Luxury brands have been hesitant to embrace social media to a full extent; yet, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many companies to accelerate their adoption of digital strategies. For the first time, fashion show presentations ...

Purpose Following the changes in consumer behavior in the hospitality industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Amazon launched “Explore”, an interactive livestreaming customized service that connects users with hosts ...

While the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic was largely the same across higher education institutions (HEI) -- a rapid transition to online teaching and learning (OTL) -- the processes and institutional support leading to ...

Purpose: Faculty play a unique role in universities performing duties along the three fronts of teaching, research, and service. While it might be teaching that contributes most to the bottom line of a small university, ...

This research investigated the impact of two teaching methodologies, PowerPoint and traditional, on materials’ understandability, the teaching/learning process, the students’ attitude towards and preference for them, as ...

Given the fact that the government debt is financed by commercial banks in Lebanon, there is a need to uncover and study the determinants of commercial bank deposits. This paper investigates empirically the main determinants ...

This study analyzes whether Altman Z-score can accurately classify manufacturing companies operating in Lebanon. The empirical analysis examines eleven manufacturing companies over a period of 3 years from 2009 till 2011. ...

This paper applies the multi-index model to explore the sensitivity of the stock return of European automotive companies to some macroeconomic variables. The analysis involves the monthly returns of nine European companies ...

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 ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between change in capital and change in risk for a sample of 23 Lebanese banks between 2009 and 2014. Using the simultaneous equations model, our evidence reveals that banks determine ...