European Business Review: Volume 22 Issue 2

Training interventions: fulfilling managerial ends or proliferating invaluable means for employees?: Some evidence from Iran

Ebrahim Soltani, Ying‐Ying Liao

The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of employee training practices in a sample of Iranian‐based organisations.

Knowledge sharing through inter‐organizational knowledge networks: Challenges and opportunities in the United Arab Emirates

Norita Ahmad, Abdelkader Daghfous

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the business sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) based on their level of involvement in knowledge‐sharing activities with external…

FDI knowledge spillovers and host government policies: the Iranian experience

Marco Ferretti, Adele Parmentola

The purpose of this paper is aimed at analysing the influence of the host government policies on foreign direct investment (FDI) knowledge spillovers.

Theory versus practice: perspectives of Middle Eastern financial managers

Abdelaziz Chazi, Paulo Renato Soares Terra, Fernando Caputo Zanella

The purpose of this paper is to survey financial managers in the Arab Gulf region about a broad set of financial decisions and contrast their answers with both prescriptions of…

Weak signalling of bond ratings in Israel

Yaffa Machnes

This paper presents the statistical distribution of credit ratings and their migration in Israel, and shows that for 16 years the distribution of ranks has been skewed to the…

Entrepreneurs and trade names: evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Baker Ahmad Alserhan

The purpose of this paper aims to classify the problems associated with the various types of trade names, identify Arab entrepreneurs' approaches to naming, and to construct a…

Cross‐cultural differences and Italian firms' internationalization in Algeria: Exploring assertiveness and performance orientation

Francesco Calza, Nadir Aliane, Chiara Cannavale

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of cross‐cultural differences on Italian firms' internationalization in Algeria, and to determine if performance orientation…

Managing Middle Eastern management

Roland K. Yeo, Goran Svensson