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Religiosity and work stress coping behavior of Muslim employees

Barhem, Belal; Younies, Hassan; Muhamad, Rusnah - In: Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 123-137

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between religiosity and the feeling of work stress, as represented by Muslim attitudes towards the religiosity scale. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 212 employees from the United Arab Emirates participated in the...

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Ranking the future global manager characteristics and knowledge requirements according to UAE business managers' opinions

Barhem, Belal; Younies, Hassan; Smith, Pamela C. - In: Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 229-247

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to rank the importance of global manager characteristics according to the views of private and public leaders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In addition, it will establish the most important and in demand managerial knowledge for UAE managers over the...

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Strategic planning in the United Arab Emirates

Elbanna, Said - In: International journal of commerce and management 20 (2010) 1, pp. 26-40

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Slack, planning and organizational performance : evidence from the Arab Middle East

Elbanna, Said - In: European management review : the journal of the … 9 (2012) 2, pp. 99-115

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Intuition in project management and missing links : analyzing the predicating effects of environment and the mediating role of reflexivity

Elbanna, Said - In: International journal of project management : the … 33 (2015) 6, pp. 1236-1248

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Strategic planning in the United Arab Emirates

Elbanna, Said - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 20 (2010) 1, pp. 26-40

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the nature and practice of strategic planning in organizations working in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach – Given the nature of the data, questionnaires are collected from managers only. Personal delivery and...

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Miller's environmental uncertainty scale: an extension to the Arab world

Elbanna, Said; Gherib, Jouhaina - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 22 (2012) 1, pp. 7-25

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ a mixed methods design to assess the applicability, reliability and validity of Miller's scale of environmental uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach – Using 759 questionnaires and eight personal interviews from three countries throughout...

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The influence of conflict and intuition on explorative new products and performance in SMEs

Zacca, Robert; Dayan, Mumin; Elbanna, Said - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 24 (2017) 4, pp. 950-970

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of conflict and intuition on explorative new products and performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The study proposes a theoretical model that was tested using two survey instruments:...

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Determinants of strategic planning effectiveness: extension of earlier work

Elbanna, Said - In: Journal of Strategy and Management 2 (2009) 2, pp. 175-187

Purpose – This paper aims to report the results of a study which extends the research of Elbanna by testing the relationship between strategic planning practice and participation on the one hand and the effectiveness of strategic planning on the other. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

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The mediating role of the extensiveness of strategic planning on the relationship between slack resources and organizational performance

Fadol, Yasir; Barhem, Belal; Elbanna, Said - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 5, pp. 1023-1044

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the mediating role of the extensiveness of strategic planning on the relationship between slack resources and organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses empirical data gathered from 102...

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