Islamic financial investments and economic growth evidence from emerging economy, United Arab Emirates
Published in: International Journal of Economics and Business Research
Jan 04, 2018
The paper examines the role of Islamic banking investments in enhancing the emerging economic growth of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study uses annual time series data to examine the relationship between the variables. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework is utilised for co-integration along with error correction models. The findings indicate that in the long-term Islamic banks’ investments have contributed to the economic growth of UAE. It shows that when Islamic investments incr...
FAHP-based to-do-list for e-commerce website the case of SMEs in Abu Dhabi
Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research
Jan 01, 2018
The continued disappointment among SMEs for their online activities and the subsequent struggle in recognising benefits is a call for action to develop a checklist to guide owners/managers. Based on the web marketing mix, this paper responds to such requirement and develop a prioritised and most important to-do-list that can be used as a guideline for eCommerce website development. Further, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) approach was used to rank and prioritise the list. The result...
Crafting employability strategy in skills-driven labour markets
Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research
Jan 01, 2018
Mahmoud Askari
Abdelkader Mazouz
Ghaleb El Refae
In this paper, we propose that universities could facilitate the employability of their graduates by utilizing the three main university functions of teaching and learning, research, and community engagement. Our approach is built on the assumption that the role of universities in the success of their graduates might exceed the transmission of theoretical knowledge in a typical classroom and should go beyond their graduation ceremony. The professional life journey of students starts after gra...
The impact of reward system and motivation on doctors performance in private health sector United Arab Emirates. An empirical study
Published in: International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research
Dec 30, 2017
Abstract View references (32) Numerous studies have discovered the impact of employee reward and motivation systems on employee performance and organization success. The objective of the research was to study the impact of reward and motivation systems on Doctors performance among the private health sector in United Arab Emirates UAE. Analysing the theory in the rewards in private health sector and how that effect their motivation and achieve organization goals. Most private health organizatio...
