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The impact of economic development on environmental degradation in Qatar
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis by employing the ecological footprint (EF) as an indicator of environmental degradation in Qatar over the 1980?2011 period. The results of the ...
Fuzzy chance-constrained goal programming model for multi-attribute financial portfolio selection
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy chance constrained goal programming model for solving a multi-attribute financial portfolio selection problem under two types of uncertainty namely randomness and fuzziness. The ...
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 ...
Fuzzy goal programming model for classification problems
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to propose a new approach, based on fuzzy goal programming, for classification problems where the cut-off value c corresponding to the discriminant axe is considered as imprecise. The fuzziness was ...
Educational outcomes and labour market based on supply and demand: A Qatari perspective
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Taylor and Francis
, 2017 , Book chapter)
This article investigates the question of what are the stock and current flow of educational outcomes in Qatar and to what extent such outcomes are linked to the labour market and hence provide it with required skills. The ...
Creating value from business intelligence systems investments
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Taylor and Francis
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Both academics and practitioners have recognized the value of business intelligence systems (BI systems, hereafter) to enhance planning, control, decision-making, and organizational performance. This value stems from the ...
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. ...
Beyond Brand Personality: Building Consumer-Brand Emotional Relationship
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Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This research aims to study the relationships between brand personality and commitment towards brands. More specifically, the study objective is to determine whether brand personality is the antecedent of brand love, and ...
Building ambidextrous supply chains in SMEs: How to tackle the barriers?
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IGI Global
, 2017 , Article)
Ambidexterity involves developing competencies to excel simultaneously on the exploration and exploitation dimensions. Few studies in literature discuss ambidexterity in a supply chain context. The research presented in ...
Cultural integration with strategic decision-making process in determining innovation performance: Evidence from an Arab country setting
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IGI Global
, 2017 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents an empirical study that examines the co-alignment between the Strategic Decision-Making Process (SDMP) and cultural contextual factors in developing a more completely specified model of innovation ...