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Feminine Work Ethic in Small Business: Women Small Business Owners in Thailand's Kuan Im Movement
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Firm-Specific Factors As Determinants of Capital Structure in The Absence of Taxes
(2012)Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA) is used to identify the determinants of capital structure in a tax-free environment, using data on Kuwaiti shareholding companies. The results which are more supportive of the pecking order ... -
Food Consumption and Waste in Kuwait: the Prospects for Demand-Side Approach to Food Security
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Arab countries (with population of around 367 Million) import about 50% of their food needs. These countries enjoy rapid population growth rate of around ... -
Framing the Islamic State on Al Jazeera English and the BBC websites
(2015)his study examines the media coverage of the Islamic State (IS) currently vying to establish a caliphate in the Middle East. The websites of Al Jazeera English (AJE) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) were ... -
Gender differences in salespeople: Implications for sales organizations
(Northern Illinois University, 2020-01-01)A national random sample of insurance salespeople was surveyed to assess their selling skills and theory of mind capabilities including rapport building, taking a bird’s – eye view, detecting nonverbal cues, and shaping ... -
Goodwill accounting in the United Kingdom: The effect of international financial reporting standards
(2013)The accounting treatment of goodwill has been the source of much debate and controversy amongst standard setters and financial report preparers in UK and many other countries. There have been great difficulties in the ... -
How will the economy be affected by covid 19 locally and globally?
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I'm a stay at home businesswoman: An insight into informal entrepreneurship in Jordan
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)Women and disadvantaged minorities within emerging and developing economies often resort to business activity within the informal economy as a way to overcome various barriers and challenges to formal workforce participation. ... -
Implementation Shortfall in Transaction Cost Analysis: A Further Extension
(2017)Transaction cost, defined as implementation shortfall that is originally proposed by Perold (1988), is an important element in portfolio performance measurement. There are several factors visible or fixed (such as commission ... -
Importance of Management and Administrative Ethics on Corporate Success and Sustainability
(2017)This paper is intended to highlight the importance of management and administrative ethics in the inception and sustainability of a profound construction company in the Arab world. Osman Ahmed Osman & Co™ was established ... -
Importance of service elements among Chinese gamblers visiting Macau
(2011)Casino gaming is a common form of entertainment in many countries, and the casino gaming industry worldwide is expanding at a rapid pace (Lee et al., 2006). Macau is one of the main locations of the gaming industry in ... -
Incentive Compensation and Complex Outsourcing
(2015)This study addresses the relationship between incentive compensation and complex outsourcing in somewhat different vein. The agency theory suggests, firstly that managers are constantly faced with allocation of efforts ...