The management of technological innovation in Lebanese industry
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Toufic Mezher, Walid Nasrallah, Aref Alameddine | Technology and innovation are two important elements in improving efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in organisations. Therefore, what differentiates successful organisations from others is their management of technology and innov... | 5 - 22 |
Concepts and measurements of innovativeness: the case of information and communication technologies
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Ahmad Mansour Khasawneh | Consumer innovativeness is defined as the degree to which an individual or other unit of adoption adopts new ideas relatively earlier than other members of a system. Surprisingly, it appears that there is still room for discussion about thi... | 23 - 33 |
Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: a model for successes and failures
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Toufic Mezher, Rony El-Saouda, Walid Nasrallah, Maher Al-Ajam | Entrepreneurs face different types of difficulties and operate in an unstable environment characterised by regional political chaos and local financial, legal, infrastructural, educational and cultural impediments. Small and Medium-sized En... | 34 - 52 |
Democracy|s greatest challenge: the legal sources of an Islamic state
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Daniel L. Tavana | This paper explores the legal sources of the modern state as described in accordance with Islamic law (shari|a). Beginning with an introduction, the paper uses two fatwa as a starting point to further expound on the nature of the state as d... | 53 - 64 |
Global ethics in the light of Islamic Political Economy
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Masudul Alam Choudhury | A theory of Islamic Political Economy is deduced from the Qur|an. Islamic Political Economy is shown to be an interactive, integrative and evolutionary system that endogenously combines moral attributes with knowledge formation. All of thes... | 65 - 81 |
Infrastructure privatisation: a multinational review of five initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa region
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Jamal Ibrahim Haidar | This case study investigates the potential impact of privatisation on the financial performance of infrastructure State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It considers initiatives taken in Tunisia, M... | 82 - 122 |
Views on the globalisation of higher education
DOI: 10.1504/IJACMSD.2008.020486 | Abdulkader Alfantookh, Saad Haj Bakry | This article is an elaboration of a Stanford University panel discussion entitled |Looking ahead: governance and democracy|, which is available on Stanford iTunes. The main speaker of the panel was Professor Paul Collier of Oxford Universit... | 123 - 129 |
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