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  • Leadership styles correlate of learning organization in a non-western culture 
    Messarra, Leila; Karkoulian, Silva; Mahseredjian, Angela (2017-04-07)
    Leadership Styles Correlate of Learning Organization In a Non-Western Culture Angela Mahseredjian, D.,. Sih'a Karkoulian, and Dr. Leila Messarra Lebanese American UniYersit)" Lebanori ABSTRACT Attention to the idea of ...
  • Core self-evaluation 
    Messarra, Leila; Karkoulian, Silva; Shorbaji, Rania (2017-08-10)
    This research aims to investigate whether a relationship exists between Core-self Evaluation and Employee Engagement. Employee engagement is a new notion in the work place environment that has only recently started to ...
  • An Empirical Study of the relationship between Organizational Cliamte and Organizational Citizenship Behavior 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Messarra, Leila Canaan (2016-05-13)
    The Study aims to empirically test the relationship between organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior. 139 respondents successfully completed a valid, reliable questionnaire from commercial banking ...
  • Religious Diversity at Work 
    Messarra, Leila Canaan (2017-07-27)
    As the workforce is becoming more diversified in terms of culture, ethnicity, and religion, many individual values are carried over to the workplace. Now, in the post-9/11 world, employees working in religiously diverse ...
  • The impact of environment concern and attitude on green purchasing behavior 
    Dagher, Grace K.; Itani, Omar; Kassar, Abdul-Nasser (2016-05-12)
    The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between environmental concern and attitude towards green purchasing behavior from a Lebanese consumer perspective. This study is ...
  • Cross-cultural Training 
    Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Rouhana, Amal; Lythreatis, Sophie (2016-05-16)
    The global expansion of commerce inevitably brings an increase in expatriate employees. While "expats" can provide continuity, valuable expertise, and other skills, they must acclimatize successfully and remain in the job ...
  • Ecologically Conscious Consumer and Consumption Behavior 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Beyrouti, Nouri; Jarrar, Tamara (2016-04-11)
    Environmental concerns and involvement in environmental matters became more noticeable during the 2000's. Academicians and researchers have been investigating and determining factors and criteria that characterize the ...
  • A comparative study of ElGamal based digital signature algorithms 
    Haraty, Ramzi A.; El-Kassar, A. N.; Shebaro, Bilal M. (2016-05-13)
    A powerful and practical public-key and digital signature scheme was produced by ElGamal. ElGamal public-key and digital signature scheme were modified from the domain of natural integers, Z, to the domains of Gaussian ...
  • ElGamal Public-Key cryptosystem in multiplicative groups of quotient rings of polynomials over finite fields 
    El-Kassar, A. N.; Haraty, Ramzi A. (2016-05-13)
    The ElGamal encryption scheme is described in the setting of any finite cyclic group G. Among the groups of most interest in cryptography are the multiplicative group Zp of the ring of integers modulo a prime p, and the ...
  • Hardening the ElGamal Cryptosystem in the Setting of the Second Group of Units 
    ElKassar, AbdulNasser; Haraty, Ramzi; Fanous, Suzan (2016-05-12)
    The Elgamal encryption scheme is best described in the setting of any finite cyclic group. Its classic case is typically presented in the multiplicative group *Z p of the ring of integers modulo a prime p and the ...
  • The Effect of French and raven power on knowledge acquisition, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Osman, Yasmine (2016-05-11)
    Documents show that the kinds of French and Raven powers promoting the development of knowledge acquisition, creation, and sharing are not enough recognized. This study extends the power literature of French and Raven to ...
  • 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. ...
  • Organizational commitment recall in times of crisis 
    Karkoulian, Silva K.; Messarra, Leila (2016-05-11)
    After a crisis, employees' organizational commitment may be affected. This research examined the effect of a war crisis on the commitment of employees using Meyer and Allen (1997) three component model of commitment that ...
  • The intriguing art of knowledge management and its relation to learning organizations 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila Canaan; McCarthy, Richard (2016-05-11)
    Purpose – The goal of this research is to empirically assess whether knowledge management (KM) and learning organizations (LO) are distinct concepts and if so, to test whether KM enhances LO more or vice versa. Desig ...
  • Correlates of the Bases of power and the Big Five Personality Traits 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila; Sidani, Mohamad (2016-05-10)
    The purpose of this research was to empirically test the relationship between personality traits mainly agreeableness and neuroticism, and power. 150 employees working in "medium" size organizations in Lebanon filled the ...
  • Ethical attitudes of business information systems students 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Halawi, Leila (2016-05-10)
    This paper discusses attitudes toward ethical issues in information systems. Approximately 150 subjects were drawn from two populations: full-time undergraduate business information systems students and full-time ...
  • 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 ...
  • Demutualisation, initial public offerings and long-run market performance of Canadian life insurance companies 
    Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    We examine alternative hypotheses for the demutualisation of a sample of Canadian life insurance companies (1999-2000) as well as short-run and long-run market effects of demutualisation on firm performance. Our results ...
  • Stock index-linked debt and shareholder value 
    Roberts, Gordon S.; Vijayraghavan, Vasumathi; Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    French banks and non-financial companies issue index-linked debt whose value at maturity is indexed to the CAC 40 or to a basket of European indices. This paper examines stock announcement effects associated with these ...
  • Foreign currency borrowing by small firms in emerging markets 
    Mora, Nada; Neaime, Simon; Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    This paper investigates what induces small firms in an emerging market economy to borrow dollar credit from domestic banks. Our data are from a unique survey of firms in Lebanon. The findings complement studies of large ...

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