Tailab is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Finance, and Accounting at Lincoln University. He received both his BS and MS (Accounting) from Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi University (Libya) and his DBA (Business Administration: Finance and Investment) from Lincoln University. Prior to coming to Lincoln University, Tailab was a lecturer in the Accounting Department at Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi University (Libya). He has accumulated more than fifteen years of experience in academia where he taught various undergraduate and graduate business classes, as well as he performed a lot of work using a software program called the Global Business Simulation (GLO-BUS), which is an automated, online program that simulates the operation of a company. His students earned (Top five) ranking within the top 100 worldwide for GLO-BUS performance.
Tailab’s work focuses mostly upon the corporate disclosures (mandatory, voluntary) by combining machine learning and applied linguistics to model the ability of textual information content in annual firms reports to predict the market reaction. His research goal is to help shareholders be aware if CEOs and management writers use language to manipulate them. Also, he is working on the application of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in business research. During his academic journey, Tailab has authored and co-authored three textbooks and various research papers in peer-refereed local and international academic journals and participated in diversity conferences.
