Purpose – This research aims to explore the determinants of work -life balance for university student workers within Lebanon. The proposed relationships consist of causality between each of the variables of working hours, proximity to employment, proximity to university, workload, study leave, leaving early, work from home, study at work, and flexible working hours on one hand, and work-life balance on the other. Design/methodology/approach – Employing a deductive approach, this study presents one main research question and quantitatively tests 11 hypotheses using a sample of 300 workers studying ...

Purpose –Performance management system are an integral part of the running of a business or an organization and constitute one of the aspects of skills management. Managers make it possible to estimate the capacities and the performances of their subordinates and to be able to measure the real competences of an employee and to find practices that enhance their motivation and performance at work. Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology relies on a quantitative approach. Purposive sampling is used in as far as the selected population refers to administrative employees at the Notre ...

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 ...

Purpose – The purpose of the present research is to analyze the barriers affecting the readiness of digital transformation implementation in the manufacturing enterprises in Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach – The research implemented a mixed approach using survey based questionnaires and interviews in order to understand the barriers that could impact the readiness of manufacturing organizations for digital transformation. The research implemented a deductive approach therefore it relied on previous studies and theories to validate the research hypotheses, and followed the positivism ...

The study purpose is to assess students’ satisfaction on services provided by higher education institutions (HEIs) and consequently their loyalty towards the institution. The research design followed a quantitative approach where a questionnaire was developed based on a seven-point Likert scale. Data was collected from 297 students at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon. The results elucidated that the affective component positively and strongly influences students’ satisfaction. Variables related to physical facilities did not outstand in the results so we were not able to conclude ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of information communication technology (ICT) in small rural hospitality businesses. Although ICT is often presented as a means of reducing the impact of being rural, little is known about the extent or level of use of ICT. This paper addresses these issues. The paper employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather and analyze data. The study had two stages: an initial survey to determine the extent and pervasion of ICT; and a second interview stage to explore the role and applications of ICT. The majority of businesses use ICT ...

Purpose - the thesis will be studying and analyzing the financial and stock market in the presence of Islamic finance in Asia as a first step and in the Saudi Arabian market as a second step, before overlooking the status of the Lebanese Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach: after defining Islamic finance and explaining its laws and regulations and the instruments used, Islamic finance will be compared to conventional finance. The results will be based on data collected from both: - Islamic and non-Islamic financial markets (Asian countries) during, before and after the financial ...

Purpose – The term Brexit, the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, is linked with the uncertainty raised due to the ambiguity of the economic relationship to be adopted between the U.K and the EU. This uncertainty is translated directly into a significant fluctuation of the British pound. Therefore, this research highlights the impact of the Brexit referendum on the British pound against the Euro, test the relationship between exchange rate volatility and U.K’s exports to Eurozone countries (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, ...

Purpose: This study investigates the occurrence of pre-acquisition accrual-based earnings management for a sample of stock- and cash- financed Canadian acquirers between 2005 and 2015 before and after transitioning IFRS in 2010. Design/methodology/approach: Both parametric (t-test) and non-parametric (Wilcoxon test) tests are used to examine the occurrence of accrual-based earnings management in the year preceding the announcement of acquisition. These are compared across stock and cash acquirers as well as before and after the implementation of the IFRS. Findings: Unlike cash acquirers, ...

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to shed more light on the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the Initial Public Offering (IPO) performance of U.S. Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) in the short and long run. Design/methodology/approach: I conduct multi-linear regressions on a sample of 89 US REIT IPO for the years 2003 to 2016. I compute the market adjusted excess returns for each of the first 5 days following the IPO to measure short-run IPO performance and the semi-annual cumulative abnormal returns for each of the three years following the IPO to measure ...