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  • McKee, Margaret C. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)
    The study of workplace spirituality is a relatively new academic endeavour, but interest in the topic has grown significantly over the last 10 years (Giacalone & Jurkiewicz, 2003). Scholars are being encouraged to undertake ...

  • Hajnal, Catherine; Davis, Charles (Atlantic Schools of Business, 1998)
    Adoption of the technologies and business models associated with Electronic Commerce pose significant management challenges to firms because of the relatively large increments of technological and organizational change ...

  • Chen, Liqiang (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)
    This paper provides empirical evidence on how lending relationships can impact lending banks’ sensitivities to managerial risk taking incentives. Bank loans with higher managerial risk taking incentives will carry higher ...

  • Baltazar, Ramon (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)
    This paper addresses the question of how managers understand the concept of ‘strategy-structure fit’. In a case-research design, 16 middle and top managers from four organizations were asked to identify, recount, and ...

  • McLaren, Patricia Genoe (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2007)
    Tacit knowledge plays an integral role in the competitive advantage of knowledge-based organizations, yet misunderstanding and confusion exists as to what tacit knowledge is, and how it should be managed. Through analysis ...

  • Blotnicky, Karen (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)
    This study focuses on the marketing orientation and the impact of marketing orientation on the performance of 21 firms in the Top 101 Atlantic firm ranking by Atlantic Progress Magazine. Using the MARKOR scale in a mail ...

  • Fuller, Mark (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)
    Between the processes of strategic analysis and strategic implementation, are the critical but unstructured tasks of strategic alternative development and evaluation. This paper structures the process of creating alternative ...

  • MacMillan, Scott (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)
    This paper is a critique of the discourse of work that is being indirectly promoted by the Job-Career-Calling model and the Spirituality in the Workplace field as they both encourage meaning in life to be found through ...

  • Mitra, Divashis; Siddiquee, Mohammad (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)
    The recent financial crisis has plagued banking institutions around the world. Using a non-parametric (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach, we measure operating and profit efficiency of 21 commercial banks from five countries ...

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    Fleury, Danielle (Saint Mary's University, Writing Centre, 2011)

  • Gavin, Hayley (Saint Mary's University, Writing Centre, 2016)

  • Durepos, Gabrielle (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2007)
    Meta-analysis is used to assess the somewhat neglected relationship between work teams and procedural justice. Specifically, the effect of a team’s process control, their level of commitment, collectivism and the presence ...

  • Kennedy, Rebecca (Saint Mary's University, Writing Centre, 2011)
    The human body plays host to a large and diverse group of microbial inhabitants. The intestinal system is certainly no exception. Extending from the esophagus to the anus, the human gut provides varying environments in ...

  • Pascoe-Deslauriers, Rachelle; Eaton, Brianna Eagles (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)
    This working paper argues that there is insufficient attention being placed on the role of employing organizations as key actors in shaping the quality of work, and as architects of employment systems that impact workforce ...

  • Colwell, Scott; Vibert, Conor (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)
    How can organizations in contractual engagements mitigate their risk and increase partner satisfaction when the engagement may not last long enough to forge ‘traditional’ bonds of trust? We investigate perceptions of ...

  • Fillion, Gerard; Berthelot, Sylvie (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2007)
    Individual adoption of technology has been studied extensively in the workplace (Brown and Venkatesh 2005). Far less attention has been paid to adoption of technology in the household (Brown and Venkatesh 2005). Obviously, ...

  • Vishwakarma, Vijay Kumar (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)
    This research examines the relationships between the Canadian real estate market and macroeconomic variables. Using vector autoregressive models and Granger causality tests, the study finds the Canadian real estate market ...

  • Chartier, Zac; Mayne, Justin (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)
    In this paper we examine the relationship between transactions costs and options-related trading fre-quency. We develop a model which enables us to examine option hedging behaviour through any set of asset price and time ...

  • Fatemi, Ali; Fooladi, Iraj (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)
    We develop valuation models that consider firms’ expenses on corporate social responsibility activities and show that, under certain circumstances, CSR expenditures create value for the firm. We also test our models by ...

  • Crooks, Katherine (Saint Mary's University, Writing Centre, 2013)
    Within the context of the discriminatory practices and ideologies of the Third Reich, the prostitute is "the most emblematic of deviants."[1] The history of prostitutes under Nazi rule constitutes the intersection of a ...