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Browsing Conference Proceedings 2012 by Title
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)The audit profession has long held independence to be a key value and hallmark of the profession. This is perhaps especially true for legislative auditors, or auditors general. This working paper details a case study of ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser l’impact de la crise financière de 2008 sur la rémunération des dirigeants des sociétés canadiennes. Pour ce faire, les données sur la rémunération incluses dans les Circulaires de ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)This research examines the impact of the seniority of independent directors of 178 Canadian companies on the compensation paid to their senior executives and the financial performance of these companies. We assume that, ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)The research examines the effectiveness of governance systems in venture capital (VC)–backed technology-based new ventures that are not yet at the initial public offering stage. The novel study from 98 VC-backed technology-based ...
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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)This article examines if investors rely on certain information about board characteristics appearing in circulars, to appraise a firm’s market value. The board traits considered in the study are independence, size, ratio ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)The purpose of this report is, first, to identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) reported by credit unions and secondly, to gain an understanding of why and how KPIs are chosen. The report examines the various ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2012)On assiste ces dernières décennies à un accroissement du nombre d’entreprises créées par des femmes. Cependant, malgré l’augmentation du nombre de femmes en affaires, les recherches dans le domaine rapportent que les ...
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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)We examine the effect of lenders’ certification for pricing of auditing services for the borrowers. We find that audit fees decrease after obtaining a new loan from banks, suggesting that banks’ certification of firms’ ...
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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)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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(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)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)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 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)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)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)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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