Boardroom governing dynamics: A case study of state-owned oil and gas joint ventures in Egypt

I would like to extend my profoundest appreciation and gratitude to my thesis advisor Dr. Hamid E. Ali for his patience, unreserved help, tremendous supervision, positive spirit and encouragement. Without those elements, the completion of my thesis would not have been possible. Beside my advisor, I would like to express my warm and sincere thanks to my thesis committee members, Dr. Ghada Barsoum, and Dr. Shahjahan Bhuiyan for their insightful remarks. My warmest thanks to Dr. Bremer for her inspired support and guidance at the earliest stage of the thesis. She has set the foundation to start the thesis. Special thanks go to my family. I will never be able to articulate enough my deepest love for them in words. I am immensely grateful to my parents for their constant spiritual support and prayers. I thank my sister for shinning my life with her presence, innocence smile.