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  • Business ethics and religion in the financial business sector 
    Beyrouti, Nouri; Hejase, Ale Jose; Raslan, Mohammad; Hamdar, Bassam; Hejase, Hussin Jose (2018-03-16)
    Business ethics is one of the most discussed topics in this millennium, and one of the most conflicting subjects. Unfortunately, people nowadays believe that ethics is not related to any type of religion, but is a habit ...
  • Digital technology management and educational innovation 
    Beyrouti, Nouri (2018-03-16)
    Universities have discovered that learning need not dwell inside the confines of the four traditional classroom walls. The internet provides a vital link to information like never before. As the number of internet users ...
  • Board independence and managerial authority 
    Dah, Mustafa; Jizi, Mohammad; Sbeity, Sadim (2018-03-16)
    Purpose The imposition of the Sarbanes Oxley Act and the NYSE/NASDAQ regulations boosted the proportion of independent directors serving on corporate boards. For certain firms, increasing the number of independent directors ...
  • Board independance and the efficiency of internal capital markets 
    Dah, Mustafa A.; Al Dah, Bilal; Zantout, Mohammad Hani (2018-03-16)
    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and exchange listing requirements led to an increase in the percentage of independent members on company boards. The literature offers mixed evidence on the effect of board independence on ...
  • 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 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- ...
  • Handbook of Islamic marketing 
    Sandikci, Ozlem; Rice, Gillian (2018-03-15)
  • Consumer perception of Halal products in a developing country setting 
    Farah, Maya F.; El Samad, Lamis (2018-03-15)
    Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the effects of: religiosity level, ethnocentrism, product judgment, and trust in Halal food products on the consumer intention to purchase a Muslim (manufactured ...
  • Religiously Motivated Consumer Boycott: The Impact on Brand Image, Product Judgment and Customer Loyalty 
    Abosag, Ibrahim; Farah, Maya (Springer, 2018-03-15)
    The purpose of this paper is to improve theoretical and empirical knowledge first of all, about the effect of consumer ethnocentrism and religious animosity towards a country on consumers’ boycott propensity; and second ...
  • 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 ...
  • Disruptions versus more disruptions 
    Farah, Maya F.; Ramadan, Zahy B. (2018-03-15)
    Technology, particularly Self-Service Technology (SST), has reshaped the way an individual interacts with a certain brand or retailer. In 2015, Amazon, known for its progressive usage of technology, launched the Dash Button, ...
  • The Pokémonisation of the first moment of truth 
    Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F. (2018-03-15)
    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 ...
  • A comparison of the influence of personal and cultural values on the consumption of luxury goods across Arab regions 
    Farah, Maya F.; Fawaz, Rayan S. (2018-03-15)
    Consumption patterns across different cultures are influenced by several factors, including personal and cultural ones. Collectivist cultures play a major role in the consumption decision-making process that an individual ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Consumers’ switching motivations and intention in the case of bank mergers 
    Farah, Maya F. (2018-03-15)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze consumer switching behavior, which in the retail banking sector is of outmost importance, particularly during financial crises and in their ensuing consolidation pressures. ...
  • Oil prices and state unemployment 
    Karaki, Mohamad B. (2018-03-15)
    This paper studies the effect of oil price shocks on U.S. state-level unemployment rates. First, using a test of symmetry, I evaluate whether the relationship between oil prices and state unemployment rates is symmetric. ...
  • Nonlinearities in the response of real GDP to oil price shocks 
    Karaki, Mohamad B. (2018-03-15)
    This paper re-examines whether real GDP growth responds asymmetrically to real oil price increases and decreases using a sample that includes the recent oil price declines. I follow Kilian and Vigfusson (2011a) and conduct ...
  • CSR, organizational identification, normative commitment, and the moderating effect of the importance of CSR 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Messarra, Leila Canaan; El-Khalil, Raed (2018-03-14)
    Commitment results from an assessment of situations found at the work place linking employees to their organization, and their effort towards achieving goals. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is management's obligation, ...
  • Corporate ethics, governance and social responsibility in MENA countries 
    ElGammal, Walid; El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Messarra, Leila Canaan (2018-03-14)
    Purpose Studies show that corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are driven by ethical practices. The relationships between corporate ethics, CG and CSR have been heavily studied indicating ...

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