Project Tags: Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship

Unleashing the power of social commerce in the C2C platforms: A cross cultural analysis

Social media are widely acknowledged as having enabled many recent social, economic, and political transformations. These media, which include Facebook, Instragram, YouTube, Second Life, and Twitter, have become established as…

Using Data and Econometrics to Improve Football TrainingSessions and Predict Injuries

The aim of this project is to combine methods in data science and econometrics to predict relevant outcomes in sports. The project contains two separate, but intrinsically related, lines of…

Spreading the Good Fortune: An Analysis of Diversification and Complexity across Economic Sectors in Gulf Countries over 2000-2020.

Over the last 60 years, GCC countries have heavily depended on oil and natural gas as their primary source of exports and fiscal revenues. However, recent economic downturns caused by…

Semi-decentralized Platform Governance: A Qualitative Study

Over the last decade, firms that own digital platforms (e.g., Meta, Amazon, Alphabet) have dominated the list of most valuable global firms. Driven by the proliferation of their platforms that…

Enhancing Retail Supply Chain Resilience: Supplier Diversification Strategies Amidst Supply Chain Disruptions

In response to the challenges posed by the Qatar blockade, this proposal aims to address the critical gaps in retail supply chain resilience, particularly focusing on supplier diversification strategies amidst…

Investigating the role of team design in enhancing collaboration

Organizations in every sector are increasingly using teams to perform many different functions, including to solve problems, create new products and deliver essential services. Teams are potentially valuable because they…

IT Entrepreneurship in Qatar and the MENA Region

The purpose of this research is fairly straightforward – it will attempt to answer the following question: how do we move from celebrating the fact that one of our students…

Basel III, Risk and the Middle East Financial Markets

As a response to the recent global financial market crash, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has recommended revised measures to the central banks in a bid to improve stability…

Addressing the Sample Selection Bias Issue in Finance Research Using Private Firms with a Particular Focus on the Effect of National Culture on Key Corporate Decisions

In current finance studies, the role of culture on key corporate decisions in public firms has already been tackled and addressed at length. However, the same cannot be true of…

Cognition and Emotions in Consumer Behavior

Sensory marketing (defined as ‘marketing that engages the consumers’ senses and affects their perception, judgment and behavior’, Krishna 2012) and digital marketing are two fast-growing areas of research in marketing.…