Naveed Yasin

This paper investigates the employment dynamics of immigrant enterprises by examining psychological contract (PC) relationships between immigrant entrepreneurs (IEs) and their workforce within immigrant enclaves in Northern England. By integrating Psychological Contract Theory (PCT) with the mixed embeddedness framework, the study explores how info...

Contemporary corporate governance models traditionally focused on maximizing shareholder value and encounter significant challenges in encountering the complexities of sustainability. The digital age necessitates the development of innovative frameworks that integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into core decision-making pro...

Drawing upon S-O-R theory, this study explores the direct and indirect influence of social networking ties (SNTs) on entrepreneurial intention (EI), via the mediation of entrepreneurial passion (EP). It also investigates the moderation effect of the need for achievement (nAch) on the direct relationship between SNTs and EP and further investigates...

The case opens by focusing on the fitness industry, particularly the increased demand for home-based fitness solutions in the context of COVID-19. MAXPRO is presented as an innovative concept that blends entrepreneurship and creativity through the story of entrepreneur Nizar Akil and the challenges he faced in bringing MAXPRO to life. From another...

Purpose This study aims to investigate how work overload, resulting from full-time telecommuting, aggravates telecommuting accounting professionals’ burnout via the mediation of work exhaustion. Further, the study also tests the conditional moderation effect of psychological capital on the association between work exhaustion and burnout, proposing...

The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Generative AI (GenAI), has significantly transformed the higher education landscape. Despite the opportunities GenAI offers to students, they pose significant challenges for academic integrity. Thus, it is crucial for higher education institutions (HEI) to balance the use of GenAI for e...

Universities are under increasing pressure to adapt to evolving competition in higher education to get sufficient students, accreditation, ranking, funding, and grants without compromising their financial viability. One of the main challenges most universities, mainly private, face is encouraging faculty to conduct research and publish in high-rank...

Purpose This paper responds to several calls for a cross-national comparative study of immigrant entrepreneurship throughout the longstanding discourse of this phenomenon. This study aims to comparatively analyze the nature of immigrant enclave entrepreneurship among one immigrant community across three different jurisdictional contexts (UK, Denmar...

Big data analytics have impacted nearly every service industry in the last decade. Furthermore, using artificial intelligence in big data analytics has introduced a new trend, resulting in different performance types, e.g., sales, marketing, innovation, organizational, financial, and operational. A systematic review of the empirical results from pu...

Building upon the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) and the hedonic motivation theories, this study aims to assess the effects of consumer awareness variables viz. unhealthy product knowledge (PK), brand expertise (BE), perceived price and tax policy interventions (PTP), and personality traits variables vz. materialism (MT) and buying impulsivenes...

Strategic vision guides governments and societies to overcome gender biases to extol entrepreneurship and achieve targeted business performance. In order to change women's entrepreneurship in societies, strategic foresight is one of the most important resources to be utilized. Strategic foresight offers relevant solutions to these changes for achie...

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Drawing upon the stimulus-organism-response (S-OR) theory, the current study assesses the direct and indirect role of entrepreneurship education (EE) on entrepreneurial intention (EI) among Omani university students via the mediation of entrepreneurial passion (EP) and motivation (EM). Moreover, the study also checks the conditional interaction eff...

This paper is based on a techno-economic analysis and the environmental impact of a proposed 1 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant at the main campus of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi (FPM) in north-eastern Nigeria. A photovoltaic power plant converts solar radiation into electricity that can be used as a source of electrical power to meet the dai...

This paper explores the nexus between University-Industry Collaborations (UIC) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region informed by a multiple-country-case study design. This study aims to explore the motives, opportunities and challenges, and propose effective practices in the MENA region context. Based on qualitative data retrieved throu...

This exploratory study investigates the challenges for the heritage tourism industries in the UAE by focusing on the strategies and policies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to identify the business strategies, analyze the contextual challenges for service providers, and explore how providers managed these challenges during the...

The discourse related to explaining the meaning of rural, particularly in contrast to urban areas, is well established and crucial for policy as well as other decision makers. However, it can be argued that not all rural can be classified as the same. In comparison to rural in general, the discussion related to the nature of 'remote-rural' is compa...

Machine learning (ML) has seen a substantial increase in its role in improving operations for staff and customers in different industries. However, there appears to be a somewhat limited adoption of ML by farm businesses, highlighted by a review of the literature investigating innovative behaviors by rural businesses. A review of the literature ide...

ABSTRACT This paper explores the efficacy of entrepreneurship education among undergraduate students in the Creative Industries (CI) at the Canadian University Dubai (CUD) from a qualitative lens using a pre and post-activity research design. This study is based on n=75 participants for face-to-face in-person semi-structured interviews that were co...

Purpose This paper explores medical tourism development challenges in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) pre- and during Covid-19. Medical tourism is becoming a dynamic, rapid growth area and an engine of economic development. Design/methodology/approach In-depth interviews were conducted with medical tourism professionals. Fourteen medical tourism st...

This paper explores the current state of university-based business incubators (UBIs) in Canada by utilizing both secondary and primary data obtained through desk-based secondary research and semi-structured interviews with UBI managers, academics, and support staff. These data informed the development of nine cases of UBIs in Canada. The data were...

There is a dearth of published research that explores UBIs from a comparative dimension across geographical and institutionalised contexts that assesses the current state and scope of UBI activities. This paper explores the current state of University-based Business Incubators (UBIs) both in the United Arab Emirates and Canada underpinned by a comp...

Although there has been extensive research on business incubators (BIs) in the private sector, relatively little is known about university-based business incubators (UBIs) in the context of emerging markets such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study explores the current state of UBIs in the UAE by analysing secondary and primary data obtain...

This paper makes a seminal contribution to the ethnic entrepreneurship literature by analyzing the journeys of a single migrant community across three ethnic enclaves in three host-nation contexts. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 52 immigrant Punjabi-Pakistani entrepreneurs who started businesses in immigrant enclaves in the UK, Denmark,...

The purpose of this paper is to cross‐nationally compare one immigrant community's business start‐up experiences in ethnic enclaves of London (UK) and Dubai (UAE). The primary data were collected through 20 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews (10 from each country) identified through personal contact networks and snowball sampling approaches in eac...

These days institutes aim to serve society through education by teaching, research, and contributing to economic growth through business technology or the establishment of enterprises by students and educators. Entrepreneurship and enterprise education offer programs to improve abilities and competencies that have substantial effects. Technology in...

This concluding chapter focuses on the future of teaching and learning in enterprise and entrepreneurship education in relation to the adoption of technology. Based on the previous chapters in this dedicated text, it is evident that the adoption of technology will play an important role in the development of teaching and learning pedagogies in this...

Simulation games in enterprise education are expected to foster the learning experience of the students whilst powering the teaching capabilities of instructors, becoming an additional asset among learning technologies that are more traditionally available. However, research in this area is under-developed, leaving practitioners with limited inform...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gained increasing international recognition for becoming a leading player by successfully reducing its reliance on being a rich oil-based nation towards becoming a global player in commerce and luxury tourism. In doing so, the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem and proactive encouragement of local policy...

This paper explores the effects of gamification (a game-based student response system) on student learning in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The data, collected through a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews with 32 learners, were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis (i.e., template analysis). Based on an in-depth analysis of the...

Purpose This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise education (social innovation and enterprise) learning programme on the enterprising characteristics among interdisciplinary undergraduate enterprise education students from a general (without considering gender) and gender-specific perspective at a higher education institution in the U...

Abstract: There is a dearth of studies that explore the challenges andexperiences among business incubators (B Is), as providers, for their effectiveperformance and operations. An exploratory research design model has beenadopted by developing multiple case studi es to explore the challenges for BIproviders in Dubai, (UAE). This study adopts qualit...

This study assesses the enterprising characteristics of first-year undergraduate Omani female chemical engineering students in Muscat, Oman. Pre and post surveys were conducted with 27 respondents from an entrepreneurship boot camp module mandated by the Oman Ministry of Higher Education. The variables, measured on a 10-point Likert scale, included...

Despite the increasing popularity of enterprise and entrepreneurship programmes in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide, there has been a growing concern about how academics should deliver enterprise and entrepreneurship education effectively to learners using an experiential learning approach. Consequentially, the rise of technology-base...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of postgraduate research (PGRs) students studying at the University of Huddersfield, concentrating on entrepreneurial attributes and the importance of enterprise-related skills future career intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Electronic survey questions asked respondents to rate the...

There is a significant need for a cross-national study in ethnic minority entrepreneurship, and in particular of a single migrant community's business start-up experiences across multiple national contexts (Basu, 2006; Greene, 1997; Ilhan-Nas et al., 2011; Legros et al., 2013; Light and Bhachu, 1993; Wood et al., 2012). This doctoral thesis provide...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the state of enterprise education and skills training at postgraduate level at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach – A case-study research strategy was used to address the lack of existing research on enterprise training for postgraduate researchers (PG...

This case focuses on the strategic concepts of motivation, resources and the notion of 'breakout' which is a common strategic growth strategy associated with ethnic entrepreneurship. The breakout strategy encourages small ethnic businesses, which typically operate in ethnic enclaves serving their co-ethnic populations, to modify their strategy and...