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Does the extent of branchless banking adoption enhance the social and financial performance of microfinance institutions?
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
We examine the impact of the extent of branchless banking adoption on the social and financial performance of an international sample of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We find that increasing the number of branchless ...
Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Using international data, we find that Islamic MFIs experience reduced credit risk by offering more groups loans, serving more women, and serving more borrowers in rural locations. Conventional MFIs benefit from fewer group ...
SME internationalisation: Do the types of innovation matter?
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2023 , Article)
Existing evidence suggest that innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (or SMEs) are more likely to internationalise (i.e. have a greater propensity to export) than non-innovative SMEs. However, it is not yet clear ...
The Effect of New and Traditional Sources of Financing on the Performance of Small and Entrepreneurship Businesses: The Case of Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
Purpose: This paper investigates how entrepreneurial finance in Qatar affects the performance of small and entrepreneurship businesses (SEB). It is the first study examining the financial decisions of SEB in Qatar, ...
Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
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Springer Nature
, 2024 , Article)
This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and digitization in alleviating the level of credit constraint that micro, ...
Environmentally Sustainable Practices and Hotel Performance: Evidence from Malaysia
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MDPI
, 2023 , Article)
The hospitality sector is under constant pressure from clients to adopt environmentally friendly practices. Industry reports suggest that customers prefer to stay in hotels that care about the environment. This means that ...
A Comprehensive Machine and Deep Learning Approach for Aerosol Optical Depth Forecasting: New Evidence from the Arabian Peninsula
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Springer Nature
, 2024 , Article)
Accurate forecasting of environmental pollution indicators holds significant importance in diverse fields, including climate modeling, environmental monitoring, and public health. In this study, we investigate a wide range ...
Teaching in times of crisis: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2022 , Article)
Although increasing numbers of studies have examined online teaching in the last decade, examination during a crisis context is rare. This study fills this critical gap and is a rapid response research to suggest insights ...
Tax Policy Debate Over Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: the Case of Egypt
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School of Taxation and Business Law (Atax), UNSW Business School, UNSW Australia
, 2016 , Article)
Tax policy is normally formulated and implemented during politically stable periods. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries in the early 1990s have allowed researchers to study tax policy reform in ...
The Situation of Incommensurability in Strategic Management
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NICCOLO’ CUSANO UNIVERSITY
, 2023 , Article)
The field of strategic management has witnessed a proliferation of theoretical perspectives following two main paradigms. The two camps roughly correspond, on the one hand, to the "classical" and "neo-classical" approaches, ...