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  • Kebbe, Reem Walid (Lebanese American University, 2018-06-05)
    This paper investigates the effect of gender on managerial authority and control over firms. Though the percentage of female CEOs is very low, it has been steadily increasing throughout the 1996-2014. Our findings suggest ...
  • Marguarossian, Gaelle Raffi (Lebanese American University, 2018-06-05)
    Lean management is a system that strives to achieve improvements in the daily operations of organizations, while lean manufacturing aims at achieving efficiency in every stage of the manufacturing process. Bottom-up approach ...
  • Sinno, Abir Mohammad (Lebanese American University, 2018-06-05)
    In an interconnected economy, as technology evolves and reliance on information increases, new information security threats emerge. These threats are becoming increasingly complex, expensive and more specific to the ...
  • Farah, Maya F. (University of Manchester, 2018-05-02)
    Despite a worldwide growth in the number of boycott campaigns, the results of boycott studies are still inconclusive. One explanation is that the motives behind individual participation in such campaigns have been largely ...
  • Habib-Tofailli, Mary (American University, 2018-04-20)
  • Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris), 2018-04-12)
    Dans un contexte liberal concurrentiel, l'apparition du marketing s'est faite en tenant compte des objectifs de l'entreprise. Ce sont des objectifs qui ne visent plus directement les profits a court terme mais des objectifs ...
  • Marrouch, Walid (HEC Montréal, 2018-04-03)
    With the growing talk about the need to establish a new framework to deal with international environmental governance, it becomes relevant to shed some light on the interconnected landscape that characterizes environmental ...
  • AlHussaini, Wissam (Concordia University, 2018-03-29)
    This research aims at determining the host country-specific antecedents which prompt MNCs to break the hyper-norm of anti-corruption and pay bribes abroad. Using anomie theory conjectures, antecedents are divided into ...
  • Karkoulian, Silva Krikor (University of Leicester, 2018-03-28)
    The proper implementation of an appraisal system in an educational institution could enhance the growth and development of its faculty members, which will positively reflect on the whole institution. This study aims at ...
  • El-Khalil, Raed (Lawrence Technological University, 2018-03-26)
    Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) have been utilized in order to allow manufacturers to react with speed and efficiency to market demand fluctuations. However, the ability to implement FMS can be limited by several ...
  • Djoundourian, Salpie Sarkis (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2018-03-26)
    The distribution patterns of toxic sources in Louisiana reveal that some communities may be disproportionately exposed to potential environmental risks. This dissertation examines whether the location and environmental ...
  • Ladki, Said M. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2018-03-22)
  • Dah, Mustafa A. (University of Central FloridaUniversity of Central Florida, 2018-03-16)
    This dissertation consists of three essays on the effect of excess compensation and corporate governance changes on the firm’s performance. The first paper utilizes a cost minimization stochastic frontier approach to ...
  • Messarra, Leila Canaan (University of Leicester, 2018-03-14)
    This study aimed at developing a profile of first year students at the Lebanese American University (LAU) with respect to their primary sources of stress; examined the main academic and non-academic support services used ...
  • Srour, F. Jordan (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2017-12-19)
    The term dray dates back to the 14th century when it was used commonly to describe a type of very sturdy sideless cart . In the 1700s the word drayage came into use meaning “to transport by a sideless cart”. Today, drayage ...
  • Safieddine, Mohamad Ali (Lebanese American University, 2017-12-08)
    This thesis examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and bankruptcy risk. Moreover, the research examines the mediating effects of corporate financial performance and changes in performance ...
  • Abi Dames, Samira Ghassan (Lebanese American University, 2017-12-08)
    This paper examines the impact of director co-option on the relationship between board structures and monitoring efficiency. We show that co-opted independent directors deflate the turnover-performance sensitivity, amplify ...
  • Manassian, Armond (University of Calgary, 2017-12-05)
    This study seeks to provide a step toward the examination of the belief that international accounting is inextricably linked to the globalization movement that is sweeping all economies. The purpose of this study is to ...
  • Jachi, Ahmad M. (Northern Illinois University, 2017-12-04)
    This study is an analysis of the debt neutrality proposition. This hypothesis, also called Ricardian Equivalence, was first introduced by Barro (1974). Under the Ricardian Equivalence, given the path of government spending, ...
  • El Kallab, Tania (ESSEC Business School, 2017-11-21)
    This thesis consists of three empirical papers on French colonial trade patterns: Chapter 1 presents an original database on colonial trade statistics from French archives. Its main purpose is to describe the construction ...

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