- Home
- →
- Publications Hosted at Saint Mary’s
- →
- Atlantic Schools of Business Conference Proceedings
- →
- Conference Proceedings 2011
- →
- Browsing Conference Proceedings 2011 by Title
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Conference Proceedings 2011 by Title
Now showing items 4-23 of 29
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Studying the management of multiple organizational identities while striving for organizational legitimacy, we undertake a critical hermeneutic analysis of the archives of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit held in New York on June 2010 marked the 10th anniversary of the UN Global Compact (Adams and Petrella, 2010). From its humble beginnings in 2000, the Global Compact has grown to encompass ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Longitudinal data from the US cellular telecoms industry between 1991 and 2009 suggest that high prestige CEOs take higher risks in capital expenditures, and less risk with R&D expenditures. No relationship was found with ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Heuristics are useful practical tools for cutting through the complex confluence of uncertainty, limited information and bounded rationality. A disciplined use of heuristics can help to overcome the tendency for cognitive ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)The exponential growth and proliferation of new media technologies has revolutionized the global marketplace, giving rise to such segments as E-Commerce (EC). One research stream in EC focuses on the numerous factors that ...
-
Empirical research in consumer information privacy concern online: a review and critical assessment (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Marketers, in search of profitable customer relationships, require increasing amounts of personal information, yet consumers regularly express concern about their privacy. Investigations into consumer privacy concern in ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Increasing professionalization of the workplace coupled with rising rates of unionization of professionals invites a reexamination of the notions of organization, union and professional commitment. A study of Canadian ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)In the U.S., it is estimated that employees leaving the workplace due to bullying costs in the vicinity of $64 billion a year. From a Canadian perspective, less research has been done to understand the impact of bullying ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)In 2010 two brothers, Caucasian, from Hants County, NS, burned a wood cross on the lawn of a biracial couple. Applying a critical discourse framework, this research examined print articles produced by The Chronicle Herald ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This paper examines the braided discourses of finding meaning through work which is being indirectly promoted by the Job-Career-Calling model, the Spirituality in the Workplace field, and the Positive Psychology movement. ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)The paper examines the forecasting ability of the U.S. stock performance to predict the direction of the Chinese stock price movement at the opening, and vice verse. It shows that since the recent global financial crisis, ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This study aims to better understand the process of knowledge management capabilities (KMC) development at the municipal context to assess its impact on organizational performance. This process is a part of organisational ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)An after-tax value loss ratio compares newly defined SIFT’s to income trusts affected by the taxation change announced on October 31, 2006. The legislation produces after-tax loss of roughly 8% based on 2010 tax rates, ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This study investigates empirically the working capital policies of Canadian versus U.S. firms. Using a sample of 477 Canadian and 2,843 U.S. industrial firms over the period 1989-2009, we confirm significant differences ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Le but de cette recherche est d’étudier la réaction du marché boursier canadien lorsque les opérations d’achat et de vente effectuées par les différents initiés sont déclarées dans le SEDI. Les résultats montrent que seules ...
-
(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 ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This article addresses the quantitative limitations that arise from attempting to compare and assess business strategies prior to implementation. Recent advances in the strategic management literature have led to taxonomies ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)The age of the image is upon us and with it comes questions of authenticity and representation. With the prolific use of social media utilities such as Facebook, we witness first hand large numbers of individuals choosing ...
-
Revenue enhancement strategies and their impact on hotel performance during stressful economic times (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This research focuses on the revenue enhancement strategies used by top managers in the hotel industry during times of economic uncertainty, and the impact of these strategies on performance as measured by average daily ...
-
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Although there has been extensive research about managing costs of employer health and benefit plans, there has been less attention on preventative approaches such as healthy workplace programs (HWP), and more specifically, ...
Now showing items 4-23 of 29