Cryptocurrency volatility: A review, synthesis, and research agenda

Published in: Research in International Business and Finance

Aug 01, 2024

This paper takes part in the ongoing debate on the newly emerging field of financial technology by systematically reviewing 164 articles on cryptocurrency volatility during the period from 2016 to December 2022. This paper also aims to enlighten academics and practitioners about the beneficial insights gained from cryptocurrency volatility research, identify existing research gaps, and propose a new research agenda in the subject of study. To this end, realized volatility, almost all stylized f...

Towards sustainability in the services industry: Does green top management support stimulate an organization's green operational performance? A moderated mediation model

Published in: Business Strategy and the Environment Journal

Jul 27, 2024

Islam Bourini Osama Khassawneh Tamara Mohammad

This study investigates the impact of green strategic alignment (GSA) and top management green support (TMGS) on green operational performance (GOP) within the UAE's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, focusing on the mediating role of proactive environmental strategy (PES) and the moderating effect of green psychological perception (GPP). Employing a quantitative approach through surveys, data were collected from employees at various ICT companies within the UAE who are dire...

BOC-PDO: An intrusion detection model using binary opposition cellular prairie dog optimization algorithm

Published in: Cluster Computing

Jul 20, 2024

Bilal H. Abed-alguni Basil M. Alzboun Noor Aldeen Alawad

Intrusion detection datasets are highly likely to contain numerous redundant, irrelevant, and noisy features that slow the performance of the machine learning techniques and classifiers that may be applied to them. The feature selection approach is used for reducing the number of features in intrusion detection datasets and eliminating those that are not important. One of the most powerful structured population approaches is the Cellular Automata approach, which is used to enhance the diversity...

Unlocking organizational success in the hotel industry: the power of social exchange in HR practices

Published in: Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication Journal

Jul 04, 2024

Osama Khassawneh Tamara Mohammad Islam Bourini Mohamed Behery

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of specific human resources (HR) practices (leadership, employee relations, employee safety, rewards and incentives and career opportunities) on organizational performance in the context of the Middle Eastern market, with a specific focus on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hotel sector. A comprehensive research methodology was used for this study. Two distinct questionnaires were crafted: one targeting 338 hotel employees who completed the HR...