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  • Corporate Governance and the diversification discount 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Cline, Brandon N.; Hyder, Fawzi Jaber; Yore, Adam S. (2017-07-17)
    We examine whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has a major role in reducing the diversification discount and enhancing internal capital markets efficiency. The act proposes new rules and regulations on financial practice and ...
  • Corporate governance does affect bank profitability: evidence from Lebanon 
    El Khoury, Rim (2023-09-12)
    This study examines the impact of corporate governance on the profitability of six Lebanese listed banks between 2008-2012. Performance is measured by ROE and ROA whereas corporate governance is based on 14 variables, in ...
  • Corporate governance, ownership structure and bank performance 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Al Boustany, Wajih (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 2018-03-27)
    We study the relationship between ownership structure and performance for a sample of 89 commercial, investment, specialized, and Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the period 1998-2003.) ...
  • Corporate Performance 
    Ismail, Hussein (2016-02-02)
    Recent evidence consistently shows that corporate performance has an important effect on job satisfaction. This study aims to contribute further to this novel field of research by examining the relationship between corporate ...
  • Corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation in a developing country context 
    Zakka, Janine Saba (2017-10-12)
    Lebanon is a developing country in the Middle East that witnessed civil war and political instability since 1975. Lebanon is surrounded by Arab States that are facing turmoil and demonstrations by poverty stricken populations ...
  • Correlates of longevity 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Djoundourian, Salpie (2017-04-11)
    This study tests various hypotheses concerning the relationship between correlates of effective succession planning and longevity, using a sample of Lebanese family firms. The findings lend support to the hypotheses regarding ...
  • Correlates of organizational commitment and knowledge sharing via intelligence 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila Canaan; Al Harake, Nour (2016-05-10)
  • Correlates of the Bases of power and the Big Five Personality Traits 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila; Sidani, Mohamad (2016-05-10)
    The purpose of this research was to empirically test the relationship between personality traits mainly agreeableness and neuroticism, and power. 150 employees working in "medium" size organizations in Lebanon filled the ...
  • Corruption In Public Procurement And Social Welfare 
    Toukan, Amjad (2017-07-13)
    There are several reasons why a firm would want to pay a bribe to a high-level official when bidding for a large scale project. One reason is to induce the corrupt official and/or his agent to manipulate their evaluation ...
  • Could financial liberalization ignore informal finance? a commentary 
    Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
    This commentary argues that the literature as well as policy-makers could not afford to ignore the effects of financial liberalization on informal finance even if the direction of the resulting change in economic activity ...
  • CRM performance analysis using the concept of genetic fuzzimetric technique 
    Kouatli, Issam (2017-11-15)
  • A cross-cultural approach on presenteeism climate, organizational justice and work-family conflict 
    Dagher, Grace K.; Ferreira, Aristides Isidoro; Martinez, Luis F.; Brewster, Chris; Perez-Nebreda, Amalia Raquel; Lisovskaia, Antonina (2017-09-15)
    A climate of presenteeism has important effects on employee well-being and the organization itself. Our study examines whether organizational justice plays a mediating role in the relationship between a presenteeism climate ...
  • Cross-cultural Training 
    Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Rouhana, Amal; Lythreatis, Sophie (2016-05-16)
    The global expansion of commerce inevitably brings an increase in expatriate employees. While "expats" can provide continuity, valuable expertise, and other skills, they must acclimatize successfully and remain in the job ...
  • CSR and legitimacy in higher education accreditation programs, an isomorphic approach of Lebanese business schools 
    Chedrawi, Charbel; Howayeck, Pierrette; Tarhini, Abbas (2019-08-01)
    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 ...
  • CSR, corporate ethics, and OCB 
    El Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Yunis, Manal; Tarhini, Abbas (2019-09-16)
    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 ...
  • CSR, organizational identification, normative commitment, and the moderating effect of the importance of CSR 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Messarra, Leila Canaan; El-Khalil, Raed (2018-03-14)
    Commitment results from an assessment of situations found at the work place linking employees to their organization, and their effort towards achieving goals. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is management's obligation, ...
  • Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory 
    Abosag, Ibrahim; Ramadan, Zahy B.; Baker, Tom; Zhongqi, Jin (2019-09-24)
    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, ...
  • De-listing from NCCTs and money laundering control measures 
    Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
    Analyses from a banking regulation perspective the general experience of 23 countries that were initially listed as non‐cooperative countries and territories (NCCTs); this group did not meet some or most of the 25 criteria ...
  • Debt arrears as a signal of sovereign defaults 
    Zeaiter, Hussein (2017-10-12)
    The accuracy of the inference about the risk of default is very important to the potential creditors in their lending decisions. In the literature, the usual used indicators of sovereign default in a given country (debtor) ...
  • Decision to emigrate amongst the youth in Lebanon 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (2017-07-07)
    This article studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered one of the main causes of ‘Brain Drain’ in Arab Mediterranean Countries (AMCs). We focus on the case of Lebanon using a unique dataset ...

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