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Secondary school students and self-efficacy in mathematics: Gender and age differences
( IGI Global Publishing , 2020 , Article)Gender differences in academic performance has received considerable attention over the years. Studies have found that even when there are no gender differences in math performance, female students exhibit larger levels ... -
An SEM-ANN analysis of the impacts of Blockchain on competitive advantage
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Though Blockchain has been studied in numerous contexts, the understanding of the impacts of Blockchain in achieving competitive advantages remains unexplored. Many industries, organizations and firms are still ... -
Servant and authentic leadership as drivers of innovative work behaviour: the moderating role of creative self-efficacy
(2023 , Article)Purpose: The importance of innovation has attracted growing attention due to the complex and rapidly changing business environment. This study aimed, first, to examine the joint effect of servant and authentic leadership ... -
Service Ethnocentrism: A Conceptual Model (An Abstract)
( Springer Nature , 2017 , Book chapter)The service marketing literature has recognized the importance of studying cross-cultural service encounters in which the service provider and the customer are from different cultures (Baker et al. 2008; Sharma et al. 2014; ... -
Services marketing practices in diverse cultures: Canada compared to Qatar
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Purpose The service marketing literature has traditionally argued that the marketing practices of service firms that operate in diverse cultures should also differ. This paper aims to investigate this argument by examining ... -
Shaping Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intentions among Business Graduates in Developing Countries through Social Media Adoption: A Moderating-Mediated Mechanism in Pakistan
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Entrepreneurship is crucial for alleviating job challenges among business graduates and for sustaining a growing local economy. However, different factors support and encourage students to be entrepreneurs. Modern technologies ... -
Shopping well-being: Is it just a matter of pleasure or doing the task? The role of shopper's gender and self-congruity
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)Understanding how shopping experiences impact shoppers' well-being becomes one of the crucial issues for retailers. However, empirical research on that issue remains scarce. The current study endeavors to take an initial ... -
Shopping well-being: the role of congruity and shoppers’ characteristics
( emerald insight , 2021 , Article)Purpose: Although shopping well-being has become a focal construct in retail shopping studies, little is known about the key drivers of this construct. This study aims to further discern some of the key antecedents of ... -
Small and medium manufacturing enterprises and Asia's sustainable economic development
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)In this piece, we consider the role of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Asia's sustainable development. Asia has undeniably made huge leaps in its economic growth in the past three decades, however, this growth ... -
SME international business models: The role of context and experience
( Elsevier Inc. , 2017 , Article)This paper addresses two questions through a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets prevail among SMEs and do they configure into ... -
SME internationalisation: Do the types of innovation matter?
( Elsevier Inc. , 2023 , Article)Existing evidence suggest that innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (or SMEs) are more likely to internationalise (i.e. have a greater propensity to export) than non-innovative SMEs. However, it is not yet clear ... -
SMEs and artificial intelligence (AI): Antecedents and consequences of AI-based B2B practices
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a key approach to achieving economic growth in the Middle East and successful adoption of technology is vital for SMEs' success and continuity. Artificial intelligence ... -
"So what if ChatGPT wrote it?" Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents ... -
Social cognitive theory and women’s career choices: an agent—based model simulation
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Article)An agent-based model is proposed and tested. This model aims to simulate agency as conceptualized in Bandura's (Am Psychol 37:122–147, 1982; Organ Behav Hum Decis Process 50:248–287; Annu Rev Psychol 52: 1–26) Social ... -
Social commerce as social networking
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)Behavioral intention toward social commerce has been explained mainly by consumers' pursuit of utilitarian and economic value. However, in this paper, we show that consumers can be drawn to social commerce primarily for ... -
Social Commerce in Emerging Markets and its Impact on Online Community Engagement
( Springer , 2020 , Article)This study aims to build on the understanding of social commerce in the emerging markets and how it influences online community engagement. The conceptual model was proposed using theories including the social support ... -
Social media user-influencer congruity: An analysis of social media platforms parasocial relationships
( IGI Global Publishing , 2022 , Article)This paper explores and inspects the effect of user-influencer congruence on social media platforms para-social relationships and consumer brand engagement (COBRA). In addition, the paper inspects the influence of para-social ... -
Social media: Adoption and legal issues impact on business innovation
( 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 ... -
Social responsibility and competitiveness in hotels: The role of customer loyalty
( Growing Science , 2019 , Article)The concept of Social Responsibility (SR) has been evolved during the last decade and most organisations care about their society and the environment. While incorporating SR programs through organizational strategies would ... -
Social sustainability adoption barriers in supply chains: A middle east perspective using interpretive structural modeling
( International Forum of Management Scholars , 2021 , Article)The research in the area of social responsibility in supply chains in the Middle East is limited in the extant literature. The present study tries to fill this gap by identifying and analysing the interactions among the ...
