , Article)The oil and gas industry faces difficulties in optimizing well placement problems. These problems are multimodal, non-convex, and discontinuous in nature. Various traditional and non-traditional optimization algorithms ... -
Sustain or perish: how lean manufacturing practices predict the sustainable performance of manufacturing SMEs? A moderated mediation analysis
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to explore how lean manufacturing practices (LMPs) predict sustainable performance (SP) in the context of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in less developed countries, like ... -
Sustainability metrics for a supply chain: The case of small and medium enterprises
( Inderscience Publishers , 2012 , Article)Using digraph and matrix method this research enunciates a simple method to quantify supply chain sustainability for small and medium enterprises. It proposes a numerical index which can be used to measure sustainability ... -
Sustainable development in Asian manufacturing SMEs: Progress and directions
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This article identifies the factors that influence the environmental, social and financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector in Asia. Asian SMEs play an important role in ... -
Sustainable development-oriented regulatory and competitive pressures to shift toward a circular economy: The role of environmental orientation and Industry 4.0 technologies
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)Automakers' transition from a linear economy to a circular economy (CE) in response to sustainable development-oriented regulatory and competitive pressures is a challenging process that requires innovative, practical ... -
Sustainable family business: The role of stakeholder involvement, mindful organizing, and contingent human factors
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Purpose: Family centered non-economic (FCNE) goals, such as environmental and social goals, are sometimes strenuous to "sell" to non-family members in a family business, and are often open to resistance. The purpose of ...