College of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Bank efficiency assessment using a hybrid approach of random forests and data envelopment analysis
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)This study introduces a three-stage integrated framework consisting of data envelopment analysis (DEA), random forest, and logistic regression to examine and predict the impact of environmental variables on banks' performance. ... -
An analysis of methodologies utilised in e-government research: A user satisfaction perspective
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2012 , Article)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 ... -
Call for emergency action to restore dietary diversity and protect global food systems in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Results from a cross-sectional study in 38 countries
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Background The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of the global food system, sending shockwaves across countries' societies and economy. This has presented formidable challenges to sustaining a healthy and ... -
Marketing intelligence and small firms' performance: the role of entrepreneurial alertness and effectuation
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Knowledge of how entrepreneurial alertness (EA) and effectuation impact small firms' performance in uncertain markets is limited. Suggesting effectuation as a mediation mechanism between EA and small firms' ... -
Is digital gold a hedge, safe haven, or diversifier? An analysis of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens, and NFTs
( Taylor & Francis , 2024 , Article)The crypto assets market is growing rapidly, exposing investors to new risks. As a result, finding viable candidates to hedge and diversify crypto portfolios is a critical and timely topic. In this paper, we explore the ... -
Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and digitization in alleviating the level of credit constraint that micro, ... -
Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: Drawing on an organizational learning perspective, this paper examines the effect of levels of foreign market involvement (intensity and geographic spread) on internationalization outcomes recognizing that the ... -
Is tourism in Lebanon subject to permanent or transitory exogenous shocks?
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2014 , Article)The tourism industry makes a significant contribution to Lebanese gross domestic product (GDP). Lebanon has been rocked by political instability and regional conflicts over the past several decades. These exogenous shocks ... -
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2014 , Article)This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ... -
Investigating the impact of donor funding: a case study on Lebanon
( Emerald Publishing , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a macroeconomic framework to predict the impact of transient donor funding on a developing economy and to facilitate evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative uses of ... -
A validation of Wagner's Law: A case study of Sri Lanka
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)This study provides evidence on the validity of Wagner's Law on the impact of government spending on economic growth in Sri Lanka. To test for stationarity, we use the Narayan and Popp's (2010) new Perron-type innovational ... -
A new perspective on the linkages between tourism demand and business cycles
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2022 , Article)Business cycles, that is, the irregular fluctuations in economic activity,affect tourism demand—this is a stylized fact in tourism research. And itis well-founded. After all, as incomes rise, so does the consumption ofgoods ... -
A mixed-methods approach for the relationship between organizational attributes, reputation, employer brand and intention to apply for a job vacancy
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the direct effect of organizational reputation (OR), employer brand (EB) and organizational attributes (OA) on the intention to apply for a job vacancy (IAJV); further, it examined ... -
A mixed-method study of programme management resources and social enterprise sustainability: A developing-country context
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)This research investigates the relationship between enterprise environmental factors (EEFs) and programme management (PgM) resources, and subsequently how PgM resources and sustain-ability integrate into social enterprise. ... -
A conceptual framework of barriers to data science implementation: a practitioners' guideline
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: The study explores the potential barriers to data science (DS) implementation in organizations and identifies the key barriers. The identified barriers were explored for their interconnectedness and characteristics. ... -
A characterization of Top Trading Cycles under trading networks
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)We consider an object reallocation problem within a specific class of trade restrictions. An agent can only receive the object of someone else connected to him, which is referred to as feasibility. We introduce a Network ... -
Marketing from Leadership to Innovation: A Mediated Moderation Model Investigating How Transformational Leadership Impacts Employees’ Innovative Behavior
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)In an increasingly competitive landscape, both researchers and businesses are showing growing interest in promoting employee’s innovative work behavior (EIWB). Although earlier studies have highlighted the significance ... -
Government debt and stock price crash risk: International Evidence
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We add to the literature on the economic outcomes of government debt and argue that government debt increases crash risk via two channels: (i) hoarding bad news and (ii) tax avoidance. Based on a large international sample, ... -
A competitive search approach to exchange rate pass-through
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)We develop an open economy, search theoretic, monetary model with heterogeneous households which is characterized by incomplete pass-through of exchange rate movements to import price indices. Partial pass-through arises ... -
The determinants of capital structure: The case of long-term debt constraint for Jordanian firms
( Virtus Interpress , 2008 , Article)This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by investigating the determinants of capital structure of Jordanian companies with the constraint of inadequate long-term debt as their source of financing and ...
