Purpose – This paper aims to highlight efforts of an emerging market economy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in complementing the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) initiative. This is a growing phenomenon that has brought about a major shift in the international business landscape...

Purpose – This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of the country-of-origin (COO) effects on the consumption patterns of “made in” Nigeria Guinness as opposed to Guinness “owned by” Ireland. It aims to trace the trend of Nigerian Guinness in the international market – taking London as...

In recent years, information technology (IT) - notably the internet - has been largely adopted on a commercial basis by businesses across the globe. This has been the case in both developed and emerging markets spanning various sectors including education (e-learning); retail (e-commerce); and...

This paper builds on previous studies on the management and leadership, and the attendant insights that can be garnered from football – highlighting how this ‘perceived play’ has evolved into ‘serious play’ in the boardroom. Two academic papers (Madichie, 2009; Haskins, 2013) form the...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the duality in the appeal of UK higher education degrees vis-à-vis the poor perception of African degrees (notably the Nigerian degree). We relied upon an online focus group of African academics and professionals outside the UK, in a bid to provide...

This paper goes beyond the stereotype of Thailand as being all about sex tourism, zero tolerance to drugs (capital punishment), murder capital of Southeast Asia and a non entity in the field of sports. Taking the purview of sports and economic development, the paper argues that the game of...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to be a conceptual contribution to the special issue on “Is the Middle East the land of the future?”. It aims to provide a holistic picture of the efforts of the Middle East towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), using...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a gender entrepreneurship slant to the revolving landscape in the 'culinary underbelly'. The primary aim of this conceptual study is to extend the boundaries of the identified female-dominated occupations beyond the usual suspects – i.e., social work,...

Drawing upon the scant literature on women's entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this paper explores the motivations of women business owners in the country based on 10 in-depth interviews. Considering the patriarchal socio-cultural environmental context associated with the...