• Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar 

      Kaplanidou, Kiki; Al Emadi, Ahmed; Sagas, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Fritz, Gerald ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)
      This study aimed to explore the processes of business networking which lays the foundation for business legacy outcomes initiated by the award of a mega event in a region. Building on the work of Spilling (1996) on mega ...
    • Legacy perceptions among Qatari nationals: What legacies will the 2022 World Cup bring? 

      Kaplanidou, Kyriaki; Al Emadi, Ahmed; Diop, Abdoulaye; Sagas, Michael; Ahmed Elmaghraby, Engi ( European Association for Sport Management conference , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Qatar has been awarded to host the 2022 World Cup. For the Middle East this event can bring a number of changes in the region for sport and urban development. Given that the event was awarded very early in Qatar (2010) by ...
    • Migration Policies across the GCC: Challenges in Reforming the Kafala 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Johnston, Trevor; Le, Kien Trung ( Gulf Research Center Cambridge , 2018 , Book chapter)
      Much of the debate over immigration policy in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) revolves around the kafala, or sponsorship system. In ...