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The ethics of outsourcing: when companies fail at responsibility
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that costs reduction is no longer a complete indication of performance and should not be attained at the expense of the firm?s sustainable social responsibility and ...
Strategic interventions to improve women entrepreneurship in GCC countries: A relationship modeling approach
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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 ...
Blue blood students of occupational dynasties and their university choice: the moderating role of parent-child occupational following
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
This study sheds light on a new category of students in higher education marketing literature-namely, occupational followers. We draw on expectancy-value theory, occupational following theory, and consumer buying behaviour ...
Possible linkage between internet addiction, socio-demographic, and behavioural constructs: a case study of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain-based employees
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Inderscience
, 2020 , Article)
Internet addiction (IA) is much sought after concept in the present-day human lives in which technology has emerged as a vital part. The ever-growing role of internet technology also accrues to a sizable amount of problems ...
The adoption of green building practices in construction projects in Qatar: a preliminary study
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
It is widely known that carbon dioxide emissions and climate change are among the most critical global challenges. These issues were worsened partly by the continuous adoption of traditional non-green behaviors ...
Leveraging “Green” Human Resource Practices to Enable Environmental and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Qatari Oil and Gas Industry
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Springer Netherlands
, 2018 , Article)
Despite the theoretically important role of green human resource management (HRM), relatively little research has been discovered so far about this role particularly in the Oil and Gas industry. We contribute to fill this ...
Do Patented Innovations Reduce Stock Price Crash Risk?
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2019 , Article)
Using a large sample of US firms, we document a significantly negative relation between the number of patents (citations) and stock price crash risk. Our findings are consistent with the arguments that patented innovation ...
The impacts of productivity differentials and oil price on the real exchange rate misalignment: Evidence from a developing country
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the impact of oil price and productivity differentials on real exchange rate (RER) misalignment in Syria from 1980 to 2010. In order to do that, this research develops an index for productivity differential ...
Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in the MENA Countries: What Role for Oil?
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
This paper considers the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four MENA (Middle East and North Africa) emerging markets. In contrast to the existing evidence that uses a global market index to uncover such a ...
Performance Of Tourism Destinations: Evidence From Tunisia
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This study uses data envelopment analysis and a two-stage procedure to compare the performance of Tunisian tourism destinations and to examine the impact of investment (public and private), economic circumstances, workers ...