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HDR Students Achievements
The HDR students at the University of Wollongong in Dubai have showcased remarkable achievements in diverse business research areas. They have actively contributed to prestigious journals and international conferences, covering topics like sustainable business practices, the impact of digital transformation, and green supply chain management. Their research spans crucial contemporary issues such as employer branding, emotional intelligence, and sustainable fashion, reflecting their deep engagement with current business challenges and innovations
Cluster: Sustainable Business Practices
- Sabreen Wahbeh: Resilient Agrifood Dynamism through evidence-based policies
- Muhammed Illyas: Investigation of Factors Shaping the Future of Work: Organizational Readiness Perspective
- Sawsan Al Khayyat: Understanding the Challenges of Employing People of Determination in UAE: Making a difference.
- Ali El Khatib: The Impact of Employer Branding on Talent Acquisition: Focus on the recruitment of Faculty in the Higher Education Sector in UAE
- Abdelhamid Alhadidi: How External Policies Can Change the Asset Value After Merger and Acquisitions?
- Ahmad Darwiche: The Effect of Coaching on Maximizing Performance and Optimal Productivity through Emotional Intelligence
- Basila Sali: Study on sustainable fashion adoption in Middle East
- Husam Mansour: The impact of executive coaching in driving companies’ profitability in UAE
Cluster: Future of Business
- Donia Zaid Rawashdeh: The Impact of Digital Transformation on HRM Practices
- Katia Lopez: The effects of CBDC announcements on risk and return of equity markets.
- Hatim Urabi: Mediating role of creativity in the relationships between management innovation, radical innovation and business in the GCC tourism sector.
- Nazanin Tahsili: Marketing area and digital marketing. The impact of digital transformation on sustainable performance
- Sarah Urabi: The adoption of Digital Media as a Digital Marketing Tool in business performance with the moderating effect of innovation among SME in the UAE
- Vidhi Sharma: Investigating the role of multi-modal interfaces on customer engagement in the retail banking sector of the UAE.
Cluster: Building a Global Mindset
- Elshia Mogole: Bank's diversification as a shield against substantial adverse valuation shocks in a pandemic period: emerging economy perspective.
- Anastasiadis, F, Manikas, I, Apostolidou, I and Wahbeh, S (2022). The role of traceability in end-to-end circular agri-food supply chains, Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 104, pp. 196-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.04.021.
- Wahbeh, S, Anastasiadis, F, Sundarakani, B and Manikas, I (2022). Exploration of Food Security Challenges towards More Sustainable Food Production: A Systematic Literature Review of the Major Drivers and Policies, Foods, vol. 11, no. 23, p. 3804 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11233804.
- Younis, H. and Sundarakani, B. (2020). The impact of firm size, firm age and environmental management certification on the relationship between green supply chain practices and corporate performance, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 319-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-11-2018-0363
- Dalal Yousuf Albishri, Balan Sundarakani and Bostjan Gomisek (2020). An empirical study of relationships between goal alignment, centralised decision-making, commitment to networking and supply chain effectiveness using structural equation modelling, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 23:4, 390-415, DOI: 10.1080/13675567.2019.1700219
- Younis, H., Sundarakani, B. and Vel, P. (2016). The impact of implementing green supply chain management practices on corporate performance, Competitiveness Review, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 216-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/CR-04-2015-0024
- Rafiee, V. and Sarabdeen, J. (2012). The cultural influence in the practice of corporate governance in emerging markets, Communication of IBIMA, vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp. 1-10.
- Ali El Khatib (2022). Digital Transformation and Disruptive Technologies: Effect of Blockchain on Managing Construction Projects, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9995756
- Ali El Khatib (2022). Digital Transformation and Disruptive Technologies: Effect of 3D Printing on Managing Projects, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9996011
- Baradaran Rafiee, V., Shen, K. N. (2016). The impact of corporate response strategies to negative online word of mouth on complainers' brand attitude. In the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) (p. 292).
- Baradaran Rafiee, V., and Sarabdeen, J. (2013). Social media marketing: the unavoidable marketing management tool. 21st International Business Information Management Association Conference (IBIMA), pp. 933-942.

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