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    • The predictive ability of stock market factors 

      Elgammal, Mohammed Mohammed; Ahmed, Fatma Ehab; McMillan, David Gordon ( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)
      Purpose: This paper aims to ask whether a range of stock market factors contain information that is useful to investors by generating a trading rule based on one-step-ahead forecasts from rolling and recursive regressions. ...

    • Predictors for the adoption of e-democracy: an empirical evaluation based on a citizen-centric approach 

      Hujran, Omar; Abu-Shanab, Emad; Aljaafreh, Ali ( Emerald Insight , 2020 , Article)
      Purpose: This study aims to explore the factors influencing the intention to use e-democracy. The literature depicted conflicting results regarding such domain and especially in the Middle East, where the authors aim at ...

    • Preface 

      Al-Kwifi, O.S. ( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2019 , Article)
      [No abstract available]

    • Prejudice toward female leaders: Insights from the hotel sector in Jordan 

      Koburtay, Tamer; Syed, Jawad ( Taylor & Francis , 2020 , Article)
      This paper examines gender practices at hotels in Jordan by scrutinizing the extent to which prejudice toward females influences their ability to emerge as effective leaders. It also examines the extent to which the dominant ...

    • Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets 

      Charfeddine, Lanouar; Jbir, Rafik; Karboul, Jihene ( McMaster University , 2014 , Article)
      This paper examines empirically the electricity market integration process for Germany, France and Italy countries by investigating possible price convergence. Two empirical approaches have been considered to investigate ...

    • The price-volume relationship in Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets 

      Abdalla, Abdelgader M.A.; Al-Khouri, Ritab S. ( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)
      This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for ...

    • Pricing of innate and discretionary accruals in Australian debt 

      Aldamen, Husam; Duncan, Keith ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2013 , Article)
      This paper addresses the conflicting evidence on the role of accruals in debt pricing. We show that the two subcomponents of accruals quality, innate and discretionary accruals, both impact the debt pricing. Higher innate ...

    • Principles-based risk regulatory reforms and management control practices: a field study 

      Mahama, Habib; Rana, Tarek; Marjoribanks, Timothy; Elbashir, Mohamed Z. ( Emerald , 2022 , Article)
      Purpose: Government reforms have seen shifts from rules-based to principles-based risk regulatory governance. This paper examines the effects of principles-based risk regulatory reforms on public sector risk management ...

    • Prioritising agility variables for cold supply chains 

      Faisal, Mohd Nishat (2011 , Article Review)
      It is recognised that organisations that focus on supply chainagility would profit as they can rapidly and cost effectively respond to unpredictable changes in the business environment. As supply chain agility is a ...

    • Prioritising factors for selection of infectious waste management contractors using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process 

      Faisal, Mohd Nishat; Khan, Sheeba; Farooqi, I. H. ( Inderscience Publishers , 2011 , Article)
      Bio-medical or infectious waste has not received its due attention in developing countries like India. It is being collected and disposed off along with the municipal solid waste (MSW). Therefore, infectious waste management ...

    • Prioritization of supply chain reconfiguration variables using balanced score card and analytic network process 

      Al Naimi, Maryam; Faisal, Mohd Nishat; Sobh, Rana ( International Forum of Management Scholars , 2020 , Article)
      Supply chain reconfiguration has emerged as a key variable that determines the capability of supply chain to adjust itself in wake of risks or dynamic business environment. However, supply chain reconfiguration is dependent ...

    • Prioritizing Green HRM practices from policymaker's perspective 

      Mehrajunnisa, Mehrajunnisa; Jabeen, Fauzia; Faisal, Mohd Nishat; Mehmood, Khalid ( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2022 , Article)
      Purpose: This study aims to identify and prioritize Green human resource management (GHRM) practices from the policymaker's perspective in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based manufacturing and service sectors to facilitate ...

    • Prioritizing the Issues extracted for Getting Right People on Right Project in Software Project Management from Vendors' Perspective 

      Hussain, Majid; Khan, Habib Ullah; Khan, Abdul Wahid; Khan, Siffat Ullah ( IEEE , 2021 , Article)
      Software project management inspires and urges the spirit of software developing team members which continues until project completion. Obviously, success of every project based on right selection of team members that ...

    • Prioritizing the multi-criterial features based on comparative approaches for enhancing security of IoT devices 

      Habib Ullah, Khan; Sohail, Muhammad; Ali, Farhad; Nazir, Shah; Ghadi, Yazeed Yasin; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      The Internet of Things (IoT) technologies continuously expand with time due to the advances in automated, connected device technology, mobility, and wide access to information. IoT is the collection of many linked devices ...

    • Privacy and gendered spaces in Arab Gulf homes 

      Sobh, Rana; Belk, Russell W. ( Taylor & Francis , 2015 , Article)
      We report the findings of a qualitative study of Qatari homes in the Arab Gulf. We identify the significance of privacy and gender segregation as anchors for identity, both national and religious. Maintaining these anchors ...

    • PRIVATIZATION AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE 

      Abu-Abbas, Bassam ( Vallecchi Editore , 2016 , Article)
      This study investigates the effect of privatization on corporate performance in the mining, financial and services sectors in Jordan as a case study of privatization experience of an emerging market. The study includes six ...

    • Probing the Minds of Female Engineers: The Richness of Qualitative Research 

      Mozahem, Najib A. ( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Other)
      This case is a reflection on my first experience using interviews in a research project. Although I believe in the power and elegance of quantitative methods, qualitative methods allow for research that is richer, deeper, ...

    • Profiling consumers: A study of Qatari consumers’ shopping motivations 

      Jamal, A.; Davies, F.; Chudry, F.; Al-Marri, M. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2006 , Article)
      The paper investigates reasons consumers go shopping in Doha, Qatar. Four hundred supermarket shoppers completed self-administered surveys regarding their attitudes toward 57 individual shopping motivation items. The paper ...

    • Project Management Performance Drivers 

      Ra’ad, Mohammed A.; Najdawi, Mohammad K. ( Qatar University , 2010 , Article)
      The practice of project management has gained enormous importance over the past several years in various business industries. “In industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, software, and aerospace, projects drive business” ...

    • Projecting the Outcomes of Consumer-Brand Value Congruence: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality 

      Elsharnouby, Tamer H.; Elsharnouby, Mohamed; Jayawardhena, Chanaka; Elbedweihy, Alaa M. ( 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 ...