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Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study aimed to explore the processes of business networking which lays the foundation for business legacy outcomes initiated by the award of a mega event in a region. Building on the work of Spilling (1996) on mega ...
Civil society and democratization in the Arab Gulf
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http://foreignpolicy.com/
, 2011 , Article)
qatar has been a notable exception to the wave of popular political mobilization that has struck Arab countries since January 2011. This is particularly so given the prominent role of its state-owned television station Al ...
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
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Springer Netherlands
, 2018 , Article)
Few studies have examined the role of religiosity and social capital on civic engagement in the context of a Muslim country. In this paper, we explore the impact of religiosity and social capital on charitable donations ...
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
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Elsevier
, 2011 , Article)
Abstract
The traditional Random Digit Dialing method (list-assisted RDD using a frame of landline phone numbers) is clearly under threat. The difficulty and costs of completing telephone surveys have increased due to ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of
scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic
methodologies or small non-representative ...
The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2017 , Article)
Few studies have examined the role of religiosity and social capital on civic engagement in the context of a Muslim country. In this paper, we explore the impact of religiosity and social capital on charitable donations ...
Trusted News Sources’ Measures and their Relationships to Social and Public Attitudes: An Analysis of the First Annual Omnibus Survey of Life in Qatar
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Georgia State Univesrity
, 2013 , Article)
An overwhelming majority (77 percent) of Qatari Nationals reported television as their most
trusted local news source (87 percent for Arab/regional news and 89 percent for international
news), and 80 percent rated the ...
Qatar World Cup 2022: Awareness of the event and its impact on destination and country character perceptions in the US tourism market
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2016 , Article)
This study examined how awareness levels of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar changed perceptions of Qatar's destination image, country character, and neighboring destinations' images. Data were collected through Amazon ...
Practical Guidance on Calculating Sampling Error in Election Polls
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American Association for Public Opinion Research
, 2013 , Article)
In election poll results, the proportions favoring candidates and the survey sampling error are usually reported. However, it is hard to assess if the gap between any two candidates is statistically significant or not based ...
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: the Case of Qatar
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Wiley
, 2019 , Article)
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform ...