• The Mediating Effect of Knowledge Sharing and Usage on Human Resource Practices and Innovative Behavior: Developing vs. Countries of Crisis 

  Sayegh, Nadeen; Sayegh, Niveen; Aad, Samar; Karkoulian, Silva (2024)

  As work contexts dynamically evolve, enhancing managerial human resource practices (HRP) becomes crucial to foster employee innovative behavior (IB) while promoting positive knowledge usage (KU) and sharing (KS). This paper ...
• Negotiating authenticity: Experiences of student influencers on social media 

  Raaper, Rille; Hardey, Mariann; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Aad, Samar (2024-10-28)

  Research has shown that contemporary youth face a variety of challenges, ranging from social belonging to striving towards perfection in body image and personal achievements in all areas of life. Student life is expected ...
• Generative AI: hopes, controversies and the future of faculty roles in education 

  Aad, Samar; Hardey, Mariann (2024-09-09)

  Purpose Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has seen exponential growth in recent years due to its capability to generate original content through natural language processing and comprehensive language models. This ...
• Which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Approach Optimizes Customer Engagement Behavior? The Role of Customer-brand Identification, Brand Love, and Social Communication 

  Dahrouj, Rasha (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-20)

  The effectiveness of CSR in yielding favorable customer-based outcomes has been drawn into question, as many CSR activities have failed to deliver positive (e.g., engagement-based/relational) results, yielding an important ...
• The Impact of Talent Management on Intention to Stay 

  ElHayek, Rachelle Tannios (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-10)

  Organizations are now focusing on making people want to stay with their company more than ever. However, more research needs to be done on how talent management (TM) methods affect the desire to stay put. The purpose of ...
• The Impact of Cash Holdings on Corporate Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Basset, Michelle (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-14)

  This study investigates the effect of cash holdings on firm performance during the unprecedented challenges and disruptions caused by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which profoundly affected global economies ...
• Impact of ICT on Business Continuity and Sustainable Performance 

  Mikhael, Michael (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-06)

  This research investigates the adoption and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies and its relevance to business continuity. Additionally, it investigates sustainable performance dimensions and their ...
• Virtual Influencers Versus Real Connections: Exploring the Phenomenon of Virtual Influencers 

  Mrad, Mona; Ramadan, Zahy; Tóth, Zsófia; Nasr, Lina; Karimi, Sahar (2024-09-13)

  While growing is interest in the use of social media influencers in digital marketing campaigns, little is known about virtual influencers and their impact on consumers and brands. Virtual influencers are becoming efficient ...
• Employer Perspectives 

  Salha, Maggie (Lebanese American University, 2024-04-05)

  Employers are shifting their focus from employee technicians to knowledge professionals, requiring new competencies like communication, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, ...
• The Individual and Organizational Factors That Contribute to The Decision of Knowledge Hiding and Their Effect On the Organization 

  Salman, Haneen Samer (Lebanese American University, 2024-04-22)

  This thesis aims at addressing the relationship between knowledge hiding and the factors that affect it within the organization. It investigated why workers may hide knowledge from colleagues to succeed. The data collection ...
• The role of market-based transformative service initiatives in service inclusion of refugees 

  Eslami, Hossein; Kabadayi, Sertan; Kozah, Alcheikh Edmond (2023-08-15)

  Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate the role of market-based transformative service initiatives (TSIs) during the refugee crisis and shed light on how such TSIs increase inclusion of refugees in service ...
• New sustainable product adoption: The role of economic and social factors 

  Eslami, Hossein; Krishnan, Trichy (2023-09-28)

  Sustainability has become a global issue of widespread concern and renewable energy sources are among the most important areas of sustainability research. The solar photovoltaic panel, as a new product, has shown promise ...
• The potential of urban distributed solar energy in transition economies: The case of Beirut city 

  Eslami, Hossein; Najem, Sara; Abi Ghanem, Dana; Ahmad, Ali (2021-02-10)

  In this paper, using Lebanon's capital, Beirut, as a case study, a methodology is proposed to assess the potential for solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas incorporating both economic and non-economic factors. Utilizing ...
• A flexible genetic algorithm-fuzzy regression approach for forecasting: The case of bitumen consumption 

  Azadeh, Ali; Kalantari, Mahdokht; Ahmadi, Ghazaleh; Eslami, Hossein (2019-03-05)

  Purpose Construction materials comprise a major part of the total construction cost. Given the importance of bitumen as a fundamental material in construction projects, it is imperative to have an accurate forecast of its ...
• Location optimization of municipal solid waste considering health, safety, environmental, and economic factors 

  Azadeh, Ali; Ahmadzadeh, Kimia; Eslami, Hossein (2018-06-14)

  Selecting appropriate sites for municipal solid waste (MSW) is a challenging problem for urban communities and has economic and environmental implications. This paper proposes a mathematical optimization model to solve the ...
• ‘Revolution is a woman’ - the feminisation of the Arab spring 

  El Jurdi, Hounaida; Ourahmoune, Nacima (2021-02-02)

  Across the world there is an active, mass-based demand for an end to gendered injustice in all domains of our social, economic, political and cultural lives. Increasingly, scholars recognize the gendered nature of social ...
• Researching the sacred: a conversation with Samuelson Appau, Russ Belk and Diego Rinallo 

  Moufahim, Mona; Rodner, Victoria; El Jurdi, Hounaida; Appau, Samuelson; Belk, Russell; Rinallo, Diego (2023-04-06)

  Purpose Once the domain of theologians, sociologists and (religion) anthropologists, we have seen more recently how consumer researchers have enriched the study of spirituality and religion. Researching the sacred can be ...
• “They said we ruined the character and our religion”: authenticity and legitimation of hijab cosplay 

  El Jurdi, Hounaida; Moufahim, Mona; Dekel, Ofer (2021-01-19)

  Purpose This research is positioned at the intersection of youth subculture consumption and religious affiliation, through the study of observant Muslim women involved in the highly engaging and codified activity of ...
• Cultural norms and the marketplace: favor economies in the Arab world 

  El Jurdi, Hounaida; Houjeir, Roudaina (2020-03-11)

  Purpose Recent scholarship has highlighted the complexity of buyer-seller relationships in emerging markets and called for a better understanding of the cultural norms shaping such relationships. This paper aims to draw ...
• Beauty salon- a marketplace icon 

  Ourahmoune, Nacima; El Jurdi, Hounaida (2020-03-16)

  Beautification rituals are powerful elements of consumer cultures that transcend time and place. In an age of “moral terrorism” to “invest” in the body as an imperative, beauty salons -a twentieth century invention- have ...

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