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Data envelopment analysis and data mining to efficiency estimation and evaluation

Anouze, Abdel Latef; Bou-Hamad, Imad (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2019)

Purpose: This paper aims to assess the application of seven statistical and data mining techniques to second-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) for bank performance. Design/methodology/approach: Different statistical ...
Debt covenants and corporate acquisitions

Daher, Mai M.; Ismail, Ahmad K. (Elsevier B.V., 2018)

We investigate the impact of debt covenants on acquisition characteristics. We find that acquirers with covenants pay lower merger premiums, make more focused acquisitions, and engage in acquisitions with higher synergy ...
Design guidelines for boardroom’s effectiveness: the case of Fortune 500 firms

Rebeiz, Karim S. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)

Purpose: Boardroom’s effectiveness has emerged as an issue of considerable importance in the minds of academics and practitioners, particularly in the aftermath of the highly visible corporate governance scandals of the ...
Determinants of advertising expenditures: Role of stock prices in an emerging market

Farooq, Omar; Ahmed, Neveen (Akademiai Kiado ZRt., 2023)

This paper documents the relationship between advertising expenditures and stock prices. Using the data of non-financial firms from India, the paper shows that advertising expenditures of a firm are sensitive to its own ...
Determinants of diarrhea prevalence in urban slums: A comparative assessment towards enhanced environmental management

El-Fadel, Mutasem E.; Maroun, Rania; Quba'A, Rola; Mawla, Darine; Sayess, Rassil R.; Massoud, May A.; Jamali, Ibrahim I. (2014)

This study relies on a comparative assessment of diarrhea occurrence in two urban slums to identify salient factors influencing case prevalence. Primary data were collected from both areas using a structured closed-ended ...
Determinants of research productivity and efficiency among the Arab world’s accredited business schools

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 ...
Developing a competency framework for academic physicians

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Zaatari, Ghazi S.; Sahakian, Tina S.; Rahal Alameh, Boushra; Mansour, Nabil M. (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2017)

Background: There is a mismatch between the requirements of the multifaceted role of academic physicians and their education. Medical institutions use faculty development initiatives to support their junior academic ...
Development finance, institutional quality and human development in the MENA region

Awdeh, Ali; Jomaa, Zouhour (Emerald Publishing, 2022)

Purpose: The majority of MENA countries suffer low levels of human development, coupled with scarcity of funding resources, low level of governance, and poor institutional environment. Consequently, this research aims at ...
Diffusion Approximations for a Class of Sequential Experimentation Problems

Araman, Victor F.; Caldentey, René A. (INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2022)

A decision maker (DM) must choose an action in order to maximize a reward function that depends on the DM’s action as well as on an unknown parameter Θ. The DM can delay taking the action in order to experiment and gather ...
Diffusion theory, national corruption and IFRS adoption around the world

El-Helaly, Moataz; Ntim, Collins G.; Al-Gazzar, Manar (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

International financial reporting standards (IFRS) have been widely adopted around the world. However, while there is a lot of evidence on the economic consequences of IFRS adoption (e.g. foreign direct investments; ...
Director interlocks and the strategic pacing of CSR activities

Al-Dah, Bilal (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2019)

Purpose: Throughout years of corporate social responsibility (CSR) debates, most studies have focused on whether or not a firm should engage in CSR activities, while giving little attention to the firm’s engagement strategy. ...
Disclosure Standards, Auditing Infrastructure, and Bribery Mitigation

Khalil, Samer K.; Saffar, Walid; Trabelsi, Samir (Springer Netherlands, 2015)

Using a sample of 15,174 firms from 24 countries included in the 2009 World Bank Enterprise Survey, we investigate the impact of disclosure standards and auditing infrastructure on the bribery of public officials to secure ...
Do intangible assets provide corporate resilience? New evidence from infectious disease pandemics

Uddin, Mohammad Riaz; Hasan, Mostafa Monzur; Abadi, Nour (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

Intangibles provide competitive advantages and enhance productivity and efficiency. We investigate whether accumulated intangible assets mitigate the adverse impact of pandemic shocks on corporate performance. Using a ...
Do Mortgage Loans Respond Perversely to Monetary Policy?

Termos, Ali; Saad, Mohsen M. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2016)

We investigate the response of loan growth to monetary policy shocks while controlling for loan securitization. Our major finding is that while commercial and industrial (C&I) loans and consumer loans respond to monetary ...
Do single-stock circuit breakers provide a safety net for Canadian investors?

Switzer, Lorne N.; El Meslmani, Nabil; Tahaoǧlu, Çaģdaš (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)

This study looks at the market impact of recent regulatory changes in Canada that provide for trading halts on individual stocks that experience large upside or downside movements. The focus is on all stocks traded on the ...
Do social networks encourage risk-taking? Evidence from bank CEOs

Dbouk, Wassim; Fang, Yiwei; Liu, Liuling; Wang, Haizhi (Elsevier B.V., 2020)

This paper investigates the effects of CEO's social network on bank risk-taking. We document a positive relation between bank CEO's social connections and bank risks. To address the endogeneity concerns, we use deaths and ...
Does a high minimum wage spur low-skilled emigration?

Martin, Darius; Termos, Ali (Elsevier, 2015)

We investigate the migration response to state and local variation in minimum wages in the United States. We find that a one dollar difference between two areas' real minimum wage is associated with 3.1% more migration of ...
Does an environmental management system promote environmental protection: A qualitative study of lebanese firms

Massoud, May A.; Tabcharani, Rana; Nakkash, Rima T.; Jamali, Dima R. (Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 2017)

Globalization and a glowing awareness of environmental issues are compelling firms to adhere to international environmental standards. Lebanese manufacturing industries are increasingly pressured to integrate environmental ...
Does consumer ethnocentrism impact international shopping? A theory of social class divide

Aljukhadar, Muhammad; Bœuf, Benjamin; Sénécal, Sylvain (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)

Research on international shopping has the potential of elucidating collective issues such as the eminence of protectionist discourse. Concomitantly, the authors propose a Theory of Social Class Divide (SCD) that explains ...
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers

Wu, Qiang; Dbouk, Wassim; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kobeissi, Nada; Zheng, Li (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

In this paper, we examine the impact of female Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) on corporate innovation. We find that firms with female CTOs are more innovative (as captured by both patent counts and patent citations) than ...

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