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Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB)

Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB)

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  • Kawass, Raghda; Jay, Joseph (Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, 2024-11)
    The escalating conflict in Lebanon since September 2024 has triggered a humanitarian and economic crisis, displacing over 1 million people, approximately 20% of the population. The conflict is projected to contract the ...
  • Honein-AbouHaidar, Gladys N.; Bou-Hamad, Imad; Dhaini, Suzanne R.; Davidson, Patricia Mary; Reynolds, Nancy R.; Al-Zaru, Ibtisam Moawiah; Gharaibeh, Muntaha K.; Dumit, Nuhad Yazbik (BioMed Central Ltd, 2023)
    Background/Objectives: Nurses in Lebanon are facing multiple crises and the severity of the situation calls for an empirical examination of their resilience status. Evidence indicates that resilience can buffer the negative ...
  • Baydoun, Mohamed; Dumit, Nuhad Yazbik; Daouk-Öyry, Lina (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)
    Aim: To explore nurses' sickness absenteeism from the perspective of nurse managers. Background: Sickness absenteeism among health-care providers, especially nurses, remains a significant problem in an era of challenges ...
  • Sahakian, Tina S.; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Kroon, Brigitte; Kooij, Dorien T.A.M.; Alameddine, Mohamad S. (Emerald Publishing, 2021)
    Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the necessity of practicing Evidence-based Management (EBMgt) as an approach to decision-making in hospital settings. The literature, however, provides ...
  • Ghazzawi, Rawan; Bender, Michael; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Van De Vijver, Fons J.R.; Chasiotis, Athanasios (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)
    Aim: To better understand the functionality of job crafting and its relationship with personality and job autonomy in the context of non-Western health care as an adaptive problem-solving work behaviour that is related to ...
  • Jamali, Dima R.; Jain, Tanusree; Samara, Georges; Zoghbi, Edwina (Elsevier Inc., 2020)
    This systematic literature review integrates the Varieties of Institutional Systems (VIS) framework and Patchwork Institutions lens to unpack how institutional heterogeneity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) impacts ...
  • Chammas, Ghina; Kayed, Sammy; Al-Shami, Anwar; Kays, Wassim; Citton, Michele; Kalot, Mohamad A.; Al Marj, Elie; Fakhr, Marwan; Yehya, Nadine A.; Talhouk, S. N.; Al-Hindi, Mahmoud; Zeineldine, Salah M.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; Lakkis, Issam A.; Abou Najm, Majdi R.; Saliba, Najat A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
    This paper presents a case study of a transdisciplinary research based on an ex-post assessment of the environmental and socio-behavioral contexts of solid waste management in Lebanese peri-urban communities. Lessons learned ...
  • Zeinoun, Pia; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Choueiri, Lina; Van De Vijver, Fons J.R. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
    Objective: The debate of whether personality traits are universal or culture-specific has been informed by psycholexical (or lexical) studies conducted in tens of languages and cultures. We contribute to this debate through ...
  • Mesgari, Mostafa; Mohajeri, Kaveh; Azad, Bijan (Association for Computing Machinery, 2023)
    The term affordance appears with increasing frequency in the Information Systems (IS) literature. Nevertheless, those who study information technologies/information systems (IT/IS) via the affordance lens often have different ...
  • Samara, Georges; Parada, María José; Fathallah, Ramzi (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
    Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the drivers for proactive workplace social performance in family firms through a configurational approach. Comparative research on family versus non-family firms and workplace ...
  • Reichel, Astrid; Lazarova, Mila B.; Apospori, Eleni; Afiouni, Fida; Andresen, Maike; Bosak, Janine; Parry, Emma; Bagdadli, Silvia; Briscoe, Jon P.; Gianecchini, Martina; Suzanne, Pamela Agata; Taniguchi, Mami (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)
    Paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are social policies designed to enhance parents' labour force participation. These policies influence not only men's and women's decisions regarding their labour market ...
  • Makarem, Yasmeen; Metcalfe, Beverly Dawn (Springer, 2023)
    In this paper, we draw on qualitative data from 21 women working in diverse Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields in Lebanon to explore how they experienced gendered microaggressions at work and how they ...
  • Maddah, Diana; Hallit, Souheil R.; Kabbara, Wissam K.; Akel, Marwan G.; Bowen, Keith; Hasan, Zeinab; Khasholian, Tamar Kabakian; Alami, Nael H.; Salameh, Pascale R. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)
    Despite the increasing recognition of positive life skills interventions to enhance the psychological and physical well=being of individuals, there is an absence of a valid and reliable Arabic measure of Life Skills (LS) ...
  • Koburtay, Tamer; Abuhussein, Tala; Sidani, Yusuf M. (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)
    This paper aims to explore the experiences of female leaders considering the interplay of gender, religion, and culture. Drawing on an inductive-qualitative study, the paper examines perceptions regarding the role of ...
  • Joseph, Jay; Katsos, John E.; van Buren, Harry J. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023)
    Entrepreneurship is the dominant form of enterprise in conflict-affected settings, yet little is known about the role of entrepreneurship in peacebuilding. In response, this article undertakes a review of entrepreneurship ...
  • Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Yamani, Ehab A.; Smallwood, Aaron D. (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)
    This paper offers an investment-based explanation for currency excess returns using fundamental macroeconomic drivers emanating from physical investment across countries. To obtain valid factors for our proposed production ...
  • Jamali, Dima R.; Samara, Georges; Meho, Lokman I. (Institute for Ionics, 2023)
    This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the research output of the Arab world’s 30 AACSB- and EQUIS-accredited business schools between 2013 and 2022. The analysis aims to provide an overview of the research ...
  • Karam, C. M.; Greenwood, Michelle R.; Kauzlarich, Laura; Kelly, Anne O’Leary; Wilcox, Tracy (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)
    In this article, we conceptualize the under investigated and under theorized relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and business responsibility. As an urgent social issue, IPV—understood as abuse of power ...
  • Harb, Tarek S.; Alhafi, Anas; Tfayli, Arafat Hussein (Frontiers Media SA, 2023)
    Introduction: In Lebanon, a dedicated screening program for lung cancer is absent. Screening is largely based on the recommendation of an informed physician or the initiative of a patient. To better understand the situation, ...
  • Ismail, Ahmad K.; Jamali, Dima R.; Khalil, Samer K.; Safieddine, Assem M.; Samara, Georges (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)
    Our research investigates how the inclusion of a company on an independent ethics index affects its attractiveness to institutional investors. Using a sample of 864 U.S. firms over the 2010–2018 period, we find that ...

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