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  • WhatsApp communication service 
    Mrad, Mona; Farah, Maya; Mehdi, Nour (2022-09-23)
    The purpose of this study is to explore the pros and cons of WhatsApp communication service and its likely effects on consumer behavior and one’s perception of luxury brands. Design/methodology/approach This study ...
  • When poignant stories outweigh cold hard facts 
    Freling, Traci H.; Yangb, Zhiyong; Saini, Ritesh; Itani, Omar S.; Abualsamh, Ryan Rashad (2022-01-07)
    The objective of this paper is to resolve mixed findings about which type of evidence is more persuasive—statistical or anecdotal information. In a meta-analysis of 61 papers exploring the persuasive impact of evidence ...
  • Where do jobs go when oil prices drop? 
    Karaki, Mohamad B.; Herrera, Ana Maria; Rangaraju, Sandeep Kumar (2017-11-01)
    In this paper, we estimate a factor augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model to investigate the effect of oil price shocks on total private job flows as well as on industry-level job creation and destruction. Following ...
  • Where does IDA go? (c1994) 
    Khatib, Sawsan I. (2010-12-13)
  • Which firms export? An empirical analysis for the manufacturing sector in the MENA region 
    Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. (2016-05-06)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the export behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. De ...
  • Which personal values matter most? Job performance and job satisfaction across job categories 
    Ismail, Hussein N.; Karkoulian, Silva; Kertechian, Sevag K. (2019-06-03)
    Purpose As one of the first studies in this field, the purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of personal values on job performance and job satisfaction across different jobs. Further, it aims to identify personal ...
  • Who hires foreign domestic workers? 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (2016-05-06)
    Foreign domestic workers’ activities provide important market and non-market services in a large number of middle-income countries as these activities have an impact on the labor force participation and time allocation ...
  • Why do acquiring firms pay high premiums to takeover target shareholders 
    Raad, Elias (2016-10-27)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the relationship between several factors reported in the literature to affect the premium received by takeover target shareholders. Using a sample of 190 successful ...
  • Why do some countries produce more capital intensive output than others? 
    Toukan, Amjad (2016-12-14)
    Interested in how does the quality of governance in a country affect the ratio of the value added share of capital intensive goods to the value added share of labor intensive goods, I am testing the hypothesis that the ...
  • Why is CVaR superior to VaR? (c2009) 
    Dalleh, Nivine (2011-10-25)
    Until recently, value-at-risk (VaR) has been a widely used risk measure in portfolio optimization. The large number of recent bank failures shows that VaR failed to account for the expected losses which resulted from the ...
  • Why some firms export? An empirical analysis for manufacturing firms in the MENA region 
    Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascale (2017-04-07)
    This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors ...
  • Women and the cosmetics business in Lebanon. (c1996) 
    Nader, Dunia F. (2011-04-11)
  • Women and work/life conflict at higher educational institutions 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Halawi, Leila (2017-04-07)
    This study reports the results of 248 survey questionnaires and 26 interviews with full-time and part-time female faculty members at a Lebanese Higher Education Institution. The researchers focused on working women at a ...
  • Women Leadership in the Arab World 
    Ladki, Said; Itani, Sara (2018-10-31)
    This paper explores the phenomenon of leadership with the intent to improve the practice, to understand, and to influence people while focusing on gender issues. Queen Rania Al Abdullah, the Queen of Jordan, presents a ...
  • Women on boards, sustainability reporting and firm performance 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Dah, Mustafa; Jizi, Mohammad (2016-11-16)
    Purpose As pressures mount for women directors on corporate boards (WDOCBs) from different stakeholders, companies become more interested in finding out how WDOCBs impact sustainability disclosure. The purpose of this ...
  • Work-life Balance and Turnover Intentions 
    Abi Antoun, Tonya (Lebanese American University, 2020-07-28)
    Reducing turnover is one of the hottest topics in human resource management, as it represents significant costs to the organization. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between work-life balance and ...
  • Work-life balance, perceived stress, & locus of control 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Sinan, Tala (Asian Society of management & Marketing Research (ASMMR), 2018-03-28)
    This study aims at verifying whether a lower level of perceived stress combined with a high level of control predict a higher level of perceived work life balance for employees in the Lebanese banking sector. Primary data ...
  • Working conditions in hospitals revisited 
    Mach, Merce; Ferreira, Aristides I.; Martinez, Luis F.; Lisowskaia, Antonina; Dagher, Grace K.; Perez-Nebra, Amalia R. (2019-05-29)
    This study examines whether the relationship between the employees’ perceived job autonomy may be prone to the contextual influence of supervisor support and presenteeism climate in explaining the attendance behaviors of ...
  • Working sick and out of sorts 
    Dagher, Grace; Ferreira, Aristides I.; Mach, Merce; Martinez, Luis F.; Brewster, Chris; Perez-Nebra, Amalia; Lisovskaya, Antonina (2017-09-12)
    A climate of presenteeism has important effects on employee well-being and the organization itself. Our study, based on surveys of health sector employees in six different countries (Brazil, Ecuador, Lebanon, Portugal, ...
  • WSDL mutation for testing web services 
    Mansour, Nashat; Siblini, Reda; Tarhini, Abbas (2018-06-04)
    Web Services represent a recent promising software technology that provides application-to-application interaction. Web Services are described using Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, ...

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