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The United Arab Emirates University was awarded a
3 star rating
by the Global Star Rating System for Services on 25/03/2021
The College of Business and Economics has a talented body of faculty, administrators,
and staff dedicated to furthering the College's vision for excellence in business
and leadership education. The College's leading experts research a broad spectrum
of topics including sequential analysis, decision making, e-business, strategic management
accounting, taxation, and risk management, among many others.
We have an outstanding research record and carry out basic and applied research at
the frontiers of business and management education. Faculty’s research outputs are
published in international peer-reviewed journals, and their work is focused on benefiting
UAE society at large. Faculty members have published in journals including: British
Accounting Review, Applied Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis,
Journal of International Financial Markets, European Journal of Finance among many
others. Faculty researches are undertaken with the research assistance and collaboration
of UAEU undergraduate and graduate students.
Capabilities
The College of Business and Economics (CBE) has a talented team of faculty, administrators
and staff dedicated to furthering the College's vision for excellence in research.
Our internationally-educated faculty experts conduct basic, applied and instructional
research at the frontiers of business and management theories, practices and education.
Research areas of the faculty in the CBE include, but are not limited to, financial
reporting and standards, management accounting, organizational performance, accounting
education, innovation and creativity, entrepreneurship, human resource management,
electronic commerce, logistics, supply chain management, operations research, employment
equity, customer relationships, consumer behavior, electronic learning, econometrics,
energy economics, monetary economics, international trade, corporate finance, Islamic
finance, risk management, banking and financial regulations, times series analysis,
forecasting, survey sampling, nonparametric statistics, distribution theory and applied
statistics. Results of faculty research projects are published in the world’s leading
academic and practitioner journals and used by academic scholars and business and
organizational leaders.
CBE faculty often pursue research projects with the assistance and collaboration of
undergraduate or graduate students. These projects may result in students gaining
practical experience by presenting their findings at conferences or in other professional
settings or by helping to create and publish written manuscripts in academic journals
or trade publications.
Opportunities
As a dedicated research institution, the UAEU, including the College of Business and
Economics, provides numerous opportunities for individuals and groups of faculty members
and students to pursue a wide range of research projects.
Support is provided through grants such as the College Annual Research Program (CARP), the Faculty Research Seed Grant, the Center-Based Interdisciplinary Research
Grant Competition, the Research Start-up Grant Competition, the UAEU Program for Advanced
Research (UPAR) and the Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE Plus). In
addition, international conference travel funding is available at the college level.
Students undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) work closely with
faculty on a range of applied and industry-relevant research topics.
The College Annual Research Program (CARP) was designed with the goal of encouraging
faculty members to develop new research ideas, by providing grants for proposals of
quality which will have a meaningful impact on teaching, theory and society.
Publications
Please click here to view the Google Scholar Profile for the College of Business and Economics.
Please note that the publications listed on Google Scholar are categorized by faculty
and not by their current place of employment. Therefore, some publications listed
on this website may not have been published whilst the faculty member was employed
at the United Arab Emirates University.
A list of latest publications by the CBE’s faculty (by department) are listed below:
Maghyereh, A., Boulanouar, Z., & Essid, L. (2025). The dynamics of green innovation
and environmental policy stringency in energy transition investments. Journal of Cleaner Production, 487, 144649.
Naeem, M. A., Arfaoui, N., & Yarovaya, L. (2025). The contagion effect of artificial
intelligence across innovative industries: From blockchain and metaverse to cleantech
and beyond. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, 123822.
Sweidan, O. D. (2025). Economic Challenges of Economic Diversification and Sustainability
in the GCC Countries. Review of Political Economy, 1-23.
Elsayed, A. H., Gozgor, G., Khalfaoui, R., & Tarchella, S. (2025). Impact of supply
chain pressure on traditional energy and metal markets: A Wavelet-based Quantile-on-Quantile
perspective. Journal of Commodity Markets, 38, 100472.
Ferdous, L. T., Atawnah, N., Liu, J., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Chief financial officer power
and conditional accounting conservatism. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 1-46.
Boulanouar, Z., Essid, L., & Ullah, S. (2025). Energy Transition Investments and Carbon
Emissions: Asymmetric and Dynamic Effects across Developed and Emerging Economies.
Finance Research Letters, 107746.
Lo, S. M., Shi, S., & Wilke, R. A. (2025). A copula duration model with dependent
states and spells. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 204, 108104.
Ahrens, T., & Ferry, L. (2025). Governmentality, counter‐conduct, and modes of governing:
Accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management. Contemporary Accounting Research, 42(2), 985-1012.
Farooq, M. B., Naveed, K., Khalid, F., Narayan, A. K., & Khudir, I. M. (2025). Examining
the extent and quality of corporate water management disclosures in extremely high-water
stress countries. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 16(3), 705-735.
Narikiyo, C., Harris, E., & Elmassri, M. (2025). Sustainability, a longitudinal case
analysis of acquisitions and disposals in a leading consumer goods company. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 26 (4), 847–866.
Abou-El-Sood, H. (2025). The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the value relevance of
cash flows: evidence from banks. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 20(1), 299-315.
Youssef, M. A., Alghizzawi, M. A., Almaqtari, F. A., El-Sayed, H., & Moustafa, E.
(2024). Key factors affecting faculty commitment toward accounting curriculum change:
Differences between UAE and UK AACSB-accredited universities. Journal of Accounting Education, 69, 100930.
Rémillard, B., & Vaillancourt, J. (2025). Central limit theorems for martingales-II:
convergence in the weak dual topology. Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 43(2), 162-180.
Anwar, M., Hani, I. B., & Hujran, O. (2025). Navigating Uncertainty: The Role of CEO
Competencies in Strategic Decision-Making for Digitalisation in Family Firms. Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship, 100119.
Ghoudi, K., & Laïb, N. (2025). On joint testing of changes in conditional mean and
variance functions of stationary and ergodic time series. Statistical Papers, 66(5), 115.
Ali, A., Khan, Z., Du, H., & Aldahmani, S. (2025). Double weighted k nearest neighbours
for binary classification of high dimensional genomic data. Scientific reports, 15(1), 12681.
Kim, M., Zo, H., & Chiravuri, A. (2025). Understanding the role of shared e-scooters
in Seoul: The perspective of regional transportation system and commuting population. Travel Behaviour and Society, 40, 101038.
Bellesia, F., Mattarelli, E., Bertolotti, F., & Sobrero, M. (2025). Algorithmic embeddedness
and the ‘gig’characteristics model: Examining the interplay between technology and
work design in crowdwork. Journal of Management Studies, 62(7), 2673-2706.
Zhang, F., Gou, J., SHEN, K. N., Camarinha-Matos, L. M., & Wang, Z. (2025). Effects
of AI teammates on learning behavior in Human-AI collaboration environments: a perspective
on self-regulated learning. Education and Information Technologies, 1-25.
Dayan, M., Husain, Z., Dayan, B., & Di Benedetto, A. (2025). Roles of service innovation
and dynamic internal resources on the organizational innovativeness-competitiveness
relationship in Indian IT sector—A moderated mediation model. European Research on Management and Business Economics, 31(3), 100290.
Tafesse, W., & Mamo, Y. (2025). A comparison of conversational chatbots and the internet
for consumer information search. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-18.
Syed, R. T., & Spicer, D. (2025). Entrepreneurial university development through the
lens of stakeholders. Why? What? and How?. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 14(1), 36.
Quratulain, S., Khan, A. K., Khalid, M., Arain, G. A., & Lijing, Z. (2025). Enacted
Abusive Supervision and Supervisory Outcomes: A Social Distance Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-18.
Tariq, H., Khan, A. K., Hochwarter, W. A., Muchiri, M., & Babalola, M. T. (2025).
Trickling out effects of abusive supervision: A social information processing perspective.
Human Relations, 00187267251317444.
Ghoudi, K., Hamdouch, Y., Boulaksil, Y., & Hamdan, S. (2024). Supply chain coordination
in a dual sourcing system under the Tailored Base-Surge policy. European Journal of Operational Research, 317(2), 533-549.
Khizar, H. M. U., Ashraf, A., Yuan, J., & Al-Waqfi, M. (2025). Insights into ChatGPT
adoption (or resistance) in research practices: The behavioral reasoning perspective.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 215, 124047.
Ababneh, K. I., & Ababneh, R. (2025). The impact of knowledge management on team learning:
an empirical study in public enterprises. Journal of Workplace Learning, 37(3), 250-265.
Luo, X., Kuby, M. J., Honma, Y., Kchaou-Boujelben, M., & Zhou, X. S. (2024). Innovation
diffusion in EV charging location decisions: Integrating demand & supply through market
dynamics. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 165, 104733.
Professor of Finance and Banking, Department of Economics and Finance
Emerging Markets and the Global Economy: A Handbook.
Book
Author
Riyad Eid
Associate Professor in Business Administration Dept.
Managing Customer Trust, Satisfaction, and Loyalty through Information Communication
Technologies
Riyad Eid
Associate Professor in Business Administration Dept.
E-Marketing in Developed and Developing Countries: Emerging Practices
Book
Author
Mohamed Al Waqfi
Associate Professor in Business Administration Dept.
Skill-Based Pay and Employee Attitudes
Riyad Eid
Associate Professor in Business Administration Dept.
Successful Customer Relationship Management Programs and Technologies : Issues and
Trends
Amany Elanshasy
Assistant Professor in Economics & Finance Dept.
Economics
Emilie J. Rutledge
Associate Professor in Economics & Finance Dept.
Monetary Union in the Gulf
Industry
The College of Business and Economics maintains a close link with UAE industry and
governmental organizations. We have extensive links to industry, and are recognized,
through our research, as a source of consultation and solution for a wide-range of
business, management and leadership related problems. We provide research and graduate
studies solutions to industry and governmental partners and sponsors such as Tawazun,
Caracal, ADASI, Federal Demographic Council, Emirates Foundation, Etisalat, Abu Dhabi
Municipality, Al Ain Municipality, amongst others.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Omar Hujran Assistant Dean of Research & Graduate Studies College of Business and Economics
