Small businesses give a lot of possibilities for realization of your own creativity and inventivity. Employment of new family members creates work atmosphere that cannot be felt in other companies. Organizational culture results from the employee cohesion and from their devotion to the...

This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for the period spanning from 1 July 2004 to 3 September 2008. Granger...

The e-performance systems can be an aid to help the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to prepare for the new challenges of the modern economic world. This study describes employee e-performance effectiveness within United Arab Emirates organisations and investigates of using manual and traditional...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate productivity gaps between firms with different shares of foreign equity in the presence of government restrictions on foreign ownership. Dubai, having such restrictions, and having multiple ownership structures within co-existing onshore and off-shore...

Output gap is generally used in assessing both the inflationary pressures and the cyclical position of a nation's economy. However, this variable is not observable and must be estimated. In this article, we accomplish two tasks. First, we estimate the output gap for the United Arab Emirates...

Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) is fast becoming the norm in most western countries; however, little is known about IFR practices in developing countries. This paper investigates the extent and variety of practices of IFR by companies listed on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) in Oman and...

This paper investigated the impact of globalisation, information technology and market forces on the traditional role of management accountants of providing relevant information for managerial decisions in an emerging market in the Middle East. The paper conducted a survey of practising...

We estimate the welfare effect of UAE food price cap policy by nationality and income quintile using the country's 2007-2008 household survey. For methodology, we estimate the compensating variation (CV) to price changes with and without the policy. Comparison of CV with and without the policy...

The research investigates the halal food supply chain (HFSC) requirements by the Islam religion, the effect of these requirements on the quality attributes of the meat through the supply chain and their alignment with non-halal meat quality attributes. The trigger for this study is due to...