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Family and state ownership, internationalization and corporate board-gender diversity Evidence from China and India
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Emerald Publishing Limited
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose - In times of vivid debates on the inclusion of women on boards, the purpose of this paper is to shed a new light on the composition of boardrooms in emerging market firms by investigating how family and state ...
The impact of social media adoption on competitive advantage in the small and medium enterprises
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
Internet-based social media delivers huge benefits to SMEs. There is, however, little research into whether SMEs in Gulf Cooperation Council states use it to gain competitive advantage. This study investigated the relationships ...
Mismanagement or mismeasurement: The application of DEA to generate performance values and insights from big data
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IGI Global
, 2017 , 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 ...
Supply chain management through the stochastic goal programming model
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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 ...
A new theoretical framework to assess Multinational Corporations' motivation for Foreign Direct Investment: A case study on Vietnamese service industries
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose This paper develops a new theoretical framework, based on eclectic paradigm and institution theory, to evaluate Multinational Corporations' (MNCs') incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The new framework ...
Factors Influencing Arab-Origin Brands to Go Global: An Extended Abstract
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Springer Nature
, 2017 , Book chapter)
As the needs of consumers around the world have become irrevocably homogenized as earlier predicted by Theodore Levitt in his classical article "The Globalization of Markets" (Levitt 1983), local successful brands have no ...
Free Will or Determinism: When Fate Attributions Affect Persuasion in Road Safety Campaigns Using Fear and Guilt-An Extended Abstract
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Springer Nature
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Belief in fate has been studied in many fields such as anthropology, philosophy, psychology, social sciences, and even biology (Goodwin et al. 2002) and is commonly defined as a "Mysterious force, generated and directed ...
The young luxury consumer in Qatar
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to examine the factors influencing Qatari youth's attitude toward luxury brands and intentions to purchase luxury brands. The appetite for luxury spending in the Gulf region and specifically in ...
A longitudinal study of e-government maturity
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
We assembled a panel data set for the period 2002-2008 and fitted a mixed-effects regression model to study how the maturity of e-Government around the globe was influenced by changing levels of affluence, information ...
An integrated approach of data envelopment analysis and boosted generalized linear mixed models for efficiency assessment
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
Performance evaluation is an important part in the management of any decision-making unit (DMU) as it identifies sources of managerial inefficiencies and provides a policy for inefficient DMUs to improve their efficiency. ...