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Secrecy, information shocks, and corporate investment: Evidence from European Union countries

Mazboudi, Mohamad; Hasan, Iftekhar (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

This study examines how national culture affects corporate investment. We argue that national culture affects corporate investment efficiency through the level of secrecy that national culture exhibits. Using a sample of ...
Seeing Versus Doing: How Businesses Manage Tensions in Pursuit of Sustainability

Joseph, Jay; Borland, Helen; Orlitzky, Marc O.; Lindgreen, Adam (Springer, 2020)

Management of organizational tensions can facilitate the simultaneous advancement of economic, social, and environmental priorities. The approach is based on managers identifying and managing tensions between the three ...
Sentiment of the public: the role of social media in revealing important events

Daou, Hoda (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2021)

Purpose: Social media is characterized by its volume, its speed of generation and its easy and open access; all this making it an important source of information that provides valuable insights. Content characteristics ...
Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Multilevel Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda

Soundararajan, Vivek; Jamali, Dima R.; Spence, Laura J. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)

Small-business social responsibility (SBSR) related research is rapidly increasing in quantity, but is found in divergent literatures and disciplines. It is time to offer a comprehensive review that identifies, synthesizes ...
Smart investments by smart money: Evidence from acquirers' projected synergies

Ismail, Ahmad K.; Khalil, Samer K.; Safieddine, Assem M.; Titman, Sheridan D. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)

Institutional investors tend to accumulate the shares of firms that announce acquisitions. The tendency to accumulate shares is stronger when the acquirer discloses synergy forecasts, and it is especially strong when the ...
SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries

Jamali, Dima R.; Lund-Thomsen, Peter; Jeppesen, Sören (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017)

This article is the guest editors’ introduction to the special issue in Business & Society on “SMEs and CSR in Developing Countries.” The special issue includes four original research articles by Hamann, Smith, Tashman, ...
Social media brand perceptions of millennials

Helal, Guida; Ozuem, Wilson; Lancaster, Geoff A. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2018)

Purpose: A phenomenon that has revolutionized society is the technological millennial approach to communication. Social media has matured into a prime channel for regular interactions and development of brand–customer ...
Social media mavenism: Toward an action-based metric for knowledge dissemination on social networks

Aljukhadar, Muhammad; Sénécal, Sylvain; Bériault Poirier, Amélie (Routledge, 2020)

This article, leaning on the concept of market mavenism, proposes a method to gauge knowledge sharing in the age of new media. Hinging on imagery, and led by Pinterest, Instagram, and WeHeartIt, a breed of social media is ...
Socially responsible investment: Insights from Shari'a departments in Islamic financial institutions

Ullah, Shakir; Jamali, Dima R.; Harwood, Ian A. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)

Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) are emerging as prominent players in the financial world and are increasingly known for their conservative socially responsible investment (SRI). Being the Shari'a regulators and ...
Sociodemographic analysis of TV genre preference: The lebanese case

Yehya, Nadine A.; Bou-Hamad, Imad (University of Southern California, 2019)

Media studies have investigated the ability of audience's sociodemographic variables to predict media preference and selective exposure. Yet the roles that religion and politics play in the Arab media scene has largely ...
Standardized cargo network revenue management with dual channels under stochastic and time-dependent demand

Moussawi-Haidar, Lama; Nasr, Walid W.; Jalloul, Maya (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

We consider the network resource allocation problem, faced by sea freight operators, for standardized cargo transportation networks with time-dependent and stochastic demand. Standardized cargo capacity is sold through ...
Stock market prediction using evolutionary support vector machines: an application to the ASE20 index

Karathanasopoulos, Andreas S.; Theofilatos, Konstantinos Athanasios; Sermpinis, Georgios S.; Dunis, Christian L.; Mitra, Sovan; Stasinakis, Charalampos (Routledge, 2016)

The main motivation for this paper is to introduce a novel hybrid method for the prediction of the directional movement of financial assets with an application to the ASE20 Greek stock index. Specifically, we use an ...
Structure, agency, and notions of career success a process-oriented, subjectively malleable and localized approach

Afiouni, Fida; Karam, C. M. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2014)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore notions of career success from a process-oriented perspective. The authors argue that success can be usefully conceptualized as a subjectively malleable and localized ...
“Success by Association”: The Impact of Venture Capital Firm Reputation Trend on Initial Public Offering Valuations

Chahine, Salim; Filatotchev, Igor V.; Bruton, Garry D.; Wright, Mike T. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2021)

Organizational theory recognizes reputation as a central element to understanding the firm. Examining investor valuations of 1,676 initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States from 1990 to 2011, we find that ...
Successfully creating and scaling a sustainable social enterprise model under uncertainty: The case of ViaVia Travellers Cafés

Dobson, Kieran; Boone, Sarah; Andries, Petra; Daou, Alain (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

While the literature on social scaling adopts a linear perspective in which a social enterprise first tests and validates its business model and then scales it up to other settings, this study argues that in uncertain and ...
Supplier development in a two-level lot sizing problem with non-conforming items and learning

Nasr, Walid W.; Jaber, Mohamad Y. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)

Companies have to account for continuously evolving technologies that are driven by the consumer's appetite for new and innovative products, requiring them to modify their production systems to become flexible, where items ...
Sustainable livelihood approach towards enhanced management of rural resources

Massoud, May A.; Issa, Sarah; El-Fadel, Mutasem E.; Jamali, Ibrahim I. (Inderscience Publishers, 2016)

This research utilises the sustainable livelihood approach to evaluate the livelihood assets and resources and identify key challenges and development opportunities in a village in Southern Lebanon. Primary data using ...
Teaching business ethics in the global South: control, resistance, and phronesis

Karam, C. M.; Sidani, Yusuf M.; Showail, Sammy J. (Routledge, 2015)

We explore academic literature on business ethics education and critically compare the themes emerging from different contexts. Outlining guidelines for analysis based on Southern Theory, we conduct a content analysis on ...
Technostress and Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Lebanon

Bou Reslan, Fadi Youssef; El Hokayem, Jihad (SAGE Publications Inc., 2023)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries have eliminated face-to-face classes in all schools, requiring all teachers to deliver classes remotely. In this regard, the wide spread of information and communication ...
Temporary price increase during replenishment lead time

Çömez-Dolgan, Nagihan; Moussawi-Haidar, Lama; Esmer, Burcu; Jaber, Mohamad Y. (Elsevier Inc., 2020)

Pricing and inventory management make up together revenue management, which is a significant effort to boost revenues out of available resources. Firms use various forms of dynamic pricing, including personalized pricing, ...

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