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HRM practices and organizational performance in the UAE banking sector: The mediating role of organizational innovation
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance in the banking sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to test the mediating impact ...
An empirical study of intuition and its context
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Our knowledge of what determines intuitive decision making is still in its early stages, although there is an increasing interest in intuition in the last decade. In order to fill this gap, this study examines the differential ...
Social commerce as social networking
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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 ...
Domains of privacy and hospitality in Arab Gulf homes
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Emerald Publishing
, 2011 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report findings of an ethnographic study of homes in the Arab Gulf country of Qatar. The authors' analysis and contribution focuses on resolving the tension between privacy and ...
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2012 , Article)
We study conflicting notions of modesty and vanity in the Arab Gulf region by focusing on contemporary female adornment practices and the tensions underlying them. The standard of modest traditional dress that women are ...
Managerial traits, market orientation and organisational performance: an empirical examination in a Middle Eastern context
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Inderscience
, 2013 , Article)
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the role of managerial traits (need for achievement, tolerance for ambiguity, conformity, and individualism) in advancing market orientation ...
The effective practices of mobile phone producers' green supply chain management in reducing GHG emissions
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
The aim of this study is to identify management practices that effectively reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with regard to the green supply chain adopted by mobile phone producers. Six cases were surveyed (Apple, ...
Management, control and governance of hawala networks in the gulf cooperation council region
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
, 2016 , Article)
Prior research has focused on the transactional aspects of the Hawala Networks (i.e. Invisible Funds Transfer Networks). However, little is known about the structure of this networked "organisation" especially about its ...
A literature review of the strategic decision-making context: A synthesis of previous mixed findings and an agenda for the way forward
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AIMS
, 2020 , Article)
The aim of this article is to conduct a comprehensive literature review concerning the influence of contextual factors on strategic decision processes. Our literature review organizes the existing literature on contextual ...
Social media adoption and financial sustainability: Learned lessons from developing countries
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Social Media (SM) is considered one of the most discussed topics in today's business environment, mostly because of the recent developments and improvements in computer and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) ...