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  • How banks’ internal governance mechanisms influence risk reporting 
    Jizi, Mohammad (2021-02-10)
    Banks were the center of the recent financial crisis that results in a sharp decline in security prices and banks’ market capitalization. The content of information in general, and risk information in particular, provided ...
  • Are Risk Management Disclosures Informative or Tautological? Evidence from the U.S. Banking Sector 
    Jizi, Mohammad I.; Dixon, Robert (2021-02-10)
    Banks experienced increasing risk levels during the latest financial crisis. Investors’ confidence was shaken by the effectiveness of bank risk management practices, which has opened new challenges for bank management in ...
  • Light at the end of the tunnel 
    Itani, Omar S.; Hollebeek, Linda D. (2021-02-05)
    Consumer behavior is changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus compelling attraction sites to find new ways of offering safe tours to visitors. Based on protection motivation theory, we develop and test a model ...
  • Dysfunctional behavior of external auditors the collision of time budget and time deadline evidence from a developing country 
    Nehme, Rabih; Al Mutawa, Abdullah; Jizi, Mohammad (2021-02-05)
    The general goal behind this research is to gain a better understanding of factors leading to dysfunctional behavior of auditors. The role of auditors has been a controversial issue especially after the recent accounting ...
  • The impact of board composition on the level of ESG disclosures in GCC countries 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Jizi, Mohammad; Tabaja, Hala Hussein (2021-02-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of board composition on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in the Gulf countries. Despite the vast literature on the significance of ESG disclosure on ...
  • Does corporate governance spillover firm performance? A study of valuation of MENA companies 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Issam Jizi, Mohammad (2021-01-26)
    Purpose The aim of the paper is to examine the association of corporate governance (CG), the firms’ characteristics and the financial performance of firms operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after ...
  • Do social responsibility disclosures show improvements on stock price? 
    Jizi, Mohammad; Nehme, Rabih; Salama, Aly (2021-01-26)
    The 2007 financial crisis was the largest shock to the financial markets not only to the United States but the world as a whole since 1930. Lack of information and confusion in financial markets causes sharp declines in ...
  • Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure 
    Jizi, Mohammad Issam; Salama, Aly; Dixon, Robert; Stratling, Rebecca (2021-01-26)
    There is a distinct lack of research into the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the banking sector. This paper fills the gap in the literature by examining the impact ...
  • From Amazon.com to Amazon.love 
    Ramadan, Zahy; Farah, Maya F.; El Essrawi, Lea (2021-01-05)
    The trend of incorporating assistive conversational agents into people's lives has followed the unprecedented expansion in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon, in particular, has been a key trendsetter in ...
  • The Influence of Board Composition on Sustainable Development Disclosure 
    Jizi, Mohammad (2020-12-03)
    Despite knowing the potential effect of social reporting on firms' continuity, there is limited research into the influence of the composition of boards of directors on CSR disclosure. This paper adds to the emerging CSR ...
  • The efficiency of corporate boards and firms’ audit fees 
    Nehme, Rabih; Jizi, Mohammad (2020-12-03)
    Purpose The quality of financial reporting for the financial institutions is vital for the public, as the negative consequences of manipulated financial statements will not only affect shareholders but also the regulators’ ...
  • Board gender diversity and firms’ equity risk 
    Jizi, Mohammad Issam; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose There is a growing attention toward the importance of women’s participation on corporate boards in enhancing board governance and decision-making quality. The literature lacks sufficient empirical evidence on the ...
  • Board monitoring and audit fees 
    Jizi, Mohammad; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to examine whether CEO/chair dual roles influence board monitoring-audit fees nexus. The impact of corporate governance on audit fees literature is lacking in the banking sector, which is subject ...
  • From cognition to action 
    Alnakhli, Hayam; Singh, Rakesh; Agnihotri, Raj; Itani, Omar S. (2020-12-01)
    Purpose This study aims to investigate salespersons’ self-monitoring and its effect on adaptive selling behavior. As salespeople are constantly facing different customers with various needs and want and engaging in a ...
  • “Us” to co-create value and hate “them” 
    Itani, Omar S. (2020-12-01)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of identity-based relationships, customer brand identification and peer identification, in driving customer outcomes including customer experiential hedonic ...
  • Big data technology acceptance in the healthcare industry. (c2019) 
    Chmaissani, Hala (Lebanese American University, 2020-11-03)
    With the advancement in information technology, researchers are realizing the remarkable potentials that big data technology can bring to the healthcare field by enhancing the efficiency of its workflow. Big data is suggested ...
  • Social ties & firm performance in emerging markets. (c2019) 
    Samhoun, Saoud (Lebanese American University, 2020-11-03)
    Because of the contradicting results in several studies, it is time to perform a Metaanalysis of the effect of social ties on firm performance that has been tested in emerging markets. In particular, I am interested to ...
  • Excessive managerial entrenchment, corporate governance, and firm performance. (c2019) 
    Antounian, Christelle (Lebanese American University, 2020-11-03)
    This paper investigates the impact of excessive managerial entrenchment on the CEO turnover-performance sensitivity, CEO compensation, and firm value. We measure the degree of managerial entrenchment based on the E-index ...
  • Legal frameworks governing social data analytics and privacy concerns among social media users. (c2019) 
    Mansour, Youssef Ramzi (Lebanese American University, 2020-11-03)
    Big data is a relatively new concept that refers to the enormous amount of data generated in a new era where people are selling, buying, paying dues, managing their health and communicating over the internet. It becomes ...
  • Blockchain implementations. (c2019) 
    Sabbagh, Ahmad Al (Lebanese American University, 2020-10-13)
    The "blockchain" technology, supported by the decentralized digital currency Bitcoin, the artificial intelligence, and IoT technologies - has created much interest in the academia, industry, and the technology community. ...

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