Suliman S. Olayan School of Business

 

 

PUBLICATION record

 

Bazlamacci, C. F., and K. S. Hindi. 2001. Minimum-weight spanning tree algorithms: A survey and empirical study. Computers and Operations Research 28:767–785.

 

Cunningham, G., and J. Harris. 2001. A heuristic framework for accountability of governmental subunits. Public Management Review 3/4:145–167.

 

Cunningham, G., S. Erikson, and F. Lopez. 2002. Measuring and creating value at ENDESA–A Teaching Case. Management Accounting Quarterly 17.

 

Dedoussis, E. 2001. Keiretsu and management practices in Japan-resilience amid change. Journal of Managerial Psychology 16 (2): 173–188.

 

. 2003. Foreign professors and foreign students: Issues of organizational culture and diversity in five business schools. Journal of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities (AAICU), issue 2.

 

Dedoussis, E., and Czerkawski. 2001. Time to shift focus and look at Japanese Management in a new light. Keizai Kagaku Kenkyu (Journal of Economic Sciences, Japan) 5 (1): 9–31.

 

Dedoussis, E., and Hidaka.  2002. The ‘end’ of ‘Japanese’ management debate: The difference an alternative viewpoint can make. Sakushin Keiei Ronshyu (Sakushin Business Review, Japan) 11:17–39.

 

Eid, F. November 2001. Applying the decision rights approach to a case of hospital institutional design. World Bank Working Paper Series #2726.

 

. November 2001. Hospital governance and incentive design: The case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon. World Bank Working Paper Series #2727.

 

. Spring 2001.Good institutional design in hospital corporatization: A decision rights approach. Economic Research Forum Working Paper #2028.

 

Eid, F., and F. Paua. February 2003. Foreign direct investment in the Arab World: The changing investment landscape. The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2002–2003. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Economic Forum.

 

Elfakhani, S., and D. Foltz. 2001. Dividend signaling in the Canadian markets. Corporate Finance Review 5 (7): 13–28.

 

Elfakhani, S., R. Ghantous, and I. Baalbaki. 2003. Mega-mergers in the US banking industry. Applied Financial Economic 13:609–622.

 

Fleszar, K., and K. S. Hindi. 2002. New heuristics for one-dimensional bin packing. Computers and Operations Research 29:821–839.

 

. 2003. An enumerative heuristic and reduction methods for the assembly line balancing problem. European Journal of Operational Research 145:606–620.

 

Ghaziri, H., and A. Awad. 2003. Knowledge Management. Prentice Hall. USA.

 

Ghaziri, H., and I. Osman. 2002. A neural network algorithm for the traveling salesman problem with backhauls. Computers and Industrial Engineering 44 (2): 267–281.

 

. 2003. A self-organizing feature map for the traveling salesman problem with backhauls. Computers and Industrial Engineering 44:267–281.

 

Hasan, M., I. Osman, and T. Al-khamis. 2002. A meta-heuristic procedure for the three dimension assignment problem. International Journal of Applied Mathematics 8 (4): 365–380.

 

Hindi, K., and S. Mhlanga. 2001. Scheduling linearly deteriorating jobs on parallel machines: A simulated annealing approach. Production Planning and Control 12:76–80.

 

Hindi, K., H. Yang, and K. Fleszar. 2002. An evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 6 (5): 512–518.

 

Jamali, D. 2003. NGOs in development: Opportunities and challenges. Labor and Management in Development Journal 4 (2): 2–18.

 

. 2003. Post-war telecommunications reform in Lebanon: Trends and challenges. Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information and Media 5 (2): 34–44.

 

Joseph, W., A. Gross, and M. Martin. 2001. The effectiveness of distance learning in U.S. business schools/programs. Journal of Management 13 (3).

 

Osman, I. 2003. Focused issue on applied meta-heuristics. Computers and Industrial Engineering (North-Holland: Elsevier Publishers) 44:205–207.

 

Osman, I., and N. Wassan. 2002. Reactive tabu search meta-heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls. Journal of Scheduling 5 (4): 263–285.

 

Osman, I., A. Abdullah, and M. Hasan. 2002. LP-based meta-heuristics for the weighted maximal planar graph problem. Journal of Operational Research Society 53 (10): 1142–1149.

 

Rebeiz, K. 2001. Corporate governance and role of CEO in engineering companies. Journal of Management in Engineering 17 (1): 14–23.

 

. 2001. Corporate governance effectiveness in American corporations: A survey. International Journal of Management 18 (1): 74–80.

 

. 2002. Strategies for corporate governance in engineering corporations. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 49 (4): 398–408.

 

Shibl, Y. December 2002. How to capitalize on Paris II? The General Manager.

 

. July 2002. The impact of Al-Intifada on the Israeli economy. [In Arabic.] History of Arabs and the World.

 

Shuayto, N., V. Dedoussis, and S. Hidaka. 2003. Challenges in international human resource management: Dual career families and the response of MNCs. Sakushin Keiei Ronshyu April/May 2003.

 

Shuayto, E. Dedoussis, and Hidaka. 2003. Emerging issues in international human resource management: Dual career families and the response of MNC’s. Sakushin Keiei Ronshyu (Sakushin Business Review, Japan) 12:123–136.

 

Sidani, Y. 2002. Management in Lebanon. International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, second edition, ed. Malcolm Warner, 3797–3802. Published by Thomson Learning.

 

. 2002. Total quality management in higher education institutions. Educational Administration in the Arab Countries, ed. Adnan El Amine, 59–82. Published by the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies.

 

Tarallo, A., W. Frech, and I. Zbib. 2003. Privatization and the Czech Republic, JAI, International Research in the Business Discipline.

 

Voss, S., S. Martello, I. Osman, and C. Roucairol. Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimization. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Wassan, N., and I. Osman. 2002. Tabu search variants for the mix fleet vehicle routing problem. Journal of Operational Research Society 53 (7): 768–782.

 

Zbib, I., Rakotobe, T., and R. Rigoli. November 2003. Target costing: The key to supply chain excellence. International Business & Economics Research Journal, Volume 2.

 

Zgheib, P., Z. Ahmed, S. Carraher, and N. El Haber. 2003 . Internet marketing in an emerging country: An international marketing perspective. Southwest Review of International Business Research 14:168–180.

 

 

 

Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings

 

Baalbaki, B. I., Z. Ahmed, S. Beldona, and P. Syriani. 2003. Consumers’ attitude and response toward internet advertising: Validating the hierarchy of effects model in Lebanon. The Academy of International Business’s Southwest Chapter’s Annual Conference Proceedings, Houston, Texas.

 

Baalbaki, B. I., Z. Ahmed, S. Beldona, J. Emile, and J. E. Issa. 2003. The impact of background music on customers’ shopping behavior in Lebanon. The Academy of International Business’s Southwest Chapter’s Annual Conference Proceedings, Houston, Texas.

 

Cunningham, G., and J. Harris. March 2001. Interpretations of control in accounting contexts: Preliminary findings. A substantial literature review in progress. Preliminary results being presented at conferences: British Accounting Association, Nottingham, England.

 

. April 2001. Towards a theory of performance reporting in achieving public sector accountability: A field study. Fifth International Research Symposium on Public Management, Barcelona, Spain.

 

. April 2002. Interpretations of control in accounting contexts: Preliminary findings. A substantial literature review in progress. Preliminary results being presented at conferences: British Accounting Association, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Cunningham, G., and L. Hassel. February 2003. Psychic distance and budget control of Foreign subsidiaries: A research note. Mid-year meeting, International Accounting Section, American Accounting Association, Orlando, FL, USA.

 

Cunningham, G., A. Fagerstrom, and L. Hassel. April 2003. Compliance with group accounting standards: An empirical investigation of Swedish multinationals. British Accounting Association, Manchester, England.

 

. April 2003. Group accounting across borders. European Accounting Association, Seville, Spain.

 

Elfakhani, S., and Z. Halabieh. March 2003. The value of successive analysts' recommendations. Presented at the Midwest Finance Association, 52nd Annual Meeting. St. Louis, Mississippi, USA.

 

Jamali D. April 2003. A contextual characterization of entrepreneurship in Lebanon. The Society for Advancement of Management 2003 International Business Conference, Orlando, Florida.

 

. June/July 2003. Corporate social responsibility in developing countries: The case of Lebanon: The 2003 Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Conference, University of Leeds, UK.

 

Osman, I. May–June 2002. The maximal planar graph problem: Exact and approximate methods with an LP-based meta-heuristic. ECCO-02, Lugano, Switzerland.

 

. July 2002. Elastic strings for vehicle routing problem with backhaul. IFORS 2002, Edinburgh, UK.

 

. July 2002. Linear programming based heuristics for the weighted maximal planar graph. IFORS 2002, Edinburgh, UK.

 

. July 2002. Metaheuristics for engineering optimization. Annual Conference of the Lebanese Order of Civil Engineers.

 

. July 2002. The weighted maximal planar graph: Formulations and solutions. ASAP, School of Computing, UK.

 

. June 2003. Graph planarization: Exact and LP-based meta-heuristics. ECCO XVI conference, Molde, Norway.

 

. June 2003. Graph planarization: Modeling and solving. IRIDA. Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

 

Rakotobe, T., I. Zbib, and C. Bakhtiary. November 2002. Information failure in supply chain management- Lessons from disruptive management. Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, California, USA.

 

Rebeiz, K. 2003. Balanced scorecard implementation for a global hospital. Global Business and Technology Association 2003. International Conference Proceedings.

 

. 2003. The strategic global hospital. Global Business and Technology Association 2003. International Conference Proceedings.

 

Shuayto, N. April 2003. An empirical examination concerning MBA program: Deans and human resource managers’ perceptions about graduates’ managerial core competencies. Society for Advancement of Management, 2003 International Business Conference, Orlando, FL.

 

Shuayto, N., and A. Borchers. August 2001. Skills preparation in MBA programs: The importance of computer related skills. AMCIS–America’s Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA.

 

Shuayto, N., and J. El-Den. June 2003. Does effective knowledge identification and retention transform hospitals into learning organizations? An empirical study. I-Know International Conference on Knowledge Management.

 

Sidani, Y. October 2002. Quality management in auditing. [In Arabic.] A paper presented at the 11th conference of International Accounting, Organized by the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants. Beirut, Lebanon.

 

. March 2003. Performance evaluation in the public sector. [In Arabic.] A paper presented at the conference on administrative development in the Lebanese public sector organized by the Lebanese Ministry of Administrative Development and Team International.

 

. June 2003. Women, work, and culture: The case of Arab societies. Presented at the 3rd International Gender Work and Organisation Conference at the University of Keele, England.

 

Zbib I., T. Rakotobe, and R. Rigoli. June 2003. Target costing: The key to supply chain excellence. Proceedings of The European Applied Business Research Conference, Venice, Italy.

 

Zgheib, P. October 2002. Efficiency pricing in supranational Near Eastern water markets within regional river basins. Presented at the conference on Perspectives of Arab Water Cooperation, by the National Water Research Center. Cairo, Egypt.

 

, et. al. 2003. The impact of population growth on human development index-A comparative demographic analysis of Middle Eastern countries. Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Academy of International Business, Houston, Texas, March 5–8, 2003.

 

 

 

other activities

 

Osman, I. April 2002.Guided construction meta-heuristics for the weighted maximal planar graph problem. Local Search Workshop, OR Society (UK), City University, London, UK.

 

Zgheib, P. 2002. Fast Track Management. Workshop delivered at the Center for Business Excellence.

 

. 2002. Young Professionals Program. Workshop delivered at the Cambridge Institute.

 

. 2003. Negotiations, Basic, and Advanced. Workshop delivered at the Center for business Excellence.

 

. 2003. Coaching. Workshop delivered at the Balanced Score Card initiative at AUB.

 

. 2003. Corporate Change. Workshop delivered at the Center for Business Excellence.