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  • Adaptation to climate change 
    Lazkano, Itziar; Marrouch, Walid; Nkuiya, Bruno (2016-05-20)
    Adaptation costs to climate change vary widely across countries, especially between developed and developing countries. Adaptation costs also influence a country's decision to abate and join international environmental ...
  • An adapted TPB approach to consumers’ acceptance of service-delivery drones 
    Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F.; Mrad, Mona (2018-03-15)
    Organisations and marketers have long debated the consumer–brand relationship. Theorising related to this debate led to self-service technologies, which were implemented to both reduce costs and increase productivity by ...
  • The advent of the ‘social moment of truth’ in online communities 
    Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F. (2018-03-15)
    Social networking sites’ current domination as a relationship-building platform with consumers is causing brand owners to lose power. Concurrently, retailers have significantly increased their social presence to influence ...
  • Advertising and branding 
    Unknown author (IGI Global, 2018-03-20)
    Deceptive advertising denotes a producer's usage of mystifying, deceiving, or blatantly untrue statements when endorsing a product. There are several illegal methods for attempting to deceive consumers. This can be done ...
  • Agent performance in vehicle routing when the only thing certain is uncertainty 
    Srour, Jordan; Mahr, Tamas; De Weerdt, Mathijs; Zuidwijk, Rob (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2018-01-16)
    While intermodal transport has the potential to introduce efficiency to the transport network, this transport environment also suffers from a lot of uncertainty at the interface of modes. For example, trucks moving containers ...
  • Airlines competition in the Gulf 
    Ladki, Said M.; Misk, Adel P. (2017-04-25)
    This paper reports about the liberalization of the Middle East aviation markets which are driving investment in the regional aviation industry to unprecedented levels. The increase of investment in aviation, the offering ...
  • “Alexafying” shoppers 
    Ramadan, Zahy B. (2021-09-28)
    The virtual assistants' market is drastically growing and is expected to reach $2.1 billion by 2020. Nonetheless, the quick expansion and high penetration of e-retailers’ AI ecosystem into the shopper's journey is still ...
  • An algorithm for solving bond pricing problem 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Deeba, Elias; Xiea, Shishen (2016-05-17)
    The nonlinear bond pricing problem has been extensively studied in the literature. Since an analytical solution is not readily available, we will seek to find an approximate solution. We will present a decomposition method, ...
  • All in the value 
    Ramadan, Zahy Bashir; Abosag, Ibrahim; Zabkar, Vesna (2018-11-29)
    Purpose The purpose of this study is to test such effects on brands’ relationships and the perceived value of advertising. Social advertising featuring endorsed brands has significantly grown in the past few years. Companies ...
  • Amazon's approach to consumers’ usage of the Dash button and its effect on purchase decision involvement in the U.S. market 
    Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F.; Kassab, Danielle (2019-09-23)
    The Amazon Dash button is a technological innovation that allows consumers to re-order products at the press of a button. This study aims to test (a) the effects of the relational attributes of retailer's trust and love ...
  • American versus Arab/Islamic family businesses 
    Sonfield, Matthew C.; Lussier, Robert N.; Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    Purpose – The purpose of this research was to compare the use of non-family-members in the higher-level management team of Arab/Islamic family businesses versus American family businesses. Design/methodology/approach – ...
  • Application of the theory of planned behavior to customer switching intentions in the context of bank consolidations 
    Farah, Maya F. (2018-03-15)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect customers’ switching intentions among banks in the context of mergers and acquisitions, using particularly the case of the merger between Lloyds TSB ...
  • Applications of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in Tourism Research 
    Assaker, Guy; Songshan, Huang; Hallak, Rob (2016-05-09)
    Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), as an alternative technique to traditional covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM), offers greater flexibility with regard to data assumptions ...
  • Applying Benford’s law to detect accounting data manipulation in the pre- and post-financial engineering periods 
    Harb, Etienne G.; Nasrallah, Nohade; El Khoury, Rim; Hussainey, Khaled (2023-07-14)
    Purpose Lebanon has faced one of the most severe financial and economic crises since the end of 2019. The practices of the Lebanese banks are blamed for dangerously exposing economic agents and precipitating the current ...
  • Applying economic methodology to the war on terrorism 
    Shahin, Wassim; Islam, Muhammad (2016-05-05)
    The application of economic methodology to the problem of terrorism is discussed. Theoretical and empirical results are discussed with particular focus on the September 11 attack and the retaliatory response by the United ...
  • Arab corporatism 
    Ammous, Saifedean H. (The Economic Research Forum, 2018-11-07)
  • Arab tourists and the Lebanese vacation ownership industry 
    Ladki, Said M.; Mikdashi, Tarik S.; Fahed, Wissam; Abbas, Haytham (2016-05-16)
    Currently, Lebanon is witnessing a shift in Arab tourists’ demands from residing in expensive and space-restricted hotel rooms to more comfortable and economically affordable timeshare vacation homes. This paper evaluates ...
  • Are family and nonfamily tourism businesses different? An examination of the entrepreneurial self-efficacy–entrepreneurial performance relationship 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; O'Connor, Peter (2016-05-12)
    Drawing on literature on tourism, entrepreneurship, and family businesses, this research uses a structural model to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and enterprise performance. Based ...
  • 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 ...
  • Are stacker crane problems easy? 
    Srour, F. Jordan; Van De Velde, Steef (2015-10-21)
    Many full truckload pick-up and delivery problems in the intermodal freight container transport industry can be modeled as Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems (ATSPs). Several authors have noted that while ATSPs are ...

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