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The Moderating Role of Nationality on Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism Development in the United Arab Emirates
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018)Tourism development led to increased numbers of international tourist arrivals worldwide in 2016, reaching 1.2 billion despite global challenges (UNWTO, 2017a). Tourism is a means of economic diversification for many ... -
Managing Organizational Change in the UAE: A Study of Select Organizations
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2017)As a systematic approach that deals with people and resources by utilizing certain factors, change management is not a new concept in organizations. Change management is viewed as a process that involves coordination, ... -
Managing the Spin-off Process: Multiple Cases from the United Arab Emirates
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2016)A corporate "spin-off" is a new phenomenon in United Arab Emirates (UAE) markets with potential for increased profit generation and market penetration. However, most empirical studies of spin-off businesses simply focus ... -
Knowledge Sharing, Firm Innovation Capability, Competitive Advantage and Financial Performance: An Empirical Study
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2016)In today’s knowledge-intensive society, organizations need to be able to effectively manage the increasingly important production factor “knowledge” in order to thrive. Previous studies have emphasized the importance of ... -
Service Innovation in the Hotel Sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2016)The tourism sector in United Arab Emirates (UAE) is currently witnessing strong growth, with 13.8 million visitors in 2013. MasterCard’s Global Destination Cities Index reported that Dubai was the fourth most visited city ... -
Implementation of Barcode Medication Administration System in Public Sector Medical Units in the UAE
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018-09)Patient safety and quality of care are a priority for the healthcare sector worldwide; this is mandated by global and international organizations World Health Organization (WHO, 2013, 2017), and local health authorities ... -
The Role of Public Policies in Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in the United Arab Emirates: Multiple Stakeholders Perspective
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2017-06)This study explores intermediary roles that public policies play to stimulate government agencies, businesses, and civil society to engage in a corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ... -
Role of Organizational Leadership, Structure, and Culture on Knowledge Management: The Moderating Influence of Organizational Citizenship Behavior
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018-10)Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine direct and indirect linkages amongst Organizational leadership, organizational structure, organizational culture and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) provide a ... -
Social Media Adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises Service Firms in the U.A.E. and its Impact on Business Performance
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018)This dissertation examines the key drivers of social media adoption by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates. It also looks at the impact of social media adoption on firm performance. The ... -
Big data maturity model: assessing organizational readiness for the new era of data analytics
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018-06)Today, in the era of Big Data, many organizations around the world realize that the ability to analyze and use big and complex data sets and data streams is becoming one of the most important sources of competitive ... -
Personality Traits and Work Engagement: Does Team-Member Exchange Make a Difference?
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2017-05)This study examines the impact of personality traits and team-member exchange on work engagement and the mediating effect of team-member exchange on personality traits and work engagement in a non-Western context in United ... -
Improving Mobile Government Services in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): The Integration of the Methods of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018-03)Mobile government (m-government) is an advanced delivery channel for governments to provide citizens with real-time information and services through mobile devices. Although the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council ... -
Assessment of Lean-Green Practices on Sustainable Performance in the Construction Industry of the United Arab Emirates
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2019-06)The current study examines the relationship between lean and green (combined as Le-Green) techniques and sustainable business performance in the construction industry. The study also tests the mediating effects of ... -
Impact of Toxic Leadership on Job Outcomes in the Banking Industry in the United Arab Emirates: The Mediating Role of Group Cohesion
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2018-10)Leadership has been a crucial area of scholarly research for decades. Many studies have been devoted to understanding the styles, characteristics, and behaviors inherent in successful leadership. However, few studies have ... -
English-Romanian Dictionary Of Business Terminology
(2017)The current dictionary is the result of twenty years of teaching and researching English for Specific Purposes, translating and interpreting in the field of business, banking and finance. Ever since I started teaching ... -
The Business English Language Curriculum
(2017)The present study came to life as a result of the scientific inquiry and classroom practice I carried out over a period of almost twenty years of teaching business English at tertiary level, before, during and after ... -
Universals And Variants Of English And Romanian Business Metaphors: A Corpus-Based Conceptual Mapping Of Contemporary Journalese From A Pedagogical Approach
(2015-11)The present book is a collection of papers presented on the occasion of the Kick off meeting of the CNCS UEFISCDI project Universals and variants of English and Romanian business metaphors . A corpus based conceptual mapping ... -
Behavioral mapping of Abu Dhabi’s public spaces: Urban research photography and cultural clashes
(, 2019-12)While the study of quotidian practices and daily experiences is now fully appreciated in western urbanism, it is still at an embryonic stage in the emerging new cities of the Middle East. This paper presents an ongoing ... -
Assessment Of Public And Environmental Health Effects Of Wad Medani City Landfill, Gezira State, Sudan
(kalpana Corporations, 2019-10)Wad Madani city produces about 300 tonnes of solid waste per day consisting of household, public streets, markets, factories and medical waste. These quantities of produced wastes used to be collected without any ... -
Pathogenic Microorganisms in University Offices Detection and Designing a Sustainable Organic Treatment
(Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication, 2019-09)People in developed countries spend approximately 90% of their lives indoors, yet little is known about the source and diversity of microbes in built environments and pathogens are spreading everywhere especially in the ... -
Perceptual Mapping of Selected Magazines with Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)
(MEPA, 2006)The first task of the brand manager when he considers his positioning strategy is to form a reasonably good idea of the market structure in which his brand will be a player. If he is planning to launch a magazine he will ... -
Methods of determining publishers’ advertising appropriation
(MEPA, 2006)Some experts recommend the consideration of promotional expenditure as another capital investment and not merely a current expenditure. This could materially alter the entire approach in setting appropriation level. A ... -
Certified wireless design professional
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Positioning of a new magazine in the publishing market
(MEPA, 2006)Most magazines are created to serve the needs of readers in a particular country. However successful titles and editorial concepts are increasingly exported to foreign markets as well For magazines the world is truly ... -
Market segmentation in a publishing market
(MEPA, 2006)In today's competitive business world, it is not possible to sell everything to everyone. There are different types of customers, each with different needs and wants, tastes and preferences, different purchasing power ... -
Use of semantic scale in research of publishing business
(MEPA, 2006)A common feature of marketing research is the attempt to have respondents communicate their feelings, attitudes, and evaluations Some measurable form„ To this end, marketing researchers have developed u range of Scales, ... -
Impact of green HR practices on environmental sustainability of a UAE based organization
(EM International, 2018)Sustainability can be defined as the way in which organizations manage their business so that it benefits their people, economy and environment. It is unarguably one of the most important pillars on which a business has ... -
Sustainable Development through Carbon Trading Mechanism in the UAE context
(EM International, 2018-07)Sustainable development is considered as a progressive growth of a nation without disturbing the natural resources and carbon trading is defined as a trading process were two different nations exchange or borrow the carbon ... -
Sustainable business through carbon financing with a special reference to UAE banks.
(2019)Green House Gases (GHG) emission creates the global warming. To reduce the consequence of CO2 emissions, many countries contribute to carbon financing through capture and storage process. Through carbon financing, hazardous ... -
A case study of impact of online media on print media of SRPC
(2011-06)The print-Internet combat has drag ged several traditional publishing cbmpanies into the battleground, promptiyg many erstwhile print media houses to explore the hypnotic world of new media One such company is Saudi Research ... -
Characterization of organophosphate pesticides in the agricultural community :A qulaitative research
(Kalpana Corporation, 2019)Organophosphates are widely used as insecticides in agriculture and they are known to be a cause of poisoning. Organophosphates works by blocking the pathway for the enzyme acetyl cholinesterase leading to cause respiratory ... -
Development and Host Selection of Peach Rootborer on Stone-Fruit Trees in Jordan
(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing,, 2011)Field and laboratory experiments were conducted during the period from April 2006 to December 2008 to investigate the life history, reproduction, dispersal, overwintering, and host selection of peach rootborer (PRB). The ... -
Bioecology and control of Capnodis spp. (Coleoptera Buprestidae) in Irbid governorate, Jordan : handbook
(Amman : University of Jordan, 2008)This book comes to illustrate and explain the field experiments conducted in to study the bioecology and control of Capnodis spp. In Irbid Governorate, Jordan. The experiment identified four species of capnodis, and ... -
Isolation, Identification and Manipulation of Almond Borer Pheromones
(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing,, 2011)Laboratory and field experiments were carried out during the period from 2003 to 2005 to isolate and identify the pheromones of Almond Borer (AB), Capnodis carbonaria, test the attraction of AB to the isolated pheromone ... -
Global and Environmental Health- Risks and Challenges
(LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing,, 2017)This book is written in an attempt to place all the global and environmental health risks and challenges in our modern world in one volume. Topics as environment and health, pollution, global warming, population explosion, ... -
Determination of Pesticide Residues on Date Palm in the UAE
(Research India Publications., 2017)Pesticides have been used on plants to protect them and their fruits since ancient times,But we are not always aware of the types of pesticides and chemicals used and how dangerous can they be to us the consumers. In this ... -
Indoor air quality (iaq) in the uae research in environmental health and safety
(2017)Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has been one of the most important aspects that environmentalists consider. Since UAE residents spend 80%-95% of their time indoors to escape high temperatures. Individuals should pay attention to ... -
Competitive, Sustainable Natural Pesticides
(Elsevier, 2019)To control the negative effects of synthetic pesticides, natural organic pesticides should take place to be an alternative to synthetic pesticides which have a lot of harms on the environment and public health. These ... -
Climate Change Patterns in the UAE: A Qualitative Research and Review
(Technoscience Publications, 2018-07)Climate change is an inevitable challenge for the whole world these days. United Arab Emirates (UAE) is classified among the countries with highest rate of vulnerability to the potential impacts of climate change in the ... -
Low cost carriers versus traditional carriers and its impact on financial performance: a comparative study on the UAE airlines companies
(Inderscience Publisher, 2017)he initial appearance of US low-cost carriers forced incumbents to create new forms of competitive advantage. However, these hindrances proved to be successful for nearly two decades. In any case, a new report by the NBK ... -
The Distinct Character of a Capital? From Formality to Regularity of Our Ancient Capitals
(IOP Publishing, 2018)Many cities were shaped by dynamics political and commercial factors and manmade layers whereas other capitals have been modeled spontaneously by natural influence, London is great sample of this approach and was described ... -
Industrial Leadership within the United Arab Emirates: How Does Personality Influence the Leadership Effectiveness of Indian Expatriates?
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012)This study seeks to investigate the influence of personality traits on leadership effectiveness of Indian expatriates working in the United Arab Emirates. Survey data were collected from 152 Indian expatriates, who currently ... -
Does effective leadership style drive financial performance of banks? Analysis in the Context of UAE Banking Sector
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)The success for any organization in its competitive business arena depends upon an effective human resource system that is lien with its organizational strategy. In today’s world banks play an important role in the social ... -
Emergence of Digital Publishing – A Great Challenge to The Print Publications
(Elsevier, 2015)n this modern age, people are provided with a wide range of traditional and digital channels. Currently online news sites havegreatly satisfied the expectations of the readers, and there has been a ... -
Proliferation of E-Newspapers and Its Financial Impact on the Publishing Industry in UAE
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2015)Currently online news sites have greatly satisfied the expectations of the readers, and there has been a decrease in the circulation of print newspapers. Proliferation of various e newspapers has given a lot of choices ... -
The Impact of Board Gender Diversity and Foreign Institutional Investors on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engagement of Chinese Listed Companies. Sustainability 2019,
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019)The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of board gender diversity and foreign institutional investors on the corporate social responsibility engagement of Chinese listed companies by considering a sample ... -
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Financial Performance of the Manufacturing Sector? Evidence from an Emerging Economy
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019)The present study analyzed the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting on the financial performance of Indian companies. It used secondary data from 50 manufacturing companies over the period of fiscal ... -
Nonlinear Dynamics of Flexible Rotors Supported on Journal Bearings—Part II: Numerical Bearing Model
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018)The nonlinear stability of a flexible rotor-bearing system supported on finite length journal bearings is addressed. A perturbation method of the Reynolds lubrication equation is presented to calculate the bearing nonlinear ... -
Nonlinear Dynamics of Flexible Rotors Supported on Journal Bearings—Part I: Analytical Bearing Model
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018)To determine the bifurcation types in a rotor-bearing system, it is required to find higher order derivatives of the bearing forces with respect to journal velocity and position. As closed-form expressions for journal ... -
Impact of corruption on economic development: Case of Tunisia
(NSP, 2018)In this paper, we predict the economic development of Tunisia by applying the alpha (a) model. The model is first validated for ten countries which were qualified as the less corrupted countries worldwide using the ...
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