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Fintech and contactless payment: Help or hindrance? The role of invasion of privacy and information disclosure
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: There is always a need to discover how a paradox between a customer's desire for a more personalized experience and their privacy and security concerns would shape their intention to continue using contactless ... -
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This study investigates the relationship between travelers' generativity, prosocial attitudes, consumption values, and food waste avoidance behavior. We develop a theoretical model based on the motivation-opportunity-ability ... -
For narrower income inequality: traditional finance or microfinance?
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This paper uses the theory of information imperfections to examine the relationship between income inequality and financial development in a dual financial system comprising traditional finance and microfinance. It uses ... -
Foreign Direct Investment Determinants in Oil Exporting Countries: Revisiting the Role of Natural Resources
( Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd , 2019 , Article)This article explores the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in oil-dependent economies and revisits the role of natural resources in attracting FDI to countries of this kind. Panel data from the six Gulf ... -
Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Drawing on an organizational learning perspective, this paper examines the effect of levels of foreign market involvement (intensity and geographic spread) on internationalization outcomes recognizing that the ... -
Foreigner service orientation: does the perception of other consumers matter?
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to develop and examine a model that links the foreigner service orientation, defined as indigenous consumers' preference for service environments popular among foreign versus local consumers, to ... -
Fostering environmental preservation: exploring the synergy of green human resource management and corporate environmental ethics
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to explore the unique and synergistic effects of green human resource management (GHRM) and corporate environmental ethics (CEE) on the environmental performance (EP) of manufacturing small and ... -
Fostering the Performance of Banks through Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices: A Bank Branches Perspective
(2012 , Article)This article is mainly based on reviewing the available relevant literature of TQM and its implementation in the service sector organizations in general and banking industry in particular. It has been emphasized that banks ... -
A framework for Effective Communication and Delivering Online Courses during the COVID-19 Pandemic
( Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The COVID-19 pandemic has enforced higher education institutions across the globe to move from traditional face-to-face learning to online education. It has been proven that higher education institutions that were well ... -
A Framework for Optimizing the Supply Chain Performance of a Steel Producer
( SciTePress , 2013 , Conference Paper)Supply Chain Management (SCM) is focused on developing, optimizing, and operating efficient supply chains. Efficient supply chains are characterized by cost effective decisions, lean flow and structure, high degree of ... -
Framing information technology governance in the public sector: Opportunities and challenges
( IGI Global Publishing , 2015 , Article)Information technology governance is considered one of the innovative practices that can provide support for decision-makers. Interestingly, it has become increasingly a de facto for organizations in seeking to optimise ... -
Free Will or Determinism: When Fate Attributions Affect Persuasion in Road Safety Campaigns Using Fear and Guilt-An Extended Abstract
( 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 ... -
From Elicitation to Persuasion: Assessing the Structure and Effectiveness of Differential Emotions in Anti-Drunk-Driving Campaigns
( Taylor & Francis , 2017 , Article)In this paper, we test whether the DES III structure of emotions as described by Izard (1977) can be found in self-report data collected in the context of a campaign to deter drunk driving. Indeed, when exposed to a shocking ... -
From mono-criterion to multi-criteria decision aid: A necessary but unfinished evolution in operational research
(2014 , Article)The aim of this paper is to discuss the evolution process from the mono-criteria decision making paradigm to the multi-criteria decision aid paradigm. This process is based on the fact; in general, the decision-maker desires ... -
From ‘publish or perish’ to ‘publish for purpose’
( Wiley , 2023 , Other)Pressures to publish prolifically have led to an abundance of research on trivial matters rather than on issues of significance. This trend is particularly pronounced in developing countries, where limited access to paid ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Funding liquidity risk and banks' risk-taking: Evidence from Islamic and conventional banks
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of funding liquidity risk on the risk-taking behaviour of Islamic and conventional banks. Using bank-level and country-level data from 18 countries over the period ... -
Further evidence on the rationality of interest rate expectations: A comprehensive study of developed and emerging economies
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study performs unbiasedness and efficiency tests of three-month and twelve-month ahead interest rate forecasts of one short-term and one long-term security of 10 developed and 20 emerging economies by exploiting a new ...