User profiles for Nabil Tamimi

Nabil Tamimi

Professor of Operations & Analytics, University of Scranton
Verified email at scranton.edu
Cited by 2411

Transparency among S&P 500 companies: An analysis of ESG disclosure scores

N Tamimi, R Sebastianelli - Management decision, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the state of S&P 500 companies’ transparency
by analyzing their Bloomberg ESG (Environmental-Social-Governance) disclosure scores…

How product quality dimensions relate to defining quality

R Sebastianelli, N Tamimi - International Journal of Quality & …, 2002 - emerald.com
Uses survey results from a national sample of quality managers to examine the relationship
between how a firm defines quality and what product quality dimensions it considers …

Understanding the obstacles to TQM success

R Sebastianelli, N Tamimi - Quality Management Journal, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Data were gathered from a national surrey of quality managers to examine the obstacles
associated with managing a successful quality transformation. Factor analysis on managers' …

Factors affecting perceived learning, satisfaction, and quality in the online MBA: A structural equation modeling approach

R Sebastianelli, C Swift, N Tamimi - Journal of Education for …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The authors examined how six factors related to content and interaction affect students'
perceptions of learning, satisfaction, and quality in online master of business administration (MBA…

The barriers to total quality management

N Tamimi, R Sebastianelli - Quality Progress, 1998 - search.proquest.com
The transformation to a total quality management organization depends on the extent to
which firms successfully implement certain quality management practices. What is critical is a …

Perceived quality of online shopping: Does gender make a difference?

R Sebastianelli, N Tamimi, M Rajan - Journal of Internet …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Data from a sample of US consumers are examined for gender-based differences in
perceptions about factors affecting the perceived quality of online retailers. Seven electronic …

A second‐order factor analysis of critical TQM factors

N Tamimi - International Journal of Quality Science, 1998 - emerald.com
The quality management literature prescribes various critical quality improvement strategies.
However, there have been few empirical studies that tested for the synergy or the …

The relative importance of e-tailer website attributes on the likelihood of online purchase

N Tamimi, R Sebastianelli - Internet Research, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an experiment in which
participants view fictitious e-tailing web pages and indicate the likelihood of purchasing the …

Business statistics and management science online: Teaching strategies and assessment of student learning

R Sebastianelli, N Tamimi - Journal of Education for Business, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Given the expected rise in the number of online business degrees, issues regarding quality
and assessment in online courses will become increasingly important. The authors focus on …

How firms define and measure quality

N Tamimi, R Sebastianelli - Production and Inventory …, 1996 - search.proquest.com
Successful implementation of total quality management depends on measuring quality
performance; developing appropriate quality measures depends on how quality is defined. …