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  • Corporate governance : the case of standard chartered bank in Lebanon 
    Ayoub, Abdo Ibrahim (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Corporate governance in the case of the banking industry reveals that laws, shareholder interests, bank interests and sound economics are factors to take into account. Banks are to balance profits with regulatory requirements and sound economics so as to be successful and management practices to be considered include adequate representation of shareholders, allowing for monitoring, minority control and compliance with legal procedures. While corporate governance is still an ambiguous subject and a fresh topic for most of the companies in Lebanon, it is fundamental to present a general and ...
  • Corporate income tax collection in Lebanon : criticisms and recommendations 
    Raffoul, Marcel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1997)
  • Corporate social responsibility practices in the hospitality sector : a comparative case study 
    Khalife, Christelle Sami (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019)
    Purpose – The purpose of this study is to compare corporate social responsibility practices between five different sectors under the hospitality industry; beverage, nuts and oil, casual dining, hotel and fast casual across rural, urban and secondary areas. Design / methodology / approach – This research is qualitative by nature. A comparative case study methodology was adopted using semi-structured interviews with 32 targeted firms under different sectors of the hospitality industry in different Lebanese areas. The design of the interview guide was derived from the ISO framework of sustainability. ...
  • Corporate social responsibility practices in the Lebanese banking sector: a reality or a Myth? 
    Chlela, Maria (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the difference between the CSR reporting and the CSR execution in the Lebanese banking sector specially during the current financial crisis and lack of trust between the customers and the banks‟ administration as a whole. Design/methodology/approach – To proceed with this study, we used the quantitative method by extracting data and information for 13 Lebanese banks and calculating the sovereign exposure debt of all these banks separately and comparing them to their disclosed CSR practices. Findings – Our research showed that not all CSR actions ...
  • Corporate social responsibility: the case of microinsurance in Lebanon 
    Badr, Viola Karim (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    Purpose- This research attempts to assess the merits of the stakeholder/legitimacy theory on one side and the economic/decision usefulness theory on the other side, in explaining the perception of the Lebanese insurance managers about a potential introduction of microinsurance in their respective portfolio of insurance products. The study is conducted from a corporate social responsibility perceptive using socio-political theories, in particular, the stakeholder and legitimacy theory and the economic theories that include agency and decision usefulness theories. Design/methodology/approach- ...
  • Correlation and causation between tourism development and economic growth in Lebanon 
    Samara, Nisrine I. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    The purpose of this thesis is to study the direction of the causality between tourism development and economic growth in Lebanon, and to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship between the two variables. In order to reach our objectives, we estimate a Vector Auto Regression model and apply the Granger causality test. Our findings suggest a unidirectional causality running from economic growth to tourism development thus support the Growth Led Tourism hypothesis. They also identify a positive relationship in the short-run between tourism development and economic growth, and the impulse ...
  • Correlation between crude oil and gold 
    Saadeh, Christel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    Oil and gold are considered to be the most two strategic commodities. Crude oil is the world’s most frequently transacted commodity while gold has a leading position among the main precious metals. This thesis examines empirically the relationship between gold prices, oil prices and US dollar index. Monthly data for gold prices, oil prices, US dollar index and other controlled variables over a period of 20 years were selected from Bloomberg platform. This thesis uses a unit root test and the Johansen test to check for the existence of cointegration between each pair of selected variables. Further ...
  • Crafting a comprehensive growth model in the Middle East region: the case of Chabros s.a.r.l. entry into the Dubai wood trade industry 
    Hage, Marianne Georges (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007)
    Firms attempting to seize new business opportunities for growth through foreign market investments often face complex strategic decisions. The complex international environment is affected by diverse variables, creating risks that are not encountered in the domestic market. This study investigates both country-specific and market-specific factors that should he studied before the expansion strategy is implemented, and formulates a risk assessment and decision making model, applied to the Middle East region in particular. Thus the research hypothesis states the following: This model provides ...
  • Customer satisfaction for the Lebanese telecom service provider market 
    Wehbe, Jad (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose - This research will attempt to investigate the critical factors that affect the customer satisfaction for the Lebanese telecom service providers market. Design/methodology/approach - The study is based on a positivism epistemology, objectivist ontology, and deductive approach. A quantitative self-administered questionnaire is conducted by random people that use the Mobile Services from all ages all over Lebanon. Findings - The quantitative findings of this study showed that there are four critical factors that mostly explain the concept of customer satisfaction for the Lebanese telecom ...
  • Customer service and satisfaction in the fashion retail industry: a human resources system to optimize big retailers, Middle East 
    Mghames, Joseph Salim (2012)
    The fashion retail industry in the Middle East region is drastically expanding in most of the countries of the region with a great variety of international brands opening. The purpose of this thesis is to study the level of customer satisfaction in the region and try to design a complete training system to maximize customer satisfaction by optimizing customer service. Establishing such a system might be hard to design, yet succeeding in such initiative might allow retailers to gain an important competitive edge in times of sever competition and great expansion. The problem is that the customer ...
  • Customers satisfaction with digital banking channels: the case of the Lebanese banking sector 
    Yazbeck, Michel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the extent of adoption of DBCs, benefits of usage and service quality and their impact on the overall satisfaction with DBCs, in order to measure the satisfaction of digital technologies in the Lebanese banks, and to learn from this research if adopting digital channels would be beneficial or not for the Lebanese banks in different aspects. Design/methodology/approach: This research adopts a deductive approach, by using the data collected in statistical techniques to obtain significant results. The data was collected using a survey research ...
  • Demand for vocational education, and economic feasibility of a vocational school in el-Kah Town 
    Jabbour, Cynthia (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1997)
    The same latent problem faces almost all developing countries. This problem is how to develop the society of the country. Before 1990, and for years, economists, politicians and development planners have charged year-to-year progress or decline within a country, by measuring average per capita income. So, clearly, before 1990 and for years development of a society was viewed as the development and growth of the capital resources of the economy, often by neglecting the human dimensions in that society, Current views regarding development, have changed. It is thought that the development of a ...
  • Desired selling skills : compliance of a sample of Lebanese companies 
    Samrani, Anwar (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1999)
  • Determinants of house prices in Lebanon: an ARDL approach 
    Nseir, Albert (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022-07)
    Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the variables affecting house prices in Lebanon in the long run and the short run. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: To answer the above question, data collected is a monthly one covering second half of the year 2013 until February 2021. The dependent variable is average housing price, while independent variables include employment index, construction permits, non-resident deposits, interest rate, CPI, and coincident indicators. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is applied for the long run and the error correction model (ECM) is ...
  • Determinants of job satisfaction in banks: the case of blom bank 
    Bitar, Donna Antoine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Purpose: The present research aims to explore the different factors influencing employee job satisfaction in Blom Bank branches in North Lebanon. Moreover, the impact of job satisfaction on employee retention was also investigated in this study. Another aim of the study was to investigate the impact of rural-urban differences on the job satisfaction of the employee. Design: Primary data was collected from the employees working in five branches representing urban and rural areas of Blom Bank Lebanon, mainly Zahireh Branch, Amioun branch, Halba branch Boulevard branch, and Azmi branch of Blom ...
  • Determinants of the dividend policy : an empirical study on the Lebanese listed banks 
    Maladjian, Christopher (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    Purpose - This paper aims at investigating the factors determining the dividend payout policy in the Lebanese banks listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange. Methodology - To achieve this objective, this study considers the impact of seven variables, namely, profitability, liquidity, leverage, firm size, growth, firm risk and previous year's dividend payout on the dividend payout ratios by using an unbalanced panel dataset of audited financial statement of listed banks between the years of 2005 and 2011. Two models were tested and seven hypotheses were investigated using the OLS and the dynamic ...
  • The determination of interest rates in Lebanon : interest rates vs. debt and deposits 
    Hajjar, Edgard (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    The exchange rate peg in an open market economy allows the flow of large amounts of money and helps market participants to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities between domestic and international interest rates. Pegging disconnects the interest rate from real economic conditions of the underlining assets. This is the case of Lebanon, where national banks find a greater return on investment in the risk-adjusted return on government bonds. The main finding in this thesis is that the high level of deposits at commercial banks correlates directly with the level of the Lebanon national debt. ...
  • Determining employee satisfaction drivers for a Lebanese Alpha bank and examining demographic-generational dissimilarities 
    Chekherdemian, Armand Assadour (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the satisfaction drivers that are significant in the workforce of a Lebanese alpha bank and to rank each determined factor in terms of significance/effect on the satisfaction of Lebanese alpha bank employees. Design/methodology/approach – The design of this study will involve surveys distributed to the workforce of a Lebanese alpha bank with the studied variables being derived from the literature review whereas the methodology will follow the post-positivist method of research. As for the approach, it will be a mixture of survey responses and ...
  • Development of E-commerce in Lebanon : obstacles and solutions 
    Asmar, Ziad J. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2000)
    E-commerce is now becoming one of the largest industries in the world, especially that it is accessible to all communities and markets at very low costs. Lebanon is now witnessing developments in the state, banks and business sectors to embrace this trend and capitalize on it. Major problems and opportunities, however, need to be explored especially due to the complicated technology and advanced nature of the issue.
  • Differences and similarities between male and female principals’ leadership styles in catholic schools in south Lebanon 
    Rizk, Elie Georges (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020-11)
    Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the differences and similarities that may exist between female and male principals’ leadership styles in Catholic schools in South Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach – This study used the mixed methods design. More specifically, the study adopted the Explanatory Sequential Design and worked with primary data. It started by collecting and analyzing quantitative data through a surveybased questionnaire, then collected and analyzed the qualitative data through two focus groups. In the first phase, the deductive approach, with a ...

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