Accounting & Information Systems: Recent submissions
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Information risk and cost of debt in emerging markets: Evidence from Qatar
( University of Malaya , 2015 , Article)This study examines the impact of information risk on the cost of debt incurred by companies in Qatar, a vital country within the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and Middle East region. The results suggest that information ... -
Corporate governance and access to interest bearing debt
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2012 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the growing body of literature on the impact of corporate governance on debt contracting by examining if better governance is associated with access to interest bearing debt. ... -
E-parliament in Jordan: Challenges and perspectives
( Inderscience , 2018 , Article)This paper aimed at understanding the e-parliament phenomenon and the contribution of technology and new applications in enhancing such area. We tried to explore the attitudes of Jordanian representatives regarding such ... -
Justifying IT Investment: Extension of a Model using a Case Study from Jordan
( Oriental Scientific Publishing Company , 2018 , Article)Investing in information technology is a requirement for enterprises to sustain their competitive advantage in a market that is described as changing and global. IT is a very important resource for enterprises to improve ... -
PRIVATIZATION AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE
( Vallecchi Editore , 2016 , Article)This study investigates the effect of privatization on corporate performance in the mining, financial and services sectors in Jordan as a case study of privatization experience of an emerging market. The study includes six ... -
Predicting Corporate Failure of Jordanian Companies Using Discriminant Analysis
(2015 , Article)This research studies the corporate failure of Jordanian companies using Discriminant Analysis. The study contains detailed analysis and comparisons of two groups of failure and continues companies. The study examines ... -
Management accounting system application in banks in the State of Qatar
( Inderscience , 2010 , Article)The importance of management accounting systems (MAS) in measuring the non-financial performance is increasing, especially in the service sector. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to investigate the nature of MAS ... -
Is there a shift in the accounting values in Egypt towards optimism, transparency and professionalism?
( Inderscience , 2015 , Article)This paper aims to examine the persistence of the historically assumed accounting values of the Egyptian environment in terms of conservatism, secrecy and statutory control after the adoption of the latest versions of the ... -
The use of performance information in strategic decision making in public organizations
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the importance of different components of strategic performance measurement systems (SPMS) and their deployment influence the use of performance information from ... -
Analysis of Cursive Text Recognition Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
( Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023 , Article)Regional and cultural diversities around the world have given birth to a large number of writing systems and scripts, which consist of varying character sets. Developing an optimal character recognition for such a varying ... -
Prioritizing the multi-criterial features based on comparative approaches for enhancing security of IoT devices
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)The Internet of Things (IoT) technologies continuously expand with time due to the advances in automated, connected device technology, mobility, and wide access to information. IoT is the collection of many linked devices ... -
Digital-Twins-Based Internet of Robotic Things for Remote Health Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023 , Article)The deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has highlighted the importance of remote health monitoring (RHM). The digital-twins (DTs) paradigm enables RHM by creating a virtual replica that receives data from the physical ... -
Factors Affecting Student Satisfaction Towards Online Teaching: A Machine Learning Approach
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Conference)During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, universities were forced to adopt technology and collaboration tools to reinforce online teaching and sustain their operations. This radical change pushes universities, ... -
Employee Perceptions of Electronic Performance Monitoring: A Multi-Level Analysis
( Springer , 2023 , Conference)Research on Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM) has taken an integrative perspective toward employee perception of the technology without consideration of the effect of organizational culture and specifically subcultures ... -
State-owned enterprises' board characteristics and audit fees: an international perspective in view of economic freedom, political democracy and protection of minority shareholders
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: The paper examines the relationship between board effectiveness and audit fees for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Furthermore, given the unique nature of SOEs, the paper assesses country-level influences, such ... -
Are millennials in Qatar making m-commerce the future of online shopping?
( Inderscience Publishers , 2023 , Article)The emergence of mobile commerce has revolutionised consumers’ buying behaviour, particularly among millennials known to be the key driver of the on-demand economy. This study explored the online purchasing behaviour of ... -
A blockchain-based framework to optimize shipping container flows in the hinterland
(2023 , Article)We address two interrelated issues affecting the hinterland portion of the maritime container supply chain: reducing the movement of empty containers and reducing empty trips by trucks carrying these containers. In this ... -
Structured knowledge creation for Urdu language: A DBpedia approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)Wikipedia information is extracted by DBpedia and linked to other web resources as Linked Open Data, which is an important contribution to the field of semantics. As part of its internationalisation endeavour, DBpedia now ... -
Role of e-voting system for void of errors in the electoral manipulations: a case study of Nigeria
( Inderscience Publishers , 2023 , Article)The study of the political and social developments in Nigeria since its independence could not prove that stability is established in the country. Researchers proclaim many reasons for this condition. One of such conditions ... -
A longitudinal investigation of IFRS-8 implementation: evidence from Qatar
(2023 , Article)The main objective of the current study is to investigate the segmental information reporting (SIR) of Qatari listed firms covering the period from 2009 to 2018. The sample comprises all companies listed on the Qatar Stock ...
