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  • Organizational Commitment Recall in Times of Crisis 
    Karkoulian, Silva K.; Messarra, Leila; SOB; 198203940; 198629030; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb; lmasara@lau.edu.lb
    After a crisis, employees' organizational commitment may be affected. This research examined the effect of a war crisis on the commitment of employees using Meyer and Allen (1997) three component model of commitment that ...
  • The intriguing art of knowledge management and its relation to learning organizations 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila Canaan; McCarthy, Richard; SOB; 198203940; 198629030; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb; lmasara@lau.edu.lb
    Purpose – The goal of this research is to empirically assess whether knowledge management (KM) and learning organizations (LO) are distinct concepts and if so, to test whether KM enhances LO more or vice versa. Desig ...
  • Correlates of the Bases of power and the Big Five Personality Traits 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Messarra, Leila; Sidani, Mohamad; SOB; 198203940; 198629030; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb; lmasara@lau.edu.lb
    The purpose of this research was to empirically test the relationship between personality traits mainly agreeableness and neuroticism, and power. 150 employees working in "medium" size organizations in Lebanon filled the ...
  • Ethical attitudes of business information systems students 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Halawi, Leila; SOB; 198203940; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb
    This paper discusses attitudes toward ethical issues in information systems. Approximately 150 subjects were drawn from two populations: full-time undergraduate business information systems students and full-time ...
  • Knowledge management formal and informal mentoring 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Halawi, Leila A.; McCarthy, Richard V.; SOB; 198203940; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb
    Purpose – As businesses continue to forge ahead in the twenty‐first century, knowledge management (KM) has materialized as a significant differentiator. The process of creating new knowledge, sharing, and preserving such ...
  • Demutualisation, initial public offerings and long-run market performance of Canadian life insurance companies 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    We examine alternative hypotheses for the demutualisation of a sample of Canadian life insurance companies (1999-2000) as well as short-run and long-run market effects of demutualisation on firm performance. Our results ...
  • Stock index-linked debt and shareholder value 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Roberts, Gordon; Vijayraghavan, Vasumathi; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    French banks and non-financial companies issue index-linked debt whose value at maturity is indexed to the CAC 40 or to a basket of European indices. This paper examines stock announcement effects associated with these ...
  • Foreign currency borrowing by small firms in emerging markets 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Mora, Nada; Neaime, Simon; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    This paper investigates what induces small firms in an emerging market economy to borrow dollar credit from domestic banks. Our data are from a unique survey of firms in Lebanon. The findings complement studies of large ...
  • Market response to announcements of mergers of Canadian financial institutions 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Roberts, Gordon; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    This study examines a sample of mergers of Canadian Financial Institutions during the 1990’s to determine whether in-pillar, cross-pillar and foreign mergers are value-enhancing, and to determine possible sources of synergies ...
  • Bank monitoring and environmental risk 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Mcgraw, Patricia A.; Roberts, Gordon S.; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    They are grateful for helpful comments from Nobu Hibara, Edward Kane, Lawrence Kryzanowski, James Kolari, Donald Fraser, Hwan Shin, Pauline Shum, Peter Tryfos, and the anonymous referee, as well as from participants at the ...
  • A note on market response to corporate loan announcements in Canada 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Roberts, Gordon; SOB; 200603708; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); sebouh.aintablian@lau.edu.lb
    This note validates the key results of prior studies of bank loan announcement effects using a common data set drawn from the Canadian capital market. Announcements of bank loans are associated with positive abnormal returns ...
  • Economic Conflict in Postwar Lebanon 
    Baroudi, Sami; SAS; 199329040; Social Sciences; sbaroudy@lau.edu.lb
    This article examines state-labor relations in post civil war Lebanon. It covers the period between the coming to power of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in October 1992, and the government-orchestrated defeat of labor ...
  • Correlates of longevity 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Djoundourian, Salpie; SOB; 199590170; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); jsreih@lau.edu.lb; sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    This study tests various hypotheses concerning the relationship between correlates of effective succession planning and longevity, using a sample of Lebanese family firms. The findings lend support to the hypotheses regarding ...
  • A study of social and economic implications of mobile sources on air quality in Lebanon 
    Djoundourian, S.; Chaaban, F.B.; Nuwayhid, I.; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    The work presented in this paper is aimed at investigating the economic effects of air pollution from mobile sources on public health in Lebanon. It is part of the effort to implement MedPolicies Initiative of the Mediterranean ...
  • The median voter hypothesis 
    Djoundourian, Salpie S.; Turnbull, Geoffrey K.; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    The median voter hypothesis (MVH) represents a much-used as well as much-criticized tool in the hands of public finance economists. To evaluate the MVH, this paper applies the Cox specification test using data from general ...
  • Overlapping jurisdictions 
    Djoundourian, Salpie S.; Turnbull, Geoffrey; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    This paper presents a simple model of the demand relationship between the activities undertaken by overlapping governments and uses the framework to estimate the relationship between municipal and county expenditures. The ...
  • Determinants of longevity and success in Lebanese family businesses 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Djoundourian, Salpie; SOB; 199490100; 199590170; Department of Economics (ECON); jsreih@lau.edu.lb; sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    This article explores the characteristics of Lebanese family businesses using a sample of 114 firms and tests various propositions regarding the relationships between correlates of effective succession planning and longevity. ...
  • Environmental performance of developing countries 
    Djoundourian, Salpie; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
  • Environmental movement in the Arab world 
    Djoundourian, Salpie; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    The paper conducts a comparative study across the Arab world in the Middle East and Africa to determine whether variations exist in environmental performance. Using various indicators of performance, including the 2010 ...
  • Environmental movement in Lebanon 
    Djoundourian, Salpie; SOB; 199490100; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjndran@lau.edu.lb
    The paper reviews and assesses the evolution of the environmental movement in both the public and the private sector in Lebanon. It studies the public sector involvement in the environmental movement by reviewing the ...

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