&lt;em&gt;Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam&lt;/em&gt;. Abdul Sheriff

Sanders, Ethan R.

doi:10.2979/africatoday.57.4.133

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“…Due to globalization, workforce diversity and mobility have become a trend where a business organization can quickly bring together people of different cultures (Vandenberg and Lance, 1992;Cabrera, 2008;Woodward et al, 2007). This viewpoint confirms that the Cosmopolitism political aspect is securing the OC through supporting equality, accepting and respecting others among employees (Skrbis and Woodward, 2012;Skrbis et al, 2014;Mercurio, 2015;Mahooti et al, 2018;Sharma and Mohapatra, 2009;Sheriff, 2010;Delanty, 2014). To put it differently, often posits that every employee should care about others and the idea that everyone is equal (Woodward et al, 2008).…”

Section: Organizational Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 62%

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Cosmopolitanism and organizational commitment: a mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior within the UAE

Behery¹

2021

IJOA

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Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of cosmopolitanism on organizational commitment (OC), with a particular focus on the mediating impact of the employees’ challenge-oriented and affiliation-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors within the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The researcher has adopted the theory of planned behavior, the theory of reasoned action and the social exchange theory as a theoretical foundation. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative (deductive) method is used. The primary data is collected using a cross-sectional questionnaire. The data collection process was administered across five months. A total of 800 questionnaires were distributed randomly to various business sectors and industries in the UAE. A response rate of 86.9% was achieved, leading to 695 complete and feasible questionnaires. Findings Statistical analyzes prove that cosmopolitanism was indeed a valid predictor of OC. Contrary to the expectations, and more specifically, the results revealed that diversity is not a predictor of both challenge-oriented organizational citizenship and OC. The current study indicates that global openness (GOP) is an insignificant predictor of OC. Most remarkably, the present study shows a partially substantial mediation effect of affiliation-oriented organizational citizenship between GOP and OC. Last but not least, challenge-oriented and affiliation-oriented organizational citizenship are significant full mediators between one-world consciousness, cultural acceptance and OC. Originality/value Globalization has dramatically increased the diversity of the workforce. This scenario has led to the creation of the concept of Cosmopolitanism. The UAE is a unique setting, given that the workforce in the region is globally diverse. Thus, this study is a unique attempt to bridge the gap between the rich Western theories and the under-researched Non-Western context, namely, the UAE. As each city has its local-rooted environment, one cannot argue that Cosmopolitanism inevitably ignores international orientation. This study explains the embedded factors that constitute Dubai city’s cosmopolitan community, where developments and emerging growing economic trends arise.

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Section: Organizational Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…The United Arab Emirates (UAE), in general, and Dubai, in particular, are unique settings. The region's workforce is globally diverse (Sheriff, 2010;Afiouni et al, 2014). The UAE is experiencing rapid growth in its various business sectors (Budhwar and Mellahi, 2016).…”

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Cosmopolitanism and organizational commitment: a mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior within the UAE

Behery¹

2021

IJOA

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“…Most of the literature (Martin 1979(Martin , 1980(Martin , 1981Gilbert 2002;Agius 2005) is devoted to the sailing period of dhows in the Aden-Oman-Persian Gulfs and the Indian Ocean, and does not include their conversion to internal combustion engines. Historical and ethnographic approaches dominate in the literature (Agius et al, 2010;Sheriff 2010;Verne 2017). The last real studies on the economics of dhows date back to the 1960s (see Villiers 1948;Talbot 1962;Noble 1963;McMaster 1966;Hoyle 1968), except for Gilbert's book (2004), devoted to the part played by dhows in the colonial economy of Zanzibar between 1860 and 1970, which stresses their resilience and ability to adapt to major economic changes.…”

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“…The word "dhow" may have come from the Swahili word Dau (Sheriff 2010), before the Arabic‫داو‬ (dāw) while its English popularisation during the nineteenth century was used to characterise a wide variety of traditional sailing tramp ships all around the Arabian Peninsula (Agius 2005). The persistence of dhow shipping is puzzling for the maritime economist.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given the difference in capacity between a dhow (with a 2000-tonne payload for the biggest) and a containership (even for a small 1,200 TEU feedership), it may be asked how dhow shipping survives with such differences in economies of scale. Of course, in the 1,000-year history of dhows (Martin 1980;Sheriff 2010), the emergence of new containerised transport services since 1956 (Stopford 2009, 581) has occurred over several decades, alongside existing structures in the region, following the general pattern of innovation (Schumpeter 1911). Writing during the 1960s on dhow trade in East Africa, Noble concluded that: "...the trade is dying.…”

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Dhows tramping in the Horn of Africa: An initial characterization of their specific services using Djibouti port data

Lendjel

Ahmed

2021

Case Studies on Transport Policy

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Long-distance social relationships can both undercut and promote local natural resource management

Pisor,

Borgerhoff Mulder,

Smith

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The management of large common-pool resources, like fisheries and forests, is more difficult when more people and more communities can access them—a particular problem given increased population sizes, higher mobility and globalized trade in the Anthropocene. Social relationships spanning communities, such as kin relationships, business or trade relationships and friendships, can make management even more challenging by facilitating and transmitting norms of overharvesting. However, these long-distance relationships can also bolster management by transmitting norms for sustainability, promoting interdependence and laying the groundwork for nested management systems. Here, we review the negative and positive impacts of long-distance relationships on local natural resource management (NRM), providing illustrative examples from our field research on forest and fisheries management in Tanzania. Drawing on the evolutionary literature, the development literature and our field data, we offer suggestions for how development partners can avoid the pitfalls of long-distance relationships and how they can use or even deliberately foster long-distance relationships to promote successful local NRM. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis’.

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<em>Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam</em>. Abdul Sheriff

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Cosmopolitanism and organizational commitment: a mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior within the UAE

Cosmopolitanism and organizational commitment: a mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior within the UAE

Dhows tramping in the Horn of Africa: An initial characterization of their specific services using Djibouti port data

Long-distance social relationships can both undercut and promote local natural resource management

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