The aim of this paper is to examine the general progress of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in moving towards economic integration, as part of their proposed currency union in 2010. It also aims at analyzing the expected ...

This paper analyzes the performance and balance-sheet characteristics of banks in post-war Lebanon for the years 1993 to 2000. Although we find that Lebanese banks are profitable, most of them had accounting return on ...

This study contributes to the understanding of the needs, traits and skills that govern the behavior of leaders of small businesses in Lebanon. The data were collected using a questionnaire that was filled out by 155 owners ...

There are many factors that may contribute to workers’ productivity and job satisfaction, but according to this study exercise is one factor that should not be ignored. This research should add insight for managers to ...

The gamification of retail, helped essentially by the development of augmented reality, is hailed today as being the reverser of declining retail sales trends. With the rapid expansion and adoption of the Pokémon Go augmented ...

This paper investigates the role of political institutions and interests in shaping monetary policy in the resource-rich Arab economies. The paper first reviews the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, ...

With increased pressure for higher levels of performance and output, human resources managers are seeking new ways for matching employees' competencies with job requirements and fitting employees into the best positions ...

Many studies of privatization adopt the neo-liberal model which focuses on financial and economic distributional outcomes, and ignores social costs transferred to the state or broader society. We adopt a post-Keynesian ...

Federal laws require regular condition reporting for portions of the national highway system. Most agencies use instrumented vehicles to collect data on and report the required information. The routing of these vehicles, ...