Center for Entrepreneurship and Organizational Excellence: Recent submissions
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Can board environmental orientation improve U.S. firms' carbon performance? The mediating role of carbon strategy
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment , 2020 , Article)Overwhelming evidence from prior research suggests a positive association between corporate board characteristics and carbon performance; however, very little is known about the mechanisms linking the two variables. This ... -
A literature review of the strategic decision-making context: A synthesis of previous mixed findings and an agenda for the way forward
( AIMS , 2020 , Article)The aim of this article is to conduct a comprehensive literature review concerning the influence of contextual factors on strategic decision processes. Our literature review organizes the existing literature on contextual ... -
Contextualizing Internationalization Decision-making Research in SMEs: Towards an Integration of Existing Studies
( European Academy of Management , 2020 , Article)This paper advances research on SME internationalization decision-making through considering the relevance of its context. It systematically reviews empirical studies, together with conceptual papers and other reviews in ... -
Impact of employees' perceived corporate social responsibility on organizational citizenship behavior: A proposed theoretical model
( IGI Global Publishing , 2020 , Article)Perceived reality plays a more prominent role in shaping one's attitudes and behaviors than the actual reality itself. Research on perceived corporate social responsibility (PCSR) has gained interest and this research study ... -
Balanced scorecard in the hospitality and tourism industry: Past, present and future
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)After its introduction in 1992, the balanced scorecard (BSC) has attracted considerable interest from both scholars and practitioners. This is evidenced by the increasing number of publications addressing BSC and the large ... -
Education and employment reforms toward developing human capital: the case of Qatar
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2023 , Article)This study aims to build on the human capital development theory that focuses on the education and development of individuals considering their spillover impact on the organization’s and community’s improvement. Through ... -
Do quality and business excellence models improve quality and operational results in educational organizations? A repeated cross-sectional analysis
( Springer Nature , 2022 , Article)Improving quality and operational practices in education organizations and developing a culture of continuous improvement are crucial yet challenging endeavors because of the complex nature of education organizations. While ... -
A Comparative Assessment of Quality Management Practices in Manufacturing Firms and Service Firms: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
( IEEE , 2022 , Article)There are significant structural differences between the manufacturing and service sectors at the firm level, but quality management research has not yet identified similarities or differences in the quality management ... -
The harder firms practice strategic management, the better they are
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2020 , Article)The integrated practice of strategic management, that is the use of the three components of the strategic management process (formulation, implementation, and evaluation) does matter. Firms should plan intensively and pay ... -
Management research in the Arab World: What is now and what is next?
( Elsevier Inc. , 2020 , Article)Given the significant political and socio-economic transformations occurring in the challenging yet under-researched Arab world nowadays, this study seeks to (1) systematically review the literature in the leading mainstream ... -
Deciding Fast: Examining the Relationship between Strategic Decision Speed and Decision Quality across Multiple Environmental Contexts
( John Wiley & Sons Ltd , 2021 , Article)Rapid innovation, shortened product life cycles and fierce competition place great pressures on top managers to make fast strategic decisions. However, a key question in strategic decision-making research is whether decision ... -
Change or perish: Examining the role of human capital and dynamic marketing capabilities in the hospitality sector
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)Many researchers have endeavored to explain which factors contribute to sustainable competitive advantage. Toward this end, this study contributes to the marketing and hospitality management literature by providing empirical ... -
The predictive ability of stock market factors
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to ask whether a range of stock market factors contain information that is useful to investors by generating a trading rule based on one-step-ahead forecasts from rolling and recursive regressions. ... -
The impact of ownership structure and corporate governance on capital structure decisions in the UAE
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2022 , Article)This paper investigates how ownership and corporate governance influence the capital structure decisions within an emerging market context, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 2008 to 2019. We employ panel models ... -
Multi-criteria classification, sorting, and clustering: a bibliometric review and research agenda
( Springer Nature Switzerland AG. , 2022 , Article)Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been increasingly adopted to solve decision-making problems involving multiple options and multiple criteria. These methods have been proven to improve the analytic rigor, ... -
Policies and Programs to Stimulate Digital Transformation Among SMEs: Where Do We Go from Here?
( Springer Nature Switzerland AG , 2022 , Book chapter)To stimulate digital transformation among SMEs, institutions and governments have developed and implemented many policies and programs. This chapter reviews existing policies and programs, assesses their effectiveness, and ... -
Assessing the Potential Impact of Introducing VAT on Price Levels in Qatar
( Internationaal Bureau voor Fiscale Documentatie (IBFD) , 2021 , Article)Potential introduction of VAT in Qatar may have a significant pass-through effect on inflation rates. Nevertheless, using the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices at constant tax rates (HICP-CT), in this article the authors ... -
How Do SMEs Decide on International Market Entry? An Empirical Examination in the Middle East
( Elsevier Inc. , 2022 , Article)This study contributes to the scant literature that scrutinises the decision-making process preceding foreign entries, particularly in the Middle Eastern context. While considerable research has examined the content and ... -
Policy and practical implications for workforce nationalization in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to advance practice and research on workforce nationalization in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries through identifying relevant policy and practical implications needed to implement ... -
Terrorist attacks and bank financial stability: evidence from MENA economies
( Springer Nature Switzerland AG. , 2022 , Article)This study examines the impact of terrorism on bank stability, represented by bank risk and financial performance. We consider banks from 14 countries located in the Middle East and North Africa region for the period ...
