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  • Internal capital markets and CEO power 
    Boumosleh, Anwar (2015-09-15)
    This paper examines the relationship between the organizational hierarchy at the highest management level and the allocation of internal financial resources within a firm. A measure of CEO influence is devised that reflects ...
  • GCD Matrices Defined on GCD-Closed Sets in Principal Ideal Domains 
    Habre, S. S.; El-Kassar, A. N.; Awad, Y. A. (2015-09-15)
    Let S = {x1, x2, ..., xn} be a set of n distinct positive integers. The matrix [S] = (sij) having the greatest common divisor (xi, xj) of xi and xj as its i, j-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix on ...
  • Freight-specific data derived from intelligent transportation systems 
    Srour, F. Jordan; Newton, Diane (2015-10-20)
    Freight planning is an increasingly visible topic in the arena of transportation planning. Freight planning metrics and benchmarks can help state agencies select and assess the impact of improvement projects with respect ...
  • Optimal or agile?: Tradeoffs between optimization and agent-based methods 
    Ketter, Wolfgang; Srour, F. Jordan (2015-10-20)
  • 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 ...
  • Improving Automotive Efficiency through Lean Management Tools 
    El-Khalil, Raed; Zeaiter, Hussein (2015-10-28)
    Managing and improving efficiency in the current highly competitive global automotive industry demands that those companies adopt leaner and more flexible systems. During the past 20 years the domestic automotive industry ...
  • Health awareness and life-style practices of foodservice employees 
    Ladki, Said M.; Dah, Abdallah; Mikdashi, Tarik (2015-10-28)
    Full-time foodservice employees (425) responded to a questionnaire on perceived life-style activities. The majority of respondents seldom missed work, made time for leisure activities, and felt secure in their jobs (p<0.05). ...
  • The impact of population growth on Human Development Index 
    Zgheib, Philip W.; Ahmed, Zafar U.; Beldona, Sri; Gebara, Veronique (2015-11-02)
    This paper tests the growth of population on the determinants of Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a composite index constructed from measures of life expectancy, education and per capita income. This paper reviews ...
  • The history of overseas Lebanese entrepreneurs operating worldwide 
    Zgheib, Philip W.; Ahmed, Zafar U.; Kowatly, Abdulrahim K.; Rhetts, Peter (2015-11-02)
    Purpose – The Lebanese began their present emigration in the middle of the nineteenth century, heading towards North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Today’s Lebanese diaspora is made of ...
  • In-hospital drug-use optimization using the marginal utility theory 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Zgheib, Nathalie K.; Cecchetti, Alfred A.; Parmanto, Bambang; Ahmad, Sjarif; Branch, Robert A. (2015-11-02)
    Objective To use cost-utility analysis as an application of the Marginal Utility Theory whereby optimal drug use in terms of optimal drug cost and volume is estimated based on the diminishing marginal utility conditions. Methods ...
  • Managerial ethics 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (2015-11-02)
    This is a study that investigated the extent of use of the three principles of ethics – utility, morality, and justice – in managerial ethical decision making, in addition to the personal attitude towards them. It involved ...
  • Autonomy, locus of control, and entrepreneurial orientation of Lebanese expatriates worldwide 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Kowatly, Abdulrahim K. (2015-11-02)
    Present day and on-going Lebanese emigration worldwide dates back several centuries. Yet it has intensified since the middle of the nineteenth century, mostly reinforcing Lebanese presence in North America, Central and ...
  • Female gender descriptors for entrepreneurial autonomy of Arab women 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (2015-11-02)
    During the twentieth century Arab women struggled to change their condition, and succeeded in finding a place, though still small, in the active labor force. Increasingly, Arab women are becoming educated, self-confident ...
  • Comparison of job and career satisfaction between women physicians and women academicians at the American University of Beirut 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Zgheib, Nathalie; Usta, Jinan (2015-11-02)
    This study assesses the level of job and career satisfaction, work, social life and child care conflict of full time female academic physicians, and compares it with full time female non medical academicians at the American ...
  • Dining behavior exhibited by Lebanese consumers during the month of Ramadan 
    Ladki, Said M. (2015-11-02)
    The purpose of this study is to report about the dining behavior exhibited by Lebanese consumers during the month of Ramadan. Five factors with eigenvalues of 1.0 or more emerged from the factor analysis, which explained ...
  • 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 ...
  • Assessment of the Lebanese Real Estate Market 
    Ladki, Said; Darwiche, Nada; Baalbaki, Ahmed; Talhouk, Mohammad; Ghasham, Karim; Firikh, Sarah (2016-01-28)
    The purpose of this study is to assess the real estate market in Lebanon. The study was conducted by a group of MBA students at the Lebanese American University. A content analysis of the classified advertisements of the ...
  • The electricity consumption, employment and growth nexus: evidence from Lebanon 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (2016-01-28)
    The causal relationship between electricity consumption and growth in Lebanon is examined using aggregate employment in a trivariate setting for the period 1980–2011. We test the main hypothesis that electricity is an input ...
  • International environmental agreements under endogenous uncertainty 
    Nkuiya, Bruno; Marrouch, Walid; Bahel, Eric (2016-01-28)
    This paper explores the implications of the possibility of a shift in environmental damages on the participation in environmental treaties. Using a two-period model where the probability of a regime shift increases in the ...
  • The economics of oil, biofuel and food commodities 
    Bahel, Eric; Marrouch, Walid; Gaudet, Gerard (2016-01-28)
    We study the effects on the food price of introducing biofuels as a substitute for fossil fuel in the energy market. Energy is supplied by a price-leading oil cartel and a competitive fringe of farmers producing biofuel. ...

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