A consideration of emotion has been traditionally neglected in the context of family business. In this study, the Lebanese family businesses were explored to examine all the dimensions and the specificity of the emotional intelligence (EI) of teams’ leaders. Multiple regressions were applied...

This study examines the impact of knowledge management on the job performance of Lebanese banking sector during 2019. The research employed knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation, knowledge codification and knowledge retention as proxies to analyze the knowledge management...

This study investigates the financial dimensions of family and non-family SMEs in Lebanon from 2005 to 2016. Based on 81 family SMEs and 45 non-family SMEs, the results reveal that family SMEs have outperform the non-family SMEs during economical and political instability period. In addition,...

ABSTRACT This study examines whether the value relevance of Operating Cash Flows (OCF) varies between banks listed in the Egyptian Stock Exchange (ESE) as a representative of emerging markets and banks listed in the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) as a representative of frontier markets. We test our...

The intention of this research is to provide more evidence related to women entrepreneurs by selecting an unexplored sample coming from two different regions: The Middle East and the Western Europe countries. It aims to explore the profile of women entrepreneurs and to further investigate the...

The aim of this research is to assess the role of the board of directors in determining CEO’s compensation in the context of listed European companies for 3 fiscal years (2016-2017-2018). Based on a sample extracted from 11 European countries (France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland,...

This paper examines the impact of Lebanese political news announcements on Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) returns and volatility from 2005 to 2014. Using a sample of (294) Lebanese political news, the results from GARCH, EGARCH and ARCH models reveal significant impacts of favorable and unfavorable...

This study examines the impact of technological innovation factors on the performance of Lebanese banks during an eight-year period (from 2010 to 2017). The research employed return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) as proxies to measure performance level. The technological innovation...

The objective of this study is to examine the determinants of bank liquidity in the Middle East region. It also aims to compare the liquidity levels of banking sectors between Middle Eastern countries. Two different liquidity measures, four bank specific factors and three macroeconomic factors...

This study investigates the success factors that can influence the performance and the continuity of the French and Lebanese family firms. Based on the literature review, the performance of the family firms was found to be linked to effective success keys like the succession planning, networking...