Understanding the invisible hands of incentives
Published in: Global Business and Economics Review
Jan 01, 2019
Ghaleb El Refae
Abdelhafid Belarbi
Mahmoud Askari
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...
Impacts of information quality on decision-making
Published in: Global Business and Economics Review
Jan 01, 2019
zina houhamdi
Belkacem Athamena
Prior investigations have pointed out that an understanding of the impacts of information quality is essential to the organisation's success. Nevertheless, few investigations have analysed the impacts of information quality in a business context. This paper analyses the impacts of information quality on the decision-making process in a systematic way. To reach this goal, we suggest a pragmatic approach that allows estimation of information quality categories and dimensions. The results of the p...
The role of informal institutions in explaining student’s academic engagement. The case of Al Ain University of Science and technology
Published in: Journal of International Education in Business
Dec 29, 2018
Governance mechanisms and earnings management practices: evidence from Egypt
Published in: Journal
Dec 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,...
How much Self-Presentation Behavior do Applicants from the United Arab Emirates Exhibit?
Published in: International Journal of Selection and Assessment
Dec 16, 2018
Applicants from different cultures vary in their self-presentation behavior during job interviews. This study investigates self-presentation behavior in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the second largest economy in the Arab world. Specifically, it examines self-presentation behavior of applicants from the UAE and compares it to the behavior of American, European, and Chinese applicants from previous studies. The randomized response technique was used to gather self-presentation prevalence data ...
Moderating Effect of Competitive Strategies on the Relation between Financial Leverage and Firm Performance: Evidence from Jordan.
Published in: Business and Economic Horizons
Dec 07, 2018
This study examined the moderating role of competitive strategy in the relationship between financial leverage and performance of firms based on a sample of industrial firms in Jordan between 2007 and 2016. The interaction between competitive strategy and financial leverage was revealed to influence the effects of financial leverage towards the performance of firms in terms of return on assets (accounting-based measure) and market-to-book ratio (market-based measure). Conclusively, obtained res...
Determinants of the Productivity Change for the Banking Sector in Egypt
Published in: Global Business Review
Oct 22, 2018
This study aims to undertake an evaluation and examination of the productivity change of the Egyptian banking sector, using a novel data set which covers 14 banks operating in the Egyptian market from 1997 to 2013. We use a non-parametric approach Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based analysis to investigate the productivity change in the Egyptian banking sector. Input-oriented Malmquist indices of productivity change are estimated with DEA to measure total factor productivity (TFP) change. The...