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This section showcases our peer-reviewed academic publications, demonstrating that our strategic consulting is built on decades of interdisciplinary research in collective problem-solving, social impact, and gender-inclusive strategies. Our work bridges theory and practice, and we welcome opportunities to document case studies and co-develop knowledge with partners to shape solutions for organizations, societies, and governments.

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  • Daouk-Öyry, L. and McDowal, A. (2013). “Using Cognitive Interviewing For The Semantic Enhancement Of Multilingual Versions Of Personality Questionnaires”, Journal Of Personality Assessment, vol.95, no.4, pp-407-416
  • Daouk-Öyry, L., Zaatari, G., Sahakian, T., RahalAlameh, B., & Mansour, N. (2016) “Competencies of Medical Faculty: Developing a Model and Framework in an Academic Medical Center in Lebanon”. Medical Teacher
  • Afiouni, F. and Karam, C.M. 2019. The formative role of contextual hardships in women’s career calling. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 114(69): 87.
  • Afiouni, F., Karam, C.M. and Makarem, Y. 2020. Contextual Embeddedness and the Relational Influences on Women’s Careers. Human Resource Management, 30(3): 343-364.
  • Baydoun, M., Dumit, N., and Daouk-Öyry, L. (2015). “What Do Nurse Managers Say About Nurses’ Sickness Absenteeism? A New Perspective.”, Journal Of Nursing Management
  • Böhm, S., Carrington, M., Cornelius, N., de Bruin, B., Greenwood, M., Hassan, L., Jain, T., Karam, C.M., Kourula, A., Romani, L., Riaz, S. and Shaw, D. 2022. Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 180: 835–861.
  • Chopra, Vidur, Joumana Talhouk, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, and Carmen Geha. “Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon.” Journal of Refugee Studies36, no. 4 (2023): 782-801.
  • Chopra, Vidur, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Joumana Talhouk, and Carmen Geha. “Bridging the Gap Between Imagined and Plausible Futures for Refugees: What Students Wish Their Teachers Knew.” AERA Open10 (2024): 23328584241230062.
  • Creed, W.E.D., Gray, B., Hollerer, M.A., Karam, C.M. and Reay, T. 2022. Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division and Displacement: Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies, (In Press).
  • Daouk-Öyry, L, Sahakian,T. & van de Vijver, F. (2020). Evidence-Based Management Competency Model for Managers in Hospital Settings. British Journal of Management
  • Daouk-Öyry, L. (2023). Call of Duty: When Scholars Organize in Extreme Contexts. Organization Studies, 44(2), 337–340. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221131421
  • Daouk-Öyry, L., et al. (2014). “The Joint Model Of Nurse Absenteeism And Turnover: A Systematic Review”, International Journal Of Nursing Studies, vol.51, no.1, pp-93-110
  • Daouk-Öyry, L., Mufarrij, A., Khalil, M., Sahakian, T., & Hitti, E. (2016) “Nurse-Led Competency Model For Emergency Medicine Physicians ” Annals of Emergency Medicine
  • Daouk-Öyry, L., Zeinoun, P., Choueiri, L., & Van de Vijver (2016) “Integrating Global And Local Perspectives In Psycholexical Studies: A Glocal Approach”, Journal Of Research In Personality
  • Daouk-Öyry, L; Alameddine, M., Hassan, N., Laham, L., & Soubra, M. (2018). The Catalytic Role of Mystery Patient Tools in Shaping Patient Experience: A Method to Facilitate Value Co-creation Using Action Research. PLoS One
  • Geha, Carmen “Resilience through Learning and Adaptation: Lebanon’s Power-Sharing System and the Syrian Refugee Crisis.” Middle East Law and Governance 11, no. 1 (2019): 65-90
  • Geha, Carmen and Horst, Cindy, “Exporting ‘Active Citizenship’: Foreign Support for Citizenship Education in the Arab world.” Citizenship Studies23, no. 5 (2019): 486-501
  • Geha, Carmen and Talhouk, Joumana, “From Recipients of Aid to Shapers of Policies: Conceptualizing Government–United Nations Relations during the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon,” Journal of Refugee Studies32, no. 4 (2019): 645-663
  • Geha, Carmen and Volpi, Frederic, “Constitutionalism and political order in Libya 2011– 2014: three myths about the past and a new constitution.” The Journal of North African Studies 21, no. 4 (2016): 687-706
  • Geha, Carmen et. al, “Breaking the Cycle: Existential Politics and the Beirut Explosion,” Middle East Law and Governance12, no. 3 (2020): 357-368.
  • Geha, Carmen, “Co-optation, Counter-Narratives, and Repression: Protesting Lebanon’s Sectarian Power-Sharing Regime.” The Middle East Journal73, no. 1 (2019): 9-28
  • Geha, Carmen, “Our Personal Is Political and Revolutionary.” Al-Raida Journal44, no. 1 (2020): 23-28.
  • Geha, Carmen, “Politics of a Garbage Crisis: Social Networks, Narratives, and Frames of Lebanon’s 2015 Protests and their Aftermath.” Social Movement Studies 18, no. 1 (2019): 78-92
  • Geha, Carmen, “Sharing Power and Faking Governance? Lebanese State and Non-State Institutions during the War in Syria,” The International Spectator54, no. 4 (2019): 125-140
  • Geha, Carmen, “The myth of women’s political empowerment within Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40, no. 4 (2019): 498-521.
  • Geha, Carmen, “Understanding Arab Civil Society: Functional Validity as the Missing Link.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46(3): 498-513
  • Geha, Carmen, “Understanding Arab Civil Society: Functional Validity as the Missing Link.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46(3): 498-513
  • Geha, Carmen, “Understanding Arab Civil Society: Functional Validity as the Missing Link.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46(3): 498-513
  • Geha, Carmen, and Charlotte Karam. “Whose feminism? Gender-inclusive policymaking in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.” SAIS Rev. Int’l Aff.41 (2021): 23.
  • Geha, Carmen. “Activists Escaping Lebanon: Disruption, Burnout, and Disengagement.” Migrations in the Mediterranean(2024): 153.
  • Geha, Carmen. “From Revolt to Community-Driven Resistance: Beirut’s Year of Hell,” Istituto Affari Internazionali, paper series, July 2021.
  • Geha, Carmen. Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya: Transition and Constraint, London: Routledge Press
  • Ghazzawi, R., Bender, M., Daouk‐Öyry, L., van de Vijver, F. J., & Chasiotis, A. (2021). Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well‐being in Lebanese nurses. Journal of Nursing Management.
  • Hitti, E., Hadid, D., Khoury, S.J., Tamim, H., Makki, M. and Karam, C.M. 2022. Domestic Tethers: Gender Differences in Career Paths and Domestic Responsibilities of Top-Research Medical School Graduates. Frontiers in Education.
  • Jamali, D. and Karam, C.M. 2018. Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study. International Journal of Management Reviews, 52(3): 343-59.
  • Karam, C.M. and Afiouni, F. 2021. Career Constructions and a Feminist Standpoint on the Meaning of Context. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(2): 672-700.
  • Karam, C.M. and Ghanem, M. 2021. Multilevel power dynamics shaping employer anti-sexual harassment efforts in Lebanon. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 40(4): 375-391.
  • Karam, C.M. and Ghanem, M. Understanding Diversity in the Lebanese Workplace: Legal Protections in the Context of Protracted Crises and Occupation. In Klarsfeld, A. and et al.. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Under Researched Countries. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
  • Karam, C.M., Afiouni, F. and Metcalfe, M. 2018. Gender and Governance in Developing Economies. Business Ethics: A European review, 27(4): 287-93.
  • Karam, C.M., DeJordy, R., Creed, D., Daouk-Öyry, L., Scott, S., Geha, C. and Daou, A. 2024. Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amidst Creeping Crises. Organization Studies, (Accepted).
  • Karam, C.M., Greenwood, M., Kauzlarich, L., O’Leary Kelly, A. and Wilcox, R. 2023. Intimate partner violence and business: Exploring the boundaries of ethical enquiry. Journal of Business Ethics, (In Press).
  • Karam, Charlotte, Rich DeJordy, Douglas Creed, Lina Daouk-Öyry, Shawn Scott, Carmen Geha, and Alain Daou. “Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amidst Creeping Crises.” Organization Studies(2024): 01708406241295485.
  • Ralston, D.A., Egri, C.P., Karam, C.M., Yongjuan, L. and Fu, P.P. 2018. Changes in Work Values: A Longitudinal Assessment across China. Asia-Pacific. Journal of Management, 5(1): 145-79.
  • Ralston, D.A., Terpstra-Tong, J., Ramburuth, P., Karam, C.M., Furrer, O., Naoumova, I., Richards, M., Srinivasan, N., León-Darder, F., Reynaud, E., de la Garza Carranza, M.T., Casado, T., Dabic, M., Kangasniemi, M., Palmer, I., Szabo, E., Ruiz Gutiérrez, J., von Wangenheim, F., Fu, P.P., Pekerti, A., Molteni, M., Starkus, A., Mockaitis, A., Butt, A., Potocan, V., Dharmasiri, A.S., Kuo, C., Dalgic, T., Lenartowicz, T., Vu Thanh, H., Moon, Y.L., Hallinger, P., Girson, I., Egri, C.P., Milton, L., Rossi, A.M., Weber, M., Ansari, M.A., Alas, R., Danis, W., Elenkov, D. and Brock, D.M. 2024. Is There a Global-business-subculture Effect on Gender Differences? A Multi-Society Analysis of Subordinate Influence Ethics Behaviors. Business Horizons, (Accepted).
  • Rice, J., Daouk-Öyry, L, & Hitti, E. (2021). It’s Time to Consider National Culture when Designing Patient Safety Initiatives in Healthcare. British Medical Journal Quality & Safety.
  • Richardson. J., Karam, C.M. and Afiouni, F. 2020. The global refugee crisis and the career ecosystem. Career Development International, 25(1): 1-13.
  • Sahakian, T., Daouk-Öyry, L., Kroon, B., Kooij, D. T., & Alameddine, M. (2021). The neglected contexts and outcomes of evidence-based management: a systematic scoping review in hospital settings. Journal of Health Organization and Management.
  • Salamoun, R., Karam, C.M. and Abdullah. C. 2022. A feminist-affordance lens: examining the power outcomes of the actualization of smartphone affordances. Information Technology & People.
  • Sharma, R.R., Chawla, S. and Karam, C.M. Global Gender Gap Index: World Economic Forum Perspective. In Ng, E. and et al.. Handbook on Diversity and Inclusion Indices: A Research Compendium. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, (In Press).
  • Terpstra-Tong, J., Ralston, D.A., Furrer, O., Karam, C.M., Egri, C.P., Richards, M., Dabic, M., Reynaud, E., Fu, P.P., Palmer, I., Srinivasan, N., de la Garza Carranza, M.T., Butt, A., Gutierrez, J.R., Lee, C., Moon, Y.L., Pla-Barber, José, Molteni, M., Kuo, M.H., Casado, T., Sidani, Y., Mockaitis, A., Milton, L., Zatorska, L., Ho, B.C., Gelbuda, M., Alas, R. and Danis, W. 2024. Attitudes of Millennials towards Corporate Responsibility: A Multilevel Analysis of 28 Societies. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, (Accepted).
  • Terpstra-Tong, J., Ralston, D.A., Trevino, L., Karam, C.M., Furrer, O., Froese, F., Tjemkes, B., Darder, F.L., Richards, M., Dabic, M., Li, Y., Fu, P.P., Molteni, M., Palmer, I., Tucková, Z., Szabo, E., Poeschl, G., Hemmert, M., Butt, A., de la Garza, T., Susniene, D., Suzuki, S., Srinivasan, N., Gutierrez, J.R., Ricard, A., Buzády, Z., Paparella, L.S., Morales, O., Naidoo, V., Kangasniemi-Haapala, M., Dalgic, T., Alas, R., Potocan, V., Dharmasiri, A.S., Fang, Y., Burns, C. and Crowley-Henry, M. 2022. The Impact of Gender Role Orientations on Subjective Career Success: A Multilevel Study of 36 Societies. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 138: 103773.
  • Van Buren III, H.J., Karam, C.M. and Afiouni, F. 2024. Producing Actionable Knowledge about Marginalized Populations and Communities. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, (In Press).
  • Van Buren III, H.J., Karam, C.M., Newman, A. and Higgins, C. 2024. Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises. Business and Society, 63(1): 3-17.
  • Zeinoun, P., Daouk-Öyry, L., Choueiri, L., & Van de Vijver (2017) “A Mixed-Methods Study Of Personality Conceptions In The Levant: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, And The West Bank”, Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology
  • Zeinoun, P., Daouk-Öyry, L., Choueiri, L., & Van de Vijver (2018) “Arab-Levantine Personality Structure: A Psycholexical Study In Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, And The West Bank”, Journal Of Personality