Article

Funding Higher Education as a Strategic Good of a Nation

Published in: Int. J. of Economics and Business Research

Jan 01, 2023

/ Mahmoud Askari / Ghaleb El Refae

In this paper, we propose that higher education should be seen as a strategic good of nations. We argue that Higher education is neither a private, nor a public good, and that its facilitation by governments, and its attainment of citizens is critically required for the wellbeing of a nation. As well, we use the partnership funding model of higher education as a framework to facilitate the strategic investment in higher education by economically capable governments. We used enrollment and fu...


Conference Paper

Numeric Big Data Analytics for Successful Decision Making: A Case Study from the Retail Industry in Canada

Published in: 2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT). IEEE.

Nov 22, 2022

Mahmoud Yousef Askari Ghaleb A. El Refae

This paper proposes that the successful analysis of big data in the retail industry is the key to successful business practice, and is an essential ingredient for successful decision making in many industries. In this paper, we present a case analysis of the use of numeric big data analytics to discover the decline in profits while sales figures are rising during promotion weeks at a Toronto-based retail chain store. We also discuss why big data analytics should be seen as a key practice in the...


Article

Women Leadership Effectiveness: Competitive Factors and Subjective and Objective Qualities

Published in: Cogent Social Sciences

Nov 10, 2022

/ Bayan Farhan

The purpose of this study is to identify the competitive factors that contribute to leadership effectiveness for women. I posed two research questions: How do women lead? And what are their competitive factors and leadership qualities? I used an instrumental cases approach to investigate the top 10 women CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies in 2021 and better understand how competitive factors and subjective and objective leadership qualities may drive women leadership effectiveness. Using an exp...


Article

Behavioral biases in trade credit policy: does it matter for financial performance?

Published in: Asian Journal of Accounting Research

Oct 05, 2022

Purpose: Corporate firms often follow their peer firms to articulate multiple financial decisions. Among the others, trade credit policy is a vital financial decision that can impart its dynamic role in achieving financial efficiency. Therefore, the current analysis aims to assess the role of herding behavior in determining the trade credit policies of corporate firms and its relevant effect on corporate financial performance. Design/methodology/approach: For this purpose, the financial data of...


Article

The effects of employee commitment and environment uncertainty on product quality: The mediating role of supply chain integration

Published in: Uncertain Supply Chain Management

Oct 01, 2022

/ Ahmad AlJumah / Mohammed Nuseir / Ghaleb El Refae

The main objective of the study was to test the relationship between the uncertainty of supply chain, employee commitment and product quality with the mediating role of supply chain integration. The uniqueness of the study is that it focused on the mediating role of supply chain integration in the automobile sector of United Arab Emirates (UAE). This research is quantitative in nature. For the analysis, structural equation modelling is used. The population of the present research is the employe...

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