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Under western eyes: A transnational and postcolonial perspective of gender and HRD

Syed, Jawad; Metcalfe, Beverly Dawn (Routledge, 2017)

Much of the critical research on human resource development (HRD) is positioned within Western constructions of knowledge and orthodoxy. Barring a few exceptions (e.g. there is little critique of the ‘colonial boundaries’ ...
Understanding psychological contract breach due to labour costs reduction: Contingent upon employee sex and managerial control

Wei, Xin; Ma, Li; Zhang, Zhixue; Showail, Sammy J.; Jiao, Jie; Wang, Xiao (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2015)

Integrating the perspectives of psychological contract and sex differences, this study examines how organizational decision to reduce labour costs influences employees' perceived psychological contract breach and their ...
Understanding religious diversity: Implications from Lebanon and France

Al Ariss, Akram; Sidani, Yusuf M. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to argue that national history plays an important role in formulations of workplace religious diversity strategies and practices. It builds on a discussion of the organization of ...
Unveiling (In)Vulnerability in an Adolescent’s Consumption Subculture: A Framework to Understand Adolescents’ Experienced (In)Vulnerability and Ethical Implications

Batat, Wided; Tanner, John F. (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021)

Consumer (in)vulnerability is studied via a quasi-ethnographic longitudinal study of adolescents aged 11–15. The study focuses on how adolescents define their vulnerabilities within their adolescent consumption subcultures, ...
Validation of the Arabic Version of the Infant Feeding Intentions Scale among Lebanese Women

Yehya, Nadine A.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; Shamsedine, Lama; Ayash, Soumaya; Abdel Khalek, Lama; Abou Ezzi, Amanda; Nabulsi, Mona M. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)

Background: The Infant Feeding Intentions (IFI) scale was shown to reliably measure maternal intentions to initiate breastfeeding and continue exclusive breastfeeding until 1, 3, or 6 months in English and Spanish but not ...
Validation of the first Arabic version of the life skills scale among university students

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) ...
What do nurse managers say about nurses' sickness absenteeism? A new perspective

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 ...
What premiums do target shareholders expect? Explaining negative returns upon offer announcements

Ang, James S.; Ismail, Ahmad K. (Elsevier, 2015)

We find, in a sample of 7581 merger offer announcements from 1990 to 2013, shareholders of 1283 (or 17%) target firms responded to the offer with negative market returns. These investors were disappointed at the offer, ...
When idealists evade taxes: The influence of personal moral philosophy on attitudes to tax evasion - A Lebanese study

Sidani, Yusuf M.; Ghanem, Abdul Jalil; Rawwas, Mohammed Yahya A. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)

This paper explores attitudes regarding tax evasion and the relationship between personal moral philosophy and such attitudes in a weak tax environment. The results confirm the multidimensionality of tax evasion attitudes. ...
Who are the best performers? The environmental social performance of family firms

Samara, Georges; Jamali, Dima R.; Sierra, Vicenta; Parada, María José (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

Despite that family businesses are a group of heterogeneous companies with different levels of family involvement in the business, research has given little attention to these important contingencies when discussing family ...
Why and how should SHE make her way into the family business boardroom?

Samara, Georges; Jamali, Dima R.; Lapeira, Maria (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)

The most successful and longest-enduring family firms are progressively encouraging the active presence of women on their corporate boards. Why is the presence of women on boards so important for family firms? And how can ...
Women and the legitimization of (not) engaging in paid work: logics from Lebanon

Karam, C. M.; Afiouni, Fida (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how public (i.e. culture, state, paid work) and private (i.e. household) patriarchal structures work to shape a woman’s own legitimacy judgments concerning not engaging in ...
Women entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of knowledge areas and research gaps

Bastian, Bettina Lynda; Sidani, Yusuf M.; El Amine, Yasmina (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2018)

Purpose: This paper aims to attempt to collate and understand the fragmented research on female entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The review assesses the literature at the macro, meso and micro ...
Women Leadership, Culture, and Islam: Female Voices from Jordan

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 ...
Women's careers in the Arab Middle East: Understanding institutional constraints to the boundaryless career view

Afiouni, Fida (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2014)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an institution encoding organizational career scripts ...

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