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  • Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon 
    Djoundourian, Salpie; Raad, Elias A.; SOB; 199490100; 199590190; Department of Economics (ECON); sdjindran@lau.edu.lb; eraad@lau.edu.lb
    The study evaluates the key performance indicators of the banking sector in post-war Lebanon, in an attempt to assess the efficiency of the sector in producing the conventional outputs. Using data from 1993 to 2002, we ...
  • Validating a Structural Model of Destination Image, Satisfaction, and Loyalty Across Gender and Age 
    Assaker, Guy; Assad, Tony; Hallak, Rob; Assaf, A. George; SOB; 199635060; 198790050; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb; tassad@lau.edu.lb
    This study validates an interesting model of destination image (DI), tourist satisfaction, and loyalty across gender and age. We confirm that DI predicts satisfaction and has a significant direct and indirect effect on ...
  • Price fairness perceptions and hotel customers’ behavioral intentions 
    Assaker, Guy; El-Haddad, Rania; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; 201001437; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb; rania.elhaddad@lau.edu.lb
    This study examines the causal relationship between consumers’ price fairness perceptions and behavioral intentions in the context of online hotel bookings. Using a cross-sectional sample of 506 customers of a budget hotel ...
  • Tourism Entrepreneurship Performance 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; Lee, Craig; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Drawing on theories from environmental psychology, social psychology, and entrepreneurship, this study examines a nonrecursive (simultaneous equation) model of entrepreneurs’ place identity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, ...
  • Effects of Interpretive Guiding Outcomes on Tourist Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention 
    Assaker, Guy; Huang, Songshan (Sam); Weiler, Betty; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study examined the effects of both cognitive and affective tour guide interpretation outcomes on tourist satisfaction and behavioral intention in a heritage tourism context. Data were collected via a survey of 282 ...
  • Examining a hierarchical model of Australia’s destination image 
    Assaker, Guy; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study presents a hierarchical model of a country’s destination image (DI). The model is empirically tested in the context of Australia as a tourism destination. Data were collected from 600 residents in four countries ...
  • An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents of Film Tourism Experience 
    Assaker, Guy; Kim, Sangkyun; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study aims to empirically examine the antecedents of film tourism experience associated with a serialized TV drama. Drawing on film tourism and media-communication studies, a theoretical model for the causal ...
  • An Empirical Operationalization of Countries’ Destination Competitiveness Using Partial Least Squares Modeling 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; Vinzi, Vincenzo Esposito; O'Connor, Peter; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Growth in tourism has resulted in escalating competition among destinations. Understanding destination competitiveness and its determinant factors is thus critical to tourism researchers and policy makers. Using partial ...
  • Segmenting the Travel Market Based on the Tourists' Need for Novelty 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study examines segmentation of the Mediterranean travel market based on 450 European subjects who visited Mediterranean destinations during 2009. Using cluster, chi-square, and analysis of variance, the results indicated ...
  • Moderating Effects of Tourists’ Novelty-Seeking Tendencies on Destination Image, Visitor Satisfaction, and Short- and Long-Term Revisit Intentions 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study investigates the moderating effects of tourist novelty-seeking tendencies on the relationships among destination image, satisfaction, and short- and long-term revisit intentions. Using survey data collected in ...
  • Profiling Tourism SMEs According to Owners' Support for Community 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; O'Connor, Peter; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study profiles small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) according to their level of support for local communities in order to investigate the relationship between such support and enterprise performance. Cluster ...
  • An empirical study of 360-degree feedback, organizational justice, and firm sustainability 
    Karkoulian, Silva; Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; 198203940; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); skarkoul@lau.edu.lb; guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    The extensive efforts on soliciting organizational justice for employees and sustaining this justice throughout the organization have turned justice into a vital component of the organizational culture and structure. ...
  • Using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in Tourism Research 
    Assaker, Guy; do Valle, Patricia Oom; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Although the number of empirical applications of partial least–squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in tourism has increased in the last two years, Assaker, Huang, and Hallak have conducted the only assessment ...
  • The hierarchical effects of perceived quality on perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty 
    Assaker, Guy; Howat, Gary; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Drawing on the literature on service quality, value, satisfaction, and loyalty, the present study assumes a hierarchical, multidimensional scheme for perceived quality focussing on four process dimensions of service quality. ...
  • Family Vs. Non-Family Business Owners’ Commitment to Their Town 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study examines differences between family-owned and non-family-owned small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) operating in regional tourism destinations. The research focuses on SMTE owners' commitment to stay in ...
  • Applications of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in Tourism Research 
    Assaker, Guy; Songshan, Huang; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), as an alternative technique to traditional covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM), offers greater flexibility with regard to data assumptions ...
  • Are family and nonfamily tourism businesses different? An examination of the entrepreneurial self-efficacy–entrepreneurial performance relationship 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; O'Connor, Peter; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Drawing on literature on tourism, entrepreneurship, and family businesses, this research uses a structural model to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and enterprise performance. Based ...
  • European travelers’ return likelihood and satisfaction with Mediterranean sun-and-sand destinations 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199625060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    Drawing on the literature on visitor satisfaction, return likelihood, and customer segmentation, this study applies a Chi-square Automatic Identification Detector segmentation technique to segment European visitors on their ...
  • Examining a Supply-Side Predictive Model in Tourism using Partial Least Squares Path Modeling 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob; SOB; 199635060; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb
    This study examines the predictive relationships between tourism supply factors and tourism demand. Based on data from 154 countries, partial least squares path modeling (PLSPM) was used to test a predictive model that ...
  • Predicting Repeat and Total Visits to a Destination Using Simulation Modeling Through Time 
    Assaker, Guy; El-Haddad, Rania; SOB; 199635060; 201001437; Department of Economics (ECON); guy.assaker@lau.edu.lb; rania.elhaddad@lau.edu.lb
    Previous literature has shown that important variations exist over time regarding the extent to which visitors make return trips to tourist destinations. This paper provides an analytical framework to account for time ...

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