Abu Elnasr Sobaih

King Faisal University · Department of Management

The introduction of social media in the restaurant sector has changed the manner in which customers communicate with businesses. Social media marketing activities (SMMAs), such as customization, entertainment, trendiness, and interaction may have a substantial impact on followers’ perceived value and consumer behavioral intentions. Therefore, this...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) heavily relies on expatriates to meet the needs of their labor market, especially in the private sector. Nonetheless, to reduce the increasing rate of unemployment the government has recently implemented a new Saudization quota in restaurants/cafés. The new Saudization policy aims to replace foreign workers with up...

This research aims to examine an extended model of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to understand the determinants of consumers’ intentions to buy and recommend nutrition-labelled menu (NLM) items for making healthy food choices. The research examines the influence of attitude towards behaviour (ATT), subjective norms (SNs), perceived behaviou...

The purpose of this study is to test the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between the Big Five personality traits of agriculture and food science senior students and their entrepreneurial intention. For this purpose, the study employed an online survey, which was directed to senior students in the agriculture and food science program...

The current study builds on both the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to examine why consumers in Saudi Arabia engage in excessive food-buying behavior amid COVID-19. The study tests the direct impact of food consumption culture, perceived severity of COVID-19, and religiosity on excessive food-buying intentio...

This research develops and validates a measurement scale for sexual harassment in higher education using Churchill's criteria for scale development to better understand the experience of young female faculty members. For this purpose, the researchers used a sequential mixed methods approach. Following a critical review of the literature, in-depth i...

This study examines the influences of procedural justice on the turnover intention and social loafing behavior among employees in the hotel industry. Despite a growing body of literature regarding the relationship between organizational justice, turnover intention and social loafing, there is limited published research on the influence of procedura...

This research examines the impact of financial knowledge on risky investment intention via the lens of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The research developed a comprehensive model to test the mediation effect of the three TPB antecedents on the link between financial knowledge and risky investment intention. The research investigates the mode...

The current study examines the direct effect of investment awareness and university education support on students’ risky financial investment intentions. Additionally, it examines the mediating effect of social influence and the moderating effect of self-control on these relationships. For this purpose, we directed an online questionnaire to senior...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly reshaped consumer behaviors in Saudi Arabia, as in most other countries worldwide, and it has played a critical role in rising commercial online activities. The purpose of this study is to test the factors affecting online shopping amid COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. The five main factors identif...

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has disrupted university education and turned it into distance learning for at least one semester in many countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). However, there was an issue with university students’ cognitive load at this critical time, because education totally stopped for about a month and then resumed remot...

Governments in many countries have paid close attention to small enterprises because of their social and economic impacts. The role of the owner-manager in advancing the performance of their small business cannot be underestimated. The current study tests the influence of an owner-manager’s big five personality traits on the performance of their sm...

The widespread outbreak of the COVID-19 virus had substantial impacts on higher education, which turned into distance using virtual environments and electronic (e) learning platforms. There is a growing body of research on the effect of COVID-19 on students’ education and e-learning experiences amid the pandemic. However, limited research was perfo...

The Saudi Arabian government has promoted the tourism industry as a way to achieve the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 by diversifying the economy and reducing overdependence on the oil sector. To align with this, several universities in Saudi Arabia have started providing tourism education. Accordingly, several academic programs and university incubators we...

This study takes a novel attempt to examine the impact of women’s empowerment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has been prioritized recently by the country’s leadership as a part of the Saudi Vision 2030, on women’s intention towards entrepreneurship. A pre-examined survey was directed to the Saudi women working in KSA’s food and beverage busi...

This research examines the role of micro-irrigation systems, i.e., sprinkler and drip irrigation, on date palm production and quality in a semi-arid region. The field experiment was carried out for two successful seasons at a private farm, in the Al-Nubaria region of Egypt. The date palm was planted under pressurized irrigation (drip irrigation and...

This research examines the influences of perceived severity, anxiety, and self-isolation intention, amid the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), on panic food purchasing. The research adopted a quantitative approach using a pre-examined instrument, which was self-administered by the research team (with support from a data collection-specialised...

Egypt is one of the few countries with significant archaeological sites in every region. Some of these sites have been identified as dark archaeological sites that have not been used in a long time. The study proposes a strategy for the long-term reuse of these sites through niche tourism, i.e., dark or ghost tourism, which has received little atte...

Technological advancements have created a plethora of opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop and extend their business operations. Hence, internet has promoted to the emergence of digital entrepreneurship as a growing form of entrepreneurship among many entrepreneurs, especially digital natives. This research examines to what extent personal tr...

This study examined the impact of university education support on entrepreneurial intention among higher education students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study adopts the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as the theoretical foundation and examines the effect of constructs of TPB as mediating variables between university education support and e...

This research developed an assessment tool for enhancing the healing environment in healthcare buildings, especially interior finishing materials, based on sustainability standards, i.e., Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards and WELL building standards. The purpose of this tool is to help decision-makers, interior designer...

This research examines the role of gender in the link between entrepreneurship orientation and entrepreneurial intention. More exactly, the research examines the differences between male and female senior students in relation to the effect of risk-taking, innovativeness, and pro-activeness on their entrepreneurial intention. For this purpose, a qua...

Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in achieving the national agenda and the development of nations. The leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) pays significant attention to the role of entrepreneurship by supporting the Saudi Vision 2030 and its programs, e.g., the National Transformation Program and the Human Capability Development...

Despite their significant role in the performance of hotel industry, hotel workers are suffering from high rates of turnover, due to several reasons, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had numerous negative consequences on hotel workers, including their intention to leave the job or/and career. This study is an attempt to inv...

Since the inauguration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), environmental performance and sustainability have become more important to decision makers, scientists and leaders of organizations than before. In response to this, leaders of different organizations spend all endeavors conserving resources and ensuring environmen...

Over the last few decades, environmental impacts have been a major concern not only for policymakers but also for scholars and leaders of organisations. The leadership of organisations can drive the green behaviour of their employees, thus driving the overall green performance of enterprises. In this research, we examined the direct influence of gr...

Despite a plethora of research studies on service quality, in general, and electronic (e) service quality, in particular, studies often focus on either understating the dimensions of e-service quality or its direct relationship with other variables such as customer e-satisfaction, e-trust, and e-loyalty. This study developed a comprehensive theoret...

Adopting environmentally friendly behavior has become more than a claim. Green human resource management seems to be the solution where innovation will be a strategic lever to lead the company, with green practices, to the possession of a decisive competitive advantage. The purpose of this research is to examine the mediating role of innovation cap...

This research examines customers’ intention to buy depending on their use of nutrition labelling (NL) in fast food operations (FFOs) and their intention to visit and recommend these FFOs with nutrition-labelled menus. The research model draws on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to examine customers’ intentions to buy from nutrition-labelled me...

Drawn on Social Exchange Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, this study developed a research model to examine the direct influence of job insecurity and distributive injustice, which were common in many hotels amid COVID-19, on unethical pro-organisation behaviour (UPoB) among hotel employees. The study also examines the mediating role of...

Assessing water usage associated with urban green infrastructure is crucial for water resource management and sustainable planning of desert campus areas. A public university campus layout in the desert region is considered an urban city subject to urban water consumption (UWC) of significant intensity and extent, even though the urban layout is es...

As a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, most educational institutions shifted to online education. Students and faculty members in many public institutions, particularly those in developing countries, are hampered by the absence of formal online learning management systems. Responding to COVID-19, many institutions in developing countries adopted soc...

The long-lasting pandemic has disrupted face–to–face education and has forced higher education institutions to adopt digital learning management systems, albeit many public universities in developing counties could not properly undertake this shift and adopted either free interactive platforms (e.g., zoom) or social network applications (SNAs) (e.g...

This research aims to test the impact of procedural justice on employees’ turnover intention via their intention to stay or give up their positions by putting social influence in the spotlight as a mediating variable. Although the topic dealing with the relationship linking organizational justice to turnover intention has taken some wrinkles, there...

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher institutions to shift towards electronic (e) learning. Despite a plethora of research on the responses of higher education institutions to COVID-19 and their shift towards e-learning, research often focuses on the opportunities and/or challenges of e-learning amid COVID-19. Notwithstanding this, lim...

Despite a plethora of research on students’ experiences of electronic (e) learning amid COVID-19 in higher education institutions (HEI), limited research has recognized the differences between students based on their gender. This research aims to examine the differences between students regarding their e-learning experiences amid COVID-19, especial...

This research examines the direct influence of sexual harassment by superiors on subordinates’ young female trust in their superiors. The research also examines the mediating role of trust in the relationship between sexual harassment and continuous commitment as well as intention to leave. For this purpose, a pre-tested questionnaire survey was se...

The COVID-19 pandemic has severe psychological and psychosocial impacts on hotel workers. This study examines the causal direct impact of both job insecurity and distributive injustice, which were common in hotels post COVID-19, on social loafing behavior among hotel workers, and the indirect impact through turnover intention. Data were collected f...

In response to the Saudi Vision 2030, the Kingdom has developed mega entertainment events in different cities, referred to as cities-based entertainment, to diversify the long prevalent oil-dependent economy and change the traditional image of the Kingdom as a sole religious tourism destination. This research develops and tests a conceptual model o...

The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 forced governments to continue with distance learning. Due to the absence of a formal digital learning management system (DLMS), public universities in many countries adopted social network sites (SNSs), e.g., Facebook and WhatsApp, and/or digital communication platforms, e.g., Microsoft (MS) Teams and Zoom for t...

The cost of fuel and its availability are among the most major concerns for aircrafts and the aviation industry overall. Environmental difficulties with chemical pollutant emissions emitted by aviation machines are also connected to fuel consumption. As a result, it is crucial to examine factors that affect the overall fuel usage and consumption in...

This research evaluates the practices of performance measurement systems (PMSs) in quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains. It proposes a sustainable PMS (SPMS) for emerging QSR chains enabling them to enhance their practices and achieve their strategic goals. A sequential explanatory mixed methodology was undertaken starting with self-administered s...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is among the top food-wasting countries worldwide, despite it being considered a religious society. Hence, an important question has emerged “to what extent and by what mechanism can religiosity influence food waste intention?”. This research answers this research question and examines the direct impact of both rel...

Environmental changes push hotels to seek additional and innovative channels to market their products/services while maintaining a high occupancy rate and revenues with lower marketing costs. Building on network theory, this research investigates the extent to which multi-level marketing (MLM) can be adopted as an appropriate and innovative marketi...

Tourism is one of the hardest-hit industries by the global pandemic of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Small tourism enterprises have been heavily affected and have had difficulty in business recovery. This research is an early attempt to explore the direct impact of small hospitality enterprises' resilience on sustainable tourism development as well...

Women's empowerment has been prioritised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) recently, in line with the Saudi Vision 2030; albeit, women are still underrepresented in tourism industry. However, if robust women's empowerment is consolidated into planning and implementation processes, tourism can act as a vehicle for encouraging gender parity. This...

Research on the interrelationship between green human resource management (GHRM), employee pro-environmental behaviors, and environmental performance remains very limited, especially in relation to small tourism enterprises. This research bridges a knowledge gap and examines the direct effect of GHRM on environmental performance in small tourism en...

Small lodging enterprises encompass a major proportion of the lodging industry worldwide. Nonetheless, limited research has addressed the HRM-innovation-performance link on these enterprises. This research draws on ability, motivation, opportunity (AMO) theory and resource-based view (RBV) theory to examine the influences of green human resources m...

This study examines the impact of both transformational leadership (TFL) and transactional leadership (TCL) on employee intention to stay (ITS) in deluxe hotels. It also examines the mediating role of organisational commitment (OC) in the relationship between leadership styles, i.e. TFL and TCL, and ITS. A pre-tested questionnaire survey was self-a...

This study examines the impact of both transformational leadership (TFL) and transactional leadership (TCL) on employee intention to stay (ITS) in deluxe hotels. It also examines the mediating role of organisational commitment (OC) in the relationship between leadership styles, i.e. TFL and TCL, and ITS. A pre-tested questionnaire survey was self-a...

The worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 has forced higher education institutions to shift from face-to-face to online education. However, many public institutions, especially in developing countries, often do not have access to formal online learning management systems (LMS) for facilitating communication with students and/or among faculty members. This...

This research empirically tests the validity of Herzberg’s theory of motivation and its relationship with job satisfaction in the hotel industry in developing countries. For this purpose, a pretested questionnaire survey was self-administered to employees in ten international five-star hotels in Greater Cairo, Egypt. Unlike the results of Herzberg’...

This research examines the influence of psychological contract fulfillment (PCFul) on the relationship between human resources management practices (HRMP) and job outcomes. A pre-tested self-administrated questionnaire with employees from 36 hotels in the Red Sea region resort, Egypt was employed for data collection. Structural Equation Modeling (S...

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the drivers of the business success. Hence, it is a beneficial practice for any business, to use standardized KPIs to monitor and benchmark performance. This research explores the KPIs adopted by QSR chains and identifies any deficits in the current KPIs as well as best practices. For this purpose, in-depth, on...

This research examines the effects of deep-frying in different oils on the sensory quality and acceptability of some food products i.e. French fries and flour dough. The frying medium tested included palm stearin (shortening), sunflower and soybean oils. The experiments were conducted on a lab scale in the study kitchen of the Faculty of Tourism an...

The research on the State of Young Scientists in Egypt was undertaken in collaboration with the Egyptian Young Academy of Science (EYAS) and Hewlan University. Every nation has the responsibility to lead and enable their young scientists to achieve scientific excellence. Egypt has responded effectively by launching EYAS as an acitivity of ASRT. Thi...

This research studies the psychological contract fulfillment (PCFul) as one of the antecedents of employees' attitudes and behaviors; it analyzes the impact of the PCFul as perceived by hotel employees on their job satisfaction (JS), affective commitment (AC), and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Data for this study was collected via self...

This research is a response to the universal use of social media by students for academic-related purposes. It bridges a gap in knowledge in relation to the value and use of social media as effective teaching and learning tool in higher education in developing countries. A pre-tested questionnaire survey was self-administered to faculty members in...

This research investigates the value of using social networking sites (SNSs) in hospitality and tourism higher education in developing countries through a case study of students enrolled in the Colleges of Tourism and Hotel Management in Egypt. Students’ perceptions were identified via self-administered questionnaire. The results showed that althou...

Small hospitality firms are very important to the Egyptian economy because of their potential contributions to economic growth and job creation. However, there is a paucity research about small hospitality firms in developing countries, i.e. Egypt. This research bridges a gap in knowledge and investigates human resource management practices in smal...

This research aims at exploring the performance of butler department in hotels, using Greater Cairo hotels as a case study, and evaluate its impact on guest satisfaction. For this purpose, a survey of hotels offer butler service in Greater Cairo was conducted. This was supplemented by personal interviews, one-to-one, with chief butlers and butlers....

This article uses Egypt as a case study to investigate the differences between hospitality employment in city and remote areas, in relation to five major issues. Secondary data from Egyptian national statistics regarding hospitality employment is supplemented by a questionnaire survey of hospitality employees and in-depth interviews with senior hos...

This paper explores university–industry collaboration in developing countries through a case study of university–industry research collaboration in support of the Egyptian hospitality and tourism industry. The perceptions of four key Egyptian stakeholder groups – industry, university, government and non-governmental organisations – were identified...

This research investigates the perceptions of tourism and hospitality students towards career in the industry. It analyzes differences in the opinions of two groups of students, tourism studies department and hotel management department, towards careers in the tourism and hospitality industry. This will ascertain if one group is more committed to a...

This research aims to determine the degree of importance of convention service factors in Sharm Elsheikh resort hotels from the perspectives of planners and participants. For this purpose, self-administered questionnaire was given to convention planners and participants in Sharm Elsheikh resort hotels. The independent sample t-test identified a sig...

Purpose ‐ The Delphi technique is used to achieve consensus among experts and/or gain judgment on complex matters. This paper aims to discuss the classical Delphi and its advantages and disadvantages in qualitative research, particularly in hospitality. Design/methodology/approach ‐ The classical Delphi is characterized by the involvement of expert...

This book is a monograph of my PhD. The UK restaurant sector employs a significant number of part-time employees, some of whom are experienced, but many of whom are not. Notwithstanding this they tend to perform the same work tasks and hold the same responsibilities as full-time employees. However managers often treat part-time employees inappropri...