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Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2012 , Article)
Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ...
Entrepreneurial orientation and organizational performance: The role of managerial traits
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Inderscience
, 2012 , Article)
This study addresses how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) mediates the relationships between four managerial traits – need for achievement, tolerance for ambiguity, conformity, and individualism – and organisational ...
A mediation model of task conflict in vertical dyads: Linking organizational culture, subordinate values, and subordinate outcomes
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
, 2012 , Article)
Purpose: The current study seeks to provide predictions for task conflict in supervisor-subordinate dyads and to test empirically the mediation effects of task conflict between organizational culture/subordinate values and ...
Fostering the Performance of Banks through Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices: A Bank Branches Perspective
(2012 , Article)
This article is mainly based on reviewing the available relevant literature of TQM and its implementation in the service sector organizations in general and banking industry in particular. It has been emphasized that banks ...
Yemeni banking system: Critical issues and future recommended strategies
(2012 , Article)
In the current changing and challenging business environment, banks have been gaining an increasing importance in paving the way for the development processes in any country.Banks, however, bridge the gap between individuals ...
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
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Virtus Interpress
, 2012 , Article)
This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ...
Standing stocks and body size of deep-sea macrofauna: Predicting the baseline of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Article)
A composite database encompassing 6 benthic surveys from years 1983 to 2003 was constructed to evaluate the distribution of macrofaunal biomass in the deep Gulf of Mexico (GoM) prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ...
An analysis of methodologies utilised in e-government research: A user satisfaction perspective
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
, 2012 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the research design, methodologies and approaches utilised in electronic government (e-government) research studies published in the last decade (2000-2012). Design/method ...
Infinite-dimensional LQ optimal control of a dimethyl ether (DME) catalytic distillation column
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Article)
This contribution addresses the development of a linear quadratic (LQ) regulator in order to control the concentration profiles along a catalytic distillation column, which is modelled by a set of coupled hyperbolic partial ...
The (IM)-possible mosque: Spatial mutation and identity needs in northern Ireland
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Emerald Publishing
, 2012 , Article)
Over more than thirty years of violent conflict, Northern Ireland had an intense sectarian violence due to the political-religious opposition between its Catholic and Protestant communities. The history of the Muslim ...