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The impact of human resource practices on job satisfaction and intention to stay in emerging economies: Model development and empirical investigation among high caliber governmental employees in Qatar
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Growing Science
, 2019 , Article)
High rates in turnover of skilled employees can turn to be a very significant concern in organizations world-wide. Turnover affects productivity, product or service quality and of course profitability. As Human Resources ...
Are MENA and Pacific Basin Stock Equity Markets Predictable?
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SAGE publications
, 2014 , Article)
This research uses variance ratio analysis to test whether Middle Eastern, North African (MENA) and Pacific Basin emerging equity markets follow a martingale behavior during the period1980-2004. The conventional Lo and ...
The Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between credit market development and economic growth for a heterogeneous panel of 20 developing and developed countries with varied growth experiences. The empirical ...
The moderating role of business growth on the relationship between business development services provided by islamic microfinance institutions and customer satisfaction: A study on the SMEs in Yemen
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
, 2014 , Article)
This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of business growth on the relationship between Business Development Services (BDS) and SMEs owners' satisfaction on the Islamic Microfinance System in Yemen. Specifically, ...
Balancing Digital-By-Default with Inclusion: A Study of the Factors Influencing E-Inclusion in the UK
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Springer New York LLC
, 2019 , Article)
Digital inclusion research has been critically important in drawing an understanding of how policies, society, organisations, and information technologies can all come together within a national environment that aspires ...
Revisiting the relationship between formal planning process and planning effectiveness: Do organizational capabilities and decision-making style matter?
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to address a timely research question by clarifying whether formal planning is a worthy approach for hotels. In so doing, the authors developed a theoretical model that extends prior ...
Imperatives for improving entrepreneurial behavior among females in the UAE: An empirical study and structural model
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: Despite various governmental efforts, female entrepreneurship in the UAE is still not a popular option among women. The purpose of this study is to identify the enablers to female entrepreneurship and to establish ...
The influence of CSR on perceived value, social media and loyalty in the hotel industry
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to examine how perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities (i.e. environment, society and stakeholders) enhance perceived value, social media engagement to win customer loyalty ...
Services marketing practices in diverse cultures: Canada compared to Qatar
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
The service marketing literature has traditionally argued that the marketing practices of service firms that operate in diverse cultures should also differ. This paper aims to investigate this argument by examining ...
Toward a contagion-based model of mobile banking adoption
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the following question: Can a bank capitalize on its well-established self-service technologies (SSTs) in order to entice customers to adopt a newly introduced SST, namely, ...