The problem investigated was the relevance of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model criteria for the UAE business. The qualitative research method with a grounded theory design study assisted identification of the criteria in EFQM relevant to the UAE busine…
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In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) education is widely understood to play a key role in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment. In the MENA region generally, and Egypt in particular, "early-marriage" is implicated as one of the main barriers to educational ac…
Juvenile delinquency is one of the most challenging problems facing countries in all parts of the world, including Islamic nations. Many competing theories are used to examine juvenile delinquency in Saudi Arabia. The major objective of this study is to test the relative effects…
Host country business environment factors are important predictors of corporate decision-making and choice of foreign market entry modes (strategies). Management research in the area of foreign market entry strategy process is relatively new and extends from 1980's. The stage mo…
The commercial field of sustainability communications encompasses ground previously demarcated between the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility on the one hand, and marketing, advertising and public relations on the other. This thesis examines the formation and development …
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region's deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of co…
This thesis examines the ethical implications of writing about music, focussing on the analysis of tonal art music. While some recent publications have studied various ethical situations involving music, none has taken the theoretical engagement with Western Art Music as its sta…
This thesis is a discursive and conversation analytic study of how people talk about gender in the context of discussions about leisure. The data comprise a corpus of over 600 pages of transcribed talk-in-interaction from a variety of sources, including dinner discussions, focus…
The U.S. military and diplomatic involvements in Iraq have stretched thin the resources of the U.S. government. As a result, outsourcing to private security contracting firms has reached an all time high, bringing with it much debate about whether or not the U.S. should use them…
This study explores the determinants of entrepreneurial activity across nations. Taking a macro perspective that focuses on the big picture, national culture and social institutions are hypothesized to interact in interesting ways to set the stage for the creation of a new ventu…
Cancer pain remains inadequately treated worldwide in up to 91% of patients. Challenges to daily activities due to cancer pain may produce maladaptation that significantly affects quality of life. Enhancing behavioral and cognitive coping are important strategies in providing ho…
The diversionary theory of war is one of the most speculated about and debated theories in foreign policy literature. The theory argues that government leaders who are confronted with public antagonism over domestic economic, social, and political problems sometimes start wars t…
What are the necessary components of protracted social conflict (PSC)? The works of Edward Azar have laid the foundation as to how PSC is approached in modern scholarship by identifying four necessary components: effective participation, security, distinctive identity, and socia…
The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that the theory presented by scholars such as Bruce, Betz, Longenecker, Fung, Carson, Witherington, Perkins, and Cummins—that Peter withdrew from table fellowship with Gentile Christians at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14) due to concern about ri…
On August 1, 2009, a radically different and more financially generous GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, took effect, with potential implication for institutions of higher education (Radford, 2009). In conjunction with expanded education benefit…
The present historical condition has been characterized by the impasse between two seemingly opposing narratives, one of modernization, mastery, and progress (usually associated to economic growth), and another of interdependence, precaution, and balance (usually associated to e…
This dissertation explores a method of music analysis that is designed to reflect the phenomenology of the listening experience, specifically in regards to harmony. It is primarily inspired by the theoretical approaches of the music theorist Moritz Hauptmann and by the writings …