College of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Coronavirus and halal tourism and hospitality industry: Is it a journey to the unknown?
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)Coronavirus (COVID-19) gained and will continue to gain a lot of global attention over the coming months (and maybe the coming few years). Since its outbreak in Wuhan (China), it has turned into one of the major challenges ... -
Level of Financial Performance of Selected Construction Companies in South Africa
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)Purpose—There is no consensus on the indicators that assess a construction company’s financial performance projects undertaken. There is also a dearth of concepts on the financial performance indicators for construction ... -
Unveiling the Impact of Psychological Traits on Innovative Financial Decision-making in Small Tourism Businesses
( Springer , 2023 , Article)Understanding factors affecting innovative financial decision-making involves the usage of more than one theory-driven model including those related to psychological behaviour (e.g. theory of planned behaviour). This study ... -
Nurturing Innovative Work Behaviour through Workplace Learning among Knowledge Workers of Small and Medium Businesses
( Springer , 2023 , Article)Organisations need to be innovative to be able to face the complexity and turbulence of the environmental forces and factors surrounding them. This is true in the case of all types of organisations, including SMEs, where ... -
Our Sociomaterial Entanglement with AI
( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences , 2024 , Article)Contrary to the frenzy of hyperbolic rhetoric preaching artificial intelligence (AI) as an economic imperative for nations, the way it is entangled with all aspects of our lives calls for inquiry into its meaning beyond a ... -
A Comprehensive Machine and Deep Learning Approach for Aerosol Optical Depth Forecasting: New Evidence from the Arabian Peninsula
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Accurate forecasting of environmental pollution indicators holds significant importance in diverse fields, including climate modeling, environmental monitoring, and public health. In this study, we investigate a wide range ... -
Green Transformational Leadership, Green Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance of SMEs: The Mediating Role of Green Product Innovation
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Green practices are becoming increasingly important throughout the world. The performance of SMEs is becoming a crucial issue because of increasing awareness of consumers about environmentally friendly products; therefore, ... -
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This study investigates the relationship between travelers' generativity, prosocial attitudes, consumption values, and food waste avoidance behavior. We develop a theoretical model based on the motivation-opportunity-ability ... -
Fintech and contactless payment: Help or hindrance? The role of invasion of privacy and information disclosure
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: There is always a need to discover how a paradox between a customer's desire for a more personalized experience and their privacy and security concerns would shape their intention to continue using contactless ... -
Fostering environmental preservation: exploring the synergy of green human resource management and corporate environmental ethics
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to explore the unique and synergistic effects of green human resource management (GHRM) and corporate environmental ethics (CEE) on the environmental performance (EP) of manufacturing small and ... -
Green entrepreneurial orientation for enhancing SMEs financial and environmental performance: Synergetic moderation of green technology dynamism and knowledge transfer and integration
( Cogent OA , 2023 , Article)Currently SMEs in the developing countries like Pakistan are struggling for their survival, however, because of increasing consumer awareness, SMEs have to focus over the environmental concerns as well. For SMEs green ... -
Green construction and environmental performance: an assessment framework
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Construction firms worldwide are increasingly taking pragmatic steps towards addressing environmental problems arising from their activities. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of studies focused on the nexus between ... -
Financial development and economic diversification in Qatar: does Islamic finance matters
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: The financial system plays an essential role in facilitating the intermediation process for economic growth. Policymakers stress on achieving a well-developed and regulated financial system to achieve economic ... -
Green innovation for sustainable development: leveraging green knowledge integration, blockchain technology and green supply chain integration
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Despite the importance of green supply chain integration (GSCI) in advancing green innovation (GI) is recognized, it remains unclear how firms can translate their GSCI efforts into GI. Therefore, this study aims ... -
For narrower income inequality: traditional finance or microfinance?
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This paper uses the theory of information imperfections to examine the relationship between income inequality and financial development in a dual financial system comprising traditional finance and microfinance. It uses ... -
Competition, regulation, and systemic risk in dual banking systems
( Elsevier Inc. , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the impact of competition and banking regulation on the systemic risk of Islamic Banks (IBs) and Conventional Banks (CBs). Utilizing a random effects panel model with robust errors and an unbalanced ... -
Instagram influencers attributes and parasocial relationship: A dataset from Qatar
( Elsevier , 2024 , Dataset)The dataset investigates how social media influencers’ attributes affect followers’ parasocial relationship. It also examines the mediating role of the parasocial relationship between the social media influencers’ attributes ... -
Examining the key determinants of the jordanian customer's adoption of genetically modified food
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Genetically modified food (GMF) is one of the most debated issues in the food market. There has been considerable interest from both academic researchers and policy makers regarding the antecedents and consequences of the ... -
Entrepreneurial e-equity crowdfunding platforms: antecedents of knowledge acquisition and innovation performance
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: The crowdfunding concept and activities have recently been the focus of attention of many researchers and practitioners over different business contexts. However, there is a dearth of literature considering the ... -
Examining the advantages and disadvantages of international franchising and licensing from both legal and business perspectives within GCC region
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to provides the insights on the advantages and disadvantages of international franchising and licensing from the perspectives of legal and business considerations in the Gulf Cooperation Council ...
