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Saudi Arabia's economic development: entrepreneurship as a strategy

Kayed, Rasem N; Kabir Hassan, M. - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 52-73

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically review some of the existing literature relevant to Saudi Arabia's quest for development in order to build the argument for the viability of entrepreneurship to Saudi Arabia's development process. Design/methodology/approach – The method...

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Financial integration, regulation and competitiveness in Middle East and North Africa countries

Gentzoglanis, Anastassios - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 7, pp. 461-476

income countries but this relationship is rather weak for the low income MENA economies. Privatization alone, although …

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A phenomenological conception of private sector responsibility in socioeconomic development

Silvia, Bayu; Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 12, pp. 796-807

Purpose – Aims to methodologically explain a phenomenological model with empirical contents for modelling ethics in socioeconomic development. Addresses a circular causality between state variables and policy variables for the case of socioeconomic development of Indonesia with ethics and...

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Sentiment Analysis of Tweets for Estimating Criticality and Security of Events

Subramaniyaswamy, V.; Logesh, R.; Abejith, M.; … - In: Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) 29 (2017) 4, pp. 51-71

Social Media has become one of the major industries in the world. It has been noted that almost three fourth of the world's population use social media. This has instigated many researches towards social media. One such useful application is the sentimental analysis of real time social media...

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Social aspects of personal information organization

Oh, Kyong Eun - In: Journal of Documentation 77 (2020) 2, pp. 558-575

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how individuals' personal information organization reflects their social environments in order to understand social aspects of personal information organization. Design/methodology/approach By using a cognitive sociological approach and based on...

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Investigating Enron as a public private partnership

Baker, C. Richard - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 16 (2003) 3, pp. 446-466

The bankruptcy of Enron Corp. has evolved into a scandal of enormous proportions involving allegations of fraud, corruption and unethical practices on the part of Enron’s corporate executives, members of its board of directors, external auditors, and high government officials in the USA. No...

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The politics of the changing forms of accounting : A field study of strategy translation in a Danish government‐owned company under privatisation

Skærbæk, Peter; Melander, Preben - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17 (2004) 1, pp. 17-40

This paper presents an in‐depth study of the processes of constructing a new strategy in a large Danish government‐owned ferry company undergoing privatisation. To explain the emerging characteristics of accounting, the sociology of translation is used. The paper provides a story of a...

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The deployment of accounting‐related rhetoric in the prelude to a privatization

Craig, Russell; Amernic, Joel - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17 (2004) 1, pp. 41-58

This paper addresses the discursive struggle surrounding the privatization of Canadian National Railway (CN). It … paper highlights the potential for accounting to be implicated in constructing a “privatization mentality” and in persuading … of accounting were exploited in the prelude to privatization to help sustain the economic wisdom of a privatization …

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Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics : Disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility

Wickramasinghe, Danture; Hopper, Trevor; Rathnasiri, … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17 (2004) 1, pp. 85-120

The Sri Lanka Telecommunications company was recently partially privatised and a major Japanese company became responsible for its management. Previously, it was a government department characterised by rule bound, bureaucratic management and political interventions into operational issues. The...

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Customer disclosures, impression management and the construction of legitimacy : Corporate reports in the UK privatised water industry

Ogden, Stuart; Clarke, Julia - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18 (2005) 3, pp. 313-345

the ten recently privatised regional water companies in the UK. Although privatization required the water plcs to … new private sector status, it was clear from the nature of their privatization that they would experience difficulties in … achieving this. Privatization did little to change their previous monopoly character, and this created discrepancy with the …

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