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Inventory systems with stochastic and batch demand: computational approaches

Nasr, Walid W. (Springer, 2022)

Modeling the behavior of customer demand is a key challenge in inventory control, where an accurate characterization of the demand process often involves accounting for a wide range of statistical descriptors. This motivates ...
Investor relations and IPO performance

Chahine, Salim; Colak, Gonul; Hasan, Iftekhar; Mazboudi, Mohamad (Springer, 2020)

We analyze the value of investor relations (IR) strategies to IPO firms. We find that firms that are less visible and have inexperienced management tend to hire IR consultants prior to the issue date. IR consultants help ...
Investor sentiment and the underperformance of technology firms initial public offerings

Saade, Samer (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)

This research examines the effect of individual and institutional investor sentiment toward the overall market at the time of Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the aftermarket performance of technology IPO shares. The study ...
Is CSR reporting always favorable?

Al-Dah, Bilal; Dah, Mustafa A.; Jizi, Mohammad Issam (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2018)

Purpose: In addition to their profit maximization objective, firms are often challenged to meet environmental and social demands. The purpose of this paper is to test whether a firm’s macroeconomic environment moderates ...
Is internal CSR really less impactful in individualist and masculine Cultures? A multilevel approach

Jamali, Dima R.; Samara, Georges; Zollo, Lamberto; Ciappei, Cristiano (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

Purpose: Drawing on signaling theory and adopting a multilevel approach, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how meso-organizational attributes interact with the macro cultural context to affect employees’ behavioral ...
It's time to consider national culture when designing team training initiatives in healthcare

Rice, Julie; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Hitti, Eveline A. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well-being in Lebanese nurses

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 ...
Joint reserve stock and just-in-time inventory under regular preventive maintenance and random disruptions

Moussawi-Haidar, Lama; Daou, Hoda; Khalil, Khalil (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022)

We study a repairable production-inventory system with a constant demand rate subject to random disruptions, which supplies an assembly line according to a just-in-time configuration. Preventive maintenance (PM) actions ...
Justice versus fairness in the family business workplace: A socioemotional wealth approach

Samara, Georges; Paul, Karen (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)

The organizational justice literature and the family business literature have developed independently, which limits our understanding of fairness and justice in the family business workplace. So far, the concepts of justice ...
Keeping up with the Joneses? Evidence from Peer Performance in the Banking Industry

Dbouk, Wassim; Kryzanowski, Lawrence (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)

This paper traces the reaction of US banks to ROE underperformance on liquidity creation, equity capital, and loan loss provisions. We find that banks change their structures in the subsequent quarter after underperformance ...
Leadership succession in different types of organizations: What business and political successions may learn from each other

Farah, Bassam E.; Elias, Rida; de Clercy, Cristine; Rowe, Glenn W. (Elsevier Inc., 2020)

We systematically review the recent impactful leadership succession literature in three types of organizations/contexts, namely publicly-traded, privately-owned (mostly family businesses), and political organizations. We ...
Learning organization thought leaders interview series: Interim synthesis of commonalities and differences

Reese, Simon R.; Sidani, Yusuf M. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the learnings from prior interviews with thought leaders in learning organization conceptual development. Prior interviews with Karen Watkins, Victoria Marsick, Michael ...
Leveraging multiviews of trust and similarity to enhance clustering-based recommender systems

Guo, Guibing; Zhang, Jie; Yorke-Smith, Neil (Elsevier B.V., 2015)

Although demonstrated to be efficient and scalable to large-scale data sets, clustering-based recommender systems suffer from relatively low accuracy and coverage. To address these issues, we develop a multiview clustering ...
Leveraging prior ratings for recommender systems in e-commerce

Guo, Guibing; Zhang, Jie; Thalmann, Daniël; Yorke-Smith, Neil (Elsevier B.V., 2014)

User ratings are the essence of recommender systems in e-commerce. Lack of motivation to provide ratings and eligibility to rate generally only after purchase restrain the effectiveness of such systems and contribute to ...
Local Business, Local Peace? Intergroup and Economic Dynamics

Joseph, Jay; Katsos, John E.; Daher, Mariam (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021)

The field of “business for peace” recognizes the role that businesses can play in peacebuilding. However, like much of the discussion concerning business in conflict zones, it has prioritized the view of multinationals, ...
Localizing women's experiences in academia: multilevel factors at play in the Arab Middle East and North Africa

Karam, C. M.; Afiouni, Fida (2014)

This article explores the localized experiences of women at work in higher education in the under-researched context of the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Our main research questions are: What is the current status of ...
Locked-in resources, coopetitive relationship stability and innovation

Elias, Rida; Farah, Bassam E. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

Purpose: This conceptual paper uses the resource-based theory (RBT) of the firm to argue that for competitors to improve their innovation through a cooperative relationship – coopetitive relationship – they need to work ...
Losing [IT] Control to Gain It: Exploring Organizational Linkages of Social Media Technology

King, Nelson E.; Khauli, Leila (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016)

Affiliates of parent companies seeking localized control of their social message may adopt easily available social media platforms beyond the control of the parent IT function. A revelatory case identifies several IT control ...
Lot sizing with a Markov production process and imperfect items scrapped

Maddah B.; Moussawi L.; Jaber M.Y. (AMSTERDAM, 2010)

This paper considers an inventory system within the economic order quantity (EOQ) model framework under random supply. The production process can go out-of-control with a constant probability and start producing imperfect ...
M&As and political uncertainty: Evidence from the 2016 US presidential election

Chahine, Salim; Dbouk, Wassim; El-Helaly, Moataz (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

This paper investigates whether the takeover market has been affected by heightened macroeconomic uncertainty, following President Trump's Election, both in the US and globally. We have based our analysis on a four-year ...

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