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The finance-growth nexus: Which factors can interfere?
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
The financial sector's role in economic growth is heavily contested by economists. Some argue that economic growth is not caused by finance, but that it responds to changing demands, while others argue the positive effect ...
Expert Systems
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Expert systems mimic the problem-solving activity of human experts in specialized domains by capturing and representing expert knowledge. Expert systems include a knowledge base, an inference engine that derives conclusions ...
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ...
Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. The productive capacity can be increased by an increase in factors of production, such as capital, labor, or the level of technology. Economic growth ...
Cultural integration with strategic decision-making process in determining innovation performance: Evidence from an arab country setting
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IGI Global
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents an empirical study that examines the co-alignment between the Strategic Decision- Making Process (SDMP) and cultural contextual factors in developing a more completely specified model of innovation ...
Mismanagement or mismeasurement: The application of DEA to generate performance values and insights from big data
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-known frontier valuation method to assess the performance of set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). It derives an overall performance for each DMU based on its efficiency relative ...
Gender and privacy in Arab Gulf states: implications for consumption and marketing
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
, 2011 , Book chapter)
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A cognitive analytics management framework (CAM-Part 1): SAMAS components, leadership, frontier performance growth, and sustainable shared value
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
In this chapter, the current world's challenges, shortcomings of strategic performance measurement, and management methodologies are analyzed to introduce the new Cognitive Analytics Management (CAM) framework. CAM uses ...
A cognitive analytics management framework (CAM-Part 2): Societal needs, shared-value models, performance indicators, big data, business analytics models and tools
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
In Chapter 1, The CAM framework focused on the development of innovative social business models through the usage of frontier data envelopment analysis to measure shared value for a sustainable growth of an organization. ...
A cognitive analytics management framework (CAM-Part 3): Critical Skills shortage, higher education trends, education value chain framework, government strategy
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IGI Global
, 2013 , Book chapter)
The main objectives of the chapter are to evaluate the impact of the tsunami of big data, business analytics, and technology on the delivery and diffusion of knowledge around the world through the use of Internet-of-things ...