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    National Culture And Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Of Saudi Aramco
    (2025-07)
    Mofadhi M., Alanazi Salem
    This research explores how national culture changes influence corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices over time in Saudi Arabia. While academic research on CSR has developed considerably, most of this research has been undertaken in developed countries, and the topic remains under researched in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. A few studies were carried out in the country to investigate CSR, and its relationship with national culture. However, the contributing factors to CSR, and how its practices might be related to major changes in local culture are overlooked, especially in the context of Saudi Arabia, an economically powerful, originally oil-based economy, transforming rapidly into one that is more diversified, and less dependent on oil.
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    Understanding Performance Appraisal Satisfaction: The Moderating Role Of Trustworthiness Toward Supervisors
    (2024-10)
    Almutairi, Mohammad M S M Sh
    The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between performance appraisal justice and utilization dimensions and employee satisfaction. Furthermore, this research also seeks to test the moderating effect of trustworthness toward the supervisor in this relationship.
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    Internal And External Factors Effects On Institutional And Retail Investors’ Herding Behaviour In The Gcc Financial Markets
    (2024-10)
    Yafouz, Marwan Ahmed Mohammed Saghir
    In this regard the study aims to analyse the impact of type of investors (institutional investors share and country of origin) in affecting herding behaviour; impact of external factors (political instability, global financial crisis, and oil shocks) and internal factors (PE Ratio and Market Capitalization) on herding behaviour.
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    Effect Of Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Sentiment And Housing Finance On House Prices In Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, And South Africa
    (2024-11)
    Benjamin, Kwakye
    The role of housing in the development of economies has been increasingly recognized. However, there has been limited attention from scholars and policymakers, particularly in sub-saharan africa regarding the interaction of house prices with the macroeconomy and the financial markets. This thesis investigates the impact of macroeconomic fundamentals, market sentiment, and housing finance on house prices in ghana, kenya, namibia, and south africa using the ardl model with quarterly data from 1999 to 2020. This research is essential, especially in an era where policymakers are facing challenges of house price fluctuations that hinder affordability. The study reveals that macroeconomic fundamentals are cointegrated with house prices in all countries. Additionally, these fundamentals (real gdp, cpi, exchange rate, and population) significantly affected house prices in the selected countries, both in the long and short term. Similarly, the sentiment index was cointegrated with house prices in all countries and had a statistically significant effect on house prices in south africa and ghana in the long term and only in south africa in the short term. In kenya and namibia, sentiment had no influence on house prices in both the short and long term. Furthermore, the research shows that housing finance factors (interest rate, disposable income, and mortgage debt-to-gdp) were strongly glued with house prices in ghana, kenya, namibia, and south africa. The statistical significance of financing variables varies from one country to the other.
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    Determinants Towards Intention To Use Of Smart Mobile Learning System On Pesticide Management Among Nigerian Rice Farmers
    (2024-12)
    Aminu, Hamza
    Although the use of mobile learning system is increasing globally, its utilising among nigerian rice farmers for pesticide management is very low, due to usability issues, cost, perceived benefit, facilitating conditions, social issues, habit and trust. Therefore, there is still lack of understanding of the determinants that influence their behavioural intention to use it. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to examine the determinants of nigerian rice farmers behavioural intention (bi) to use smls on pesticide management, using a harmonized framework of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (utaut2) and the technology acceptance model 2 (tam2). Analysis was conducted on 356 cluster sampled survey using smartpls 4. The results revealed, social norm significantly influenced the bi to use smls, while farmer's image, output quality, results demonstrability, and job relevance significantly influenced the bi to use smls at the perceived usefulness level. Perceived ease of use also significantly influenced perceived usefulness. While trust has significant moderating effect on facilitating conditions, price value, perceived ease of use, habit and bi to use smls. The model explained 31% of the bi to use smls.