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Al-Maha mobile shop
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2011 , Article)Title: Al-Maha mobile shop. Subject area: Strategic management/entrepreneurship. Study level/applicability: Undergraduate and/or MBA level in either a strategic management and/or entrepreneurship courses. Case overview: ... -
Impact of QWL on employee satisfaction case of oil and gas industry in Qatar
( Scientific Press International Limited , 2011 , Article)This paper examines the factors that influence QWL and investigate the relationship between QWL and satisfaction among employees working in the Oil and Gas companies in the State of Qatar. While much of the attention been ... -
Convergence or Diversity in National Recruitment and Selection Practices:A Case Study of the State of Qatar
( North American Business Press , 2011 , Article)This paper examines the convergence and diversity in approaches to national HRM practices in Qatar. The sample of the study consists of 31 human resources managers working for different Qatari companies. Large companies ... -
An exploration into the religious and symbolic meanings of gendered spaces in an Arab gulf home
(2011 , Conference Paper)Houses are rich symbols representative of culture, self and identity (Marcus 1995). The current research provides a comparative perspective on Arab-Islamic (Qatari) and Western values as encoded in the home and use of ... -
Gender and privacy in Arab Gulf states: implications for consumption and marketing
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Approaching what we hope for and avoiding what we fear: A study of women's concern with visible signs of skin aging
( SAGE , 2011 , Article)This paper proposes to examine how priming approach and avoidance goal orientations moderates consumer goal-directed preferences for products and services. These effects are studied in the context of women's concern with ... -
Feedback information and consumer motivation: The moderating role of positive and negative reference values in self-regulation
( Emerald Publishing , 2011 , Article)Purpose: Marketers spend considerable resources to motivate people to consume their products and services as a means of goal attainment. Why people change their consumption behaviour is based largely on these goals; many ... -
Enhancing a bank’s competitive advantage through the integration of TQM practices, entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and organizational culture.
(2011 , Article)In the current changing business environment, banks, among other organizations, are required not only to create their competitive advantage to lead the trend, but also to be able to sustain and upgrade the created competitive ... -
Domains of privacy and hospitality in Arab Gulf homes
( Emerald Publishing , 2011 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report findings of an ethnographic study of homes in the Arab Gulf country of Qatar. The authors' analysis and contribution focuses on resolving the tension between privacy and ... -
Political Contingency and the Implementation of Qatarization
( Qatar University , 2011 , Article)This paper represents an exploratory study that examines political contingency in a less liberal regulatory regime such as the ‘positive state’ or the ‘developmental state’. As an example of a state-led policy, the ... -
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 ... -
Sustainability metrics for a supply chain: The case of small and medium enterprises
( Inderscience Publishers , 2012 , Article)Using digraph and matrix method this research enunciates a simple method to quantify supply chain sustainability for small and medium enterprises. It proposes a numerical index which can be used to measure sustainability ... -
An analysis of methodologies utilised in e-government research: A user satisfaction perspective
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2012 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the research design, methodologies and approaches utilised in electronic government (e-government) research studies published in the last decade (2000-2012). Design/method ... -
Organizational Commitment: Status Quo in Qatar
( SCMS Cochin School of Business , 2012 , Article)Qatar is a fast growing economy which is largely dependent on expatriate labour. This creates a unique situation that affects organizational commitment. This research focusses on understanding the relationship between ... -
Fostering the Performance of Banks through Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices: A Bank Branches Perspective
(2012 , Article)This article is mainly based on reviewing the available relevant literature of TQM and its implementation in the service sector organizations in general and banking industry in particular. It has been emphasized that banks ... -
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
( Wiley-Blackwell , 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 ... -
A mediation model of task conflict in vertical dyads: Linking organizational culture, subordinate values, and subordinate outcomes
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2012 , Article)Purpose: The current study seeks to provide predictions for task conflict in supervisor-subordinate dyads and to test empirically the mediation effects of task conflict between organizational culture/subordinate values and ... -
Entrepreneurial orientation and organizational performance: The role of managerial traits
( Inderscience , 2012 , Article)This study addresses how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) mediates the relationships between four managerial traits – need for achievement, tolerance for ambiguity, conformity, and individualism – and organisational ... -
Yemeni banking system: Critical issues and future recommended strategies
(2012 , Article)In the current changing and challenging business environment, banks have been gaining an increasing importance in paving the way for the development processes in any country.Banks, however, bridge the gap between individuals ... -
A framework for optimizing the supply chain performance of a steel producer
(2013 , Conference Paper)Supply Chain Management (SCM) is focused on developing, optimizing, and operating efficient supply chains. Efficient supply chains are characterized by cost effective decisions, lean flow and structure, high degree of ...