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Conference Proceedings 2010
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This study articulates and empirically tests the effect of ownership on firm performance. Utilizing a multi-theoretic framework, we propose an alternative ownership framework, wherein ownership is analyzed in terms of the ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Cape Breton not-for-profits are trying to find what amount of adherence to the guidance contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is necessary to ensure their organizations are accountable and transparent to their ...
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(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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper focuses on the company-stakeholder conflict between a large telecommunication company and a small community group over the placement of a cell phone tower in the community. The authors review the literature on ...
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(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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Succeeding in the world of doctoral-level graduate school requires students to create plausible situations out of the chaos surrounding them. Through a set of stories elicited from members of a doctoral program we have ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper presents analysis of power relationships between different groups in Pakistan’s FMCG distribution channels through narrative inquiry approach. Different groups in a channel deploy group narratives on which battle ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The paper contributes to the discourse on the impact of employee participation in organizations. We describe a management tool grounded in the cognitive theory of Total participation used to measure the degree of participation ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Educational researchers seldom resort to using experimental methods when evaluating teaching innovations in higher education, most likely due to the shortcomings of traditional experimental methods (between-subjects, ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)It is imperative for the firms today to continuously look for ways to improve their performance. Coordination is a tool that is frequently employed for this purpose. Common cycle time, quantity discounts and delay in ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper analyses the decision situation of a retailer that faces single period uncertainty and price-dependent demand, with an opportunity to backlog the lost sales by offering some incentive for waiting. The backlog ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The importance of reflective classroom practices in addressing complex business problems has been noted by Mintzberg, Senge and others concerned with building a sustainable world beyond the assumptions of the Industrial ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Despite a growing literature on the challenge for business schools to recruit students, the impact of accreditation and ranking on enrolment in business schools, and the connection between post-secondary education and ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The workforce is changing, as Boomers are retiring and being replaced by Millennials. This paper explores how organizations can best prepare to train Millennials in new, or existing, initiatives, in an effort to increase ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Knowledge-intensive organizations (KIOs) have recently emerged as a popular topic of study in the knowledge management literature. This study explores what KIOs are and the key elements for differentiating these organizations ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Individual acceptance and use of new technologies has been studied extensively over the last two decades. And, as more and more organizations move from functional to process-based information technology (IT) infrastructure ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Telecommunications industry is continually in a shift of change, alimented by technological innovation and consumers’ demand for always better and faster communication tools. High speed Internet is now an integral part of ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre le processus de développement des capacités organisationnelles spécifiques à la gestion des connaissances (COSGC) dans le contexte des organisations de santé. Ce processus s’inscrit dans ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This study examines how a company’s family-friendly culture affects the probability of an employee’s use of parental leave. Using a national representative and linked employer and employee survey, this study finds that a ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Learning orientation, the desire to gain new knowledge and skills, and performance orientation, the desire to master existing skills and avoid criticism or failure, are partly determined by organizational climate. By ...