Accounting & Information Systems: Recent submissions
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The Status of Wearables in Actualizing Personalized Medicine for Diabec Paents in Qatar
( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc , 2019 , Conference)While wearables extend the geography of care and increase patients' self-awareness and motivation to adopt healthy life-styles, a field study in the State of Qatar reveals several barri-ers that constrain the successful ... -
Potentials, Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism Development in Qatar
( Qatar University , 2019 , Article)Qatar has experienced extraordinary development in its economic, social and environmental sectors, thus improving its worldwide ranking in several aspects. As per 2018 Statistics, Qatar ranked on the top of economies with ... -
The Effect of Performance Accountability Reporting on Public Trust for NPOS in Qatar
( Springer , 2022 , Conference)Public trust is one of the main pillars in the continuous of Non-profit Organizations (NPOs). In order for an NPO to build public trust, they need to provide accountability. Thus, the study examines the performance ... -
Demographic factors as determinants of e-government adoption
( IGI Global , 2020 , Book chapter)E-government services are important aspects of today's wellbeing of citizens. The adoption of technology is explored utilizing many theories and predictors. The theory of reasoned action (TRA) proposes that perceived ... -
Blogs as an Effective Social Media Tool in Education
( Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) , 2019 , Conference)Abstract: The growth of web 2.0 tools is increasingly influencing higher education. Educators debate the effectiveness of social media tools in educational environment. Some empirical studies reported positive evidences ... -
Changes in governance of corporate risks : Evidence from British Petroleum's response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident through narrative reporting
( Routledge , 2022 , Book chapter)This chapter explores how British Petroleum (BP) responded to the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident by articulating how BP actors changed how corporate risks are governed. Drawing on the Institutional Logics Perspective ... -
An analysis of the barriers to the proliferation of M-commerce in Qatar: A relationship modeling approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify and develop a hierarchical model for the barriers affecting the growth of mobile commerce (M-commerce). Based on the model developed, the authors' objective is to identify ... -
A Grey-based approach for ERP vendor selection in small and medium enterprises in Qatar
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)This paper aims to develop a multi-criteria decision model for the purpose of ERP vendor selection. To tackle the multi-criteria nature and the presence of both qualitative and quantitative factors, Grey-based model was ... -
Do Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Work Environment Impact Employees’ Psychosocial Hazards in the Oil and Gas Industry?
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Workplace hazards can have a significant influence on a worker’s physical and mental health, reducing an organization’s effectiveness in terms of safety. However, psychosocial hazards are being recognized as a crucial ... -
How does internal governance affect banks’ financial stability? Empirical evidence from Egypt
( Springer , 2021 , Article)This paper investigates whether internal governance mechanisms were associated with the financial stability of Egyptian banks over the period 2010–2019. To this end, a GMM regression analysis was employed using 252 firm-year ... -
The Perceived Impacts of Staging the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2022 , Article)This paper aimed to examine residents’ attitudes and perceptions of the social and cultural impacts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and to understand the legacy dimensions of this sport event in Qatar. Drawing on social exchange ... -
Enhancing students’ understanding and performance in a distance-learning setting: evidence from an audit simulation at a GCC university
( Emerald , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Drawing on experiential learning theory (ELT), this study aims to examine students’ performance and perceptions after performing an experiential learning activity (ELA) by completing a mini-audit simulation (AS) ... -
Assessing the Mediating Role of Safety Communication Between Safety Culture and Employees Safety Performance
( Frontiers , 2022 , Article)The main purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating role of safety communication (SCO) in the relationship between safety culture (SC) and safety performance (SP) amongst employees in the petrochemical ... -
Determinants of Basel III Risk Disclosures: The Case of Gulf Cooperation Council Public Banks
( Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya , 2022 , Article)Manuscript Type: Research paper Research aims: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and examine the determinants of risk disclosure practices under Basel 3, Pillar 3 (revised 2016 version) requirements of the top ... -
Risk disclosure, income smoothing and firm risk
( Emerald , 2020 , Article)Purpose: Evidence on whether firms with higher risk choose a more transparent or more opaque risk reporting strategy in their annual reports is mixed. A potential explanation is that firms choose an alternative reporting ... -
Risk reporting and earnings smoothing: signaling or managerial opportunism?
( Emerald , 2022 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the association between two reporting mechanisms used by managers to communicate risk information to the capital market: risk disclosure and earnings smoothing. Design/met ... -
ESG Reporting and Analysts’ Recommendations in GCC: The Moderation Role of Royal Family Directors
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)This study examines whether financial analysts consider or incorporate the environmental, social and governance disclosures (thereafter ESG) in their recommendations. We then test whether royal family directors affect this ... -
ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ON THE QATAR'S TOURISM INDUSTRY: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
( Little Lion Scientific , 2022 , Article)Globally, events arrangement and management have become an inspiring component for the destination marketing. Tourism industry is intemperately thriving on information produced specifically through big data. Big data ... -
The effect of emergent technologies on accountant`s ethical blindness
( Universidad de Huelva , 2021 , Article)The accounting field has come under scrutiny after a number of high-profile ethical scandals dealing with organizational fraud has been tied to the profession. While several accounting standards have been established to ... -
Perceptions of external auditors, preparers and users of financial statements about the adoption of IFRS 8
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose: Evidence from Jordan - The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of external auditors, preparers and users (investors and analysts) of financial statements in Jordan about this new segmental reporting ...
