Editorial board
Founding Editors
Professor Abdulla Y. Al-Hawaj
Founding President of Ahlia University - Bahrain
Dr. Mohanad A. Dahlan
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer University of Business & Technology - Saudi Arabia
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Allam Hamdan
Accounting, Finance and Banking, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Assistant Editor
Dr. Nahed Ahmed
Wolfson College, University of Oxford - UK
ahamdan@ahlia.edu.bh
Professor Aboul Ella Hassanien Ali
Computers and Information, Cairo University - Egypt
Professor Adam Arian
Department of Accounting and Finance, Australian Catholic University (ACU) - Australia
Dr. Claire Beattie
Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Lincoln University - New Zealand
Dr. Ruaa Binsaddig
Business and Finance, University of Business & Technology - Saudi Arabia
Dr. Bidit Lal Dey
Director of Accreditation, Sheffield University Management School - UK
Professor Mohamed Mahjoub Dhiaf
Business Administration, Liwa College of Technology, Abu Dhabi - UAE
Professor Tillal Eldabi
University Of Surrey - UK
Professor David N Gallear
Operations Management, Brunel University - London, UK
Professor Thomas Garavan
University College Cork - Ireland
Professor Mohammad Kabir Hassan
Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans, USA
Professor Khaled Hussainey
Bangor University - UK
Professor Zahir Irani
Management and Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford - UK
Professor Ilhan Ozturk
Economics, Cag University - Turkey
Prof. Olaf Weber
Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo - Canada
Professor Ra'ed Masa'deh Bani Yaseen
Management Information Systems, The University of Jordan - Jordan
Content and Language Editing Assistant
Assistant Professor Richard Cummings
Accounting, Finance and Banking, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Associate Professor Rim El Khoury
Accounting and Finance, Notre Dame University - Lebanon
Publisher
Chris Tutill
Emerald Publishing
ctutill@emerald.com
Journal Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)
Please contact the Journal Editorial Office
eps-ed-office.emerald@kwglobal.com
Supplier Project Manager (For queries related to post-acceptance)
Dheebika Veerasamy
Emerald Publishing
dheebika.emerald@tnqtech.com
Secretarial and Follow-Up Journal Secretary
Ms. Bibi Abdulla Al Mahdi
Head of Dean’s Office, College of Business & Finance, Ahlia University - Bahrain
balmahdi@ahlia.edu.bh
Editorial Advisory Board
Associate Professor Fadi Abdel
A'Sharqiyah University - Oman
Assistant Professor Rami Abu Wadi
Accounting, Finance and Banking, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Dr. Ammar Al Hawaj
Management and Marketing, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Associate Professor Majdi Al Kababji
Accounting, Al-Quds Open University, Hebron - Palestine
Assistant Professor Yousef Al Naimat
Business Administration - Marketing , University of South Wales - UK
Professor Amer Al Roubaie
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Professor Muneer Al- Mubarak
Management, Marketing and MIS Department, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Professor Jasim Al-Ajmi
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Professor Hani Al-Dmour
University of Jordan - Jordan
Professor Mukhtar Al-Hashimi
Management, Marketing and MIS Department, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Professor Talal Al-Hayale
University of Windsor - Canada
Associate Professor Wafi Al-Karaghouli
Brunel University - UK
Assistant Professor Manaf Al-Okaily
Jadara University - Jordan
Assistant Professor Esra AlDhaen
Management, Marketing and MIS Department, Ahlia University - Bahrain
manaf.alokaily@gmail.com
Assistant Professor Bahaaeddin Alareeni
Middle East Technical University - Turkey
Associate Professor Yusuf Abdullatif Albastaki
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Associate Professor Ali Almutairi
Kuwait University - Kuwait
Professor Baker Alserhan
Princess Sumaya University for Technology - Jordan
Professor Hassan Aly
The Ohio State University - USA
Assistant Professor Mohmmad Anaewah
Mutah University - Jordan
Associate Professor Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun
Northumbria University - UK
Professor Ahmad Areqat
Al-Ahliyya Amman University - Jordan
Assistant Professor Osama Atayah
Accounting, Abu Dhabi University - UAE
Associate Professor Bahaa Awwad
Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie - Palestine
Dr.osamaatayah@yahoo.com
Professor Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
University of Wales - UK
Professor Thomas Betteridge
Brunel University - UK
Dr. Subhashini Bhaskaran
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Dr. Saeed Bin-Nashwan
Dhofar University - Oman
s.nashwan233@gmail.com
Prof. Udo Brändle
University of Applied Sciences Krems - Austria
Assistant Professor Amina Buallay
Secretariat General of the Higher Education Council - Bahrain
udo.braendle@fh-krems.ac.at
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis
Bournemouth University Business School, Bournemouth University - UK
Professor Yousef Daoud
Birzeit University - Palestine
Professor Marwan Darwish
Al-Quds Open University - Palestine
Dr. Rim El Khoury
Lebanese American University - Lebanon
Assistant Professor Houda El Mustapha
American University in the Emirates - UAE
rimkhoury81@gmail.com
Professor Wajeh Elali
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Professor Farid Elsahn
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Qatar
Prof. Olusegun Felix Ayadi
Texas Southern University - USA
olusegun.ayadi@tsu.edu
Dr. Vera Fiador
University of Ghana - Ghana
Prof. Subhadra Ganguli
Bloomsburg University - USA
sganguli@bloomu.edu
Dr. Sutap Ghosh
Islamic University - Bangladesh
Assistant Professor Hasan Ghura
Box Hill College Kuwait - Kuwait
ansutap@gmail.com
Prof. Philippe Gugler
University of Fribourg - Switzerland
Angappa Gunasekaran
University of Massachusetts - USA
dsweet@umassd.edu
Assistant Professor Etienne HARB
Economics and Financial Market, University of Notre Dame - Lebanon
Associate Professor Slim Hadoussa
Brest Business School - France
etienne_harb@yahoo.fr
Associate Professor Arezou Harraf
Business Studies, Box Hill College - Kuwait - Kuwait
Prof. Iman Harymawan
Universitas Airlangga - Indonesia
harymawan.iman@feb.unair.ac.id
Professor Suliman Hawamdeh
University of North Texas - USA
Associate Professor Raed Jaber
Arab Open University - Jordan
Associate Professor Mohammad A. Kanan
Engineering Management, University of Business & Technology - Saudi Arabia
Associate Professor Magdalena Karolak
Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University - UAE
Assistant Professor Nohade Kassis
Accounting and Finance, University of Notre Dame - Lebanon
magdalena.karolak@zu.ac.ae
Professor Hafiz T.A. Khan
University of West London - UK
nohade.kassis@gmail.com
Professor Wafa Khlif
TBS Barcelona - Spain
w.khlif@tbs-education.es
Associate Professor Ebrahim Mansour
The Hashemite University - Jordan
Associate Professor Hazem Marashdeh
Accounting, Abu Dhabi University - UAE
Dr. Ghassan Mardini
Qatar University - Qatar
hmarashdeh@gmail.com
Professor Timothy S. Mescon Mescon
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB - USA
ghassan.mardini@qu.edu.qa
Associate Professor Abdulmuttaleb M.A. Musleh
Ahlia University - Bahrain
Dr. NIK HADIYAN NIK AZMAN
Universiti Sains Malaysia - Malaysia
nikhadiyan@usm.my
Assistant Professor Sedeaq Nassar
Business Administration, Islamic University of Gaza - Palestine
Professor Abdul Nasser Nour
An-Najah National University - Palestine
Associate Professor Mustafa Nourallah
Mid Sweden University - Sweden
Professor Muhammad Obeidat
Kennesaw State University - USA
Professor Petr Polak
Mendel University in Brno - Czech Republic
Dr. Salvatore Principale
University of Rome Sapienza - Italy
salvatore.principale@uniroma1.it
Associate Professor Tareq Rasul
Australian Institute of Business - Australia
tfrasul@gmail.com
Assistant Professor Anjum Razzaque
Marketing, Management and MIS, Ahlia University - Bahrain
Dr. George Sammour
Princess Sumaya University for Technology - Jordan
anjum.razzaque@gmail.com
Professor Adel Sarea
Ahlia University - Bahrain
george.sammour@psut.edu.jo
Dr Mesbah Sharaf
University of Alberta - Canada
sharaf@ualberta.ca
Assistant Professor Haneen Mohammad Shoaib
Marketing and Advertising, University of Business & Technology - Saudi Arabia
Professor Gurmeet Singh
The University of the South Pacific - Fiji
Professor Janice Sipior
Villanova University - USA
gurmeet.singh@usp.ac.fj
Prof. Seleshi Sisaye
Duquesne University - USA
sisaye@duq.edu
Professor M. Sadiq Sohail
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals - Saudi Arabia
Dr. Nadia Sweis
Princess Sumaya University for Technology - Jordan
Dr. Amani Tegambwage
The University of Dodoma - Tanzania
n.sweis@psut.edu.jo
Dr. Adeosun Oluyemi Theophilus
University of Lagos - Nigeria
amanitegambwage@gmail.com
Assistant Professor Weam Tunsi
Management, University of Business & Technology - Saudi Arabia
oluyemiadeosun@gmail.com
Professor Shakir Ullah
Stratford University - USA
Dr. Mohammad A. A. Zaid
Palestine Technical University - Palestine
Associate Professor Hala I. Zaidan
Accounting Department, The University of Jordan - Jordan
phd.zaid@gmail.com
Professor Qasim Zureigat
Sulaiman AlRajhi School of Business - Saudi Arabia
