Understanding the invisible hands of incentives
يناير 01, 2019
This paper sheds light on the role of incentives in explaining why we do what we do. In this paper, we theorise that no action will take place in vacuum or without a certain incentive(s) and that for each and every action or behaviour, there is a known and/or a hidden incentive. We also theorise that the existence of incentives behind every action is not limited to rational incentives and the rationality of actors because irrational actions have their own irrational incentives. As well, we theo...
The role of informal institutions in explaining student’s academic engagement. The case of Al Ain University of Science and technology
ديسمبر 29, 2018
Governance mechanisms and earnings management practices: evidence from Egypt
ديسمبر 23, 2018
This study develops an aggregate corporate governance index (ACGINX) composed of four individual corporate governance (CG) indices – disclosure and transparency index, board of directors index (BoDINX), shareholders’ rights and investor relations index and ownership and control structure index – to investigate the assumed effect of each sub-index and the ACGINX on mitigating the practices of earnings management in the Egyptian context during 2008–2016. In addition to the effect of board size,...
ما مدى سلوك العرض التقديمي الذاتي للمتقدمين من معرض الإمارات العربية المتحدة؟
ديسمبر 16, 2018