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Major Research Projects: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Canada is a country with many immigrants, its advantages attract many immigrants. Immigration brings a lot of benefits but also has some impact on local residents. Let's say the house price. The increase in immigration is ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Religion and development have complicated relationship since the beginning of what we know as modern day international development. Religion was often denied, ignored and at times instrumentally used in development. This ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Organizations of all types (private, government and non-profit) and sizes (local, regional, national or multinational) will at some point experience a critical situation—a crisis. Whether an organization emerges stronger, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study examines how carsharing grows at the multi-residential building level in other cities and examines the barriers and enablers that exist in Halifax, Nova Scotia for similar growth to take place locally. Findings ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Many large investors are contesting high management fees on alternative assets by managing investments in-house, and investing in real assets. As a large investor, CPPIB can afford to do so as they enjoy long time horizons ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Immunovaccine, a young Canadian biotechnology firm, for many years relied on several methods to finance its operations to date, including investment from angels, various forms of government grants and a reverse takeover ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal method of uniformly operating a facility co-owned by two large public institutions. In 2014, the City of Toronto (“City”) and the University of Toronto – Scarborough ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)The 1997 Quebec childcare policy is the first and only universal childcare program to be introduced in Canada. By using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth from Statistics Canada, this ...
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Testing the relationship between free cash flow and capital expenditure in Canadian listed companies (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This paper investigates the relationship between free cash flow and capital expenditure in Canadian listed companies for the period 2010 to 2015. The sample consists of 90 listed companies in Canada drawn from 10 different ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This paper seeks to add to the concept of linear small to medium-sized enterprise growth research through the analysis of existing linear growth models, and common causes of failure. Two literature reviews starting with a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Empathy, though not a new concept in the medical profession, is a new phenomenon discussed in management and leadership literature. Leaders need to be mindful and critical of where they get their information about how and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This paper firstly estimates the abnormal returns from merger and acquisition activities. To obtain the abnormal returns, I used the S&P500, which is considered as market return, and firm returns to calculate the normal ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This research project examines the ways in which race is presented through photographs taken from British Airways newsletters, located in the British Airways Archives, during the period of 1932-1946. The purpose of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Studies continue to show that gender discrimination is an ongoing barrier for women seeking leadership roles. Further, the research evidence also shows that gender equality has stalled and, in some cases, has even gone ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This paper examines the experience of acquiring-firm shareholders wealth during recent technology merger wave in U.S. from 2010 to 2014. The methodology in this paper uses 635 acquisitions from the high-tech industry over ...
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Is leading from the second chair a new leadership theory? : examining the theoretical underpinnings (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)A burgeoning area of inquiry exists that is concerned with leading from a place of subordination in an organizational context. In what is called “second chair leadership,” this concept metaphorically expresses this unique ...
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China syndrome : how the rise of Chinese competition affects SME performance in Canada and the U.S.? (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis delves into the competitiveness of North American Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in an increasingly global marketplace. It examines how they fare against increased competition from low-wage countries such ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This paper firstly aims to investigate how certain essential financial indicators, such as P/E ratio, P/B ratio, earning per share (EPS), and book value per share (BVPS) are associated with the Chinese stocks’ performance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study investigates the impact of capital structure on the profitability of non-financial listed companies in China for the period 2010 to 2014. The entire sample data includes 571 companies from 12 different industries. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Spreadsheets have been and continue to be one of most commonly used analytical tools by many businesses today. With the increasing pressures on businesses today associated with making sense of increasingly larger data sets, ...
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