Family Business in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

TRAMA

This volume represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of family business and entrepreneurship issues in countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council.  It provides major theoretical and empirical evidence which depicts the current processes in each GCC country including problems, faced by family business owners and entrepreneurs, such as succession, financial constraints, and conflicts. The chapters offer recommendations to policy makers on how to improve the general business environment and encourage potential investors, researchers, academicians, and professionals to be more involved in the region. The book is an outcome of a long-lasting endeavor and includes contributions from highly reputed authors and experts from the region and abroad.

SOMMARIO

Family business in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Introductory aspects.- Family business in Bahrain.- Family business in Kuwait.- Family business in Qatar.- Family business in Oman.- Family business in Saudi Arabia.- Family business in the United Arab Emirates.- Family business in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Towards the future. 

AUTORE

Veland Ramadani is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, and family businesses. He authored or co-authored around 180 research articles and book chapters, 12 textbooks, and 22 edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. Dr. Ramadani has recently published the co-authored book Entrepreneurial Family Business (Springer). Dr. Ramadani is co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Enterprising Communities (JEC). He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 ? Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In addition, Dr. Ramadani was invited as a keynote speakerin several international conferences and as a guest lecturer by President University, Indonesia, and Telkom University, Indonesia. During the 2017- 2021, he served as a member of Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for 10 months acted as Chief Operating Officer (COO), as well. In 2021, in the study conducted by Stanford University (USA), he was ranked among the Top 2% of the most influential scientists in the world. Wassim J. Aloulou is an Associate Professor at the College of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saudi Islamic University, Riyadh, KSA. He received his Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Pierre Mendes, France Grenoble 2, France, and from the Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Tunisia in 2008. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship in MBA and BBA programs. His research interests currently focus on digital entrepreneurship, FinTech, entrepreneurial intentions, and orientations of individuals and organizations. He has authored and co-authored multiple articles in reputable international journals (e.g., European Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, International Journal of Logistics Management, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Countries, among others), books with IGI Global on Business Transformations in the Digital Era and on Entrepreneurship and Organizational Resilience during Unprecedented Times, and multiple book chapters on incubation, social entrepreneurship, women's economic empowerment, and entrepreneurial and business contexts (with Edward Elgar, IGI Global, and World Scientific publishers).. Mohammad Zainal is Professor of Applied Statistics at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University, teaching Business Statistics and Computer Courses. He is also the current Dean of the College, and the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Center of Excellence in Management. Mohammad's research interests include Parametric Estimation in the Skew-Symmetric Distributions, Optimization in High Dimensions, Goodness-of-Fit and Nonparametric Estimation, and the Application of Computer Methodologies to facilitate “Real-World” Solutions to Complex Business problems. Also, his research involves providing Applied Problem-Solving in Operations Strategies in SMEs and Innovation Orientation and Performance of Family Businesses. He has published in the Journal of Family Business Management, Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Frontiers in Immunology, Sustainability 2022, Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and the International Journal of Business and Globalisation.  

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783031172618
• Collana: Contributions to Management Science
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 156 p. 1 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 156
• Pagine Romane: xiv