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Driving Organizational Innovation Through Transformational Leadership
(Abu Dhabi University, 2013)Purpose of the study- This research aims to provide a deeper understanding of the extent that transformational leadership can affect the organization to be innovative. To understand this relationship, three propositions ... -
Studies in Management of Stress among Police Personnel in the United Arab Emirates
(Abu Dhabi University, 2019-10)The nature of police work makes police officers vulnerable to physical and psychological health issues. Recognizing stress and its causes is essential to develop remedial measures. The aim of this research was to identify ... -
Conceptualizing of Sustainability in The Civil Aviation Sector in Dubai
(Abu Dhabi University, 2022)The civil aviation sector in Dubai has become a world leader because of its constant advancements and implementation of new technologies. It has been fostering the economic development of Dubai by enhancing transportation, ... -
Impact of Cultural Intelligence on Transformational Leadership in the UAE’s Parliamentary Diplomac
(Abu Dhabi University, 2021)This study examines the relationship between Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Transformational Leadership (TL) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the Parliamentary Group of the UAE’s Federal National Council. The paper ... -
Diving into detailed experiences: Muslim employees on Islamic work ethic, organizational (in) justice, and other motivational factors
(Abu Dhabi University, 2021-03)This study explores how Muslim public sector employees in Al Ain, a more traditional region in the United Arab Emirates, experience Islamic work ethic and how they feel that Islamic work ethic mingles with other ... -
Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovative Work Behavior and Organizational Deviance: Role of Passion at Work and Organizational Commitment
(Abu Dhabi University, 2022)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic objective in many United Arab Emirates (UAE) organizations, specifically in the hospitals. It is measured via high-quality service delivery to communities. Evidently, ... -
The impact of corporate governance on corporate social responsibility disclosure of uae listed banks
(Abu Dhabi University, 2022-04)The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent and trends of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure of United Arab Emirates (UAE) listed banks, including conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks ... -
Influence of tensile strength on toppling failure in centrifuge tests
(Pergamon, 2010-09)In toppling of rock slopes, thin slabs of rock displace out of the slope, eventually forming a rupture surface. This toppling process involves slip between the thin slabs and tensile rupture across the slabs. A numerical ... -
Institutions, development and energy constraints
(Elsevier, 2018-01)Micro survey data is used to explore the impact of firm-specific characteristics on firms' access to energy in 138 developing countries. The results show that firm-specific characteristics (age, size, sector of activity, ... -
Employee social sustainability: Prioritizing dimensions in the UAE’s airlines industry
(Emerald lnsight, 2019-05)Purpose This paper aims to identify and prioritize the dimensions that impact employee social sustainability in the airline industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The five main criteria ... -
Algebraic modelling of a two level supply chain with defective items
(EDP Sciences, 2018-04)M. Khan and M.Y. Jaber, Optimal inventory cycle in a two-stage supply chain incorporating imperfect items from suppliers. Int. J. Oper. Res. 10 (2011) 442–457, have addressed a two level supply chain of defective items. ... -
Perspectives of Water Level Measurement in Plastic Pipes Using Wideband Horn Antenna
(Technology & Applied Science Research, 2018-01)This paper is concerned with the investigation of a possible working principle of a microwave sensor for the measurement of water levels in plastic pipes. According to the research, most current sensors for water level ... -
Impact of Capacity Constraints on the Dynamic Response of Two Level Supply Chain
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014)This paper investigates the impact of capacity constraints on the stability boundaries of two tier supply chain. System dynamic simulation using iThink Software has been applied to explore the impact of different levels ... -
Inventory control in a two-level supply chain with learning, quality and inspection errors
(Library and Archives Canada= Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2011)A common measure of quality for a buyer or a vendor is the defect rate. Defects may represent an attribute, a dimension or a quantity. They may be classified as product quality defects or process quality defects. Product ... -
A two-stage supply chain with inspection errors and learning in production
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)It is imperative for the firms today to continuously look for ways to improve their performance. Coordination is a tool that is frequently employed for this purpose. Common cycle time, quantity discounts and delay in ... -
Personality of leaders in the context of transformational leadership in the UAE
(Inderscience Publishers (IEL), 2019)This paper evaluates the impact of the 'big five' personality dimensions of leaders, focusing on how and to what extent, they influence transformational leadership in the United Arab Emirates. Online-survey data were ... -
Optimal determination of production run and initial settings of process parameters for a deteriorating process
(Springer-Verlag, 2007-04)This paper presents a generalized model for the optimal determination of a production run and the initial settings of the process mean and process variance for a deteriorating production process. It is assumed that the ... -
Integrated decision models for a vendor–buyer supply chain with inspection errors and purchase and repair options
(Springer London, 2019-10)Improving the performance of supply chains is imperative in the contemporary competitive business environment. Integrated decision models incorporating various important aspects and decision variables into a single model ... -
Analysis of capacity constraints on the backlog bullwhip effect in the two-tier supply chain: a Taguchi approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-01)This paper investigates the impact of capacity constraints and safety stock on the backlog bullwhip effect in a model of a two-tier supply chain. One of the most commonly applied methodologies to study the various aspects ... -
Learning and screening errors in an EPQ inventory model for supply chains with stochastic lead time demands
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08)This paper investigates the role of variable lead time, learning in production and screening errors in a vendor–buyer supply chain with defective items. The vendor–buyer supply chain is modelled for supplying a single item ... -
Public-sector green procurement in the United Arab Emirates: Innovation capability and commitment to change
(Elsevier, 2019-10)This paper examines various internal factors that influence green-procurement implementation in the public sector of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by investigating the relationships between the innovation capability of ... -
Optimal inventory cycle in a two-stage supply chain incorporating imperfect items from suppliers
(Inderscience Publishers, 2011-01)In this paper, a two-level supply chain situation is considered. A manufacturer/vendor is assumed to receive raw material parts from a number of suppliers for assembling a single product. The parts obtained from the supplier ... -
The effect of human factors on the performance of a two level supply chain
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-01)Many studies have addressed the issue of coordination in a supply chain. Coordinating mechanisms such as joint lot sizing models, quantity discounts and delay in payments have been used to achieve coordination in a supply ... -
An optimal repeat inspection plan with several classifications
(Taylor & Francis, 2002-09)Multicharacteristic critical components exist in many systems. Such components could be a part of an aircraft, space shuttle or a gas ignition system. A component is critical if it causes disaster or a very high cost upon ... -
Supply chain simulator: A scenario-based educational tool to enhance student learning
(Pergamon, 2008-08)Simulation-based educational products are excellent set of illustrative tools that proffer features like visualization of the dynamic behavior of a real system, etc. Such products have great efficacy in education and are ... -
A review of the extensions of a modified EOQ model for imperfect quality items
(Elsevier, 2011-07)Imperfect items in the raw material and production stages of a supply chain directly impact the coordination of the product flow within a supply chain. In response to this concern, production and inventory lot sizing models, ... -
An economic order quantity (EOQ) for items with imperfect quality and inspection errors
(2011-09)An approach similar to Salameh and Jaber (2000) has been used in this paper to produce an optimal production/order quantity that takes care of imperfect processes. An imperfect inspection process (Raouf et al., 1983) is ... -
An integrated supply chain model with errors in quality inspection and learning in production
(Pergamon, 2014-01)It is imperative for contemporary businesses to proactively search for ways of continuously improving the performance of their supply chains. Supply chain coordination and integrated decision making across the supply chain ... -
Economic order quantity model for items with imperfect quality with learning in inspection
(Elsevier, 2010-03)The economic order quantity (EOQ) model is the simplest and earliest inventory model in the literature. Its simple mathematics is attributed to its assumptions, which are rarely met. Salameh and Jaber [2000. Economic ... -
The effects of leadership styles on team motivation
(Jordan Whitney Enterprises, Inc, 2017)This paper addresses a gap in the literature by exploring the dynamic leadership theory comprising of the three classical styles-democratic, authoritarian and laissez-faire and their relationship to team motivation in the ... -
Impact of inspection errors on the performance measures of a general repeat inspection plan
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2005-12)Multi-characteristic critical components exist in many systems. Such components may be a part of an aircraft, space shuttle or a gas ignition system. An inspection plan for such components has been proposed in quality ... -
Managing yield by lot splitting in a serial production line with learning, rework and scrap
(Elsevier, 2010-03)Wright's (1936) learning curve (WLC) depicts that the time required to accomplish a repetitive operation decreases with each subsequent repetition. The WLC model assumes that the components produced in an operation are all ... -
Congenital unilateral pulmonary venous atresia: definitive diagnosis and treatment
(Springer-Verlag, 2003-01)Three cases of unilateral right-sided pulmonary venous atresia were evaluated over an 18-year period. These bring the total number of cases to 25 in the literature. The clinical presentation of all these patients was similar ... -
Green and sustainable practices in the construction industry: a confirmatory factor analysis approach
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-05)The purpose of this paper is to differentiate between sustainable and green construction and significantly contribute to empirical investigations related to the impact of green construction factors on sustainable performance ... -
Public Service Logic and the creation of value propositions through framing
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022-06)This paper aims to contribute to the scholarly debate on Public Service Logic (PSL) by deepening the understanding of how value propositions in the public sector are created and altered. The PSL literature has so far ... -
Sustainable Business Model Innovation for Event Management
(Goodfellow Publishers, 2021-02)Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted many businesses with irredeemable consequences, while the rest are trying to keep rowing, believing that making business as usual will save them. Only a few embarked on ... -
Social innovation and public service: A literature review of multi-actor collaborative approaches in five European countries
(North-Holland, 2022-09)Governments increasingly tend to involve or rely on various societal actors to address social challenges and develop cost-effective and high-quality public services. This paper identifies the major themes of social innovation ... -
A metagovernance model of innovation networks in the health and social services using a neo-schumpeterian framework
(MDPI, 2021-06)Health and social services (HSS) are now, more than ever, at the center of the debate of public policy. We are interested in studying the HSS services innovations from the networked-governance strategy standpoint. With ... -
Managing co-design in public services
(Presses universitaires de Provence, 2021-06)Currently, there is overwhelming evidence ʹ manifested in several programs and public policies on health, educaion or housing ʹof the efforts to solve the emerging problems of our socieies. But the current soluions come ... -
Alternatives for the eco-innovation of business models: A conceptual reference to valueholders
(ResearchGate, 2018)Most of what we have seen to date related to eco-innovation of business models (Schaltegger, Lüdeke-Freund and Hansen, 2012; Boons and Lüdeke-Freund, 2013; Bocken et al., 2014; Morioka, Evans and de Carvalho, 2016) ... -
Modelling the Entrepreneur’s Decision on Which Practice Use to Create Sustainable Businesses
(Academy of Management, 2020)We have examined how the constructs influencing the entrepreneur’s election of the practice to design and test new sustainable business models connect with their use of such eco-innovation practices. We present a comprehensive ... -
Using Predictive Analytics and Data Mining to Reduce the Patients’ Appointment ‘Waiting Waste’
(2021)EmiratesAbstractThe outpatient appointment ‘waiting waste’ is caused by healthcare capacity constraints and the variability associated with patients arrivals. Appointments overbooking minimizes the disruptive influence ... -
Sustainable business model innovation and acceptance of its practices among Spanish entrepreneurs
(WILEY, 2019-09)Sustainable business model innovation debate is mostly focusing on the use of certain practices and tools to implement sustainable objectives in new firms. Our paper contributes to this debate examining the factors influencing ... -
How governance paradigms and other drivers affect public managers’ use of innovation practices. A PLS-SEM analysis and model
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-01)Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology for Innovations in the Public Sector (UTAUT-IPS) model, this study examined the influences on using a specific innovation practice on public managers. We based ... -
Value processes and lifecycles in networks for public service innovation
(Routledge, 2022-02)Public administrations, to innovate public services, seek strategies beyond market-like mechanisms and claim for clear paths such as lifecycles. This research bridges service management theory and theory of public management ... -
Sustainable business model innovation and ethics: a conceptual review from the institutional theory addressing (un) sustainability
(Inderscience Publishers (IEL), 2021)Being this a period when human activities and creations profoundly alter many geological conditions and processes, here we conceptualise how the sustainable innovation of business models acts as yet another lever for the ... -
Collaborative service innovation: A quantitative analysis of innovation networks in a multisectoral setting
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-01)Partial least squares structural equation modelling has proven very valuable to study the unexplored and complex public service innovation networks (PSINs) in the public sector, from a socio-economic stance. Web have ... -
How governance paradigms and other drivers affect public managers acceptance of innovation practices
(Academy of Management, 2020)With this research, we integrate the determinants driving the decisions of public managers towards opting for an innovation practice to achieve public goals. After our exploratory analysis dealing with those determinants ... -
Development of an Integrated Framework to Investigate Enterprise Information Systems Adoption: Managers’ Insights
(Atlantis Press, 2014-09)This study attempts to isolate the factors contributing to successful adoption of EIS by gathering the perspectives of senior professionals working with such systems. This paper uniquely uses dimensional analysis to find ... -
Internet as an empowerment tool in conflict zones: the case of Gaza
(Inderscience Publishers, 2010-01)The proliferation of the internet has become an integral part of our daily life serving multiple purposes. The internet has become a major channel for education, business, communication and entertainment. The far-reaching ...