Purpose: The purpose of this research is to assess the factors that affect the intention to use cryptocurrency and the acceptance of this new technology as a financial tool in the Lebanese market. Design/methodology/approach: We will be using a structured survey to a sample of Lebanese citizens holding a university degree. The sample for the research will include at least 120 financially literate participants. we will be using a quantitative method based on the distribution of questionnaires and results will be analyzed on SPSS in order to study the relationship between variables. Findings: ...

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 ...

Nowadays, business is not just about making profit; it involves optimizing resources in order to maximize stakeholders’ benefits. Today’s global market relies on Multinational Corporations (MNC) whose ever-increasing impact on global economy made their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies more open to public scrutiny. The media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and activist groups have constantly questioned activities of MNCs in developing countries, particularly with regard to issues such as forced labor, bribery, and so on. This present study focuses on these MNCs’ CSR practices ...

The banking sector in Lebanon has survived bravely despite the fact that it has been seriously and unexpectedly shaken several times in the past few years. This study identifies and clusters 53 out of 72 Lebanese Commercial Banks into groups containing similar and homogeneous characteristics, and measures the direct and indirect effects of capital and assets/equity ratios on profit for 100 Arab banks. Its purpose is to analyze, design, implement, and establish a consistent framework of analysis of bank data. To reach this purpose, the researcher uses cross-sectional secondary data to answer ...

Purpose –The purpose of this thesis is to assess employees’ engagement in the nursing and administrative departments at Albert Haykel Hospital. Design/methodology/approach –Deductive in nature, this thesis uses a questionnaire survey to examine the extent to which the elements of engagement vary with demographic variables of the respondents as well as the existence of a significant linear relationship between them. The analysis of any variation and relationship is manipulated through the use of descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Findings –The results of this study show a variation ...

Mobile telecommunications are one of the fastest developing sectors in the world. Both high usage and demand gather to show how this sector is increasing especially with the energy resources it requires to operate. Mobile telecommunications have a direct effect on the environment related to the usage (users' behavior, network's interaction, power and energy saving, etc.). Therefore, there is a serious need of going green in mobile telecommunications. The telecommunications sector in Lebanon is complex as different inter-related parties such as the government, the private sector, and the consumers ...

Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to investigate the potential existence of an Audit Expectation Gap (AEG) in the Lebanese Commercial Banking Sector and assess the understanding of bank employees of the standards of internal audit as promulgated by both the Institute of Internal Audit and the Lebanese Central Bank. Design/methodology/approach - Deductive in nature, this thesis uses a questionnaire survey to examine the existence of a significant AEG in different areas of audit. Findings - The thesis finds evidence that an AEG exists in the areas of fraud detection and ...

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 ...

Byblos Bank, in compliance with its policy to expand its activities overseas and especially in the Middle East region, is planning to open the soonest, a branch of the bank in Qatar. Maintaining the highest levels of group safety, the increasing challenge in technology and creating the most suitable nature of offices, are the major concerns of Byblos Bank. Plan, coordinate and execute the opening of Byblos Bank Qatar, and empower it with a secured and group compliant banking system that meets its needs, are crucial for its expansion. The objective of this projects is to provide a smooth opening ...