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Is CEO duality always negative? An exploration of CEO duality and ownership structure in the Arab IPO context

Chahine S.; Tohme N.S. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2009)

Manuscript type: Empirical Research Question-Issue: This paper examines the relationships between initial public offering (IPO) underpricing, CEO duality, and strategic ownership in 12 Arab countries of the Middle East and ...
Risk management and corporate governance in the Lebanese Islamic banking industry

Chahine S.; Dagher B. (Virtus Interpress;, 2008)

Despite recent growth in the Islamic banking industry, little is known on the best practices in its risk management. This paper examines the risk management systems of Islamic banks in Lebanon. Using a survey technique, ...
Ibn Khaldun of North Africa: An AD 1377 theory of leadership

Sidani Y.M. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.;, 2008)

Purpose: This paper's purpose is to present the works of a North African early contributor to sociological theory, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), specifically pertaining to his conceptualization of leadership and the role of ...
Corporate governance and the external monitoring of banks in Lebanon

Chahine S.; Safieddine A. (, 2008)

Purpose - Prior research suggests that corporations in countries with a weak and illiquid stock market rely either on internal resources or on loans from the banking system, while family businesses, in their desire to ...
Emotional intelligence and management development implications: Insights from the Lebanese context

Jamali D.; Sidani Y.; Abu-Zaki D. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory study of EI in the Lebanese context, investigating empirically variations in EI competency scores (self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, social ...
Contested meaning: Power and frames in IT implementation

Azad B.; Faraj S. (, 2008)

Research on the organizational implementation of IT and social power has favored explanations based on issues of resource power and process power at the expense of matters of meaning power. As a result, although the existence ...
The gender pay gap revisited: Insights from a developing country context

Jamali D.; Sidani Y.; Kobeissi A. (, 2008)

Purpose - While the gender pay gap has received considerable attention, the evidence from developing countries remains scant. The purpose of this paper is to examine the salience of a gender pay gap in a developing country ...
Which acquirers gain more, single or multiple? Recent evidence from the USA market

Ismail A. (, 2008)

This study considers shareholder returns using 16,221 US takeovers between 1985 and 2004. It finds that single acquirers out-perform multiple acquirers by 1.66percent, and that the gap widens to 5percent in equity exchange ...
Classical vs. modern managerial CSR perspectives: Insights from lebanese context and cross-cultural implications

Jamali D.; Sidani Y. (, 2008)

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 ...
Greedy random adaptive memory programming search for the capacitated clustering problem

Ahmadi S.; Osman I.H. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2005)

In the capacitated clustering problem (CCP), a given set of n weighted points is to be partitioned into p clusters such that, the total weight of the points in each cluster does not exceed a given cluster capacity. The ...
How export marketing research affects company export performance: Evidence from Turkish companies

Koksal M.H. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to help exporting companies to increase the performance of their exporting activities through collecting sound export information and using it effectively. Specifically, the research ...
Patient satisfaction with healthcare delivery systems

Baalbaki, Imad; Ahmed Z.U.; Pashtenko V.H.; Makarem S. (, 2008)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide insight, exploratory research, and support for the strategic use of hospital secondary support functions as an initial strategy for marketing healthcare, increasing patient ...
Situated practices of computer workarounds in a hospital medication system: A Case study

Azad B.; King N. (, 2008)

Are computer workarounds temporary or routine, sign of resistance or acceptance, harmful or benign? The extant literature says they can be any of these. We surmise that this ambiguity reflects the modus operandi that content ...
Determinants of export marketing research in Turkish companies

Koksal M.H. (, 2008)

The success of exporting companies largely depends on their marketing information systems. Acquiring and responding to market information are particularly important in the export marketing context, where changes in the ...
Learning organizations: Diagnosis and measurement in a developing country context: The case of Lebanon

Jamali D.; Sidani Y. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the performance of a sample of Lebanese organizations vis-à-vis some of the core learning organization dimensions identified in the literature, focusing specifically on those ...
The effects of venture capitalist affiliation to underwriters on short- and long-term performance in French IPOs

Chahine S.; Filatotchev I. (, 2008)

This paper explores the signalling and monitoring effects of venture capital (VC) backing and venture capitalist affiliation to lead underwriters on performance of IPOs in France. IPOs in which VCs are affiliated to lead ...
Knowledge transformation among virtually-cooperating group members

Feghali T.; El-Den J. (, 2008)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present how in a virtual setting a cooperating group of individuals could transform their tacit knowledge, and what is the necessary infrastructure needed for such transformation. ...
A stakeholder approach to corporate social responsibility: A fresh perspective into theory and practice

Jamali D. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2008)

Stakeholder theory has gained currency in the business and society literature in recent years in light of its practicality from the perspective of managers and scholars. In accounting for the recent ascendancy of stakeholder ...
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 ...
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 ...

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