In 2006 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) introduced new legislation related to corporate governance (CG). Initial evaluation by the World Bank three years later showed relatively modest implementation of the regulations. This thesis investigates the extent to which this has bee…
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Same-day delivery (SDD) changes the way people shop as it combines immediate product availability and the convenience of ordering from electronic devices. The SDD market has seen a fast growth over the past decade. These services have further gained popularity during the COVID-1…
This dissertation advances a new argumentative approach to the political problem of black reparations in the contemporary United States appealing to the normative principle of fair play. Among its core presumptions is the view that getting appreciable numbers of white Americans …
Fairness is a social norm and a legal requirement in today's society. Many laws and regulations (e.g., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974) have been established to prohibit discrimination and enforce fairness on several grounds, such as gender, age, sexual orientation, rac…
Organizational leaders often struggle to establish and sustain a trusting culture in times of constant changes in the corporate fabric and unethical behavior by corporate leadership. Organizational justice theory provides a means to explain and better understand employees' perce…
Price fairness is defined as the psychological judgment of the price as reasonable, just, and acceptable (Bolton, Warlop, & Alba, 2003; Maxwell, 2002; Xia, Monroe, & Cox, 2004). Although it has been investigated in various service business areas, there has been little research o…
My dissertation examines popular support for democratic institutions in Africa. Democratization on the African continent continues to capture the interest of scholars and policy maker alike, not only because of democracy's association with economic wellbeing, but also because of…
The problem addressed in this study was the perceived inequity, discrimination, and dysfunction of the geographic quota system and centralization of higher education in Nigeria. Little research has explored the student, faculty, and leadership perceptions of policy implementatio…
Machine learning-based decision support systems bring relief to the decision-makers in many domains such as loan application acceptance, dating, hiring, granting parole, insurance coverage, and medical diagnoses. These support systems facilitate processing tremendous amounts of …
The aim of this thesis is to overcome the simplistic idea of homo economicus, by exploring the voting behaviour of heterogeneous agents whose actions are also influenced by their view of social justice and altruism. The thesis consists of four essays which explore the role of no…