This paper employs extreme downside risk measures to estimate the impact of the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 on equity markets in major oil producing Middle East countries. The results in the paper indicate the spillover effect of the global crisis varied from a country to another, but...

This study uses data from the Arab Middle East, namely, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to examine whether slack and planning (comprehensiveness of strategic decision making and extensiveness of strategic planning), which are of special importance at the moment in this recently established...

This paper argues for a model of a corruption constraint on organizational growth and development in the form of a business ethics glass ceiling. Although the problem of corruption‘s negative impact on economic growth is well documented, this paper‘s contribution is to propose a cohesive...