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Managing risk in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) supply chains' using quality function deployment (QFD) approach
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IGI Global
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Supply chain risk management (SCRM) is the process of risk mitigation in supply chains achieved through collaboration, coordination and application of risk management tools among the partners, to ensure continuity coupled ...
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; ...
Carbon nanotubes: Applications in cancer therapy and drug delivery research
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are novel nanocarrier systems that have a wide range of applications in science, engineering, and, the environment. Owing to the possible functionalization of CNTs (i.e., surface-engineering of the ...
Concerns and Challenges in Pharmacy Education: Mind the Gaps
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Pharmacy college is the primary setting where students could and should take advantage of the opportunity to develop their personal and professional attributes. It is also the place that will assist students in shaping ...
Participation Behaviour Among International Students: The Role of Satisfaction with Service Augmentation and Brand Choice Attainment
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Springer Nature
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Interest in understanding and managing the student experience has been growing in order to develop and offer high-quality, satisfaction-creating service experiences (Bowden and D’Alessandro 2011; Fagerstrøm and Ghinea ...
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 ...
Projecting the Outcomes of Consumer-Brand Value Congruence: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality
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Springer Nature
, 2016 , Book chapter)
How does consumer-brand relationship quality (CBRQ) influence behaviors attributed to personal values? We answer this question by proposing a model that links customer voluntary performance and propensity to leave with ...
Forward osmosis feasibility and potential future application for desalination
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Forward Osmosis has been intensively investigated for seawater desalination in the past decade. However, the application of technology is still limited apart from a number of pilot and small commercial plants. Initially, ...