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  • Coleman, Daniel F.; Tolliver, James M.; Brotheridge, Céleste M. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    This is a case about rules, what they mean, and when to follow them. The case consists of two stories, one set in the halls of a major university and the other, a considerable time ago, in a Midwestern barber shop. In the ...

  • MacDonald, Robert A.; Steeves, Heather; Wistrom, Ben (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    Fit 2 Excel traces the experiences of Jon and Sheila Stawinski, co-owners of two fitness related businesses (Fit2Excel and Injury2Excellence in Chittenden County, Vermont. As their commercial activities experience rapid ...

  • Secord, Peter; Corrigan, Lawrence T. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    This paper explores the epistemology of accounting history. It supports alternative ways of thinking about historiography by using ANTi-History and the notion of officialization to critique historiography of an exemplar ...

  • Hartt, Christopher; Peters, Luc (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    This essay approaches the question of multiplicity in business history, particularly works relying on actor-network theory. The arguments relate both scientific and philosophical approaches to time: the now; the past; the ...

  • Mindzak, Justin; Zeng, Tao (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    This paper examines the relationship between pyramid ownership structure and tax avoidance. Unlike the U.S., many Canadian firms belong to pyramid ownership structures with multiple tiers. Using Canadian listed companies ...

  • MacLean, Lynn; Delamirande, Patrick (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2015)
    This paper explores the concept of using a financial condition index tool to measure the financial condition of a government unit. The Province of Nova Scotia’s Financial Condition Index (FCI) will be reviewed. In addition, ...

  • MacLean, Lynn; Delamirande, Patrick (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    In just over a five week period, three towns located in Nova Scotia voted for the dissolution of their municipal status: Springhill on March 4, 2014; Bridgetown on April 1, 2014; and Hantsport on April 16, 2014. The Future ...

  • MacDonald, Robert A.; Steeves, Heather (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    In 2014 the eponymous campus bookstore is in a tenuous position – increasing textbook prices and new competitors who are leveraging technology to capture their traditional market (students) have served to deplete ...

  • Fralich, Russell; Wang, Xuan; England, Allyson (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    What happens to acquisition price premiums when a powerful bidder CEO confronts a powerful CEO of the target firm? We examine the effect of relative power relationships between the CEOs of the bidder and target firms to ...

  • Aman, Asad; Hopkinson, Gillian (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    This paper enhances the understanding the concept of 'power' in marketing channels by bringing the broader social sciences debates on power to the field of Industrial Marketing. Through presentation and analysis of three ...

  • Jones, Keltie (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Strategic planning is an important organizational event, yet there is little research on how individuals experience the process and how it impacts the community. This research examined a recent university strategic planning ...

  • Leung, Opal (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    The purpose of this paper is to extend Ashforth et al's (2000) integration-segmentation continuum by considering the virtual domain. The focus of the integration-segmentation continuum was on the multiple role identities ...

  • Petersen, Helle Haven; Blayney, Candace (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    This research identified risks that women perceive before embarking on a Tall Ship travel adventure experience. It was found that most participants perceived the risk of social adaptability more so than the physical risks ...

  • Ifinedo, Princely; Cashin, Justin; Ojo, Ope (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Very little research has been carried out to determine the links between social-cognitive mechanisms and employees' counterproductive computer security behaviors (CCSB). Accordingly, we aim to contribute to the literature ...

  • Blotnicky, Karen; Mann, Linda (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Logistic regression was conducted to determine the relative influence of professional advice, social influencers and self-efficacy on university students’ health capital. The results demonstrated that students with high ...

  • MacNeil, Ryan (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    In this preliminary paper, I use the ANTi-History approach to (re)assemble 3 histories of "the oceans cluster" in Nova Scotia. Accounts from 1960, 1980 and 2012 are examined to reveal their constituent actor-networks. These ...

  • McLaren, Patricia Genoe; Mills, Albert J., 1945- (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Although a distinct country from the United States, with different management challenges and opportunities, management theory as taught in Canada is a US-centric body of research that is considered scientific, rational, ...

  • Stevens, Jason (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    The spread between the current spot and futures prices (the basis) is one of the most popular predictors of movement in the future spot price.
    This paper demonstrates that the use of a popular regression technique ...

  • MacNeil, Ryan (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Innovation taxonomies help us understand firms’ technological trajectories. We used website material to classify 117 ocean technology firms into 6 innovation patterns from the Castellacci (2008) taxonomy. This revealed 3 ...

  • Karaphillis, George; Lake, Alicia (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)
    Nova Scotia’s co-op sector has a rich history going back to the 1860s but detailed knowledge of the role of the sector in the economy is limited. We estimated the economic impact of co-ops and credit unions, including GDP, ...

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