Center for Entrepreneurship and Organizational Excellence: المرسلات الحديثة
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SME internationalisation: Do the types of innovation matter?
( Elsevier Inc. , 2023 , Article)Existing evidence suggest that innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (or SMEs) are more likely to internationalise (i.e. have a greater propensity to export) than non-innovative SMEs. However, it is not yet clear ... -
Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Using international data, we find that Islamic MFIs experience reduced credit risk by offering more groups loans, serving more women, and serving more borrowers in rural locations. Conventional MFIs benefit from fewer group ... -
Environmentally Sustainable Practices and Hotel Performance: Evidence from Malaysia
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)The hospitality sector is under constant pressure from clients to adopt environmentally friendly practices. Industry reports suggest that customers prefer to stay in hotels that care about the environment. This means that ... -
Frugal entrepreneurship: A way to seize business opportunities for low-income customers
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)Frugal innovation (FI) is a recently emerged phenomenon that is increasingly gaining importance to serve a set of customers in developing countries. Frugal entrepreneurship (FE) based on frugal innovations is emerging from ... -
Frugal innovation for sustainable rural development
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Sustainable development (SD) is a key concern for businesses, governments, and policymakers, with a particular emphasis on rural areas for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Frugal innovation offers a new ... -
Autonomous Delivery Robots: A Literature Review
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023 , Article)Autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) are a recent advent in delivery services. While studies on the technical aspects of ADRs are growing rapidly from technical perspectives, studies of ADRs from the business perspective are ... -
Supply chain risk and resilience in startups, SMEs, and large enterprises: a systematic review and directions for research
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This systematic literature review analyzes the academic literature to understand SC risk and resilience across different organizational sizes and industries. The academic literature has well discussed the causes ... -
Are donor funds used effectively? An examination of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose This study aims to compare the nexus between donations to Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions (MFIs) and their credit risk, financial performance and social outreach. Design/methodology/approach The ... -
ICT sector, digitization and environmental sustainability: A systematic review of the literature from 2000 to 2022
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article Review)In line with an intensified call for reducing greenhouse emissions and curbing the effects of climate change, scientists and experts have looked to information communication technology (ICT) and digitization as critical ... -
Modeling and forecasting electricity consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning vs. nonlinear econometric time series models
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Accurately modeling and forecasting electricity consumption remains a challenging task due to the large number of the statistical properties that characterize this time series such as seasonality, trend, sudden changes, ... -
A Promising Future of Balloons for Internet and Other Services
( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2023 , Other)This year, balloons have been in the global spotlight. From January 28 to February 4, 2023, Chinese high-altitude balloon was spotted in the airspace of North America. The US and Canada claimed that these are for surveillance ... -
Drivers and outcomes of corporate sustainability in the Indian hospitality industry
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine corporate sustainability in the hospitality industry as it caters to multiple stakeholders such as society and environment. Further, the researchers have attempted to portray a comprehensive ... -
Human Capital Transformation in Commercial Bank Qatar (CBQ)
( The Case Centre , 2023 , Other)Like many other Gulf countries, Qatar, a peninsula situated in the hub of Middle East, implemented a country-wide nationalization policy to secure employment opportunities for its under-represented locals in a country that ... -
The Effect of New and Traditional Sources of Financing on the Performance of Small and Entrepreneurship Businesses: The Case of Qatar
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This paper investigates how entrepreneurial finance in Qatar affects the performance of small and entrepreneurship businesses (SEB). It is the first study examining the financial decisions of SEB in Qatar, ... -
Organizational innovation and the role of strategic planning: the case of the Dubai hotel industry
( emerald insight , 2023 , Article)Purpose In today's dynamic and competitive environment, innovation is a key requirement for hotels to survive, be profitable and sustain their competitive advantages. However, because the study of innovation in the ... -
Nationalization of Workforce in the GCC Banking Sector: The Case of Alpha Bank in Qatar
( The Case Centre , 2021 , Other)The Human Resource Department at Alpha Bank has been implementing the concept of Qatarization ever since its inception to align itself with the Qatar Nation Vision-2030. During that process, they have faced various challenges. ... -
Workforce Nationalization in the GCC Organizations: Qatarization at Qatar Olympic Committee
( The Case Centre , 2022 , Other)In the State of Qatar, nationals or Qataris comprise less than 15% of the overall population. According to the Qatar Population Policy of 2017-2022, the main objectives include, increasing the number of local population, ... -
Frugal innovation as a source of sustainable entrepreneurship to tackle social and environmental challenges
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Sustainable entrepreneurs have increasingly faced challenges in achieving triple-bottom-line objectives. The study portrays frugal innovation as a source to foster sustainable entrepreneurship to move the debate beyond ... -
Voicing perceptions of local job seekers and employees toward workforce nationalization and employment
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This study explores local Qatari job seekers' and employees' perceptions of the workforce nationalization strategy to address an inadequacy in the workforce nationalization literature in Gulf Cooperation Council ... -
Overcoming Challenges of Applying the Systematic Review Mantra in Business Research
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2023 , Article)This case study introduces the systematic literature review process and relays the process through its application in examining the topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implementation. Systematic reviews are more ...
