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Saudi Arabia and the Emirates' Quest for Alternative Energy: Geopolitics of the Nuclear Option
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Nuclear energy programs are under formalization in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with the UAE's first power plants due to be operational in 2020, and Saudi Arabia's program under development. A ...
Emerging Transnational Identities: Indian Skilled Migration in the UAE
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
India has been the source of the largest annual outflows to the GCC countries. The increasing significance of GCC countries as a destination for migrant workers is illustrated by the change in total migrant stock in those ...
Integrating and extending competing intention models to understand the entrepreneurial intention of senior university students
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, ...
Disability, depression and somatization in a low back pain population
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Blackwell Publishing Asia
, 2006 , Article)
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) in a primary care setting population and examine its association with the symptoms of depression and somatization.
Methods: This ...
The UAE's Disruptive Policy in Libya
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SETA Foundation
, 2020 , Article)
In the last decade, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as a leading counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East. Feeling the heat of change in the region, the small, oil-rich Gulf country adopted an aggressive ...
HRM practices and organizational performance in the UAE banking sector: The mediating role of organizational innovation
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance in the banking sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to test the mediating impact ...
Corporate governance, transparency and performance: empirical evidence from UAE
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2022 , Article)
The paper uses both the agency theory and the legitimacy theory to provide a complementary framework that links different patterns of disclosures (i.e., transparency) to corporate performance for a sample of 116 United ...
Financial development and environmental quality in UAE: Cointegration with structural breaks
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article Review)
This study extends the recent work of Shahbaz et al. (2014) by implementing recent unit root tests with multiple structural breaks and regime-switching cointegration techniques considering for one and two unknown regime ...
Corporate governance disclosure compliance: a comparison between conventional and Islamic banks
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2020 , Article)
The paper examines the extent and trend of corporate governance
(CG) disclosure compliance by listed conventional and Islamic banks in Qatar,
the UAE and KSA. The study found that conventional banks had more
compliance ...
The impact of ownership structure and corporate governance on capital structure decisions in the UAE
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2022 , Article)
This paper investigates how ownership and corporate governance influence the capital structure decisions within an emerging market context, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 2008 to 2019. We employ panel models ...