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Business guide : doing business in Dubai & the United Arab Emirates
\"Business Guide: Doing Business in Dubai & the United Arab Emirates\" is a practical and strategic manual designed for international investors, entrepreneurs, and corporations looking to enter the Middle Eastern market. Authored by Sascha Ralf Noack, the guide provides a step-by-step breakdown of the UAE’s complex regulatory environment, focusing on the logistical and legal distinctions between \"Mainland,\" \"Free Zone,\" and \"Offshore\" business entities. The work serves as a bridge between Western business expectations and the specific cultural and administrative realities of the Gulf, emphasizing Dubai’s role as a regional gateway to the broader MENA and South Asian markets.
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Abu Dhabi's vision 2030
This book aims to tell the Abu Dhabi story in economic development, from its past dominance in oil to its economic vision for the future. More than being an exemplar of industrial restructuring and diversification from a resource-based to a 21st century knowledge-based economy and society, Abu Dhabi emphasises its cultural legacy and tradition as an environmental advocate for green and sustainable pathways. It has as many challenges as creative responses to show that its success is not by wealth alone.
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Evolution of the Spatial Patterns of Global Egg Trading Networks in the 21 Century
Global agriculture and food system is faced with increasing uncertainty from natural disasters, epidemics, financial crises, and wars. Agricultural trade can provide a powerful supplement to global food security. Eggs have been recognized as the most important protein source for many years as they contain the highest quality protein naturally available while the price is competitive. Egg trading plays an important role in enhancing the resilience of the global food system under uncertainty. We empirically investigate the evolution of global egg trading networks by social network analysis. And, the quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) is applied to detect factors that impact global egg trading networks. The results show that in the 21st century, global egg trading networks are becoming more complex and the clusters are undergoing dynamic differentiation and integration. Additionally, compared to cultural difference among countries, factors including geographical distances, natural endowments, economic developments, trade policies, and political stability have a more significant effect on the evolution of egg trading networks. Our work provides suggestions for participating countries to develop more resilient egg trading networks to resist external shocks.
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Determinants of corporate social responsibility disclosures of UAE national banks: a multi-perspective approach
Purpose
This paper aims to examine the determinants and extent of corporate social disclosure (CSD) by UAE national banks and to investigate the changes in CSD before, during and after the latest financial crisis.
Design/methodology/approach
Deductive in nature, this paper uses content analysis of annual reports of 16 UAE banks over a period of six years (2006-2011) to test eight hypotheses related to size, financial performance and other variables as potential explanatory variables of the CSD extent over different periods.
Findings
The findings show that human resources and community disclosures exhibited the highest extent of CSD over the six years. Moreover, the size and financial performance variables appear to be significant explanatory factors for the extent of CSD. The findings also indicate a strong variation in disclosure between banks with international presence and those with no such presence, while there is no significant disclosure variation between Islamic and conventional banks or during the different periods under investigation (pre, during and post recent financial crisis).
Research limitations/implications
Studies allowing a greater understanding of how banks with extensive governmental ownership define and disclose CSR in this particular region of the world are scarce and exploratory in nature. Consequently, the structure of national UAE banks provides a unique opportunity to understand the CSR mechanisms and disclosure of similar institutions in the world (particularly in the Arab world). This presents an interesting direction for further research.
Practical implications
These findings could assist UAE bankers and policymakers in integrating CSD in their corporate strategies and help the local and international business communities in understanding the characteristics of CSD in the UAE.
Originality/value
Comprehensive in scope, this paper provides a complete assessment of the potential explanatory proxies of CSD by UAE local banks before, during and after the recent global financial crisis. Comparable studies of the UAE banking sector have mainly focused on particular bank types (i.e. Islamic or conventional) and did not consider the effect of the recent adverse financial climate.
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The linear and non-linear interactions between blockchain technology index and the stock market indices: a case study of the UAE banking sector
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the linear and nonlinear interactions between the blockchain technology index and the UAE stock market index within the context of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai banking sector.
Design/methodology/approach
In this study, linear analysis was performed using the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model (GARCH) (1,1) model, whereas nonlinear analysis was performed using the wavelet coherence model.
Findings
Based on the results of the GARCH (1) model, the authors find that the blockchain technology index has a positive significant impact on stock market returns in the Abu Dhabi and Dubai banking sector. In addition, the findings indicate that increasing blockchain integration in the banking industry decreases banks’ stock market volatility and facilitates price stabilization. Additionally, the coherence wavelet analysis reveals that there is a phase relationship between the blockchain technology index and banks’ stock market indices in the banking sector of the UAE. The association was stronger during the global pandemic crisis because they were moving together across different timescales.
Practical implications
With the help of the linear analysis, this study offers a focal point and valuable insights to policymakers, central banks and commercial banks management on how implementing blockchain technology in the banking industry help boost stock market returns, reduce volatility and facilitate price stability. As a result of the nonlinear analysis of the significant long-term degree of co-movement between blockchain technology and banks’ stock markets in UAE, policymakers or the management of banks in UAE should take the growth of the blockchain technology industry into consideration to ensure the continued development of the banking sector. For investors, the findings provide implications for portfolio managers operating in the UAE who are encouraged to take short-term co-movement into account (1–16-week horizons) through both frequency and time when designing their portfolio while keeping long-horizon periods in mind is not recommended.
Originality/value
It is a pioneering study that empirically examines the linear and nonlinear nexus between the blockchain technology index and banks’ stock market returns and price stability.
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Emiratization and Workforce Innovation in Banking Sector
This study examines the impact of nationalization in employment towards bank innovation and individual innovative behavior. Using sample from United Arab Emirates, this paper studies the impact of Emiratization on innovation motivation of Emirati employees and compare the innovation degree between Emirati employees and expats. We conduct the investigations from two aspects. First, we survey the innovative behavior at the individual level through sets of questionnaires conducted on selected company managers. The questionnaires are projected to access the interviewees’ opinions about the idea generation, idea promotion, and idea implementation among their subordinates. Second, using sample of 13 commercial banks in the UAE, we construct firm-level innovation index on firm samples. The innovation index is proxied by the technology gap ratio which is estimated using stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings indicate a positive effect of Emiratization on firm innovation. From the individual perspective, a work team with more national employees tends to have positive impact on idea generation and idea implementation but have negative impact on idea promotion.
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