Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues: Volume 4 Issue 1

The effects of innovativeness on effectiveness and efficiency

Kayhan Tajeddini

Whilst researchers have explored the relationship between innovativeness and business performance in different organizations, such studies in services such as restaurants are…

Perception of social justice implication in brain drain management in Iranian educational institutions

Davood Salmani, Gholamreza Taleghani, Ali Taatian

The purpose of this paper is to study brain drain as a social problem and elaborate a five‐dimensional social justice model as the main cause of brain drain. The paper explores…

Arab American entrepreneurs in San Antonio, Texas: motivation for entry into self‐employment

Husam Omar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the experiences of some Arab American entrepreneurs and their motivation to enter self‐employment, in spite of the obvious obstacles…

Career success of Arab women managers: an empirical study in Lebanon

Hayfaa Tlaiss, Saleema Kauser

The purpose of this paper is to explore how women managers in Lebanon account for their career satisfaction and construct their career success.

Bilingual education in the UAE: factors, variables and critical questions

Kay Gallagher

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the macro‐factors and contextual variables surrounding the recent introduction of compulsory bilingual schooling in Abu Dhabi in the United…

A case study examining the implementation of social networking technologies to enhance student learning in a second language

Mark Curcher

The Monetary Theory course at Dubai Men's College used a very traditional knowledge transfer model of learning. The purpose of this paper is to describe a change to a student…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh

Editorial

James Pounder, Matthew Clarke