Browsing by Author "Saleh, Ali Salman"
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A new theoretical framework to assess Multinational Corporations' motivation for Foreign Direct Investment: A case study on Vietnamese service industries
Saleh, Ali Salman; Anh Nguyen, Thi Lan; Vinen, Denis; Safari, Arsalan ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Purpose This paper develops a new theoretical framework, based on eclectic paradigm and institution theory, to evaluate Multinational Corporations' (MNCs') incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The new framework ... -
Breaking down the export barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises: Focus group study across Vietnam
Saleh, Ali Salman; Donovan, Jerome; Le, Viet; Safari, Arsalan ( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2021 , Article)This paper attempts to empirically analyse the motivations and barriers among Vietnamese businesses in undertaking export activities. The study applies thematic analysis method and categorisations developed from extant ... -
Destination Competitiveness: The Perceptions of Foreign Tourists Visiting Qatar
Saleh, Ali Salman; Alsowaidi, Saif; Saha, Shrabani; Yap, Ghialy ( ssrn , 2021 , Article)This paper aims to develop an evidence-based integrated model for destination competitiveness and apply it to the case of Qatar, such that it could be used to identify relevant determinants and rank their contributions to ... -
Does Blockade Deter Inbound Tourism? An Evidence from Qatar
Yap, Ghialy; Saha, Shrabani; Saleh, Ali Salman; Ndubisi, Nelson Oly; Alsowaidi, Saif ( ssrn , 2020 , Article)While tourism research on Qatar has been growing, the area is still understudied with many untapped research opportunities. This research focuses on the impact of the blockade on international tourist arrivals to Qatar. ... -
Dynamic performance, financial leverage and financial crisis: Evidence from GCC countries
Zeitun, Rami; Saleh, Ali Salman ( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of financial leverage on firm’s performance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Additionally, this paper investigates the impact of recent financial ... -
An empirical investigation of trade flows between Australia and its major trading partners
Belicka, Samuel; Saleh, Ali Salman ( University of Wollongong , 2014 , Article)This study introduces Net Export (NX) models to examine the determinants of the trade flows between Australia and eight selected trading partner (TP) countries (China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United ... -
Enhancing the export activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets
Safari, Arsalan; Saleh, Ali Salman; Balicevac Al Ismail, Vanesa ( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine a conceptual integrated framework for small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) export performance that comprises all potential export determinants and inhibitors. This study also ... -
Examining pecking order versus trade-off theories of capital structure: New evidence from Japanese firms
Jarallah, Shaif; Saleh, Ali Salman; Salim, Ruhul ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study empirically tests the traditional trade-off model against the pecking order model of capital structure using data from the Japanese listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A pooled sample of 1,362 publicly ... -
Global financial crisis, ownership structure and firm financial performance: An examination of listed firms in Australia
Saleh, Ali Salman; Halili, Enver; Zeitun, Rami; Salim, Ruhul ( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial performance of listed firms on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) over two sample periods (1998-2007 and 2008-2010) before and during the global financial crisis ... -
Governance and long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms in Australia
Halili, Enver; Saleh, Ali Salman; Zeitun, Rami ( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms from the agency theoretic perspective. The analysis is focused on investigating ... -
Identifying the key performance challenges to achieve improved export performance for Qatari SMEs
Saleh, Ali Salman; Safari, Arsalan; Komalasari, Shinta ( Elsevier , 2019 , Conference Paper)Small and medium enterprises in Qatar, similar to their counterparts in other emerging countries, face many challenges by entering international markets. This study aims to identify and analyze the key performance challenges ... -
The impact of government policies on FDI decision of multinational corporations: an application to the Vietnamese service industry
Nguyen, Thi Lan Anh; Saleh, Ali Salman; Safari, Arsalan ( Inder science Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)There has been an upsurge in competition amongst Asian countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) resulting in higher government incentives given by the host countries. Whereas most of the empirical studies ... -
Investigating the impact of donor funding: a case study on Lebanon
Saleh, Ali Salman; Harvie, Charles ( Emerald Publishing , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a macroeconomic framework to predict the impact of transient donor funding on a developing economy and to facilitate evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative uses of ... -
Is tourism in Lebanon subject to permanent or transitory exogenous shocks?
Bassil, Charbel; Saleh, Ali Salman; Anwar, Sajid ( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2014 , Article)The tourism industry makes a significant contribution to Lebanese gross domestic product (GDP). Lebanon has been rocked by political instability and regional conflicts over the past several decades. These exogenous shocks ... -
Key determinants of SMEs’ export performance: a resource-based view and contingency theory approach using potential mediators
Safari, Arsalan; Saleh, Ali Salman ( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2020 , Article)Purpose: Various barriers discourage small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from entering or expanding their export activities in the international markets, especially SMEs in emerging markets. The purpose of this study ... -
A new perspective on the linkages between tourism demand and business cycles
Vatsa, Puneet; Balli, Faruk; Saleh, Ali Salman ( Wiley-Blackwell , 2022 , Article)Business cycles, that is, the irregular fluctuations in economic activity,affect tourism demand—this is a stylized fact in tourism research. And itis well-founded. After all, as incomes rise, so does the consumption ofgoods ... -
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
Moradi-Motlagh, Amir; Saleh, Ali Salman ( Wiley-Blackwell , 2014 , Article)This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ... -
Terrorism and tourism demand: a case study of Lebanon, Turkey and israel
Bassil, Charbel; Saleh, Ali Salman; Anwar, Sajid ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Using a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model, this paper examines the impact of domestic and transnational terrorism on tourism demand (as measured by visitor arrivals) to Lebanon, Turkey and Israel. The distinguishing ... -
Tourism Competitiveness in Qatar: Tourists’ Perspectives
Saleh, Ali Salman; Alsowaidi, Saif; Saha, Shrabani; Yap, Ghialy ( Center for Promoting Ideas , 2021 , Article)The aim of this paper is to develop an evidence-based integrated model of destination competitiveness and apply it to the case of Qatar, given that the country has faced a recent blockade and growing competition from ... -
Tourism research for the GCC region: Current status and future research directions
Saleh, Ali Salman; Bassil, Charbel; Safari, Arsalan ( SAGE Publications , 2021 , Article Review)Tourism in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has recently been considered by policymakers as a new avenue for economic diversification. Despite the considerable literature concerning the impact of tourism ...