Research List

The Bahraini smart city should have a reference model that precisely aligns the cloud oriented capabilities of the operating applications and technological infrastructure, along with the relevant business actors and strategy in order to meet smart city requirements. Unfortunately, findings revealed limited rigorous reference architectural models to service smart city [...]

Most efficient and super-infrastructures are preconditions for faster economic growth for any country. Most countries often finance such project by incurring public debt and such countries must pay interest every year on public debt until the entire accumulated amount is fully paid. However, interest-based financing is not only prohibited (haram) [...]

SISP in most of the Arabian countries is merely tackled to plan for resources allocation and project-based planning without considering the strategic role of IT in achieving the business goals. Therefore, the current research tackled to investigate the current situation regarding the adoption of SISP in the Kingdom of Bahrain. [...]

This paper investigates whether factors specific to firms, countries, mode of entry, and the timing of entry contribute to value-creation from the investment of a sample of Japanese firms in the MENA economies over the period 2006–2014. Results show that while this expansion was on average associated with positive wealth [...]

Technology is changing the face of our cities and the way we are interacting with them. Cultural heritage forms a large and growing part of every city today. This paper reviews a number of available smart technologies and looks at different examples of their application in the cultural heritage field. [...]

This paper uses the OLS, fixed effects, Arellano and Bond GMM and VAR model to empirically examine the macroeconomic determinants of non-performing loans in GCC through the period from 1998 to 2016. The main findings conclude that non-oil GDP growth, domestic credit to private sector to GDP ratio and inflation [...]

Pioneered in the 1990s, business process reengineering (BPR) is focused on value addition. The theory and practice of business reengineering have evolved over the years with globalisation and technology becoming key parts of business. Despite these changes, BPR implementation in SMEs has received limited attention. Given that SMEs play an [...]

This empirical study aims primarily to examine determinants of the firm dividend payouts (FDP). A number of independent variables namely ownership concentration, institutional shareholding, firm cash flows, investment opportunity, firm growth and firm risk are used as determinants of the FDP of the most active firms listed on the Egyptian [...]

This study investigates the effects of the choice of financing on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of Bahrain. SMEs play a major role in the private sector especially in emerging markets. However, information asymmetries between lenders and entrepreneurs raise the issue of the different financing implications on [...]

Rapid economic and industrial developments and population growth in Bahrain are associated with increases in energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process has been adopted in the country to address environmental aspects within energy intensive projects such as oil and petrochemical industries. The quality of [...]