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    • "So what if ChatGPT wrote it?" Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy 

      Dwivedi, Yogesh K.; Kshetri, Nir; Hughes, Laurie; Slade, Emma Louise; Jeyaraj, Anand; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents ...
    • Social cognitive theory and women’s career choices: an agent—based model simulation 

      Mozahem, Najib A. ( Springer Nature , 2020 , Article)
      An agent-based model is proposed and tested. This model aims to simulate agency as conceptualized in Bandura's (Am Psychol 37:122–147, 1982; Organ Behav Hum Decis Process 50:248–287; Annu Rev Psychol 52: 1–26) Social ...
    • Social commerce as social networking 

      Doha A.; Elnahla N.; McShane L. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      Behavioral intention toward social commerce has been explained mainly by consumers' pursuit of utilitarian and economic value. However, in this paper, we show that consumers can be drawn to social commerce primarily for ...
    • Social Commerce in Emerging Markets and its Impact on Online Community Engagement 

      Algharabat, Raed S.; Rana, Nripendra P. ( Springer , 2020 , Article)
      This study aims to build on the understanding of social commerce in the emerging markets and how it influences online community engagement. The conceptual model was proposed using theories including the social support ...
    • Social health insurance in the Philippines: do the poor really benefit? 

      El Omari, Salaheddine; Karasneh, Mahmoud ( Springer , 2020 , Article)
      Developing countries have spent a tremendous amount of time and money on social health insurance programs to give the low-income population free access to health care services. Standard economic theory predicts that people ...
    • Social identity and IPSAS adoption: cross-national evidence 

      Abdulkarim, Mustafa Elkasih; Umlai, Mohamed Ismail ( Taylor & Francis , 2024 , Article)
      This study examines the relationship between social identity theory (SIT) and the extent to which adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is affected by diversity within countries. Data from ...
    • Social media adoption and financial sustainability: Learned lessons from developing countries 

      Ur Rahman, Raza; Ali Shah, Syed M.; El-Gohary, Hatem; Abbas, Muzaffar; Haider Khalil, Syed; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2020 , Article)
      Social Media (SM) is considered one of the most discussed topics in today's business environment, mostly because of the recent developments and improvements in computer and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) ...
    • Social media user-influencer congruity: An analysis of social media platforms parasocial relationships 

      Tafheem, Nida; El-Gohary, Hatem; Sobh, Rana ( IGI Global Publishing , 2022 , Article)
      This paper explores and inspects the effect of user-influencer congruence on social media platforms para-social relationships and consumer brand engagement (COBRA). In addition, the paper inspects the influence of para-social ...
    • Social media: Adoption and legal issues impact on business innovation 

      Al Bakri, Anas; Kisswani, Nazzal ( Inderscience , 2015 , Article)
      Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This study explored the impact of the social media adoption, and the related legal issues on the business innovation within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), particularly ...
    • Social responsibility and competitiveness in hotels: The role of customer loyalty 

      Mehrez, Ahmed ( Growing Science , 2019 , Article)
      The concept of Social Responsibility (SR) has been evolved during the last decade and most organisations care about their society and the environment. While incorporating SR programs through organizational strategies would ...
    • Social sustainability adoption barriers in supply chains: A middle east perspective using interpretive structural modeling 

      Josaiman, Saheim K.; Faisal, Mohd Nishat; Talib, Faisal ( International Forum of Management Scholars , 2021 , Article)
      The research in the area of social responsibility in supply chains in the Middle East is limited in the extant literature. The present study tries to fill this gap by identifying and analysing the interactions among the ...
    • Socially responsible investing and Islamic funds: New perspectives for portfolio allocation 

      Charfeddine, Lanouar; Najah, Ahlem; Teulon, Frédéric ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of ethical and conventional investments. It examines also whether socially responsible and Islamic investments offer an additional opportunity for domestic investors ...
    • Socially responsible supply chain management in small and medium enterprises in the GCC 

      Al-Esmael, Bader; Talib, Faisal; Faisal, Mohd Nishat; Jabeen, Fauzia ( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2019 , Article)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine variables and their relationships that hinder socially responsible behaviours in the supply chain of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council ...
    • Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors 

      Ilyas, Muhammad; Khan, Siffat Ullah; Khan, Habib Ullah; Rashid, Nasir ( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)
      The trend toward global software development (GSD) has grown tremendously in recent years because of the rapid acceleration in information and communication technologies (ICTs). The reason for the changing trend toward GSD ...
    • Software Piracy Awareness, Policy, and User Perspective in Educational Institutions 

      Liao, Zitian; Nazir, Shah; Hussain, Anwar; Khan, Habib Ullah; Shafiq, Muhammad ( Hindawi , 2020 , Article)
      Software theft and piracy are rapidly ever-increasing problems of the present-day software industry. Software piracy is the illegal copy and use of software in a way other than that is officially documented by exclusive ...
    • Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations? 

      Acikgoz, Senay; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben; Mert, Merter ( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)
      Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. The productive capacity can be increased by an increase in factors of production, such as capital, labor, or the level of technology. Economic growth ...
    • Spam Detection Approach for Secure Mobile Message Communication Using Machine Learning Algorithms 

      Guangjun, Luo; Nazir, Shah; Khan, Habib Ullah; Haq, Amin Ul ( Hindawi , 2020 , Article)
      The spam detection is a big issue in mobile message communication due to which mobile message communication is insecure. In order to tackle this problem, an accurate and precise method is needed to detect the spam in mobile ...
    • Spillovers between food and energy prices and structural breaks 

      Al-Maadid, Alanoud; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      This paper estimates a bivariate VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to examine linkages between food and energy prices. The adopted framework is suitable to analyse both mean and volatility spillovers, and also allows for possible ...
    • State and foreign ownership and the value of working capital management 

      Ben-Nasr, Hamdi ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)
      In this paper we examine whether state and foreign ownership affect the shape of the value-net working capital (NWC) curve. Using a multinational sample of privatized firms from 54 countries, we provide documentation ...
    • State-of-the-art literature review of sustainable supply chain management: A developing countries perspective 

      Al-Josaiman, Saheim Khalaf; Faisal, Mohd Nishat ( Inderscience Publishers , 2021 , Article Review)
      Sustainability is an important principle in business operations, including in the supply chain. The objective of the present study was to critically examine the literature on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), ...