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State-owned enterprises' board characteristics and audit fees: an international perspective in view of economic freedom, political democracy and protection of minority shareholders
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: The paper examines the relationship between board effectiveness and audit fees for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Furthermore, given the unique nature of SOEs, the paper assesses country-level influences, such ... -
The Statistical Toolbox: Reflections on My Dissertation Experience
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Other)Starting work on your dissertation is a truly daunting task. While working on my own dissertation, two pieces of advice given to me by my advisor shaped how I approach the topic of research. This article summarizes my ... -
Status of Internet Addiction among College Students in South Korea.
( Australian Business & Education Research Association , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of internet Addiction among college students of South Korea. Design/method/approach: Data was collected from 426 Korean university students using a modified survey ... -
The Status of Wearables in Actualizing Personalized Medicine for Diabec Paents in Qatar
( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc , 2019 , Conference Proceedings)While wearables extend the geography of care and increase patients' self-awareness and motivation to adopt healthy life-styles, a field study in the State of Qatar reveals several barri-ers that constrain the successful ... -
Stereotyping human-like virtual influencers in retailing: Does warmth prevail over competence?
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Building upon the Stereotype Content Model (SCM), the current research provides insights into how virtual influencers (VIs) influence consumer responses. More specifically, it investigates the associations between the VI's ... -
Stock market dependence in crisis periods: Evidence from oil price shocks and the Qatar blockade
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper examines the correlation and the dependence patterns of the Qatar stock market with other markets using copula statistical theory and exploiting new datasets covering the period August 1998 to June 2018. To ... -
Stock price crash risk and leverage dynamics: Evidence from the GCC countries
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)This paper examines the impact of stock price crash risk on capital structure dynamics using a sample of firms located in the GCC region. The results show that a higher exposure to stock price crash risk is associated with ... -
Stock Prices and Crude Oil Shocks: The Case of GCC Countries
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries stock market are influenced by oil prices. The goal of this paper is to compare how stock prices in the GCC are affected by shocks in oil prices and comparing the results with other ... -
Stock Prices and Crude Oil Shocks: The Case of GCC Countries
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)The aim of this chapter is to identify the effects of oil price volatility on stock market volatility for eight oil exporter or importer countries. Using weekly data for the 2004-15 period, we model the relationship between ... -
A strategic framework for transformational leadership development in megaprojects
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)Project managers’ leadership has a direct and an indirect effect on project success. Extant literature has established that transformational leadership style positively affects project success in a major way. The main aim ... -
Strategic interventions to improve women entrepreneurship in GCC countries: A relationship modeling approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: In Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, entrepreneurship is not a very popular option among women. The low rate of entrepreneurship as a career choice among females is attributed to factors that are specific ... -
Strategic orientations and capabilities' effect on SMEs' performance
( Emerald , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to: first, examine the effect of interaction orientation (IO) and brand orientation (BO) on marketing capabilities and small and medium enterprises' (SMEs') performance, and second, assess the ... -
Strategic planning for environmental sustainability in supply chains: an ISM and MICMAC approach
( Inderscience Publishers , 2023 , Article)The research reported in this paper relates to the environmental dimension of sustainability in SCs in large manufacturing organisations in Qatar. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and cross-impact matrix multiplication ... -
Strategy-proof size improvement: is it possible?
( Wiley , 2023 , Article)The number of assigned agents (i.e., size) is an important parameter in object allocations.While size maximality clashes with individual rationality and strategy-proofness, it can stillbe possible to increase the size over ... -
Strategy-proof size improvement: is it possible?*
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2022 , Article)The number of assigned agents (i.e., size) is an important parameter in object allocations. While size maximality clashes with individual rationality and strategy-proofness, it can still be possible to increase the size ... -
Structured knowledge creation for Urdu language: A DBpedia approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)Wikipedia information is extracted by DBpedia and linked to other web resources as Linked Open Data, which is an important contribution to the field of semantics. As part of its internationalisation endeavour, DBpedia now ... -
Structuring institutionalization of Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation in public sector: Does actor or structure matters?
( Association for Information Systems , 2016 , Conference Paper)Failure to identify the right institutionalization framework has caused derailments of major public sector Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) projects in the UK, such as the NHS-National Program for IT (NHS-NPfIT) ... -
Structuring IT function: Imperative for the new millennium
( Taylor and Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)Globalization of the world economy is made possible only by advances in information technology (IT). The IT function has come a long way from being organized as a centralized function to becoming a more distributed ... -
Student co-creation behavior in higher education: the role of satisfaction with the university experience
( Routledge , 2015 , Article)This study explores what constitutes students' satisfaction with university experience and examines the influence of overall satisfaction with the university experience on students' co-creation behavior - namely, participation ... -
Students' perceptions of flipped classrooms, gender, and country difference
( IGI Global , 2020 , Article)Information technology and the Internet has enabled faculty and educational institutions to implement new teaching methods to enrich the educational environment. The flipped classroom (FC) method changed the teaching ...