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Dina SIDANI

Enseignant Cadré - Professeur associé - PhD in Management

USJ Business School-Branch of Southern Lebanon-Sejaan Boutros Ghafari (FGMS)
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(+961) 1 421 000 ext 6111 dina.sidani@usj.edu.lb

Dr Dina SIDANI holds, since 2014, a top Management position at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut as the Director of South Lebanon Campus of USJ, which regroups several branches of faculties: Business, Engineering preparatory classes, Biochemistry Science, French Literature, …

She joined Saint-Joseph University in 2008 and she is now a full time Assistant Professor at the Business Faculty of Saint-Joseph University in Management and Strategic Management of Human Resources. She has a PhD in the area of management and leadership.

Dr Sidani has been teaching Management, Strategic Marketing, Organizational Development, Business Simulation, Administration and Organizational Structure of enterprises, Human Resources Strategic Management, Organizational Management and Governance of educational systems, for both undergraduate and executive graduate students.

Dr Sidani has been in charge for more than 17 years of developing, managing and leading administrative and academic programs for Human Resources in a learning institution and of the evaluation of their performance at both personal and organizational level.

Dr Sidani research interest tackles the areas of Management, leadership, structural and organizational changes applied to various fields.  In this frame, she holds several publications in peer-reviewed journals.

 


• PhD in Management

Marketing

Business Simulation
Human Resources Management


Economics, Management, Banking, Insurance

Management, leadership, Human Resources Management, structural and organizational changes applied to various fields

April 2012-International Seminar « Transformations and Changes of pedagogic structure of schools : Leadership concept ». Débats autour des apports de la recherche internationale.  École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. France.

Paper: « Influence of Leadership on teachers’ loyalty »

 

May 2014 International Colloque « Employabilité/Enseignement Supérieur. Défi des universités ».             

Faculté de Gestion et Management de l’université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth. En collaboration avec AUF – CIDEGEF – CEMADIMO.

Contribution: « Employability: « The new psychological contract based on participative approach Enterprises/University ».

 

April 2015 Conference LAAS-21 (Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science)                            

« Horizon 2020: Advances in Sciences and Technology » in collaboration with CNRS and University Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth.

Presentation and publication of the article: « Educational Leadership: A new repartition of processes decision making »

 

March 2016 International Conference ICTO2016 – ISC Paris

Presentation and publication Springer Journal of the article «The Strategic effects of an Information System-Structure adaptation within professional bureaucracies – The case of schools »

2nd  Best Paper Award for the French Session

 

June 2016 International Conference LCIS 2016 – Faculty of Business Administration – Saint-Joseph University

Paper presented at the conference « Big Data: New organizations structures, new decision-making processes and universities perspectives »

 

 

- March 2017  International Conference « ICTO 2017 » Information and Communication Technologies and Societal Challenges - Université Paris Nanterre – Paris - France.

Contribution : « Big data at the service of universities: Towards a change in the organizational structure and the decision-making processes. »

 

Publication Scopus indexed 2019

Big Data at the service of Universities: Towards a change in the Organizational Structure and the Decision-Making Processes” ICT for a Better Life and a Better World Book Subtitle: The Impact of Information and communication Technologies on Organizations and Society – Lectures Notes in Information Systems and Organization, Vol 30, Chap 19.                

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10737-6 ISBN: 978-3-030-10736-9 ISBN ebook: 978-3-030-10737-6 –                        Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965456

 

- April 2017 International Conference « LCIS 2017 » Information and Communication Technologies and Societal Challenges - Lebanese American University - Beirut.

Article presented : « Gender Differences in Online Shopping Attitudes ».

 

- March 2018 International Conference « ICTO 2018 » Information and Communication Technologies and Societal Challenges - Université Paris Nanterre – Pôle Leonard de Vinci. Paris - France.

 

Papers presented:

-Sidani, D. and Harb, B. « Les TIC au service du leadership – Cas du Secteur Public Libanais. » 

 

Publication Scopus indexed 2019

ICT in Leadership – The case of the Lebanese Public sector ICT for an Inclusive World Book Subtitle: Industry 4.0 – Towards the Smart Enterprise - Lectures Notes in Information Systems and Organization, Vol 35, Chap 21. 

 

-Sidani, D et Barbour, M.A. « The Online Shopping Attitude among University Students in Developing countries ».

 

 

Publication Scopus indexed May 2019  - Journal : Problems and perspectives in Management

Link to the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.15

Transformational leadership for organizational change in the Lebanese public sector https://doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.15 (doi: 10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.15)

 

-October 2019 International Conference « ICTO 2019 » Information and Communication Technologies in Organisations and Society – EDHEC Business School – Lille. Paris - France.

 

Articles presented:

-Sidani, D. and Harb, B. « Exploration of Transformational Leadership in Innovation – The case of the Lebanese Banking Sector. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference « ICTO 2019 » Ongoing publication Scopus Indexed

 

-Sidani, D. and Sayegh, May. « The Organizational Culture within the Context of Artificial Intelligence – An exploratory Study of the Lebanese Banking Sector. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference « ICTO 2019 » Ongoing publication Scopus Indexed

 

-November 2020 International Conference ICTO 2020 » Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society – Smart Technologies for an Inclusive World  - Online Conference - Paris - France.

 

Articles presented:

-Harb, B. and Sidani, D. « Smart Technologies Challenges and Issues in Social Inclusion – Case of Disabled Youth in a Developing Country. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference « ICTO 2020 »

Scopus indexed 2021 Publication

Smart Technologies Challenges and Issues in Social Inclusion – Case of Disabled Youth in a Developing Country. Journal of Asia Business Studies

 

-Sidani, D., Veglianti, E., and Maroufkhani, P. « Smart Cities for a Sustainable Social Inclusion Strategy – A comparative Study between Italy and Malaisia. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference « ICTO 2020 »

Scopus indexed 2022 Publication

Smart Cities for a Sustainable Social Inclusion Strategy – A comparative Study between Italy and Malaisia. Pacific Asia Journal for the Association of Information Systems. Vol 14, Issue 2 (2022)

Doi: 10.17705/1pais.14203

 

-December 2020 International Conference « MENACIS2020 » Middle East and North Africa Conference of Information System – Online Conference

 

Articles presented :

-Sidani, D., and Harb, B. « The Effect of Leader Inclusiveness on Innovative Work Behavior – The Mediator Role of Leader-Member Exchange. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference MENACIS2020. Ongoing publication

 

 

-Boustany, N, and Sidani, D. « ICT in Higher Education for Sustainable Development – The Case of a Private University in Developing Country. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference MENACIS2020. Ongoing publication

 

-Sidani, D. and Harb, B. (2023). Exploration of Transformational Leadership in Innovation — The Case of the Lebanese Banking Sector. Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference MENACIS2020 and publication In: Dal Zotto, C., Omidi, A., Aoun, G. (eds) Smart Technologies for Organizations. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24775-0_2

 

-Sayegh, M.M. and Sidani, D. Influencing Factors of ICT Use for Sustainability in Developing Countries — The Case of the Lebanese Private Sector. Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference MENACIS2020 and publication in 2023 In: Dal Zotto, C., Omidi, A., Aoun, G. (eds) Smart Technologies for Organizations. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24775-0_2

 

- February 2022         Participation to the International IESS 2022 (International Conference of Exploring Service Science).

 

Bissane Harb, Dina Sidani & Eleonora Veglianti: Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference IESS and the article is online as proceedings in the library « Resilient Leadership in Food Sector – The case of Lebanon »

 

- October 2022 Participation to the International Conference ITAIS – Italian Chapter of Association and Information System.

 

Sidani, Dina; Veglianti, Eleonora; and De Marco, Marco, "Smart Working and Digital Resilience". ITAIS 2022 Proceedings. 26. https://aisel.aisnet.org/itais2022/26

 

 

-July 2023 Participation to the International Conference « ICTO 2023 » Information and Communication Technologies in Organisations and Society – Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Society.

 

-Sidani, D., and Harb, B. « Lebanese Universities facing Digital Challenges - The Role of Resilient Capabilities »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference ICTO2023.

 

-Sidani, D., and Sayegh, M. « NGOs using Human Rights Based Approach for Sustainability in Developing countries »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference ICTO2023.

 

-Sidani, D., and Harb, B. « L’effet d’un Leadership Inclusif sur le comportement innovateur au travail. Le rôle médiateur des échanges Leader-Membre. »  Oral presentation at the Peer Reviewed International Conference ICTO2023.

 

Award: Best Review Award – English Session

 

-El-Hage, U.Sidani, D.: « An exploration of the role of transformational leadership in times of institutionalization of change ». Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2023, 11(1), pp. 175–195

View of An exploration of the role of transformational leadership in times of institutionalization of change (tuningjournal.org) - https://doi.org/10.18543/tjhe.2364

• Article présenté a la Conference ICTO 2016 classé 2ème de la Session Française "Les effets Stratégiques Structure-Systèmes d’Information au sein des Bureaucraties Professionnelles".
• Best Review Award - Conference LCIS 2016- USJ
• Best Award Review - Conférence ICTO 2018 - Paris Nanterre- France
• Attestation de valorisation d'engagement O7 (Operation 7e jour)