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The Impact of Distance Learning On Students of Determination’s Educational and Social-Emotional Skills in Dubai Private Schools from The Parents’ and Teachers’ Perspectives
No full textThe emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant shifts in the United Arab Emirates’ education sector. This study focuses on the country’s transition towards distance learning and its implications on students of determination and their teachers and parents. On one hand, some groups contend that the pros of distance learning outweigh the cons; on the other hand, skeptics argue that the weaknesses of distance learning worsened the academic outcomes of students of determination. Thus, this study analyzes the opinions of 50 local teachers and parents who care for students with special education needs. The study begins by explaining the rationale for exploring the opportunities and challenges created by distance learning. Consequently, the literature review section elaborates the findings of recent qualitative and quantitative research articles about distance education and its effects on conventional learning paradigms. The methodology section explains the sampling criterion and the use of data collection methods such as interviews and questionnaires to acquire valuable findings. The discussion and conclusion sections clarify the root causes of the teachers’ and parents’ perceptions about distance learning. Although several studies have been conducted examining the social and emotional issues of distance learning, few evaluate the teachers’ and parents’ perspectives. Therefore, this study can offer significant insights into the strengths and weaknesses of distance learning measures for students of determination in the Arabian Peninsula and other areas of the world
Developing a Framework for Weapon and Mask Detection in Surveillance Systems
No full textFinancial institutions, jewelry stores, hypermarkets and automated teller machines all experience yearly thefts of vast amount of money. Police have dismantled a few of the robbery attempts. Police successfully apprehend most of the robbers. The maintenance of safety and security around the globe is a difficult task for governments, particularly in a country like the UAE, which is home to more than 200 nationalities. This study examines the applications of neural network models in video surveillance systems for detecting weapons, thus preventing robberies. By expanding the dataset to include more classes and photos per class, the proposed model could perform better to be installed on outdoor surveillance systems. In this study, we will examine situations of weapons detectors, develop models using transfer learning approaches, and contrast them with other contemporary detectors like YOLOv5. We will develop our own unique dataset and contrast it with another dataset in terms of classes, image quality, and kind of items used for committing a robbery. Gun detectors in surveillance systems has a wide range of additional uses, from residentials units to the military
Working Capital Management and Shareholder’s Wealth Creation: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies Listed in Oman
No full textWorking capital management (WCM) is a key factor in the success of manufacturing
companies when credit is restricted, as is the case in the current climate caused by the COVID-19
crisis. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between working capital
management, earnings quality, sales growth, and shareholders’ wealth of listed manufacturing firms
Citation: Panigrahi, Shrikant
Krupasindhu, Maryam Juma Al Farsi,
Sumathi Kumaraswamy, Muhammad
Waris Ali Khan, and Faisal Rana.
2022. Working Capital Management
and Shareholder’s Wealth Creation:
Evidence from Manufacturing
Companies Listed in Oman.
International Journal of Financial
Studies 10: 89. https://doi.org/
10.3390/ijfs10040089
Academic Editor: Rob Hull
Received: 18 August 2022
Accepted: 16 September 2022
Published: 28 September 2022
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in Oman. The study used balanced panel data of 31 manufacturing firms listed on the Muscat Stock
Exchange (MSE) from 2004 to 2019. The study reveals that days in working capital, cash conversion
cycle, payable deferred period, sales growth, and earnings quality positively affects shareholder’s
wealth proxied by the return on assets, whereas, days in working capital have a negative effect on
return on assets. Similarly, working capital management was found to have no influence on the
earnings per share (EPS). It was also documented that sales growth and earnings quality positively
impacted EPS. The study concluded that improving sales growth and earnings quality would result
in shareholders’ wealth creation. The results are helpful to manufacturing companies to improve their
business performance and social welfare through a direct and indirect chain of raising investments,
pay, and production scales. This study adds knowledge to the body of literature on working capital
management, earnings quality, and sales growth in the areas of methodology, the impact of WCM
components on manufacturing firms’ shareholder value, and socioeconomic evidence from Oman
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention
No full textPurpose–Scholarshavetypicallyexaminedfamilybusinessexposureasanaggregatevariable.However,itis
probable that this trend oversimplifies the complexity of family exposure and its nuanced influence on
entrepreneurial behaviour. Thus, to extend the theoretical boundary, this inquiry investigates distinct
dimensions of family exposure in Nigeria while drawing on the theory of planned behaviour.
Design/methodology/approach– Data were collected from five public universities in Nigeria. A sample of
1,314 respondents was analysed using a partial least squares structural equation modelling approach to
determine the influence of alternate family business exposures.
Findings– The results show that entrepreneurial exposure in the forms of parent, family member and work
involvement have salient and distinctive influences on implementation intention to the extent that
entrepreneurial self-efficacy, attitudes and subjective norms are uniquely impacted.
Originality/value– This study offers novel insights on the predictors of entrepreneurial implementation
intention through the distinctive effects of (1) family member exposure, (2) parent exposure and (3) work
involvement exposure among students in the family firm context
INTRAPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION BEHAVIOUR IN SERVICE ORGANISATIONS: NETWORK BUILDING ABILITY AS A MEDIATOR
No full textThe research investigates network building ability as a mediating mechanism of influence in
the relationship between intrapreneurial personality and three stages of employees’ innova
tive behaviours: idea generation, promotion, and realisation. A quantitative research meth
odology was adopted with 410 questionnaires collected from employees in the UAE service
sector and subsequently analysed using structural equation modelling. The research found
a significant direct relationship between intrapreneurial personality and the idea realisation
stage and no direct relationship between idea generation and idea promotion. In addition,
network building ability was found to mediate these relationships, underlining the impor
tance of building networks for intrapreneurial employees to innovate. These results across
the three main stages of individuals’ innovative behaviours may enrich our teachable skills
to improve individuals’ innovative behaviour
How strategic knowledge hiding drives competitive individuals to establish research superiority: A case in UK Business Schools
No full textPurpose – Why and when people working in organisations hide their knowledge has
received considerable academic attention. However, little attention has been paid to
knowledge hiding in academia itself, even though universities are known as places
where knowledge is shared. This study considers the dilemma faced by academics
when undertaking research work: should they share or hide what they are doing?
Design/methodology/approach – Using empirical evidence drawn from 20
academics in a number of UK Business Schools, we carried out in depth interviews to
investigate the effects of strategic knowledge hiding (SKH) on research knowledge
work. We argue that SKH can drive competitive individuals to establish research
superiority.
Findings – The findings revealed that most respondents have, for strategic reasons,
hidden their tacit and/or explicit knowledge from others during ongoing research
processes, but have, at the same time, purposefully sought for knowledge from
targeted colleagues.
Originality – Our findings extend the previous literature by revealing not only the
distinctive individual antecedents of SKH, but also its positive outcomes. The findings
illustrate a pioneering contribution of a systematic model of SKH among university
business school academics.
1. Introduction
Keywords Strategic knowledge hiding, academia, individual antecedent, tacit
knowledge, explicit knowledg
Handling Unbalanced Pricing in Bidding Regulations for Public Construction Projects
No full textUnbalanced pricing is a common strategy adopted by contractors who participate in competitive bidding for construction
contracts. This strategy exposes owners to several risks, and therefore bidding regulations of a number of contracting authorities include
provisions that address this practice. Such provisions vary and range from restraining excessive utilization of unbalanced pricing up to the
rejection of unbalanced bid offers as irregular and nonresponsive bids. This paper presents an analysis of the bidding regulations of state
DOTs that address the unbalanced pricing of competitive bids in order to evaluate the adequacy of the current provisions in protecting the
owner’s interests. The paper includes the standpoints of these regulations toward unbalanced pricing and their adopted procedures and guide
lines to detect and combat this practice. The paper presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of specific measures used by some state DOTs
against unbalanced pricing. The evaluation indicates that available measures are somehow effective in handling overpricing early items in
the contract performance, while they are less effective in handling the greater risks associated with pricing manipulations that exploit errors
in estimated quantities of line items. The paper concludes with proposed rules that can be used by owners to handle unbalanced pricing
more effectively, and can help in promoting fair competition among contractors
Multidisciplinary Studies
No full textThis paper establishes a knowledge management doctrine unique to the
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ield of project management. The paper investigates and expands on the theoret
ical frameworks and practices of organisational knowledge management – which
is the dominate doctrine in the discipline of knowledge management – to deduce a
theory and a practice of project knowledge management that is distinctive from other
knowledge management fields. It is discovered that the knowledge dynamics at the
foundational level of project knowledge management is a symmetrical transposition
of that of organisational knowledge management. Thus, the Knowledge-Evolving
Project doctrine is established as the inverse of the Knowledge-Creating Company.
Exploring a knowledge management discipline distinctive to project management
inevitably leads to new insights that are potentially significant to managing knowl
edge in projects in particular and to knowledge management discipline in general.
Most of the current literature on project knowledge management is almost indistin
guishable from organisational knowledge management. The very same theoretical
and empirical concepts and ideas are applied interchangeably in both management
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ields. This paper takes the rare step of creating a new theory and practice of project
knowledge management such that it is distinctive from other knowledge management
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ields
AI-based Academic Advising Framework: A Knowledge Management Perspective
No full textAcademic advising has become a critical factor of
students’ success as universities offer a variety of programs and
courses in their curriculum. It is a student-centered initiative that
fosters a student’s involvement with the institution by supporting
students in their academic progression and career goals.
Managing the knowledge involved in the advising process is
crucial to ensure that the knowledge is available to those who
need it and that it is used effectively to make good advising
decisions that impact student persistence and success. The use of
AI-based tools strengthens the advising process by reducing the
workload of advisors and providing better decision support tools
to improve the advising practice. This study explores the
challenges associated with the current advising system from a
knowledge management perspective and proposes an integrated
AI-based framework to tackle the main advising tasks
Revisiting the innovation–export entry link through a configuration approach
No full textFindings on the innovation–export entry nexus remain inconclusive, which may be attributable to methodo
logical issues. Most research has focused on the separate effects of single predictors and has investigated only one
or two types of innovation. However, firms’ exporting behavior is complex, and is likely to be determined by
interactions between innovation types. Drawing on resource orchestration theory, we adopt a configuration
approach to uncover combinations of innovation types (considered here as resources) associated with exporting,
rather than investigating them in isolation. The study incorporates four types of innovation: product, process,
organizational and marketing innovation. The findings from a sample of Spanish companies show that combi
nations involving product and process innovation, or product and marketing innovation make a more compelling
case for export entry. The results have theoretical and managerial implications that progress thinking in this area
and reconcile current literature on the innovation–export nexus