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Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: A Correlational Study in Bahrain
(2013)The purpose of this study was to examine 1) the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment; 2) the impact of demographics key variables on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in a private ... -
Key success factors behind Electronic Medical Record adoption in Thailand
(2011)The concept of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems started in the 1970s, but even today there are still many obstacles to physicians’ adoption of computer technology. This study examines factors which personnel in ... -
Key success factors behind Electronic Medical Record adoption in Thailand
(2016)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the elements that health care personnel in Thailand believe are necessary for successful adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Kuwait Water Challenges: Building a Research Agenda for Policy Impact and Student Experiential Learnin
(2017)This paper describes the development of a research agenda in the College of Business and Economics at the American University of Kuwait. One driving factor for developing an agenda is the need to satisfy AACSB requirements. ... -
Kuwait’s evolving approach to waste disposal and management
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Managing Competency in Non-Profit Organization: Experience with a European University
(2014)Competence Management (CM) has been discussed in contemporary academic and practitioner literature as a managing tool of Core Competences. Most of the studies of CM deal with manufacturing sector and profit organizations. ... -
The Many Facets of National Culture: A Critical Appraisal
(Brill, 2018-11-12)Due to its wide usage in vast fields of study, there is a lack of studies synthesizing the many aspects of national culture theory. The authors argue that given the proliferation of national culture theories in various ... -
Marketing and Regional Integration for Food Security in the Arab World, Journal of Macromarketing, Vol.39, Issue 2, June 19.
(Sage, 2019)The Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region faces serious food insecurity, with an increasing gap between food production and consumption. Using resource advantage theory from macromarketing, we demonstrate that the ... -
Markets and the development of Oman's urban network
(2013)Oman traditionally was characterized by a dichotomy between the economic systems of the coast and interior, evident in the spatial market structure and the role of markets in the urban settlements. Muscat was the point of ... -
Non–Linear Convergence in Asian Interest and Inflation Rates: Evidence from Asian Countries
(2014)We examine the dynamics of convergence in seven Asian countries for nominal and real interest rates, and inflation rates. We test for convergence relative to the U.S. and Japan, using quarterly data 1973:2–2011:3, employing ... -
Nurturing Innovation Through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What does the literature say?
(Springer Publishing, 2019-07-11)This chapter presents a literature review about entrepreneurial ecosystems and their relationship with entrepreneurship and innovation. Reviewed studies were aggregated into clusters and interpreted through the Neck et al. ... -
On the Dynamics of Volatility Transmission: An Empirical Investigation on G-8 Countries
(2013)This paper investigates the volatility transmission in the financial markets of G-8 countries by using the VAREGARCH techniques. From the empirical analyses, it shows that volatility transmissions are present between the ... -
Optimal Portfolio Allocation among REITs, Stocks, and Long-term Bonds: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Financial Markets”
(2014)Using mean-variance utility function analysis with various degrees of risk aversion, this research examines the impact of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in creating optimal portfolios. It also examines and develops ...