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Perceptions of the accountant held by business students and business professionals in an emerging country: The case of Qatar
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Emerald
, 2010 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how business students and business professionals in Qatar perceive the accountancy profession. Design/methodology/approach: The paper designs a survey based on Osgood ...
A Qatari perspective on women in the engineering pipeline: an exploratory study
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Taylor & Francis
, 2010 , Article)
Under-representation of women in engineering has received a great deal of attention, but remained limited largely to a Western context. Thus, this article aims to unveil the barriers to progress, tracking the performance ...
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, ...
Optimal Pricing and order quantity strategies for a firm offering multiple products facing customers cannibalization and random market demand
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Qatar University
, 2010 , Article)
This paper studies a firm’s profitability problem offering its products into different market segments at differentiated prices. In order to improve the firms’ profitability the firm needs to decide the prices and order ...
Project Management Performance Drivers
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Qatar University
, 2010 , Article)
The practice of project management has gained enormous importance over the past several years in various business industries. “In industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, software, and aerospace, projects drive business” ...
Sustainable supply chains: A study of interaction among the enablers
(2010 , Article)
Purpose: A focus on supply chains is a step towards the broader adoption and development of sustainability, since the supply chain considers the product from initial processing of raw materials to delivery to the customer. ...
Analysing the barriers to corporate social responsibility in supply chains: An interpretive structural modelling approach
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2010 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to identify barriers to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chains and understand their mutual relationships. Interpretive structural modelling was applied to present a hierarchy- ...
Management accounting system application in banks in the State of Qatar
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Inderscience
, 2010 , Article)
The importance of management accounting systems (MAS) in measuring the non-financial performance is increasing, especially in the service sector. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to investigate the nature of MAS ...
Application of electronic signatures in business and their influence on electronic commerce implementation
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Inderscience
, 2010 , Article)
The internet has changed how participants around the world view telecommunications, buying, selling and transactions. Electronic Commerce (EC) and Electronic Signatures (ES) make it possible for enterprises to expand their ...
The cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan
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EuroJournals, Inc.
, 2010 , Article)
This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...