Management & Marketing: Recent submissions
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Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and Local Production to Increase Access to Medicines
(2018 , Presentation)Outlines: * INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP): THE CONCEPT *QATAR and IP * WIPO *QATAR’S OTHER MEMBERSHIPS *Patent Cooperation Treaty *INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS OF QATAR * TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (TT) IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL ... -
Social media: Adoption and legal issues impact on business innovation
( Inderscience , 2015 , Article)Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This study explored the impact of the social media adoption, and the related legal issues on the business innovation within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), particularly ... -
A Qatari perspective on women in the engineering pipeline: an exploratory study
( Taylor & Francis , 2010 , Article)Under-representation of women in engineering has received a great deal of attention, but remained limited largely to a Western context. Thus, this article aims to unveil the barriers to progress, tracking the performance ... -
An extension of consumer environmental behavior research among expatriates
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2014 , Article)A wealth of research has explored different configurations of consumer environmental beliefs, attitudes, and values, and their influence on consumer environmental behavior. It is essential that a more comprehensive ... -
An empirical investigation of quality performance expectations in the software industry: A gap analysis approach
( Inderscience , 2014 , Article)The assessment of quality is pervasive but vital in organisations. It is particularly important in the design of an effective quality management system. The assessment is often considered from the perspective of fulfilling ... -
Brand switching of high-technology capital products: How product features dictate the switching decision
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2014 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that underpin brand switching of medical imaging products by mass-market users. Most of the literature on brand switching is focused on competitive market ... -
An exploratory study of the determinants of the quality of strategic decision implementation in Turkish industrial firms
( Braybrooke Press , 2014 , Article)This paper investigates the determinants of quality of decision implementation. By drawing on a sample of 116 firms located in Turkey, the authors test whether the features of important team processes (i.e. trust and ... -
Modeling the enablers of organizational commitment
( Emerald Group Publishing , 2014 , Article)Purpose: Organizational commitment (OC) has important implications for both individuals and organizational outcomes. This paper aims to present an approach to understand the dynamics between various enablers that help to ... -
India shining? A two-wave study of business constraints upon micro and small manufacturing firms in India
( Sage Publications , 2014 , Article)The national marketing slogan 'India Shining' was launched in 2004 by the Indian government to showcase rapid economic growth; around the same time, a number of new policy measures to promote small businesses were introduced ... -
Financial portfolio management through the goal programming model: Current state-of-the-art
( Elsevier B.V. , 2014 , Article)Since Markowitz (1952) formulated the portfolio selection problem, many researchers have developed models aggregating simultaneously several conflicting attributes such as: the return on investment, risk and liquidity. The ... -
Customer relationship building: The role of brand attractiveness and consumer-brand identification
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)Building enduring relationships with consumers is a key marketing objective for most firms, but how can they develop such relationships? Drawing on social identity and self-verification theories, this research postulates ... -
Integrating sustainability in cloud computing for managing sustainable knowledge in higher education
( IGI Global , 2014 , Book chapter)This chapter aims to present a conceptual model in order to facilitate sustainability in cloud computing resulting in sustainability in organizational knowledge in education. From one perspective, while cloud computing has ... -
The moderating role of business growth on the relationship between business development services provided by islamic microfinance institutions and customer satisfaction: A study on the SMEs in Yemen
( Canadian Center of Science and Education , 2014 , Article)This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of business growth on the relationship between Business Development Services (BDS) and SMEs owners' satisfaction on the Islamic Microfinance System in Yemen. Specifically, ... -
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2012 , Article)We study conflicting notions of modesty and vanity in the Arab Gulf region by focusing on contemporary female adornment practices and the tensions underlying them. The standard of modest traditional dress that women are ... -
Gulf Arab E-Business Environment: Localization Strategy Insights
( Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. , 2015 , Article)The Gulf Arab region, particularly Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), took significant steps toward adopting e-business and is poised to become a significant online marketplace. The region has a number of vital ... -
Decision Support System and Multi-Criteria Decision Aid: A State of the Art and Perspectives
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2015 , Article)The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of the Decision Support System within the field of multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA). The MCDA tools have been incorporated into systems to create Multi-Criteria Decision ... -
The reversing influence of involvement on the framing effect: The role of emotions and negativity
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2014 , Article)The Asian disease problem (ADP), as a demonstration of the framing effect, revealed a preference reversal between options perceived as risky and those perceived as certain. This research identifies individuals' involvement ... -
ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE OF SERVICE QUALITY IN PEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE IN QATAR
( Qatar University , 2014 , Article)The purpose of this study was quality assessment and quality assurance in pediatric services of public and private hospitals in Qatar. The purpose of quality assessment was to identify gaps in the delivered services; ... -
Accounting for Interaction and Individual Specific Effects in an Analysis of International Air Traveler Preferences
( Qatar University , 2014 , Article)selection decision based on contingency theory. Previous work has focused on main effects without eploring the significance of interaction or individual heterogeneity effects. Contingency theory suggests contextual and ... -
Expert Systems
( 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 ...
