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Islamic Arab hospitality and multiculturalism
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SAGE
, 2013 , Article)
This ethnographic study in Qatar and United Arab Emirates addresses a particular Islamic consumptionscape as well as a related commodified practice: that of Arab hospitality. This much vaunted Arab virtue is examined in ...
Timetabling hub-and-spoke parcel distribution inter-facility network
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Inderscience Publishers Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
This paper introduces an important problem encountered when designing hub-and-spoke parcel distribution network. This problem, which comes after generating the network design and before implementing it, is concerned with ...
One Arab woman's journey to entrepreneurship: a case study
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Inderscience
, 2013 , Article)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is pegged as a highly opportunistic market. The region's unique demographics include a native population that is in the minority and high numbers of women involved in entrepreneurial activities. ...
The elicitation of key performance indicators of e-Government providers: A bottom-up approach
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European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Delivering an adequate e-Government service (e-service) is becoming more of a necessity in today's digital world. In order to improve e-services and increase the engagement of both users' and providers' side, studies on ...
Mismanagement or mismeasurement: The application of DEA to generate performance values and insights from big data
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-known frontier valuation method to assess the performance of set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). It derives an overall performance for each DMU based on its efficiency relative ...
Just Falafel: a success story of an international expansion
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
Subject area: Entrepreneurship, strategic management and international business management. Study level/applicability: This case is intended for teaching entrepreneurship, strategic management, international business courses ...
A cognitive analytics management framework (CAM-Part 1): SAMAS components, leadership, frontier performance growth, and sustainable shared value
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
In this chapter, the current world's challenges, shortcomings of strategic performance measurement, and management methodologies are analyzed to introduce the new Cognitive Analytics Management (CAM) framework. CAM uses ...
A cognitive analytics management framework (CAM-Part 2): Societal needs, shared-value models, performance indicators, big data, business analytics models and tools
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
In Chapter 1, The CAM framework focused on the development of innovative social business models through the usage of frontier data envelopment analysis to measure shared value for a sustainable growth of an organization. ...
A Framework for Optimizing the Supply Chain Performance of a Steel Producer
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SciTePress
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is focused on developing, optimizing, and operating efficient supply chains. Efficient supply chains are characterized by cost effective decisions, lean flow and structure, high degree of ...
Challenges associated with the Greek SMEs in the basin of Athens-Greece: An exploratory study
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2013 , Article)
The paper attempts to identify the motivation for business ownership, the factors contributing to success and problem areas and developmental issues attached to entrepreneurship related to small medium enterprises (SMEs) ...