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Strategic interventions to improve women entrepreneurship in GCC countries: A relationship modeling approach
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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 ...
Supplier selection for a sustainable supply chain: Triple bottom line (3BL) and analytic network process approach
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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 ...
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 ...
Service Ethnocentrism: A Conceptual Model (An Abstract)
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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; ...
Consumer Acculturation of Indigenous Minority Community to a Multicultural Expatriate Population: An Abstract
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Springer Nature
, 2017 , Book chapter)
The consumer acculturation literature acknowledges that acculturation is a change that occurs when individuals come into contact with individuals from other cultural backgrounds. However, studies have predominantly examined ...
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 ...
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 ...