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  • Investigating the importance of mentoring in three lebanese higher education institutions 
    Karkoulian, Silva (2017-04-27)
    Mentoring is a means to support professional growth and development, which in turn empowers faculty members as individuals, and thus benefits the educational institution. The purpose of this study is to emphasize the ...
  • Investigating the interest rate impact of changing secret bank deposit laws 
    Shahin, Wassim; English, Mary (2016-05-05)
    Banks in many countries are governed by secrecy laws regarding the bank-customer relation-ship. Lately, many countries have been pressured to tighten secrecy laws to combat the abuse of bank secrecy by ill-gotten and ...
  • Investing in gold 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-17)
    Gold is an attractive investment vehicle for many people. Some risks of in investing in gold are surveyed. The price of gold and its fluctuation are examined which raises the concern to all short and long-term investors ...
  • Is board compensation excessive? 
    Dah, Mustafa A.; Frye, Melissa B. (2018-03-15)
    We develop a model to predict expected or normal director compensation. Based on this, we then calculate whether directors of corporate boards are over- or undercompensated. On average, we find greater evidence of over- ...
  • Is corporate governance a good predictor of SMEs financial performance? Evidence from developing countries (the case of Lebanon) 
    Nasrallah, Nohade; El Khoury, Rim (2023-09-04)
    This paper aims to empirically examine the link between corporate governance and the financial performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lebanon. To this end, we use a questionnaire and collect data from a ...
  • Is CSR reporting always favorable? 
    Al-Dah, Bilal; Dah, Mustafa; Jizi, Mohammad (2018-03-15)
    Purpose In addition to their profit maximization objective, firms are often challenged to meet environmental and social demands. The purpose of this paper is to test whether a firm’s macroeconomic environment moderates ...
  • IS security menace 
    Balozian, Puzant; Leidner, Dorothy (Association for Information Systems, 2017-11-21)
    Modern organizations face significant information security violations from inside the organizations to which they respond with various managerial techniques. It is widely believed in IS security literature that enforcing ...
  • Is there a garbage Kuznets curve? 
    Baalbaki, Rayan; Marrouch, Walid (2020-10-05)
    This note examines the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for municipal solid waste in 33 OECD countries between 1995 and 2012. Wang's (2013) flexible polynomial model is utilized. The results show that there exists ...
  • Islam, entrepreneurship and business values in the Middle East 
    Pistrui, David; Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    Entrepreneurship has become a defining business trend around the world, especially in economies transitioning towards free market systems. The Middle East, specifically the Gulf Region is a growing, lucrative marketplace ...
  • It is only human to have conflicts 
    Armache, Jalal (2016-05-19)
    This paper will examine the nature and root causes of organizational conflict, the various types of conflict in organizations, and ways and means to deal with that important issue.
  • Job insecurity 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila Canaan; Mukaddam, Wassim; McCarthy, Richard (2016-05-11)
    Purpose – Organizational downsizing, right sizing, layoffs, and restructuring that attempt to reduce labour cost and increase competitiveness, have generated considerable feelings of job insecurity among today's employees. ...
  • Job satisfaction 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Dagher, Grace K. (Edukator, 2017-09-19)
  • Job satisfaction of the modern information-system-using nurse in Lebanon 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Chaanine, Johnny C. (2016-04-14)
    Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impact of healthcare information system usage on the job satisfaction of nurses in Lebanon. It incorporates the role of training and user participation as factors leading to ...
  • Joint market power in banking 
    Marrouch, Walid; Turk-Ariss, Rima (2016-05-20)
    We propose an oligopsony-oligopoly model to study bank behavior under uncertainty in developing countries and derive a pricing structure that acknowledges joint market power in both the deposit and loan markets. The model ...
  • A Kaleckian model of business cycle synchronization 
    Dibeh, Ghassan (2016-05-17)
    A non-linear, two-country Kaleckian model of the business cycle was developed for investigating business cycle synchronization. The model includes three components: a country-specific business cycle-generating equation, a ...
  • Karl Lagerfeld to Erdem 
    Mrad, Mona; Farah, Maya F.; Haddad, Stephanie (2022-09-23)
    Numerous designer luxury brands have been interested in creating co-branding partnerships with the fast-fashion retailer H&M. Despite the recognition by some researchers of the value of examining whether consumer reactions ...
  • The Keynesian Model II 
    Unknown author (2017-08-23)
  • The kids market 
    Beyrouti, Nouri; Houssami, Reine (2016-05-20)
    In the world of marketing and advertising, children are the target. For many reasons children are exerting a greater influence on family buying decisions. Marketers and advertisers know that the money is in the hands of ...
  • A kinder and gentler workplace 
    Armache, Jalal (2016-05-19)
    It is critical in the field of human resource management to research factors that influence organizational productivity and employees' commitment, loyalty, and retention. Most companies seek to increase their organizational ...
  • Knowledge management formal and informal mentoring 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Halawi, Leila A.; McCarthy, Richard V. (2016-05-10)
    Purpose – As businesses continue to forge ahead in the twenty‐first century, knowledge management (KM) has materialized as a significant differentiator. The process of creating new knowledge, sharing, and preserving such ...

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