College of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Metaverse in marketing and logistics: the state of the art and the path forward
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Ever since its emergence, the metaverse has presented opportunities and disruptions to every stakeholder, including individual users and organizations. This article aims to offer valuable perspectives on six ... -
The reality of financing small tourism firms: The case of Indian tourism SMEs
( IGI Global , 2020 , Article)Small tourist firms occupy an important place within the Indian tourism industry and make a significant contribution towards gross domestic production. This study investigates access to and finance preferences of SME tourism ... -
Understanding ethical and other SMEs internationalisation determinants and its impact on business performance: A primary attempt to understand Malaysian SMEs internationalisation
( IGI Global , 2021 , Article)The research in hand attempts to investigate the different factors influencing SMEs' decision to internationalise in developing countries (such as Malaysia) including the impacts of ethical issues on the internationalisation ... -
Understanding ethical and other SMEs internationalisation determinants and its impact on business performance: A primary attempt to understand Malaysian SMEs internationalisation
( IGI Global , 2023 , Book chapter)The research in hand attempts to investigate the different factors influencing SMEs' decision to internationalise in developing countries (such as Malaysia) including the impacts of ethical issues on the internationalisation ... -
Comparison of modular and traditional UK housing construction: a bibliometric analysis
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2021 , Article Review)Purpose: Housing completions in the UK have fallen to 125,000 annually, while government targets have risen to 300,000. This dramatic shortfall raises concerns as to whether current traditional construction approaches ... -
Performance management within the Dutch steel processing industry
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article Review)Purpose: A comprehensive literature review of performance management within the Dutch steel processing industry is presented. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the motives for companies to become excellent performers ... -
Dynamics of group lending mechanism and the role of group leaders in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria
( IGI Global , 2022 , Book chapter)Group lending mechanisms have increasingly become popular among microfinance providers in recent years. This is largely due to its ability to leverage joint liability to increase loan repayments whilst promoting an ... -
Assessment methods in entrepreneurship education, challenges and opportunities in developed and developing nations: a comparative study of Nigeria and England
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2021 , Article)Purpose: With the growth of entrepreneurship education adoption in higher education institutions (HEIs), the importance of assessments as a tool to gauge and enhance learning is of utmost importance. The purpose of this ... -
The reality of financing small tourism firms: The case of Indian Tourism SMEs
( IGI Global , 2021 , Book chapter)Small tourist firms occupy an important place within the Indian tourism industry and make a significant contribution towards gross domestic production. This study investigates access to and finance preferences of SME tourism ... -
Social media adoption and financial sustainability: Learned lessons from developing countries
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)Social Media (SM) is considered one of the most discussed topics in today's business environment, mostly because of the recent developments and improvements in computer and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) ... -
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 ...
