Mark Neal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 261809 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Neal |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Neal |
| FIRMA | NEAL M |
| AFILIACIONES | Sultan Qaboos University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Can tolerant values survive economic insecurity? The role of functional autonomy in mediating outsider threats in Turkey
Human Capital in the Middle East
A Dictionary of Business and Management in the Middle East and North Africa
Over 250 entries This innovative dictionary provides authoritative and easy-to-understand A–Z definitions of terms encountered in the area of business and management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Coverage includes key theoretical perspectives and concepts, events, companies, people, social customs, and sectors which have shaped and are shaping the development and structures of business and management in the region. All nineteen coun…
The exotic veil
Culture Factor
Dirty customers
This article asks the question, “How do Western men who travel to Thailand to pay for sex with Thai women morally justify their actions?” In order to answer this, the study frames the question in terms of debates about “dirty work” and introduces the concept of “dirty customers” to analyze sex tourists and to highlight the potential stigma and moral taint involved in their engagement with sex workers. The research methodology involved content ana…
A Middle Eastern Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok
Studies of tourist enclaves have noticed their boundedness, but paid little attention to the theoretical significance of the strictness of their boundaries for their internal dynamics. This issue constitutes the point of departure of our study of a Middle Eastern Muslim tourist enclave in an international tourist zone in Bangkok, which plays a double role as a source of religiously proscribed hedonistic opportunities and religiously prescribed se…
A Comparison of Leadership Prototypes of Arab and European Females
What do young, business-educated Arab women think about leadership? This study addresses this question by comparing the views of female business students living in four distinct regions: the Arab Levant (Lebanon); the Arabian Gulf (Oman); Northwestern Europe (England) and Southeastern Europe (Romania). Using Weber's ideal types of authority, a comparison of the four groups reveals strong similarities between Omani and Lebanese women's views on le…
Fueling the fire
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the organizational antecedents and management of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in the UK in the 1990s in order to answer the following questions. What organizational factors contributed to the development of the epidemic? How did they do so? What can we learn from the management of BSE that can help us in tackling future epidemics? Design/methodology/approach The research invol…
“My father knows the minister”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature on Arab women's conceptions of leadership. By comparing women's leadership authority values in three Arab countries, the paper aims to refine existing gender‐neutral research on leadership in the “Arab world”. Design/methodology/approach The study involved administering a survey, which had been developed based on Weber's work on authority (1978) and contemporary discussions of i…
I lose, but that’s not the point’
This article compares ethnographic observations of horserace gambling in two UK spaces – the betting shop (remote) and the racecourse (proximal). The paper identifies the emerging, situated rationales that attract gamblers to these leisure spaces, and that motivate them to integrate their gambling activities as an ongoing, sustainable feature of their lives. Doing so, it is observed that, for the vast majority of punters, gambling on the horses i…
The Culture Factor
Multinational companies have learnt through bitter experience that cultural differences can be very damaging in terms of bad communication, high staff turnover and low morale. In recent years research
Conclusion
Whereas there has been a great deal of interest in national cultural difference in recent years, there has been a failure to grasp how it results in corporate and management failure. The main reason for this is that the concept of culture has been reified, resulting in confused thinking and muddled analysis. Researchers have thus been more concerned with defining and quantifying national cultures than with examining how cultural difference result…
Managing Cultural Difference
The last chapter showed how cultural differences get caught up in social processes resulting in organisational problems and costs. Having documented and described these processes, the next question concerns how they can be managed. This chapter describes five strategies that combat these processes, and thus alleviate the costs on corporate operations. The strategies were developed through my work with international managers over the past ten year…
You Lucky Punters!' a Study of Gambling in Betting Shops
This paper draws upon an ongoing study into gambling in the United Kingdom to examine off-course betting as a form of social life. Through such an approach it identifies several features of betting shop life that complement and refine the research literature to date: the different sub-groups within the off-course betting population; how they manage their activities in terms of their finances and their domestic and work responsibilities; the often…
Dirty customers
This article asks the question, “How do Western men who travel to Thailand to pay for sex with Thai women morally justify their actions?” In order to answer this, the study frames the question in terms of debates about “dirty work” and introduces the concept of “dirty customers” to analyze sex tourists and to highlight the potential stigma and moral taint involved in their engagement with sex workers. The research methodology involved content ana…
A Middle Eastern Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok
Studies of tourist enclaves have noticed their boundedness, but paid little attention to the theoretical significance of the strictness of their boundaries for their internal dynamics. This issue constitutes the point of departure of our study of a Middle Eastern Muslim tourist enclave in an international tourist zone in Bangkok, which plays a double role as a source of religiously proscribed hedonistic opportunities and religiously prescribed se…
You Lucky Punters!' a Study of Gambling in Betting Shops
This paper draws upon an ongoing study into gambling in the United Kingdom to examine off-course betting as a form of social life. Through such an approach it identifies several features of betting shop life that complement and refine the research literature to date: the different sub-groups within the off-course betting population; how they manage their activities in terms of their finances and their domestic and work responsibilities; the often…
A Comparison of Leadership Prototypes of Arab and European Females
What do young, business-educated Arab women think about leadership? This study addresses this question by comparing the views of female business students living in four distinct regions: the Arab Levant (Lebanon); the Arabian Gulf (Oman); Northwestern Europe (England) and Southeastern Europe (Romania). Using Weber's ideal types of authority, a comparison of the four groups reveals strong similarities between Omani and Lebanese women's views on le…
I lose, but that’s not the point’
This article compares ethnographic observations of horserace gambling in two UK spaces – the betting shop (remote) and the racecourse (proximal). The paper identifies the emerging, situated rationales that attract gamblers to these leisure spaces, and that motivate them to integrate their gambling activities as an ongoing, sustainable feature of their lives. Doing so, it is observed that, for the vast majority of punters, gambling on the horses i…
The exotic veil
The Culture Factor
Multinational companies have learnt through bitter experience that cultural differences can be very damaging in terms of bad communication, high staff turnover and low morale. In recent years research
Conclusion
Whereas there has been a great deal of interest in national cultural difference in recent years, there has been a failure to grasp how it results in corporate and management failure. The main reason for this is that the concept of culture has been reified, resulting in confused thinking and muddled analysis. Researchers have thus been more concerned with defining and quantifying national cultures than with examining how cultural difference result…
Managing Cultural Difference
The last chapter showed how cultural differences get caught up in social processes resulting in organisational problems and costs. Having documented and described these processes, the next question concerns how they can be managed. This chapter describes five strategies that combat these processes, and thus alleviate the costs on corporate operations. The strategies were developed through my work with international managers over the past ten year…
You Lucky Punters!' a Study of Gambling in Betting Shops
This paper draws upon an ongoing study into gambling in the United Kingdom to examine off-course betting as a form of social life. Through such an approach it identifies several features of betting shop life that complement and refine the research literature to date: the different sub-groups within the off-course betting population; how they manage their activities in terms of their finances and their domestic and work responsibilities; the often…
“My father knows the minister”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature on Arab women's conceptions of leadership. By comparing women's leadership authority values in three Arab countries, the paper aims to refine existing gender‐neutral research on leadership in the “Arab world”. Design/methodology/approach The study involved administering a survey, which had been developed based on Weber's work on authority (1978) and contemporary discussions of i…
I lose, but that’s not the point’
This article compares ethnographic observations of horserace gambling in two UK spaces – the betting shop (remote) and the racecourse (proximal). The paper identifies the emerging, situated rationales that attract gamblers to these leisure spaces, and that motivate them to integrate their gambling activities as an ongoing, sustainable feature of their lives. Doing so, it is observed that, for the vast majority of punters, gambling on the horses i…
Fueling the fire
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the organizational antecedents and management of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in the UK in the 1990s in order to answer the following questions. What organizational factors contributed to the development of the epidemic? How did they do so? What can we learn from the management of BSE that can help us in tackling future epidemics? Design/methodology/approach The research invol…
A Comparison of Leadership Prototypes of Arab and European Females
What do young, business-educated Arab women think about leadership? This study addresses this question by comparing the views of female business students living in four distinct regions: the Arab Levant (Lebanon); the Arabian Gulf (Oman); Northwestern Europe (England) and Southeastern Europe (Romania). Using Weber's ideal types of authority, a comparison of the four groups reveals strong similarities between Omani and Lebanese women's views on le…
A Middle Eastern Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok
Studies of tourist enclaves have noticed their boundedness, but paid little attention to the theoretical significance of the strictness of their boundaries for their internal dynamics. This issue constitutes the point of departure of our study of a Middle Eastern Muslim tourist enclave in an international tourist zone in Bangkok, which plays a double role as a source of religiously proscribed hedonistic opportunities and religiously prescribed se…
Culture Factor
Dirty customers
This article asks the question, “How do Western men who travel to Thailand to pay for sex with Thai women morally justify their actions?” In order to answer this, the study frames the question in terms of debates about “dirty work” and introduces the concept of “dirty customers” to analyze sex tourists and to highlight the potential stigma and moral taint involved in their engagement with sex workers. The research methodology involved content ana…
A Dictionary of Business and Management in the Middle East and North Africa
Over 250 entries This innovative dictionary provides authoritative and easy-to-understand A–Z definitions of terms encountered in the area of business and management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Coverage includes key theoretical perspectives and concepts, events, companies, people, social customs, and sectors which have shaped and are shaping the development and structures of business and management in the region. All nineteen coun…
The exotic veil
Human Capital in the Middle East
Can tolerant values survive economic insecurity? The role of functional autonomy in mediating outsider threats in Turkey
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (4 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras)