This chapter explores curricular principles and topics for women's entrepreneurial leadership education in Arabian Gulf countries, focussing on a number of converging and divergent factors that together distinguish the region.
Currently, our consumption-driven society contributes to the production of a large quantity of waste every day in urban environments. Low recycling rates pressurize city authorities to handle waste more sustainably. Despite this pressure, waste management systems have paid little attention to the urban planning processes, compared to other sectors like energy or water.
Digital currencies have received a mixed response from the Islamic banking and finance (IB&F) industry. As Shariah permissibility (or ‘compliance’) strongly influences the demand for and supply of products in the IF&B industry, the verdicts reached by Shariah scholars on digital currencies have a strong bearing on their adoption amongst users.
Football is more than “just a game” especially if one happens to be living in a country that would host the next World Cup. As a spectacle and the most globally watched sportfollowed by hundreds of millions of people around the world every week, football has been influencing global societies in versatile ways. The influence extends to historical, practical and ideational issuesrevolving around deeply rooted power relationships and dynamics in the football industry.
This chapter provides an overview of existing studies in the literature which offer varying interpretations of contextualization. This chapter builds the overall framework of the book by arguing that contextualizing EE entails a number of attributes such as receptivity to learn from global experiences, undertaking national strategies and policies and finally being sensitive to dominant value systems in the society.
Should entrepreneurship be guided by morals or by turning a profit? This book explores this question and highlights the necessity for an immediate response to create a balance between traditional and modern fast-moving economies, using the State of Qatar as an example.
| The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states can be divided into two main camps in terms of hydrocarbon endowment per capita which can partially account for differences in policy directions. Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE (the rich triplet) have small populations while having large hydrocarbon (oil and natural gas) endowments compared to Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. |
| Studies on Salafism tend to put the spotlight on the Middle East, rendering all other movements as secondary offshoots. In the British context, research typically focuses on British Salafi groups and their close relationship with Arab Salafis; it usually locates the origins of the British Salafi movement in the 1980s with the rise of cohorts |
| Countries blessed with natural resources have generally struggled to achieve sustainable economic development and prosperity. Population growth, the depletion of natural resources coupled with mismanagement, and sharp fluctuations in prices of those resources are among the main reasons for sub-optimal economic performance. Some resource-rich countries have been expending effort and money in an attempt to change this inverse relationship (a.k.a. |