• Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory 

  Abosag, Ibrahim; Ramadan, Zahy B.; Baker, Tom; Zhongqi, Jin

  Social media brands may experience a lack of competitiveness and attraction due to the silent negative increase of customers' need for uniqueness (NFU). This is the result of a tension between the theory of brand congruence, ...
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• The democratization of intangible luxury 

  Ramadan, Zahy

  Purpose The notion of luxury has changed due to the democratization and the fast adoption pace of intangible luxury service providers embedding voice-controlled assistants. In particular, Amazon’s Echo Look is expected ...
• Amazon's approach to consumers’ usage of the Dash button and its effect on purchase decision involvement in the U.S. market 

  Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F.; Kassab, Danielle

  The Amazon Dash button is a technological innovation that allows consumers to re-order products at the press of a button. This study aims to test (a) the effects of the relational attributes of retailer's trust and love ...
• Mobile hospitals routing for prioritized patients 

  Tarhini, Abbas; Danach, K.

  Health is an essential factor for sustaining a better life in a better world. Today, for different reasons, several districts in our countries would be deprived from the needed health support and thus, in such cases, we ...
• CSR, corporate ethics, and OCB 

  El Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Yunis, Manal; Tarhini, Abbas

  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming an indicator of organizations’ legitimacy. This study investigates the relationship between CSR and corporate ethics on one hand and organizational citizenship behavior on ...
• Digital transformation framework 

  Tarhini, Abbas; Tarhini, K.

  Today, with increased global awareness to protect natural resources and secure private assets, digital transformation is becoming an obligation in large public enterprises such as modern utility firms and armed forces that ...
• Legislation of cyber law and digital forensic in Lebanon 

  Shehab, Maher; Tarhini, Abbas; Balouzian, Puzant; Fakih, Khodr

  Computer related crimes are highly emerging in the crime scene as human beings are relying vastly on computers in terms of communication, information gathering, data storage and much more. Hence, many countries worldwide ...
• Blockchain in the security and defense sector 

  Tarhini, A.; Chedrawi, C.

  One of the major threats facing the Lebanese Armed Forces today and in the coming decade is their ability to defend their cyber systems and protect their big data from intruders’ attacks. Today, we are living in a digital ...
• Scatter search algorithm for the cross-dock door assignment problem 

  Tarhini, Abbas; Makki, Jawad; Chamseddine, Mohamad Mohamad Jaafar (IEEE, )

  Cross-docking is a practice in logistics in which shipments are directly moved from an inbound truck into an outbound truck. A recognized problem in this domain is the assignment of trucks to doors in a way that the distance ...
• Modified clarke wright algorithms for solving the realistic vehicle routing problem 

  Shour, Amina; Danash, Kassem; Tarhini, Abbas (IEEE, )

  The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-known management problem in large enterprises' logistic departments; in fact, it is classified as a combinatorial problem, where customers of known demands are supplied by one ...
• Emergency management system design for accurate data 

  Tarhini, Abbas; Srour, Jordan F.; Badr, Nabil Georges

  In any city – smart or not – emergency response is a critical service. In smart cities, the use of technology to manage access to and dispatching of emergency vehicles is particularly important. However, when a system must ...
• Information technology adoption and implementation in higher education 

  Tarhini, Abbas; Tarhini, Jihan; Tarhini, Anwar

  Purpose Research has shown that information technology has a tremendous effect on higher educational (HE) institutions. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that would depict and highlight on the financial, ...
• The effects of a change in the point system on immigration 

  Chemin, Matthieu; Sayour, Nagham

  In 2001, Quebec changed its point system, a system that selects immigrants based on specific observable characteristics. The explicit objective was to increase the number of French-speaking immigrants, with no deterioration ...
• The impact of maternal care on child development 

  Sayour, Nagham

  Using a parental leave reform implemented in Canada at the end of 2000, I study the effects of an increase in maternal care on the developmental outcomes of children aged 2–3 years old. The reform increased the time mothers ...
• CSR and legitimacy in higher education accreditation programs, an isomorphic approach of Lebanese business schools 

  Chedrawi, Charbel; Howayeck, Pierrette; Tarhini, Abbas

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the accreditation path toward legitimacy in business schools from an isomorphic and a social responsibility perspective. Design/methodology/approach A ...
• Impact of ICT-based innovations on organizational performance 

  Yunis, Manal; El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Tarhini, Abbas

  Purpose Research has shown that information and communication technologies (ICT) are crucial for economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that would depict and examine the nature of the ...
• The role of ICT and innovation in enhancing organizational performance 

  Yunis, Manal; Tarhini, Abbas; Kassar, Abdulnasser

  Information and communication technologies (ICT)-based innovations and applications have become major drivers of enhanced organizational performance, economic growth, and social change. However, although the body of research ...
• Natural optimization algorithms for the cross-dock door assignment problem 

  Tarhini, Abbas A.; Yunis, Manal M.; Chamseddine, Mohamad

  Cross-docking is a practice in logistics in which shipments are directly moved from an inbound truck into an outbound truck. A recognized problem in this domain is the assignment of trucks to doors in a way that the distance ...
• Innovative sustainable methodology for managing in-house software development in SMEs 

  Tarhini, A.; Yunis, M.; El Kassar, A.

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative agile methodology that proposes fundamental changes in managing the development of in-house information systems in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...

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