Why did teachers’ long campaign to fund schools with progressive income taxes on the rich fall short? Labor-liberals hoped to equalize opportunity for students by shifting school taxes from local communities like Detroit and Los Angeles to the states. Businessmen and conservativ…
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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…
Though market liberalization has certainly had a tremendous impact on Turkey, much of the country's recent success is due to the active role of the government in promoting economic growth. Whereas a multitude of divisions long stymied coordinated efforts between business and the…
A number of cases have been well documented over the past 15 years in which government employees, both civilian and military, have alleged mistreatment by the government because of discrimination or retaliation for whistleblowing. Many of those cases were dismissed on a technica…
The U.S. Virgin Islands is experiencing an economic recession, manifested through social disorders such as abandoned and vandalized houses. Research points to social disorders and lack of community engagement as key factors inhibiting community development efforts. In order to s…
This dissertation addresses a basic question of nonviolent, state-society interaction in the developing world: under what conditions do nascent civil associations in non-democratic or semi-democratic contexts successfully lobby the state yet maintain their autonomy and avoid coo…
Effects of rivalry have been discussed in two different scenarios. First section of the study involves the regression analysis of competition in international telephone market using pooled cross-sectional time-series data. In the United States till the early 1980s AT&T had a de-…
The thesis examines why business people from various economic sectors in the Middle East and North Africa have continued to support authoritarian regimes in spite of the fact that these regimes failed to satisfy several of business' fundamental interests. Studies of business reg…
The first chapter examines the changes in various European currencies' exchange rates through the time period 1980 through 1997. Specifically, we are interested to determine if there is any affect to the volatility of these exchange rates and specific events related to the advan…
This study combines the economic and the political transition literature in order to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the reform processes of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from 1991–2003. Information from interviews conducted with economists from the financial institutions as w…
This study investigated the extent of agreement between leaders of colleges of technology and leaders of business and industry in Saudi Arabia toward cooperative activities in terms of the perceived importance and need for cooperation; current cooperative activities that exist b…
This study investigated the extent of agreement between leaders of technical institutes and leaders of business and industry in Saudi Arabia toward developing needed cooperative activities related to the perceived importance and need for cooperation, current cooperative activiti…
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) was established to organise the profession. The IIA provides members with an International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) to lead their professional practice and confirm the highest-quality internal audit effects in various envir…
Employees’ performance appraisal (PA) is an essential tool used by organisations to develop and improve employees’ competencies and skills, and so assure organisations’ survival. In recent years research has moved from a psychometric approach, such as rater accuracy and rating e…
Establishing strong, high-quality relationships with customers can be an important element in conducting business throughout the world, particularly in complex and highly competitive markets. This study attempts to explore and examine the differences and possible linkages betwee…
Collective action involving public and private actors (e.g. public institutions, foreign and domestic investors) faces difficulties even in developed economies, let alone in economies that are still developing their institutions. Especially for the latter this lack of collective…
The importance of customer engagement to sustain and foster business growth in an interactive environment has been recognised in the practitioner literature. It has also been observed that engaged customers become empowered in a given marketing communication environment. Yet, th…
Disparities between men‘s and women‘s leadership styles are particularly salient in contemporary organizations in which recent trends suggest leadership styles link to both sex and gender. Some research suggests leadership style is associated partly with sex, and other research …
Despite the lack of scholarly attention given to the voluntary sector in Saudi Arabia, the need for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the NGO landscape in KSA has never been greater. Given Saudi Arabia’s global leadership in humanitarian and developmental aid and the gro…