FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMICS: Recent submissions

  • Tashjian, Azadouhi (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1998)
    This project presents the study of environmental and economic benefits of recycling dead lead-acid batteries. Its first objective is to examine the impacts of recycling on resource recovery, physical environment and health. The second objective is to examine the impacts of recycling on employment, foreign exchange earnings or savings, price of lead, and profit.
  • Breidy, George Y. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2003)
    This thesis will be a study of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in the United States of America, with some comparison to the SME business sector in the third world countries, such as Lebanon. The study will focus on developing a Management Model for the small business enterprise using state of the art software and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency. It will also include some analysis to minimize the risk and to compete locally and globally. Finally, the study will include hypothetical cases of applying the model to start new small business as well as an application ...
  • Riachi, Nicholas Amin (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001-03)
    Internal and external change is happening so rapidly that the operations of organizations are affected significantly. Different organizations use different methods to manage change. It is suggested in this thesis that the human resources department should play a major role in managing change. However, the current structure of the human resources department is not designed to mange change. For this reason, it is hypothesized that the human resources department will have new roles in addition to its traditional roles. These new roles will be known as the Riachi Variables. The Riachi Variables ...
  • Kai, Melissa C. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    In recent years, high-technology industries pioneered the globalization of international business. A firm's success often depends on how well it transfers technology to other firms or foreign markets. Transnational technology transfer faces greater problems across borders than within a domestic environment because it confronts differing cultures, norms, laws, tax policies, and other barriers to entry. This begs the questions; what are the main factors and strategies involved in negotiating a successful international technology transfer, especially in a unique high-tech industry, and with a high ...
  • Abboud, Charbel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Tourism is a leading industry in the services sector at the global level as well as a major provider ofjobs and a significant generator of foreign exchange at the national level. The world Tourism Organization reports that due to the financial crisis in 2009 international tourist arrivals and expenditure declined compared to 2008 by almost 4%. The organization also reports that the swine flu outbreak aggravated the crisis in some areas of the world, particularly the Americas. This thesis explores economic theories and links tourism to economic activity. It also studies the impact of both the ...
  • Abi Farraj, Nermeen (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Purpose – The purpose of this thesis is to assess if natural disasters impact the volatility of 19 property-liability insurers in the United States of America (USA) and 3 stock indices over a 10-year period using GARCH (1,1), IGARCH (1,1), EGARCH (1,1) and GJR-GARCH (1,1). Additionally, we implement the Value at Risk (VaR) and Extreme Value Theory (EVT) method to generate the worst loss over a target horizon that will not be exceeded with a given level of confidence. In this regard, this thesis will be a pioneer in examining the performance of capital markets in a context of unusually high ...
  • Nakhoul, Maya I. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Business organizations nowadays may have the money and the resources to succeed but their people may not be ready to work professionally. It doesn't matter how many office buildings and production facilities the organization has, without proper Human Resource management, the business will fail. This is most relevant in the hospitality sector which is a labor intensive industry, highly reliant on well-trained employees. Different trainings, seminars and workshops are very popular in all businesses fields. Business organizations, such as hotels, are investing money in their personnel. It needs ...
  • 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 ...
  • Gharios, Robert Toni (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1995)
    This research is conducted to explain the effect of IDA and IBRD loans on HDI given political risk and bank lending factors. In order to reach his objective, the researcher analyzed data for 22 developing countries that is available on Euromoney 94 and World bank 93 annual report. The developing countries are divided into four categories as follows: The Latin American countries category is composed of Bolivia Honduras, Paraguay, El Selvador, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Ecuador. It is characterized by having the highest HDI94 average score amounting to 0.64 compared to an average score ...
  • El Hajj, Claudette (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose -The purpose of the study is to analyze frameworks barriers and enablers of Lean construction implementation in the Lebanese industry. Design/methodology/approach —A mixed approach in the form of a Delphi group with a prepared interview guide and a questionnaire were used to achieve the research objectives using an exploratory case study. Findings - The framework used in company X is a conceptual and implementation framework The process is internal, and emphasizes on the bottom- up approach using the last planner system as a Lean tool. It consists of preparing a Lean team, focusing ...
  • 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 ...
  • Elissa, Bou Arbid (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose - This research attempts to analyze the impact of demographical factors and credit cardholder's criteria of clients on their credit card spending to investigate how the total spending affects accumulation of loyalty points of cardholders to after the introduction of a loyalty program. Design/methodology/approach - This study relies on a sample of 477 credit cardholders active on the bank's loyalty program over a period of 2 years. This research is deductive and quantitative in nature, and it tests 15 hypotheses linking the demographical factors and cardholders' characteristics to ...
  • Nahas, Roula Michel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Many companies seek to grow and develop their consumer and market base through international expansion. Foreign markets are normally targeted for more profit, brand building, and growth. Furthermore, expanding into foreign countries can be the cause of an unstable economic and political situation in home country. Internationalization has become very important in world's business, and companies should sustain with the ongoing stream of globalization and internalization. Venturing from domestic to other geographical countries is very crucial, and choosing the correct entry mode is even more ...
  • Donerian, Vatche M. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    The explosive growth of wireless as a communication medium offering exciting new business opportunities and demanding that wireless become a new channel of the marketing Communication mix. A study of the technology of the interactive television will be interesting because it helps researchers to understand the contribution of a new information technology for doing business. The aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of how companies use interactive television in doing business. I will study the advantages and disadvantages of the interactive television and recommend its implementation ...
  • Eid, Elie Antoine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    In our world today organizations that provide community development programs are becoming more and more essential. With several countries going below poverty lines, and the increase in wars in the last few years along with the absence of government help in more than one country. Thus, the need for help is increasing in order to assist communities in building on the main principle of life which is to preserve humanity, by providing the minimum needed to preserve the human lives and supplying the commodities that are essential for human beings in order to live. These basic commodities include, ...
  • Al Rassi, Michel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    "Olive Oil" Where does it come from? What is its origin, history, benefits, potential growth etc...? All of these are questions asked and answered within the thesis. We are mainly here to discuss such a topic not only to explain to people about olive oil and give them information or extra data. We are here to expand a small family business, to improve it and try lunching it internationally. In addition, this thesis is to give our small family business all the data needed for expanding such business and will be kept as a reference that must be helping in the near future. More than that, this ...
  • Mehanna, Charbel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Nowadays, the whole world is facing a global climate change due to GHG emissions. Transportation is the second source of air pollution in the world. This thesis is treating the green consumerism within the automotive industry. Specifically, it assesses the factors that influence the willingness of consumers in Lebanon to buy a "green" car in an attempt to reduce air pollution and therefore climate change. This study is an environmental economic study in that it uses a Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and assesses Willingness to Pay (WTP) of consumers for environmental protection. In addition, ...
  • Baz, Roland (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020-12)
    Purpose: This paper investigates the interconnectedness of the five largest cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization namely, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin through a volatility spillover inspection. It also studies the hedging and/or safe haven capabilities of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, against the main conventional currencies and the traditional assets in the United States and the European markets. Design/methodology/approach: In the first part of the research, univariate general autoregressive conditional ...
  • Aoun, Grace (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Purpose – Human resources management practices constitute an important intervention lever and more particularly those related to young generation integration. In such, the main research statement tries to understand how do HR practices overcome generational cleavage to better integrate Generation Z into the workplace?” Design/methodology/approach – the research study adopts a quantitative approach. It consists on adopting a deductive reasoning by analyzing, first, the literature review, and to formulate accordingly research hypotheses to be tested on the selected population. Findings – The ...

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