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  • Wage discrimination in Lebanon as related to experience and education 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Sharifi, Hazar (2016-12-21)
    This paper explores the existence of a wage gap between the two genders using a sample of 6081 individuals and tests the effect of experience and educational backgrounds on widening or narrowing this gap. The findings ...
  • Wait! What’s my job? Role ambiguity and role conflict as predictors of commitment among faculty 
    Homayed, Aseel; Karkoulian, Silva; Srour, F. Jordan (2024-03-04)
    Purpose: Faculty play a unique role in universities performing duties along the three fronts of teaching, research, and service. While it might be teaching that contributes most to the bottom line of a small university, ...
  • Water basins in the Middle East 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-03-20)
    In Middle Eastern factional scheming for power, water is viewed as a strategic resource. The distribution of surface waters constitutes the basis for water geopolitics, thus representing the way to national security. In ...
  • Ways and means to keep employees motivated, productive, and loyal 
    Armache, Jalal (2017-11-24)
    This article discusses the ways and methods that keep employees motivated and productive. Several studies have shown great positive corrolation between employees's motivational level and organizational productivity. This ...
  • Weight control in the workplace 
    Ladki, Said M. (2016-01-28)
    This article draws attention to obesity, inadequate exercise, and overeating that seem inevitable, among institutional foodservice professionals. Foodservice employees (164) responded to a 32-itera questionnaire. Seventy-six ...
  • Wellness and obesity 
    Ladki, Said M. (2016-05-16)
    Overeating, inadequate exercise, work-related stress, and long working hours are accepted issues among restaurant managers. The underlying question was whether such life styles affect employers' health care cost and ...
  • What determines vacation leave? The role of gender 
    Fakih, Ali (2017-07-07)
    Vacation leave is introduced in workplaces to improve the working environment. Surprisingly, it has been observed that a large number of workers do not use all of their entitled vacation days. This paper provides a novel ...
  • What do I want my professor to be: popular, social, lenient, or effective? 
    Mattar, Dorine M.; El Khoury, Rim (2023-09-12)
    This study aims to reveal the factors behind students' personal biases and preferences in the evaluation process in order to assess the value of using students' ratings of professors' teaching effectiveness. A questionnaire ...
  • What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region? 
    Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. (2016-05-06)
    Purpose – Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The purpose of this paper is to examine ...
  • What to believe, whom to blame, and when to share 
    Mahdi, Ali; Farah, Maya F.; Ramadan, Zahy (2022-09-23)
    Purpose The spread of fake news on social networking sites (SNS) poses a threat to the marketing landscape, yet little is known about how fake news affect consumers’ perceptions, attitudes and behaviors. This study aims ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 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 ...

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