Management & Marketing: Recent submissions
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Deploying partial least squares to investigate the influence of managerial assumptions on corporate social responsibility in the hotel industry
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the interplay between managerial assumptions and institutional corporate social responsibility, and determines how such fit affects performance. Design/methodology/approach: The ... -
The integrated impact of new product and market flexibilities on operational performance: The case of the Jordanian manufacturing sector
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and test the relationship between a company?s strategic flexibility, as evidenced by new product development flexibility and market flexibility, and its operational ... -
Fashion model profiles: the intersection of self, ideal and preferred
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how young female fashion consumers assessed the facial attractiveness of an advertising model. The study focused on the consumers exposed to both local and foreign fashion ... -
Grounded theory analysis of successful implementation of e-government projects: Exploring perceptions of e-government authorities
( IGI Global , 2018 , Article)This article explores the perceptions of senior managers about the successful implementations of e-government projects in their agencies, identifying what problems they have encountered and how they have addressed these ... -
Do different marketing practices pre-suppose different frames of reference? An exploratory study
( 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 ... -
The joint effect of leadership style and organisational justice on employees' work engagement
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Despite the existing body of literature devoted to the topic of work engagement, this study examined the effect of some important variables, such as transformational and transactional leadership styles, on work engagement. ... -
Leveraging “Green” Human Resource Practices to Enable Environmental and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Qatari Oil and Gas Industry
( Springer Netherlands , 2018 , Article)Despite the theoretically important role of green human resource management (HRM), relatively little research has been discovered so far about this role particularly in the Oil and Gas industry. We contribute to fill this ... -
A configuration of managerial assumptions and strategy: Toward a synthesis
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates how management perception and business strategy fits with the choice of the marketing practice. The study employs a configuration approach from data that were collected using three case studies in ... -
Employee Readiness for Change in Public Higher Education Institutions: Examining the Joint Effect of Leadership Behavior and Emotional Intelligence
( Taylor and Francis Inc. , 2018 , Article)This study aimed to examine the effects of leadership behavior and emotional intelligence (EI) on readiness for change and to investigate the moderating effects of organizational commitment on the relationship among ... -
Localizing to Arabic consumers: Insights from print advertising
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This study argues that understanding the nature and influence of cultural differences in print advertising is important for an effective international marketing strategy. Previous studies have investigated cross-cultural ... -
A Triangulation Study to Assess the Perceived City Image in the Arab Middle East Context: The Case of Al-Ain in the UAE
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)The study of city image has become a subject of increasing interest to researchers and practitioners. However, although many studies have found that success of an area�s tourist development depends crucially on its image, ... -
Internet marketing adoption by iranian distribution industry: An attempt to understand the reality
( IGI Global , 2018 , Article Review)This article describes how although the internet has become a significant platform for the advancement of marketing strategies and developments, there have been inadequate empirical research efforts concerning its adoption ... -
Is internet reporting useful? Evidence from Egypt
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of 18 users and preparers regarding the corporate internet reporting (CIR) practices of companies listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX). Design/methodol ... -
A comparative analysis of the UN declaration, global business compact, and religious morals in determining global values for business and their application to Islamic marketing
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose The continued rise of the multinational and debate as to what constitutes global business values is predicated on the UN Declaration and Global Business Compact. This research suggests both documents explicitly ... -
Corporate governance and voluntary risk and forward-looking disclosures
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on risk and forward-looking disclosures in Qatar. Design/methodology/approach The authors automatically measure levels of risk and ... -
Rapid Alignment of Resources and Capabilities in Time-Bound Networks: A Theoretical Proposition
( Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management , 2018 , Article)Researchers studying the alignment of business resources usually focus on business cases that inherently have continuous interactions built on long-term relationships at the firm level, dyadic level, or broader network ... -
Technology Adoption and Diffusion: A New Application of the UTAUT Model
( World Scientific Publishing Co.Pte Ltd , 2018 , Article)Diffusion of innovation is a key challenge for organizations; it brings social change that alters a system's structure and how it operates. Most of the studies in this area have focused on the information and communication ... -
How the young adult consumer segment responds to trusty and committed marketing relationship
( Wiley-LissInc. , 2018 , Article)Service providers build relationship with their customers for mutual satisfaction and benefits. However, little is known about the relational antecedents and outcomes of relationship satisfaction among young adult consumers. ... -
Causal relationships of moral hazard and adverse selection of Ghanaian Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) construction projects
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to assess the causal relationship(s) between moral hazard and adverse selection of public' private partnership (PPP) construction projects. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was ... -
An empirical examination of moral hazards and adverse selection on PPP projects: A case study of Ghana
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: Failures of public?private partnership (PPP) projects are often ascribed to the agency problem, which arise under conditions of inadequate and asymmetric information when a principal (the client) hires an agent ...
