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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, ...
Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...
Capital Budgeting Practices: The Case of Qatar
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Qatar University
, 2010 , Article)
The purpose of this project was to investigate the capital budgeting practice in the largest firms in Qatar. A survey was conducted of the 170 largest firms and corporations. A total of 55 completed surveys were received, ...
Data envelopment analysis and data mining to efficiency estimation and evaluation
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the application of seven statistical and data mining techniques to second-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) for bank performance. Design/methodology/approach: Different statistical ...
Relationships between strategic performance measures, strategic decision-making, and organizational performance: empirical evidence from Canadian public organizations
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
This study investigates the role of strategic performance measures (SPM) in strategic decision-making and their impact on organizational performance. Based on 143 online survey responses from senior administrators across ...
Support for smallholder farmers through Islamic instruments: The case of Bangladesh and lessons for Nigeria
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments with more scope for fairness and equity can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the development process and poverty alleviation ...
Determinants of Intra-GCC Food Trade
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Using panel data for six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 1995-2014, we assess the impacts of several major economic variables on intra-GCC food exports, and on GCC food exports to the world. The GCC customs ...
Factors affecting intention to use e-banking in Jordan
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
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Despite the wide availability of internet banking, levels of intention to use such facilities remain variable between countries. The purpose of this paper is to focus on e-banking in a country with low intention ...
Factors affecting the voluntary use of internal audit: evidence from the UK
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to identify the factors that lead non-financial companies listed in the UK to use an internal audit function (IAF) as a monitoring mechanism. Although the use of an IAF in the UK is voluntary, no ...
Do different marketing practices pre-suppose different frames of reference? An exploratory study
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The role of managerial assumptions in the formulation of organizational strategies has been well recognized by previous studies, yet in marketing literature, the effect of such imperative on marketing practice ...