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Papers by Mohamed Buheji

International Journal of Learning and Development, Jan 16, 2024

Business and management studies, Feb 2, 2018

Journal of Social Science Studies, May 31, 2018

Literature doesn't address the importance of neighbourhoods despite its growing importance for en... more Literature doesn't address the importance of neighbourhoods despite its growing importance for entrepreneurial development with minimal resources. There is a clear shortage in addressing the topic from multidisciplinary perspectives that highlight the importance of local entrepreneurship across different boarders. van Ham et al (2017) work comes to explore how entrepreneurship can influence transformation in neighbourhoods and communities, particularly through entrepreneurially driven residents who can help in reducing socioeconomic instability and poverty. Future effects of neighbourhood entrepreneurs are explored along with the challenges it brings specially to low income neighbourhoods and how it reflects even on the economics of the places. A recommendation for further studies be done in different geographies in order to bring in more global solutions that would enhance the innovation and creativity of rural areas of many developing and emerging economy countries.

Review of European Studies, Feb 4, 2020

The purpose of this paper is to gauge the different community socioeconomic influences that comes... more The purpose of this paper is to gauge the different community socioeconomic influences that comes as a result of the impacts and the potential of spillovers brought by these socioeconomic projects. Based on the literature review, a theoretical framework is hypothesised. The framework proposes the relation between the socioeconomic projects, four stages and their potential impact and spillovers. Selective cases relevant to projects of poverty elimination, healthcare development and women empowerment are carefully studied and dissected. Then, each case is evaluated in relevance to its value chain through a detailed summary. The impact and spillover of each of the sampled projects are illustrated and clarified. Despite its limitations, this study carries important implications as it brings in diverse tools for gauging the different efforts in journey related to creating a socioeconomic outcome.

Journal of Social Science Studies, Apr 18, 2019

Any poverty elimination model should have both long-term and short-term concern that focus on alt... more Any poverty elimination model should have both long-term and short-term concern that focus on altering the current socioeconomic system that is causing poverty while focusing on increasing the production capacity of the poverty community targeted. In this paper, we shall assess the effectiveness of the known poverty labs models, i.e. the operational significance, in relevance to poverty alleviation and then elimination, in comparison to the unstructured approach of the poverty-focused inspiration economy labs. Then, a framework for poverty elimination stages and steps is recommended. The paper recommends future development to the United Nations, first sustainable development goal (SDG).

International Journal of Youth Economy, Nov 1, 2018

American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 2017

Problem solving has always been related to discipline creativity, breakthroughs, development, dis... more Problem solving has always been related to discipline creativity, breakthroughs, development, disruption, innovation, learning, knowledge, agility, resilience and most of all inspiration. In inspiration however, problem solving can take further meaning in that problems; complexities and challenges are sources of insights, persistence, perseverance and most of all better visualization over time. In this study we investigate the problem solving journey and see how inspiration lab contributes to its development and in tackling complex socioeconomic issues. An investigation of the problem statements in the different inspiration labs carried out in the last five years is done to evaluate the importance of problem statements in creating effective solution. The paper concludes with recommendation for future research in this line to help further breakthroughs in this field where problem solving would be a source for discovering more opportunities and creating inspiration currencies that creates better social and economic results and outcomes.

Journal of Cardiology & Current Research, Dec 17, 2020

American Journal of Economics, 2019

This review explores the importance of Socialism and the need for a new economic democracy based ... more This review explores the importance of Socialism and the need for a new economic democracy based model. Jossa (2018) shows the opportunities could come from a new framework of the new socialism model. The requirements for a new socialism model is analysed and calibrated in relevance to having workers controlled organisations. Then, approaches in evaluating socialism in the ways it was raised are listed. The book of the New Model of Socialism question why socialism might come back and how the future models would look like if it stays. The uniqueness and limitations of Jossa book are then discussed as part of concluding remarks.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2018

This paper investigates how opportunities are captured by those that bring in unique contribution... more This paper investigates how opportunities are captured by those that bring in unique contributions to their communities. More than fifty Arab initiatives were studied to see how they started by social change entrepreneurs through capturing opportunities that came due to community needs, gaps, challenges, crisis. The study shows that even hidden opportunities can be exploited through utilising the alertness psychology of the entrepreneurs along with problem solving techniques and optimising their social capital that each opportunity brings. The originality of this work is that it shows that capturing opportunities can occur when people are more driven by values, or vision, or self-purposefulness. It is very important to all Social Change Agents and especially in developing countries/regions as the Arab World. The limitation to data screened in this study doesn't undermine the possibility for generalising it further in different areas in the world as it carries a great development potential for our socio-economies and even to the world abundance thinking.

Resilience has been of interest to many researchers, including this author, as it is the source f... more Resilience has been of interest to many researchers, including this author, as it is the source for social and economic stability of any community (Buheji, 2018, 2017). In this book review resilience would be investigated from individual, management, organisational and collective perspective. The work of Giustiniano et. al. (2018) is value added despite the many work done in this area as it tries to see how organisational theories could be developed to be have the capacity for being more resilient.

International journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, Oct 30, 2020

Any community resilience and total recovery from a devastating international health emergency, as... more Any community resilience and total recovery from a devastating international health emergency, as COVID-19 pandemic, cannot be complete without ensuring that the negative spillovers are eliminated or mitigated from all social classes, especially the lower middle class and the poor. Since the 1960's of the earlier century, many studies have focused on what and how people move in and out of poverty, however, few have gone in-depth of when people go into poverty and why they to that stage. In this paper, the author attempts to take a reflective approach about how people may go into the trap of poverty, or deepen their status into it without having the psychological resilience. With the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the world is expected to lower middle class, and more people would be deeply living in absolute poverty that would come back to many areas in the world, Buheji (2019c). Therefore, finding proper frameworks that would mitigates the expected psychological scare and emotional pain is highly important. The implication here is that the framework is very pragmatic and need to be disseminated to the poor communities through all the recovery projects.

International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences, 2021

International journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, Oct 19, 2020

Ageing is a complicated process that every one of us most probably would go through as part of th... more Ageing is a complicated process that every one of us most probably would go through as part of their life journey. Therefore, many family members are trying to find more innovative ways to manage their ageing parents and provide them with the best quality of life. Many of these ageing parents might have reversible dementia which can be restored, or maintained through cognitive activities. Based on the synthesis of the literature review, the types of fluid thinking driven gamification suitable for an ageing parent are defined. These types are set in one framework to help the family members, and the designers of the game to ensure all the assessment inputs, the activities of game deployment and the outcome are precise. Despite the limitation of the none-tested framework, this paper carries significant implications for ageing parents caregivers and family members who are keen to mitigate their loved ones challenge of memory loss. The paper opens a variety of opportunities for future research in areas of geriatric care, neuroscience, intergeneration, and gamification.

Business and Economic Research, Jan 21, 2020

This paper reviews what is the essence and importance of innovation policy today and in the futur... more This paper reviews what is the essence and importance of innovation policy today and in the future. The Importance of innovation meta-analysis and its benefits for the policies beneficiaries and stakeholders are explored. Then, cases of market failure and how innovation policies could bring influence and spillovers on the economy, are discussed. This critical review implies that it shows the main mechanisms of innovation instruments and where the essentials and the rationales of creating socially preferable innovation policies need to be more investigated as per the clusters targeted for competitiveness differentiation.

Poverty, unemployment, women inequality, youth migration, access to education, lack of both cultu... more Poverty, unemployment, women inequality, youth migration, access to education, lack of both cultural synergy and religious intolerance has been one of the significant challenges of the 21 st century. Such complex socioeconomic issues, since simple models could not solve it became more socio-political, legal, technological and environmental problems. Since poverty as a socioeconomic issue could be seen as an integrated problem that has a negative influence on many parts of community quality life, it became over the last four years, since the International Inspiration Economy Project established in 15 th of September, 2015. This involvement was deepening over these the years through the more than 40 inspiration labs that focused on poverty-related issues. Knowing that poverty has been the challenge for many countries, economies and communities, inspiration economy considered more focused involvement in this issue in order to give models of what difference could be made. In order to calibrate the rapid developments of 'poverty elimination' efforts, it is now about time to improve our quest for more inspiration labs on the economy of poverty. Besides increasing our projects in the different areas of current and future poverty, we are also increasing our interest in publishing papers in this issue and encouraging more academics and practitioners to publish about this field stories in poverty communities. The developments of inspiration labs are now exploiting the opportunities of future poverty. Now inspiration labs are working on projects are trying to foresight and shape the future poverty economy in different communities, through a selection of approaches of solving communities' problems today. Since poverty has been and would continue to be highly correlated to the issue of human inequalities that limit many people from accessing key resources. Thus, inspiration labs are working on redefining communities' approaches towards current and future inequality. This is highly essential, if we want future generations to be more resilient and ready for the coming threats of the different forms of poverty. This is very important not only for the poor, but even for the many people coming up in the world's emerging middle-class who remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. Inspiration Labs is becoming gradually recognised as one of the efforts to deal with the first and top priority United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG1) that is focusing on eliminating all the known types of poverty. The labs are even calling for a new SDG1 that set the framework for redefining the approaches on the way poverty is eliminated or alleviated. If this happens more, one could expect the development of the international focus towards field efforts in dealing with the poverty economy from assets and wealth perspectives. In order to sustain the effectiveness of the field efforts of poverty-focused 'inspiration labs,' we need more publications that help to share the success stories of the models achieved on the ground. This would provide more empirical evidence to remodel the current and future approaches towards being more adaptable to fostering more selective socioeconomic solution to each type of foresighted poverty.

Issues in social science, Mar 19, 2019

Socioeconomic community problems (CPs) are getting complicated every day, despite many developmen... more Socioeconomic community problems (CPs) are getting complicated every day, despite many developments regarding social innovation, behavioural economy and inspiration economy programs that advanced the way socioeconomic problems are tackled. The literature is also scarce in relevant to CPs and how they can be shaped to bring-in socioeconomic out. A qualitative approach is followed for randomly selected socioeconomic CPs to explore the way they are realised and then how their anatomy was dissected. Based on the reviewed literature and the findings, a framework for shaping CPs towards an effective solution and outcome was proposed. The paper concludes with minimum success factors that can be used when shaping a socioeconomic CP, in order to ensure breakthrough unique outcomes, where the problem won't occur again with the same causality.

International Journal of Youth Economy, Nov 1, 2018

International Journal of Youth Economy, May 1, 2018

American Journal of Economics, 2018

Leading world governments are devoting more significant thought and resources to implement Behavi... more Leading world governments are devoting more significant thought and resources to implement Behavioural Economics (BE) tools to improve government services outcomes towards the betterment of their societies. This paper studies the role of specific BE approaches in shaping government services and how their models are created. Two BE approaches, Nudge and Inspiration Economy Labs (IL’s), are compared in relevant to their capacity to capture opportunities and creating a differentiation or influence without power towards the community social welfare and the quality of life. The comparative study includes the way the spirit, the model and the success stories are created due to the transformation that BE brought. The paper concludes with further recommendations of utilising the choices and the variety of approaches that both Nudge and Inspiration Labs brings to different governmental and societal issues. Keeping government BE projects open minded to beyond Nudge techniques have been recommended for any government that wants to create new cultures that can see variety of solutions to problems and still with most efficient way.

International Journal of Learning and Development, Jan 16, 2024

Business and management studies, Feb 2, 2018

Journal of Social Science Studies, May 31, 2018

Review of European Studies, Feb 4, 2020

Journal of Social Science Studies, Apr 18, 2019

International Journal of Youth Economy, Nov 1, 2018

American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 2017

Journal of Cardiology & Current Research, Dec 17, 2020

American Journal of Economics, 2019

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2018

International journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, Oct 30, 2020

International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences, 2021

International journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, Oct 19, 2020

Business and Economic Research, Jan 21, 2020

Issues in social science, Mar 19, 2019

International Journal of Youth Economy, Nov 1, 2018

International Journal of Youth Economy, May 1, 2018

American Journal of Economics, 2018

Transformation Management is not just a Change Management, it is a fate for nations that need to ... more Transformation Management is not just a Change Management, it is a fate for nations that need to pick up the spirit of Agility, persistence and Social Learning to meet instable trends. The Author set his techniques for transformation by using life and practical examples from what he developed as Transformational Labs© which was tested in different societies and organisations. The book focus on the design of transformational strategies and practices that would lead to gradual maturity for managing resistance towards any transformation. The psychological and risk factors are discussed to reflect the importance of Radical Transformation for developing countries and the Arab World Specifically. The book concludes with recommendations for handling transformation in instable future and in a knowledge economy.

The need for government organizations to become competitive is growing with the huge instability ... more The need for government organizations to become competitive is growing with the huge instability in the economy. In parallel, Knowledge Management (KM) has been rapidly growing in the past decade as a source of influence on organisational development practices. Furthermore, the past decade research approaches largely failed to show the importance of KM initiatives in creating synergy with other initiatives to an extent that would lead towards organizational competitiveness. In this book Dr Buheji address how KM holistically influences the different organisational development practices, specifically in the context of the government sector. To ascertain the relationships between KM and four prevalent organizational development practices namely Organisational Excellence, Learning, Innovation and Organisational Competitiveness; a quantitative survey approach was undertaken using a series of researcher-developed scales. Dr. Buheji concept of the holistic influence of KM shows clearly that if knowledge well managed it can lead to government competitiveness, which is very essential in Knowledge Economy.

An innovative and discovery driven book that uses a field tested statistical methodology that int... more An innovative and discovery driven book that uses a field tested statistical methodology that integrates the trends in life relevant indicators to create better competitiveness for our nations, society and organisations through what is became to be known as Measurement Labs © & Competitiveness Labs ©. The book is rich in practical examples about how the " Integrated Trends " methodology leads to a differentiated result that reach the level of outcome and legacy that would help to build up a success story and reference of excellence. The book is based on the expertise of both Dr Buheji and Dr Al-Jahrami for in Change and Excellence Management projects that changed the setting the mind-set from growth towards development.

The developing countries needs to understand the importance of Knowledge Economy (KE) through foc... more The developing countries needs to understand the importance of Knowledge Economy (KE) through focusing on practicality of the concept and applications of KE. The " Journey towards Knowledge Economy " is reflected through Knowledge Management projects and case studies of best practices applied to achieve competitiveness. The requirements for the journey flight is presented through introducing the concept and philosophy of knowledge. Then the author takes us about towards the importance of knowledge between consciousness and science. The book also covers the difference between information management, knowledge management and learning. Then Journey of the book helps to build the interrelationship of knowledge economy enablers and the activities that should be established in the Arab World. The author focuses on clarifying the role of knowledge assets in the generating better economy and how such assets helped in the return on investment in knowledge and the overall vision of KE in different countries. Dr Buheji developed a framework for the transition towards KE through specific communication mechanisms.

Visualising governments to be a source of inspiration is not an easy task. However, using the met... more Visualising governments to be a source of inspiration is not an easy task. However, using the method of observation, absorption and reflection, as the author has called in his earlier "Handbook of Inspiration Economy" can smoothen this exploration journey ride. In this series of Inspiration Economy, we shed a light on the future of Inspiring Governments. The author focuses first on the history of governments' productivity with direct focus on competitiveness. The concept of scarcity and abundance in the practices of government are compared to inspiring governments. The book argues about the importance of 'inspiring government' in the near future for better stability and sustainable reviving society. Inspiration role in creating lean, learning, innovative, quality of life governments are being compared. Inspirational competitiveness and government innovation are discussed in relevance to building more agile and totally engaged governments. The book discusses the mechanisms and sources of inspiration in government and even give examples on indicators. The citizens' expectations and mind-set during an inspiration based economy are also reviewed. The book is full of examples of future expected practices of inspiring governments which serves as a kick start for further studies in this area.

This first Handbook on Inspiration Economy comes in a time where the world is changing very fast ... more This first Handbook on Inspiration Economy comes in a time where the world is changing very fast in terms of its speed, challenges, development and opportunities. The author and founder of the concept Dr Mohamed Buheji discusses first about the essence of having a handbook dedicated on Inspiration based Economy. The book discusses about the history of inspiration, then discusses about inspiration an important life asset, away from being a supernatural source. Then, the characteristics of inspiration creator are explored in detail. This handbook is also sets a reference between inspiration from perspiration to creativity and innovation. Levels of 'Inspiration Cultures' are discussed. This is followed by the relation of this inspiration in creating better life insight is also discussed. The handbook try to create realise and visualise the demands for Inspiration Economy (IE) and list them in relevance to IE, i.e. how inspiration affect the socio-economy,

Inspiration as a phenomena have been around since beginning of time, however it never been in his... more Inspiration as a phenomena have been around since beginning of time, however it never been in history of mankind an important currency that can be engineered and developed. The level of success of future developments depends on our ability to design and engineer inspiration. Inspiration Engineering therefore more than a trend, it is a capacity developing concept that long been undermined or gone unstudied.

In "Breaking the Shield", Mohamed Buheji and Dunya Ahmed explore their innovative concept “Inspiration Engineering” which can help to create and manage inspiration in ways never been discussed before. The authors discuss how to use inspiration to influence change without power or with minimal resources, or how to approach problems or challenges or failures or losses to create from them sources of inspiration. This book breaks the shield in many hidden spots and help to explore new unseen opportunities through different case studies.

Human Systems Management, 2021

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Outcomes of the pandemic COVID-19 varied from one country to another. We ... more BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Outcomes of the pandemic COVID-19 varied from one country to another. We aimed to describe the association between the global recovery and mortality rates of COVID-19 cases in different countries and the Human Development Index (HDI) as a socioeconomic indicator.
METHODS: A correlational (ecological) study design is used. The analysis used data from 173 countries. Poisson regression models were applied to study the relationship between HDI and pandemic recovery and mortality rates, adjusting for country median age and country male to female sex ratio.
RESULTS: During the first three months, the global pooled recovery rate was 32.4% (95% CI 32.3%-32.5%), and the pooled mortality rate was 6.95% (95% CI 6.94%-6.99%). Regression models revealed that HDI was positively associated with recovery ␤ = 1.37, p = 0.016. HDI was also positively associated with the mortality outcome ␤ = 1.79, p = 0.016. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings imply that the positive association between the HDI and recovery rates is reflective of the pandemics' preparedness. The positive association between the HDI and mortality rates points to vulnerabilities in approaches to tackle health crises. It is critical to better understand the connection between nations' socioeconomic factors and their readiness for future pandemics in order to strengthen public health policies.