College of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Short Term Effects of Excise Taxes on Demand for Carbonated Sweetened Beverages in Qatar.
(2020 , Professional Masters Project)From January 1st 2019, the Qatari Government implemented a 50% taxation on “Sugar-Sweetened Carbonated Beverages, or SSBs” in Qatar. Taxation of unhealthy products is an effective, economic tool widely used across the ... -
Using Social Media Influencers to Promote Qatar as a Tourist Destination
(2020 , Professional Masters Project)The main objective of this study is to understand the qualities of social media influencers, in the travel and tourism industry, which generate trust in the followers, thereby having an impact on the followers’ intention ... -
Clinical Information System: Measuring End-User Satisfaction in a Governmental Hospital in Qatar
(2020 , Professional Masters Project)Clinical services in hospitals are too diversified and include different kinds of care patient needs. To be efficient, clinical services need to be supported by a promising clinical information system. As we did not find ... -
The Effects of Board Characteristics and Ownership Structures on Compliance with Mandatory IAS/IFRS Disclosure Requirements: Evidence from Qatar
(2020 , Master Thesis)Compliance with internationally accepted and renowned accounting disclosure requirements has presented itself with having utmost importance in times of increased calls for transparency. This study aims to examine the effect ... -
An M-Commerce Platform to Help Solve the Challenges Faced by Independent Home Businesses in Qatar
(2019 , Master Thesis)The theoretical part of my dissertation briefly looks at entrepreneurship and the process of generating a business model plan. The changes in modern technology mean that business plans must be generated to take advantage ... -
Integrated Marketing and communication connecting customers for sustainable growth and building brand for SME’s in Qatar
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)SMEs in Qatar face various challenges to sustain and grow, which may even be a threat to their existence, leading them to exit the market if not dealt with carefully. This study focuses on Integrated Marketing and ... -
Using Data Mining Techniques to Predict NOx Emissions Levels in Gas Fired Boilers
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)Natural gas industry becomes one of the largest sectors in the today’s world economy. With the growth of production, pollutants from gas processing plants continue to grow, forcing government and legislative authorities ... -
Study of Intrapreneurship in Qatar: An Empirical Study and Structural Model
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)Intrapreneurship has provided great opportunities for organizations that have practiced it in different countries. Intrapreneurship is a process by which employees within an organization take the lead in producing new ... -
Estimating Economic Growth through Cobb-Douglas Production Function, Statistical, and Goal Programming Models
(2019 , Master Thesis)Several studies have linked economic growth to renewable energy sources utilization. The Cobb-Douglas production function model is widely applied to estimate the contribution of economic variables to the Gross Domestic ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSUMER INTENTION TO BUY THROUGH SOCIAL COMMERCE IN QATAR
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)Social commerce is a new concept in the field of information technology. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the consumers’ intention to buy through social commerce in Qatar context. The current study ... -
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH ONLINE FOOD ORDERING PORTALS IN QATAR
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)The recent boom in online food ordering and delivery in Qatar has led to increased competition among service providers within the industry. Identifying the lack of research in the context of Qatar’s online food industry, ... -
VALUE BEHIND SAVING AND REUSING SHOPPING BAGS
(2019 , Master Thesis)The behavior associated with saving and reusing shopping bags has been heavily researched in the context of environmental studies. However, few studies have examined this behavior from the perspective of consumer behavior. ... -
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR ERP IMPLEMENTATION - THE CASE OF QATAR
(2019 , Professional Masters Project)Due to ERP high failure rate, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation issues have been highly addressed in the literatures. Some studies have concentrated on the effect of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ... -
Board diversity and firm performance: empirical evidence from the united kingdom
(2019 , Master Thesis)This study examines the relationship between board diversity and firms’ performance in the UK by examining cross-sectional data for 2013–2016 from the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 350 companies. Board diversity ... -
The Effects Of Social Media Influencer Attributes On Collaborating Brand Credibility And Advocacy
(2019 , Master Thesis)This thesis investigates different characteristics and dimensions related to social media influencers that might affect some brand outcomes after being endorsed by /collaborating with the influencer in brand communications. ... -
The Effect Of Message Lexical Concreteness On Customer Inspiration: The Moderating Roles Of Product Category And Regulatory Focus
(2019 , Master Thesis)The concept of customer inspiration has only recently been conceptualized in marketing. This thesis examines the impact of marketing communication on customer inspiration. More specifically, it attempts to ascertain whether ... -
Examining The Effects Of Parasocial Interaction And Identification With Social Media Influencers On Collaborating Brands
(2019 , Master Thesis)The thesis explores the phenomenon of social media influencers, reveal their distinctive features, explain how followers develop relationships with them and clarify how and why a cooperation with influencers could be ... -
Environmental, Social And Governance Disclosure And Profitability: Gcc Banks’ Comparative Study
(2019 , Master Thesis)The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between Voluntary disclosure (VD) and profitability of publicly traded banks operating in the GCC region over the period 2007-2017. We incorporate stakeholder ... -
Strategic Sourcing in Construction Companies- A Case Study in Qatar
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Sourcing is a key success for modern business, it is a continuous process based on business analysis and market intelligence to incorporate customer needs and organizational goals; thus, improving overall value of the ... -
The Impact of Qatarization on Motivation and Job Performance
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)The flourishing economy of Qatar has created many jobs opportunities in the country. The severe shortage in the national workforce, made Qatar dependent on expatriate workers, that has dominated the labor force. As a ...
