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The moderating role of business growth on the relationship between business development services provided by islamic microfinance institutions and customer satisfaction: A study on the SMEs in Yemen
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
, 2014 , Article)
This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of business growth on the relationship between Business Development Services (BDS) and SMEs owners' satisfaction on the Islamic Microfinance System in Yemen. Specifically, ...
Balancing Digital-By-Default with Inclusion: A Study of the Factors Influencing E-Inclusion in the UK
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Springer New York LLC
, 2019 , Article)
Digital inclusion research has been critically important in drawing an understanding of how policies, society, organisations, and information technologies can all come together within a national environment that aspires ...
Revisiting the relationship between formal planning process and planning effectiveness: Do organizational capabilities and decision-making style matter?
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to address a timely research question by clarifying whether formal planning is a worthy approach for hotels. In so doing, the authors developed a theoretical model that extends prior ...
Imperatives for improving entrepreneurial behavior among females in the UAE: An empirical study and structural model
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: Despite various governmental efforts, female entrepreneurship in the UAE is still not a popular option among women. The purpose of this study is to identify the enablers to female entrepreneurship and to establish ...
The influence of CSR on perceived value, social media and loyalty in the hotel industry
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to examine how perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities (i.e. environment, society and stakeholders) enhance perceived value, social media engagement to win customer loyalty ...
Services marketing practices in diverse cultures: Canada compared to Qatar
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
The service marketing literature has traditionally argued that the marketing practices of service firms that operate in diverse cultures should also differ. This paper aims to investigate this argument by examining ...
Toward a contagion-based model of mobile banking adoption
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the following question: Can a bank capitalize on its well-established self-service technologies (SSTs) in order to entice customers to adopt a newly introduced SST, namely, ...
Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...
Capital Budgeting Practices: The Case of Qatar
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Qatar University
, 2010 , Article)
The purpose of this project was to investigate the capital budgeting practice in the largest firms in Qatar. A survey was conducted of the 170 largest firms and corporations. A total of 55 completed surveys were received, ...
Data envelopment analysis and data mining to efficiency estimation and evaluation
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the application of seven statistical and data mining techniques to second-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) for bank performance. Design/methodology/approach: Different statistical ...