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(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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)From a six-year sample of S&P500 companies, we find evidence that the personal prestige of the acquiring firm’s CEO affects the likelihood of making an acquisition. We note distinct effects of prestige due to informal power ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This paper examines the dilemma of work-life balance and how we can make sense of the choices people make in the quest for a happy and meaningful life. The relationship between work and non-work activities is complex ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This research introduces a 15-item scale to measure love of the job in a professional context. The impetus for measuring job love was derived from extant psychology and sociology theory on the impact that the trilogy of ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Originally introduced as a strategy for lowering outsourcing costs and improving corporate efficiency, crowdsourcing has proven to be much more about dialogue within communities than the implementation of management ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This paper discusses the turbulent Canadian university environment that seems to be oriented toward change, and juxtaposes this with university culture that is oriented toward the status quo. The risk propensity of ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Online social networks have increased in popularity and users continue to share abundant information in these sites, despite reported privacy concerns. Although knowledge is recognized as impactful in consumer decision ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This exploratory research investigated the relative influence on youth gambling behaviour attributed to family and peer influencers and gambling promotion. Analyzing data collected from Nova Scotia public school students ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This paper examines the criteria by which university students choose a particular university. With a dataset of 456 first-year millennial undergraduate business students, from four institutions located in Canada’s Maritime ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This paper presents best practices derived from the first year of offering discipline-specific communication support to international students of Commerce at Dalhousie University. A literature review of Asian international ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)In the current business climate, it is useful to cultivate in students and future leaders the significance and importance of collaboration in team projects and to explore alternative methods to utilize team resources. This ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Individual adoption of technology has been studied extensively in the workplace, but far less attention has been paid to adoption of technology in the household (Brown & Venkatesh, 2005). Obviously, the mobile phone is now ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)A recent focus of leadership research is on the positive impact of effective leaders on the well-being of their employees. Scholars have argued that leadership training and development interventions may have positive ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Despite the growing interest in dispute resolution approaches and outcomes (Lewicki et al., 2011), relatively few studies have focused on the factors associated with grievance rates. Using two samples (one from Canada and ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)The traditional corporate finance theory of discounted cash flow valuation (DCF) has many limitations. In order to complement the drawbacks, real option valuations (ROV) have been widely accepted and applied in many ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Does limiting the size of a large bank reduce its insolvency risk? This paper shows that the answer to this question depends upon how exactly paring down of the bank size is done. The risk may go down or it may rise ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)Using panel data from 2003-2010 on charitable organizations in Canada we explore the implications that exposure to risk, in various guises, has on organizations' ability to meet their mandate. We run a random effects panel ...
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(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 ...