UAE as a country brand ranks one for resorts & lodging. It is 31st among 134 countries in terms of national competitiveness according to the World Economic Forum. It ranks one in terms of invested sovereign wealth funds according to IMF, is the fifth largest oil producing nation. During this...

The impact of entry upon market performance depends not only on the number of entries and their size, but also on how long do the firms last. Consequently, there are an increasing number of papers, most of them focused on the United States and restricted to the manufacturing sector, aimed at...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the workplace behaviours of Australian project managers working in the UAE, as examples of Western cultural adjustment. Design/methodology/approach – A 49-question survey was developed using SurveyMonkey. This software was used to collect and...

American multinational corporations have done business in the Persian Gulf since the oil and construction boom of the 1970s. In recent years, however, the types of companies and their choices of where to locate have evolved. With the explosion in oil prices since 1998, U.S. firms areincreasingly...

The massive infrastructure and building works expansion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) region in the last decade resulted in the recruitment of many expatriate project professionals in various capacities. This expatriate recruitment has contributed to a high turnover of expatriate staff in...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite stock price index at the Jakarta Stock Exchange in 2007 - 2009. The method of analysis used to investigate the effect of the rupiah / US $ and the SBI interest rate of composite...

Agency theory is one of the principal frameworks utilized in explaining the family business phenomena. The objectives of this dissertation are to (1) identify the unique agent-principal dynamics that differentiate family firms from non-family firms, (2) determine the effects of these unique...

In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how...

The family-business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such...

We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in family firms are more complex than originally thought maybe related to the lack of conceptual clarity. This, we propose, is because when frameworks and theories are borrowed and enthusiastically embraced without...