Capabilities

The College of Business and Economics (CBE) has a talented team of faculty, administrators and staff dedicated to furthering the College's vision for excellence in research.  Our internationally-educated faculty experts conduct basic, applied and instructional research at the frontiers of business and management theories, practices and education.

Research areas of the faculty in the CBE include, but are not limited to, financial reporting and standards, management accounting, organizational performance, accounting education, innovation and creativity, entrepreneurship, human resource management, electronic commerce, logistics, supply chain management, operations research, employment equity, customer relationships, consumer behavior, electronic learning, econometrics, energy economics, monetary economics, international trade, corporate finance, Islamic finance, risk management, banking and financial regulations, times series analysis, forecasting, survey sampling, nonparametric statistics, distribution theory and applied statistics.  Results of faculty research projects are published in the world’s leading academic and practitioner journals and used by academic scholars and business and organizational leaders.

CBE faculty often pursue research projects with the assistance and collaboration of undergraduate or graduate students.  These projects may result in students gaining practical experience by presenting their findings at conferences or in other professional settings or by helping to create and publish written manuscripts in academic journals or trade publications.

Opportunities

As a dedicated research institution, the UAEU, including the College of Business and Economics, provides numerous opportunities for individuals and groups of faculty members and students to pursue a wide range of research projects.

Support is provided through grants such as the College Annual Research Program (CARP), the Faculty Research Seed Grant, the Center-Based Interdisciplinary Research Grant Competition, the Research Start-up Grant Competition, the UAEU Program for Advanced Research (UPAR) and the Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE Plus). In addition, international conference travel funding is available at the college level.

Students undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) work closely with faculty on a range of applied and industry-relevant research topics.

The College Annual Research Program (CARP) was designed with the goal of encouraging faculty members to develop new research ideas, by providing grants for proposals of quality which will have a meaningful impact on teaching, theory and society.

Publications

Please  click here  to view the Google Scholar Profile for the College of Business and Economics. 

Please note that the publications listed on Google Scholar are categorized by faculty and not by their current place of employment. Therefore, some publications listed on this website may not have been published whilst the faculty member was employed at the United Arab Emirates University.

A list of latest publications by the CBE’s faculty (by department) are listed below:

Department of Economics and Finance 

1. Sweidan, O. D. (2021). State capitalism and energy democracy. Geoforum, 125, 181-184
2. Sweidan, O. D. (2021). The geopolitical risk effect on the US renewable energy deployment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 293, 126189.
3. Sweidan, O. D., & Elbargathi, K. (2022). The effect of oil rent on economic development in Saudi Arabia: Comparing the role of globalization and the international geopolitical risk. Resources Policy, 75, 102469.
4. Alfaki, I. M. A., & El Anshasy, A. A. (2022). Oil rents, diversification and growth: Is there asymmetric dependence? A copula-based inquiry. Resources Policy, 75, 102495.
5. Shamsuddin, M., Katsaiti, M. S., & El Anshasy, A. A. (2022). Income rank and income concerns: What correlates with international migration intentions?. Economic Analysis and Policy.
6. Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S., & Rajan, R. S. (2021). Do macroprudential policies counter real exchange rate appreciation in emerging markets?. The World Economy, 44(7), 2164-2187.
7. Gopalan, S., & Khalid, U. (2022). How does financial inclusion influence tourism demand? Empirical evidence from emerging markets and developing economies. Tourism Recreation Research, 1-15.
8. Gopalan, S., Reddy, K., & Sasidharan, S. (2022). Does digitalization spur global value chain participation? Firm-level evidence from emerging markets. Information Economics and Policy, 100972.
9. Khalid, U., Okafor, L. E., & Burzynska, K. (2021). Does the size of the tourism sector influence the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic?. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(19), 2801-2820.
10. Khalid, U., Okafor, L. E., & Burzynska, K. (2022). Do regional trade agreements enhance international tourism flows? Evidence from a cross-country analysis. Journal of Travel Research, 61(6), 1391-1408.
11. Okafor, L. E., Khalid, U., & Burzynska, K. (2022). The effect of migration on international tourism flows: the role of linguistic networks and common languages. Journal of Travel Research, 61(4), 818-836.
12. Lipowski, C., Lo, S., Shi, S., & Wilke, R. A. (2021). Competing risks regression with dependent multiple spells: Monte Carlo evidence and an application to maternity leave. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science, 4(2), 953-981.

Department of Accounting  

1. Appiah, M., Karim, S., Naeem, M. A., & Lucey, B. M. (2022). Do institutional affiliation affect the renewable energy-growth nexus in the Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a multi-quantitative approach. Renewable Energy, 191, 785-795.
2. El‐Khatib, Y., & Hatemi‐J, A. (2022). Option pricing with illiquidity during a high volatile period. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 45(5), 3213-3224.
3. Farid, S., Naeem, M. A., Paltrinieri, A., & Nepal, R. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on the quantile connectedness between energy, metals and agriculture commodities. Energy economics, 109, 105962.
4. Youssef, M. A. E. A., & Mahama, H. (2021). Does business intelligence mediate the relationship between ERP and management accounting practices?. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change.
5. Youssef, M. A. E. A., Eid, R., & Agag, G. (2022). Cross-national differences in big data analytics adoption in the retail industry. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 64, 102827.
6. Hacker, R. S., & Hatemi-J, A. (2021). Model selection in time series analysis: Using information criteria as an alternative to hypothesis testing. Journal of Economic Studies.
7. Hadi, D. M., Naeem, M. A., & Karim, S. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on the connectedness across global hospitality stocks. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 103243.
8. Hatemi-J, A., Hajji, M. A., & El-Khatib, Y. (2022). Exact solution for the portfolio diversification problem based on maximizing the risk adjusted return. Research in International Business and Finance, 59, 101548.
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Department of Statistics and Business Analytics 

1. Edler, J. S., Manz, K., Rojas-Perilla, N., Baumeister, H., & Cohrdes, C. (2022). The role of personality traits and social support in relations of health-related behaviours and depressive symptoms. BMC psychiatry, 22(1), 1-15.
2. Ertek, G., & Kailas, L. (2021). Analyzing a decade of wind turbine accident news with topic modeling. Sustainability, 13(22), 12757.
3. Rossi, J. G., Rojas-Perilla, N., Krois, J., & Schwendicke, F. (2022). Cost-effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence as a Decision-Support System Applied to the Detection and Grading of Melanoma, Dental Caries, and Diabetic Retinopathy. JAMA network open, 5(3), e220269-e220269.
4. Lee, C. H., & Zhao, J. L. Social media engagement and crowdfunding performance: The moderating role of product type and entrepreneurs' characteristics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
5. Hujran, O., Alsuwaidi, M., Alarabiat, A., & Al-Debei, M. (2021). Embracing Smart Government During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates.

Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship 

1. Boulaksil, Y., Hamdouch, Y., Ghoudi, K., & Fransoo, J. C. (2021). Comparing policies for the stochastic multi-period dual sourcing problem from a supply chain perspective. International Journal of Production Economics, 232, 107923.
2. Eid, R., Agag, G., & Shehawy, Y. M. (2021). Understanding guests’ intention to visit green hotels. Journal of hospitality & tourism research, 45(3), 494-528.
3. Guo, Y., Zhang, Y., & Boulaksil, Y. (2021). Real-time ride-sharing framework with dynamic timeframe and anticipation-based migration. European Journal of Operational
4. Guo, Y., Zhang, Y., Boulaksil, Y., & Tian, N. (2022). Multi-dimensional spatiotemporal demand forecasting and service vehicle dispatching for online car-hailing platforms. International Journal of Production Research, 60(6), 1832-1853.
5. Selim, H., Eid, R., Agag, G., & Shehawy, Y. M. (2022). Cross-national differences in travelers’ continuance of knowledge sharing in online travel communities. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 65, 102886.
6. Wood, B. P., Eid, R., & Agag, G. (2021). A multilevel investigation of the link between ethical leadership behaviour and employees green behaviour in the hospitality industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 97, 102993.
7. Schillebeeckx, S. J., Kautonen, T., & Hakala, H. (2022). To buy green or not to buy green: Do structural dependencies block ecological responsiveness?. Journal of Management, 48(2), 472-501.
8. Kchaou-Boujelben, M. (2021). Charging station location problem: A comprehensive review on models and solution approaches. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 132, 103376.

Department of Management 

1. Abudaqa, A., Hilmi, M. F., AlMujaini, H., Alzahmi, R. A., & Ahmed, G. (2021). Students’ perception of e-Learning during the Covid Pandemic: a fresh evidence from United Arab Emirates (UAE). Journal of E-learning and Knowledge Society, 17(3), 110-118.
2. AlMujaini, H., Hilmi, M., Abudaqa, A., & Alzahmi, R. (2021). Corporate foresight organizational learning and performance: The moderating role of digital transformation and mediating role of innovativeness in SMEs. International Journal of Data and Network Science, 5(4), 703-712.
3. AlSuwaidi, M., Eid, R., & Agag, G. (2021). Understanding the link between CSR and employee green behaviour. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 46, 50-61.
4. Alsuwaidi, M., Eid, R., & Agag, G. (2022). Tackling the complexity of guests' food waste reduction behaviour in the hospitality industry. Tourism Management Perspectives, 42, 100963.
5. Alzahmi, R. A., AlMazrouei, H., & Zacca, R. (2021). Developing Future Leaders: Evidence of Talent Management Planning. International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management (IJCRMM), 12(4), 46-60.

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Industry

The College of Business and Economics maintains a close link with UAE industry and governmental organizations. We have extensive links to industry, and are recognized, through our research, as a source of consultation and solution for a wide-range of business, management and leadership related problems. We provide research and graduate studies solutions to industry and governmental partners and sponsors such as Tawazun, Caracal, ADASI, Federal Demographic Council, Emirates Foundation, Etisalat, Abu Dhabi Municipality, Al Ain Municipality, amongst others.

For more information, please contact:

Prof. Kilani Ghoudi
Assistant Dean of Research & Graduate Studies
College of Business and Economics

Phone: +971 3 713 6510
Email: kghoudi@uaeu.ac.ae