Why is Administrative Corruption Pervasive? A Mediation Approach

Published in: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences, 2019, Vol. 14, No. 1

Apr 17, 2019

Salem Al Jundi Ahmed Shuhaiber Shaban Al-Emara Reshmi Augustine

Despite the existence of valuable literature on political and corporate corruption, there have been only a limited number of papers examining the determinants of administrative corruption. A thorough search of the relevant literature shows there has been no examination of the multivariate impact of corrupt culture, the weakness of organizational culture, the political instability, and the institutional weakness on administrative corruption, and the interplay among these constructs has yet to be...

Comparison Study between IFRS and AAOIFI Accounting Standards: A Case Study of Islamic Banks In The United Arab Emirates

Published in: Communications on Stochastic Analysis Journal

Mar 31, 2019

The rationality of irrational decisions: A new perspective of behavioral economics

Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research

Mar 22, 2019

Mahmoud Askari Ghaleb El Refae

This paper is an attempt to contribute to the field of behavioral economics by proposing a new perspective of utility and rational decision making. We use the method of Thought Experiment, as well as, hypothetical examples of decision making to explain the rationality of decisions that might be seen by economics as irrational. We hypothesize that all decisions are rational at the individual level, and that all decisions are justified by decision makers and maximize the decision maker’s percei...

The effect of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on entrepreneurial intentions: The moderating role of collectivist orientation

Published in: Management Decision

Mar 11, 2019

Mariam Farooq

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and when intrinsic (personal growth, affiliation, community contribution, health) and extrinsic (financial success, fame, physical appearance) goals affect individuals’ entrepreneurial intentions (EIs). The study uses goal contents theory to propose that intrinsic and extrinsic goals positively influence individuals’ EIs. The authors further argue that the collectivism moderates the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic goals on individu...

Prospective Applications of Blockchain and Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Technology

Published in: Technology Education Management Informatics

Mar 03, 2019

Nasser Taleb

This paper presents a literature review of Blockchain and Bitcoin technology future applications. Recently Blockchain has received special attention and is used as a new platform for digital information and to store encrypted data and process secure digital transactions. Noticeably, the majority of Blockchain cryptocurrency is structured based on the elliptic curves digital signature algorithm (ECDSA). In particular, Bitcoin uses special ECDSA called secp256k1. Losses of personal and organizati...

A Multi-Agent System for Course Timetable Generation

Published in: TEM Journal

Mar 01, 2019

Zina houhamdi Belkacem Athamena

In the university, course scheduling and preparation for each semester can be defined as the process of determining what courses to offer, the number of sections needed for each course, assigning of a faculty member to teach each section, and allocating a timeslot and a classroom for each section to avoid clashes. The output of this activity (which is a timetable) affects every faculty member and student in various departments. This process is essentially broken down into three main stages: det...