Assessing the Islamic Banks Performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Empirical Study

The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the Human Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Empirical Study

The main goal of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on human development in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), particularly, the effect of ICT development index on the three-key component of human development; income, health, and education. The study focused on the years 2005-2014. Based on the theoretical background explaine...

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Knowledge Management Strategic Alignment in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Organizations today should actively incorporate knowledge strategy (KS) into their Business Strategy (BS) as knowledge has been recognized as a strategic element in the performance of the organization. Hence, the current research hypothesis that the alignment between BS and KS has a positive effect on the organizational performance. In an attempt to explore the alignment between KS and BS, an o...

An Investigation on Knowledge Management and Business Strategies Alignment in the Gulf Cooperation Council Banks

Today’s business and technical managers have to actively incorporate knowledge strategy (KS) into an organisation’s Business Strategy (BS) in order to improve the organisation’s performance. A study has been conducted to explore the alignment between KS and BS. The different types of BS were considered in terms of Miles and Snow’s (1978) typology of Defenders, Analyzers and Prospectors. In term...

Incidence of cancer in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, 1998-2001.

We describe the patterns of cancer incidence for common cancers in Gulf Cooperation Council countries during 1998-2001. A total of 32,291 cases of cancer were diagnosed (16,342 in males; 15,949 in females). Male preponderance was observed only in Saudi Arabia and Oman. The age-standardized incidence of all malignancies per 100,000 in both sexes was highest in Qatar followed by Bahrain, Kuwait, ...