Modernizing Academic Teaching and Research in Business and Economics

Seeds of sustainability in Lebanese Universities: An empirical study.- Supply and demand for information system (IS) core knowledge in non-IS business occupations: Fresh graduates' and professionals' perceptions.- Higher education and employability: building student's self-confidence and efficacy.- Using data mining and business intelligence to develop decision support systems in Arabic higher education.- An Investigation of students' social entrepreneurial intentions in Syria: an empirical test.- Review of leadership research in higher education.- The determinants of business students' faculty performance: Evidence from a private university in Syria.- Adopting mobile business solutions in modernization of business education.- The impact of sustainable leadership on organizational trust: a private University in Syria empirical evidence from private higher education institutions in Syria.- The effect of good governance on higher education in Syria for the period (2000-2011).- University-Business Research Collaboration in Syria: An empirical assessment and suggested conceptual model.- Forging research links between academia, business and industry in Syria and Lebanon (industrial paper).    

Jorge Marx Gómez studied Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Berlin (Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, Germany). He was a lecturer and researcher at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg where he also obtained a PhD degree 2001 in Business Information Systems with a thesis on "Computer-based Approaches to Forecast Returns of Scrapped Products to Recycling". From 2002 until 2003 he was a visiting professor for Business Informatics at the Technical University of Clausthal (Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany) and worked as lecturer in different countries. In 2004 he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) for his work on "Automated Environmental Reporting through Material Flow Networks" at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. In April 2005 he received the research price of the faculty of computer science at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. Since 2006 Jorge Marx Gómez is a full professor and chair of Business Information Systems / Very Large Business Applications (VLBA) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.His research interests include Business Information Systems, Federated ERP-Systems, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Interoperability, Environmental Management Information Systems and e- and Mobile-Commerce. 


Marie Karim Aboujaoude earned a PhD in Management Information Systems from Kennedy Western University USA with a dissertation on "Data Quality Control in Information Systems for Health Organizations". She has over 15 years of academic teaching in Information Systems engineering, development, integration and management, and over 20 years as Senior Advisor, Director of R&D department and Leader in Information Systems Modeling and Business Intelligence. She managed & monitored the fulfillment of multiple Information Systems projects in an international and multicultural environment, specialized in Health care, Retail,