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A three country comparative analysis of managerial csr perspectives: Insights from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan

Jamali D.; Sidani Y.; El-Asmar K. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2009)

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has acquired a new resonance in the global economy. With the advent of globalization, managers in different contexts have been exposed to the notion of CSR and are ...
A tracking and verification system implemented in a clinical environment for partial HIPAA compliance

Guo B.; Documet J.; Liu B.; King N.; Shrestha R.; Wang K.; Huang H.K.; Grant E.G. (, 2006)

The paper describes the methodology for the clinical design and implementation of a Location Tracking and Verification System (LTVS) that has distinct benefits for the Imaging Department at the Healthcare Consultation ...
A user satisfaction study of the NHS online prescription prepayment certificate

Irani Z.; Weerakkody V.; Molnar A.; Lee H.; Hindi N.; Osman I. (Elsevier;, 2014)

This research seeks to measure citizen satisfaction with the electronic Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) offered by National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK). The paper reports on the findings of a ...
A variable neighborhood descent heuristic for the problem of makespan minimisation on unrelated parallel machines with setup times

Fleszar K.; Charalambous C.; Hindi K.S. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2012)

The NP-hard problem of scheduling jobs on unrelated parallel machines, in the presence of machinedependent and sequence-dependent setup times, with the objective of minimizing the makespan, is considered. A variable ...
A variable neighbourhood search algorithm for the open vehicle routing problem

Fleszar K.; Osman I.H.; Hindi K.S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2009)

In the open vehicle routing problem (OVRP), the objective is to minimise the number of vehicles and then minimise the total distance (or time) travelled. Each route starts at the depot and ends at a customer, visiting a ...
A web-based decision support tool for academic advising

Feghali T.; Zbib I.; Hallal S. (, 2011)

Student advising is an important and time-consuming effort in academic life. This paper attempts to solve a technology-based last mile problem by developing and evaluating a web-based decision support tool (the Online ...
“Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates”, “Airline Cost Structure”, “Doha, Qatar”, “Eastern Province, Saudi Arabis”, “Georgia”, “Guangzhou, China”, “Kiev, Ukraine”, “Kuwait”, “Low-Cost Air Carriers”, Madrid, Spain”, “Manama, Bahrain”, Marrakech, Morocco”, “Mecc

Apaydin, Marina (Sage, )
Academic dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and contextual factors

McCabe D.L.; Feghali T.; Abdallah H. (NEW YORK233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, 2008)

Little work has been done on academic dishonesty in the Middle East. This research investigates the nature of the relationship between contextual factors and academic dishonesty using a sample from three private universities ...
Activity-based diversification, corporate governance, and the market valuation of commercial banks in the Gulf Commercial Council

Chahine S. (, 2007)

This article examines the effect on market valuation of both corporate governance and the diversity of activities conducted by GCC commercial banks. It shows evidence on the endogenous effect of corporate governance and ...
Adoption and diffusion of business practice innovations: An evolutionary analysis

Arakji R.; Lang K. (ARMONK80 BUSINESS PARK DR, ARMONK, NY 10504 USA, 2010)

This paper examines how innovative business practices are developed, diffuse across organizations, and effect industry-level change. Applying evolutionary economics and evolutionary organizational theory as a theoretical ...
An analysis of methodologies utilised in e-government research: A user satisfaction perspective

Irani Z.; Weerakkody V.; Kamal M.; Hindi N.M.; Osman I.H.; Anouze A.L.; El-Haddadeh R.; Lee H.; Osmani M.; Al-Ayoubi B. (, 2012)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the research design, methodologies and approaches utilised in electronic government (e-government) research studies published in the last decade (2000-2012). Design-method ...
An effective VNS for the capacitated p-median problem

Fleszar K.; Hindi K.S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

In the capacitated p-median problem (CPMP), a set of n customers is to be partitioned into p disjoint clusters, such that the total dissimilarity within each cluster is minimized subject to constraints on maximum cluster ...
An initial exploration of stakeholder benefit dependencies in ambulatory e-prescribing

King N. (2009)

Ambulatory e-prescribing appears to be a straightforward automation effort that electronically connects a prescriber to an electronic network so an e-script can be sent to a pharmacy. A benefits dependency network (BDN) ...
An instantaneous replenishment model under the effect of a sampling policy for defective items

Moussawi-Haidar L.; Salameh M.; Nasr W. (NEW YORK360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA, 2013)

We propose to study a EOQ-type inventory model with unreliable supply, with each order containing a random proportion of defective items. Every time an order is received, an acceptance sampling plan is applied to the lot, ...
An Introduction of Epistemology to Business Ethics: A Study of Marketing Middle-Managers

Rawwas M.Y.A.; Arjoon S.; Sidani Y. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2013)

A vast majority of marketing theory and research has focused on relativism and idealism in order to understand ethical behavior. However, making ethical assessments that in turn influence behavior is much more complicated ...
An operational semantics for the goal life-cycle in BDI agents

Harland J.; Morley D.N.; Thangarajah J.; Yorke-Smith N. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2014)

A fundamental feature of intelligent agents is their ability to deliberate over their goals. Operating in an environment that may change in unpredictable ways, an agent needs to regularly evaluate whether its current set ...
Antecedents and consequences of the risk taking behavior of mobile commerce adoption in Lebanon

Charbaji R.; Rebeiz K.; Sidani Y. (IGI Global;, 2009)

This study was conducted to explore the attitude towards adopting m-commerce in Lebanon. The sample of respondents were asked twenty Likert's type questions that taped five different areas: (1) Motives based on Psychographics: ...
Auditor choice in privatized firms: Empirical evidence on the role of state and foreign owners

Guedhami O.; Pittman J.A.; Saffar W. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2009)

We rely on a unique dataset of 176 privatizations from 32 countries to extend recent research on the link between the political economy and accounting transparency by examining the importance of shareholders' proportionate ...
Auditor resignation and firm ownership structure

Khalil S.K.; Cohen J.R.; Trompeter G.M. (SARASOTA5717 BESSIE DR, SARASOTA, FL 34233 USA, 2011)

This paper investigates whether the likelihood of auditor resignations and the associated stock market reaction in family firms is significantly different from that in non-family firms. It also examines whether the ...
Average-weight-controlled bin-oriented heuristics for the one-dimensional bin-packing problem

Fleszar K.; Charalambous C. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2011)

Bin-oriented heuristics for one-dimensional bin-packing problem construct solutions by packing one bin at a time. Several such heuristics consider two or more subsets for each bin and pack the one with the largest total ...

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