Soud Almahamid

Arabian Gulf University · Innovation and Technology Management

Aim: This study aimed to understand the role of workforce agility as a coping strategy to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The study reviewed and integrated two lines of literature to develop a theoretical framework to help business organizations to respond, adapt, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Results: The results showed tha...

Innovation ambidexterity has emerged as a primary interest in management research due to the strategy’s support for adaptability and flexibility pursuant to competitiveness. While management studies investigate and explicate the socioeconomic and technological challenges of ambidexterity, there is a gap in knowledge on the determinants that underpi...

This study examined the relationship between compulsory new ways of working (flexible work design, workplace design at home, advanced information and communication technology [ICT]‐based communications and culture of innovation) and faculty members' innovative work behaviour. The mediating role of work–life balance and employees' satisfaction with...

In this paper, we explore preparedness strategies for the initial response to crisis-driven innovation, in the context of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Using insights from semi-structured interviews with public health strategists, we apply analytic induction to investigate preparedness to innovate, and the main forms of crisis-d...

Using insights from the Kingdom of Bahrain, this paper aims to outline lessons learnt from innovation by a small island state for mitigating the transmission and spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Serving as the foundation and catalyst for proactive and reactive COVID-19 mitigation measures, the Bahrain response involves a National Task...

Purpose Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with unique regional logistics management (RLM) challenges to respond to the chaos created by the crisis and to restore normality for operations and supply chains in home nations. The purpose of this article is to explore RLM in times of crisis from the perspective of public authorities resp...

This study aims to examine the influence of knowledge management processes and organizational creativity on service innovation for international airports in Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire was used to collect data from a convenient sample of 315 respondents. The results extend the “spiral” knowledge assumption to include knowledge sharing and applica...

Innovation management (IM) for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region poses unique socio-economic challenges due to the multi-faceted nature of Arab and Islamic countries. Additionally, proposals for indigenous initiatives, sustainability transitions and outward-oriented strategies in economic reform plans of the GCC add further complexity to IM...

this is a policy brief addressed to policymakers. A collaborative research work that sheds the light on the practices and lessons learned during the pandemic, the research study was ran between the months of April and June 2020.

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the perspectives of organizational innovation in higher education in light of socioeconomic transformations as articulated in Vision 2030 for Saudi Arabia. A case study evaluating strategic innovation at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) in Bahrain was conducted using Balanced Score Cards. A questionnaire...

Purpose Synthesising theories of enterprise resource planning (ERP), psychological empowerment and agile capabilities, the purpose of this paper is to build and test a novel theoretical model linking ERP system usage with agile capabilities via users’ psychological empowerment in Jordanian commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach A question...

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the perspectives of organizational innovation in higher education in light of socioeconomic transformations as articulated in Vision 2030 for Saudi Arabia. A case study evaluating strategic innovation at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) in Bahrain was conducted using Balanced Score Cards. A questionnaire...

This study will use the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework; which has been broadly used to clarify how to adopt technological innovation from the standpoint of a business (Tornatzky and Fleischer, 1990; Wu and Chen, 2014) and integrating it with the TAM Model which is modified to incorporate two factors such as perceived usefulness...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of total quality management (TQM) practices in terms of leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, teamwork, process management, information, and analysis on organizational performance in Jordanian telecommunications companies. In addition, the mediating effect of knowledge manage...

This study aims to understand which factors influence a lecturer's intention to use a university website. A specific questionnaire was constructed based on the related literature to collect relevant data from the research informants. The population of this study consists of all lecturers working at the Middle East University. As the population of t...

This study aims to understand the impacts of enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-business technologies, and organisational collaboration on supply chain agility. A self-Administered questionnaire consisting of 37 statements was developed. The study targeted ERP users at one pharmaceutical company in Jordan. Of the 155 questionnaires circulated, 1...

This study aims to examine the impact of organizational environment (top management support, company-wide support, business process reengineering, effective project management, and organ-izational culture) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor environment (ERP vendor sup-port) on ERP perceived benefits. In order to achieve the study's aim,...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) perspectives on Jordanian banks’ Business Performance. The study surveyed 100 managers working in 5 Jordanian banks, by means of a questionnaire. Statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, t-test, correlation, and F analysis were employed. To confirm th...

This study examines the relationship between ownership concentration and company performance using pooled data for Jordanian non-financial listed companies over the time period from 1994 to 2005. Results show that ownership concentration whether it was managerial or non-managerial has no significant effect on firm's performance when it measured by...

ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the relationship between customer knowledge management, new services development and marketing performance. The population of this study consists of twenty Commercial Banks working at Bagdad City. The study sample formed of new services development managers, customer relationship management managers, and Heads...

Purpose – The research aims to provide a view of the present role of management accounting to identify the extent of usage of management accounting practices (MAPs) and finally to determine the sophistication level of MAPs by employing International Federation of Accountants model (IFAC) in the Jordanian financial sector. Design/methodology/approac...

This research aims to provide a view of the present role of performance evaluation measures, to identify the extent of usage of performance evaluation measures, and finally to examine the contingent variables in order to find out their effect upon the extent of usage in the Jordanian banks. In order to achieve these objectives, the research used a...

This study empirically explores the determinants of user continuance intention to use e-government. A questionnaire was developed based on the e-government continuance to use literature. A convenient sample of Jordanian citizens was chosen. The results of data analysis revealed that the continuance intention to use e-government services is a functi...

To explore and empirically investigate the relationships among organizational knowledge sharing practices, employees' learning commitments, employees' adaptability, and employees' job satisfaction. A cross sectional survey as a method of data collection was adopted and the population of this study consists of the entire Listed Manufacturing Compani...

Purpose- The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate empirically the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived information quality, and intention to use egovernment to gather information and conduct transactions by Jordanian citizens. Motivations- The motivations for conducting this study are: this work...

Problem statement: The motivation for this study is determining the extent that modification flexibility affects positively the achievement of strategic and operational objectives in thecontext of Jordanian manufacturing companies. It addresses the relationship between modification flexibility and organizational objectives. Approach: to tackle the...

The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate empirically the relationships between system quality, information quality, service quality, internet self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, intrinsic, user satisfaction, and continuous intention to use e-learning system in Jordan. This study approaches the above purpose by developing a questionn...