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Feminine Work Ethic in Small Business: Women Small Business Owners in Thailand's Kuan Im Movement
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Enabling a motivated workforce: exploring the sources of motivation
(2012)This paper recognizes self determination theory (SDT) as a model to successfully motivate an organization's workforce and recommends SDT as a more encompassing theory of motivation. Consequently, motivation assumes a ... -
Value relevance of earnings, book value and dividends in an emerging capital market: Kuwait evidence in an Emerging Capital Market: The Case of Kuwait
(2012)This study examines the value relevance of book value, earnings and dividends for a sample of all non-financial firms listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) over the period 2003–2009. After controlling for the impact ... -
The Determinants of Capital Structure in a Tax Free Environment: An Extreme Bounds Analysis
(2012)Extreme bounds analysis is used to identify the determinants of capital structure in a tax-free environment, using data from Oman. The results show some evidence for the importance of liquidity, tangibility, growth ... -
Perspectives in Business Succession in the Gulf
(2012)Upon the sudden departure of a family leader, major upheavals arise in the absence of proper succession strategies. Within this context small family business succession should receive increased prominence. Literature ... -
Integrating Focal Determinants of Service Fairness into Post-Acceptance Model of IS Continuance in Cloud Computing.
(2012)This study integrates the focal determinants of service fairness into a post-acceptance model of information system continuance. This study added structural and social service fairness constructs based on Greenberg's (1993) ... -
Comparative predictability of Failure of Financial Institutions Using Multiple Models
(2012)The impact of failure of financial institutions is beyond just the failure of a public corporation. The failure of financial institutions in the USA, is a clear evidence that the greater macro impact is beyond just the ... -
Indian Tigers, Chinese Dragons: Uncertainty, Risk, and Entrepreneurial Behavior
(2012)Indian Tigers, Chinese Dragons: Uncertainty, Risk, and Entrepreneurial Behavior -
The Impact of Organizational Leadership Ethical Conduct on Hospital Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Correlational Study in Kuwait
(2012)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational leadership unethical/ethicalconduct and job satisfaction of employees in a private hospital in Kuwait. Data was obtained from a privatehospital ... -
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 ... -
The Value Relevance of Goodwill Impairments: UK Evidence
(2012)Using a sample of 528 firm-year observations, drawn from the top 500 UK listed firms for 2005 and 2006, this study employs a multivariate ordinary least squares regression to assess the value relevance of goodwill impairment ... -
Reform of Sales Management and Evolution of the Role of Guanxi in China
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Enterprising versus traditional change management in a for-profit university
(2013)Universities for decades have used bureaucratic organizational structures as they relied on government funding and operated in stable environments. Educational innovations and market developments have prompted the enterprising ... -
Technical and Non-technical Aspects of World e-Business Education
(2013)Technical and non-technical course content was investigated for 153 e-business degree program curricula based in different parts of the world. Data were collected from university web pages for bachelor’s and master’s degree ... -
Spatial Externalities in Rural Economic Growth.
(2013)The growing interest on the economic geography issues has provided new vigour to the research efforts aiming at explaining economic phenomena without neglecting space. In particular several studies have focused on the role ... -
Customers Awareness and satisfaction of Islamic Banking Products and Services
(2013)The objective of this study is to explore the levels of customer awareness and satisfaction with Islamic financial products and services offered by the Kuwait Finance House (KFH). The attempt is also made to identify ...