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Gamification of e-Government services: A discussion of potential transformation
( Association for Information Systems , 2016 , Conference Paper)Gamification has shown to be a valuable approach that enhances participants' engagement. In education, enhanced student engagement has proven to increase their learning effectiveness. In business, gamification permits ... -
A Gap Analysis of Business students; Skills in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Qatar
(2018 , Article)The main purpose of this study is to explore any existing gap between business students’ skills/competences provided by college of businesses and the needs of the current job market. The study examines twenty important ... -
GCC Hydrocarbon Economies and COVID: Old Trends, New Realities
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book)The book considers the impact of COVID-19 on the GCC member states through the prism of challenges faced by their hydrocarbon sector. Yet, the publication's discourse is not solely focused on the problems experienced by ... -
Gender and privacy in Arab Gulf states: implications for consumption and marketing
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Gender differences in entrepreneurial self-efficacy: An educational perspective
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Entrepreneurial education is believed to be positively correlated with entrepreneurship intentions. Previous studies measured entrepreneurial self-efficacy in order to investigate observed gender differences in entrepreneurial ... -
Gender effects for loss aversion: Yes, no, maybe?
( Springer , 2019 , Article)Gender effects in risk taking have attracted much attention by economists, and remain debated. Loss aversion—the stylized finding that a given loss carries substantially greater weight than a monetarily equivalent gain—is ... -
Gender, education, and career in the Arab world: A literature review
( SAGE , 2021 , Article)The underrepresentation of females in certain fields has been studied extensively in many countries. Similar to other parts of the World, the number of females graduating each year from universities in the Arab World now ... -
General learning approach for event extraction: Case of management change event
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2013 , Article)Starting from an ontology of a targeted financial domain corresponding to transaction, performance and management change news, relevant segments of text containing at least a domain keyword are extracted. The linguistic ... -
Generational Differences in Brand Hate: An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2022 , Book chapter)Consumer-brand relationships researchers are manifesting an increased interest in investigating the concept of brand hate (e.g., Fetscherin 2019; Kucuk 2019; Zarantonello 2016). In line with this research mainstream, this ... -
Genes, Culture, and Voluntary Audits
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Book chapter)National differences in the demand for voluntary external audits have been linked to multiple factors, such as differences in a country’s rate of growth, access to external credit, and institutional quality. Audits, however, ... -
Global financial crisis, ownership structure and firm financial performance: An examination of listed firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial performance of listed firms on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) over two sample periods (1998-2007 and 2008-2010) before and during the global financial crisis ... -
Globalization and obesity in the GCC countries
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have some of the highest obesity rates in the world. At the same time, the GCC countries have become increasingly integrated in the global economy as they attempt to diversify ... -
Goal programming for financial portfolio management: a state-of-the-art review
( Springer Nature , 2017 , Article)Over the last decades, the Goal Programming (GP) model has been applied to financial portfolio management and/or selection problem in decision-making contexts where several conflicting and incommensurable objectives are ... -
Goal programming model for management accounting and auditing: a new typology
( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)In practice, generally the accountants are facing complex decision-making situations where they aggregate simultaneously several conflicting and incommensurable factors (dimensions). They look for the decision of the best ... -
Governance and long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms from the agency theoretic perspective. The analysis is focused on investigating ... -
Governance, product market competition and agency costs: Evidence from the UAE
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Relying on two years' observations of 74 United Arab Emirates (UAE) listed firms, we examined the association between governance mechanisms (board size, audit committee, percentage of independent non-executive directors, ... -
Governance-Default Risk Relationship and the Demand for Intermediated and Non-Intermediated Debt
( University of Wollongong , 2012 , Article)This paper explores the impact of corporate governance on the demand for intermediated debt (asset finance, bank debt, non-bank private debt) and non-intermediated debt (public debt) in the Australian debt market. Relative ... -
Government debt and stock price crash risk: International Evidence
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We add to the literature on the economic outcomes of government debt and argue that government debt increases crash risk via two channels: (i) hoarding bad news and (ii) tax avoidance. Based on a large international sample, ... -
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
( Virtus Interpress , 2012 , Article)This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ... -
Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2012 , Article)Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ...