The purpose of this research project is to show the inflow of technological means that affect business especially Lebanese banks. the Lebanese private sector seeks always to implement technologies that are aimed to provide increase in its profits. Electronic Banking is now adapted by foreign banks outside Lebanon (and soon it can be adapted) by the Lebanese banks. There exists in the market an array of advanced machines to serve customers in a faster pace, and as offer them new services to facilitate their daily transactions, thus easing economic business cycle. Internet is the most advanced ...

The study of the relationship between population growth and human development in Lebanon for the period between 1990 and 1997, is divided into two major parts. First, I studied the relationship between population growth and each of the four components of HDI; education, health, revenue, and freedom. The analysis showed that the relationship between population growth and education; mainly adult literacy and school enrollment, for the sample data under study remains inconclusive. According to health; calculated as the average between crude birth rate, infant mortality rate, and crude death rate, ...

By 2005, ITec had 51 employees and was on track to make 2$ million in sales for the year with a firm projected forecast for the coming years. ITec margin were on average, 30 percent of sales. The company was well established in Lebanon and had some customers in the Gulf region. ITec main business was ERP Implementation, business consultancy, process reengineering and project management. This type of business is Human capital intensive; resources and experience were the main assets. The company's yearlong development effort has been extremely successful and growth was more than expected. By the ...

Purpose: The Pharmaceutical industry in Lebanon, as in other countries worldwide, has been witnessing an exponential growth rate. Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives, being the backbone of the sales departments of Pharmaceutical firms, have been at the highlight of the critique of this study that is intended to examine the motivation factors that are the most influential to their job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The study targeted Pharmacists working as Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in Lebanon. With the support of the Syndicate of Pharmacists in Lebanon, electronic copies, ...

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 ...

Lebanese industries are growing so fast and expanding their businesses. They should know how to manage their time, inventory, labor, quality and all the other production factors in order to increase productivity and output while reducing different types of wastes. For that, lean manufacturing was adopted by many companies across the globe in order to try to reduce the wastes as much as possible. Lean is a manufacturing strategy aiming to reduce the inventory and to gain more profits while getting a better quality of the goods delivered to the customers. “Algorithm Pharmaceutical Manufacturers” ...

Purpose - This study was conducted in order to investigate and analyze the underlying impact that mobile banking applications’ service quality has on customer satisfaction within the Lebanese context, specifically North Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach - Deduction was the reasoning approach embraced in this study. Using an online distributed questionnaire, there was a collection of 157 usable responses. Data was analyzed using SPSS. Moreover, correlations along with regression and other tests were used to test the considered hypotheses. Findings – The hypotheses considered in this study were ...

In 2011, the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) Lebanon and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) within the context of the EU Twining project have published “Statistics in Focus (SIF)”, a series of social statistics, entitled “The labor market in Lebanon”. One main finding triggered the development of the research question: in Lebanon, when someone is given a job opportunity, he/she will accept it even if it does not match his/her own qualification level. Competence is the combination of knowledge, experience, skills, attitude and abilities that enable the employee ...

Purpose-Telecommunications, today, is considered an essential catalyst for economic growth. It has entered a new age of development and increased competition wi th established players. The purpose of this study is to use a sophisticated model to measure the efficiency and productivity of 16 mobile operators in the Middle East market during 2011. Design/methodology/approach-To measure relative efficiency, the study applies the partial factor productivity (PFP) and three data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, the CCR, BCC, and A&P models. The efficiency scores obtained from the PFP and the DEA ...