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Near and dear? The role of location in CSR engagement

Husted, Bryan W.; Jamali, Dima R.; Saffar, Walid (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016)

Research summary: Building on economic geography and institutional theory, we develop and test theory relating geographic variables to the strength of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement and the cost of equity ...
New Conceptual Foundations for Islamic Business Ethics: The Contributions of Abu-Hamid Al-Ghazali

Sidani, Yusuf M.; Al Ariss, Akram (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015)

The dominant approach to understanding Islamic Business Ethics (IBE) has been based almost exclusively on either interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunna or influenced by Western understanding of Islam and ethics. However, ...
No place like home? How EMNCs from hyper turbulent contexts internationalize by sequentially arbitraging rents, values, and scales abroad

Fathallah, Ramzi; Branzei, Oana; Schaan, Jean Louis (Elsevier Inc., 2018)

Combining historical and longitudinal comparative case methodologies for nine nascent EMNCs over 12 years, we explain how their evolving relationship to a hyper turbulent home country motivates largely unplanned yet ...
Nurse-Led Competency Model for Emergency Physicians: A Qualitative Study

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Mufarrij, Afif Jean; Khalil, Maya; Sahakian, Tina S.; Saliba, Miriam; Jabbour, Rima; Hitti, Eveline A. (Mosby Inc., 2017)

Study objective To develop a competency model for emergency physicians from the perspective of nurses, juxtapose this model with the widely adopted Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) model, and ...
On a single server queue fed by scheduled traffic with Pareto perturbations

Araman, Victor F.; Chen, Hong; Glynn, Peter W.; Xia, Li (Springer, 2022)

A“scheduled” arrival process is one in which the nth arrival is scheduled for time n, but instead occurs at n+ ξn , where the ξj’s are i.i.d. We describe here the behavior of a single server queue fed by such traffic in ...
Opposing risk management theories: The context of large-scale projects

Baydoun, Mohammad (Inderscience Publishers, 2014)

The normal accidents and high reliability organisations theories are widely known as presenting the intellectual discourse between two opposing schools of thought for risk management of complex systems as the first is ...
Optimal solution for a cargo revenue management problem with allotment and spot arrivals

Moussawi-Haidar, Lama (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

We consider a single-leg cargo revenue management problem, in which a two-dimensional cargo capacity is sold through allotment contracts and in the spot market. Capacity sold on an allotment basis is guaranteed. We optimally ...
Organizational knowledge generation: lessons from online communities

Zablith, Fouad; Faraj, Samer A.; Azad, Bijan (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)

Purpose – Knowledge capturing and sharing within an organization have been extensively studied in the literature. In this stream of work, an influential focus is on the process of encoding and managing knowledge to enable ...
Organized chaos: Informal institution building among Palestinian refugees in the Maashouk gathering in south Lebanon

Yassin, Nasser; Stel, Nora Marie; Rassi, Rima (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Informal institutions are increasingly recognized as a core concept in our understanding of the organization of socio-political life in refugee communities. This article contributes to this understanding by exploring the ...
Out-of-sample exchange rate predictability in emerging markets: Fundamentals versus technical analysis

Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Yamani, Ehab A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)

We provide an in-depth analysis of the predictive ability of models with fundamentals and technical indicators for fourteen emerging market currencies. Our findings suggest that the forecasts from the symmetric Taylor rule ...
Partisan Selective Exposure in TV Consumption Patterns: A Polarized Developing Country Context

Bou-Hamad, Imad; Yehya, Nadine A. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2020)

Partisan media are often accused of reinforcing partisan views and contributing to political polarization. Drawing on the literature on selective exposure and media effects, we survey a representative sample of 784 Lebanese ...
Percentage rent contracts between co-stores

Moussawi-Haidar, Lama; Çömez-Dolgan, Nagihan (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

High rental rates and space scarcity in popular retail areas are encouraging retailers to share available space, creating co-stores. Co-stores with complementary products enjoy a boost in foot traffic, thus higher sales. ...
Performing projects with constant connectivity: Interplay of consulting project work practices and smartphone affordances

Azad, Bijan; Salamoun, Randa; Anita Greenhill, Anita; Wood-Harper, Trevor A. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)

The broad view of projectification and the broader perspective on constant connectivity have produced insights that question the conventional wisdom. However, how project practices are mediated by constant connectivity is ...
Personal Economic Worries in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross Sectional Study

Bou-Hamad, Imad; Hoteit, Reem; Harajli, Dunia A.; Reykowska, Dorota (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)

Objectives: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic worsened Lebanon’s economic situation and generated worries about living conditions. This study aimed to explain personal economic worries patterns among Lebanese young ...
Personality traits, religiosity, income, and tax evasion attitudes: An exploratory study in Lebanon

Khalil, Sandra; Sidani, Yusuf M. (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

This paper examines tax evasion attitudes and their relationship with personality traits, as moderated by religiosity and income, in a multi-faith cultural context characterized by a weak tax administration. The study ...
Predicting daily oil prices: Linear and non-linear models

Dbouk, Wassim; Jamali, Ibrahim I. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

In this paper, we assess the accuracy of linear and nonlinear models in predicting daily crude oil prices. Competing forecasts of crude oil prices are generated from parsimonious linear models which require no parameter ...
Pricing Efficiency and Arbitrage in the Bitcoin Spot and Futures Markets

Lee, Seungho; El Meslmani, Nabil; Switzer, Lorne N. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

This study examines the pricing efficiency for the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin using spot prices and all CBOE and CME futures contracts traded from January 2018 to March 2019. We find that the futures basis provide ...
Production and consumption of university Linked Data

Zablith, Fouad; Fernańdez, Miriam; Rowe, Matthew (Routledge, 2015)

Linked Data increases the value of an organisation's data over the web by introducing explicit and machine processable links at the data level. We have adopted this new stream of data representation to produce and expose ...
Production lot sizing with quality screening and rework

Moussawi-Haidar, Lama; Salameh, Moueen K.; Nasr, Walid W. (Elsevier Inc., 2016)

Most production systems produce items which are of imperfect quality. Handling of the defective items varies by industry and product types. For example, defective items may be sold at discount in the apparel industry, or ...
Prosperity over time and across generations: the role of values and virtues in family businesses

Parada, María José; Samara, Georges; Dawson, Alexandra; Bonet, Eduard (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

Purpose: Despite the great importance attributed to values in the family business, few studies have focused on their importance and on how such values influence the way family businesses behave over time. Using Aristotelian ...

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