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Conference Proceedings 2010: Recent submissions
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)We investigated the effects of two manipulations - incentives and rater priming - on performance appraisal accuracy. In contrast with previous studies, our results did not support the hypotheses that priming and incentives ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Le contrat psychologique est devenu ces dernières années une notion importante dans tout système de gestion des ressources humaines. Basée principalement sur une recension de données qualitatives, cette communication vise ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges and opportunities facing firms competing in the accommodations sector in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the goal of recommending new strategies for attracting and retaining ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This study explores the use of email for job or performance feedback in organizational work settings. The domains of performance feedback and organizational communications are reviewed, gaps identified, and then the results ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Written narratives are useful devices for studying the process of identity construction. We analyzed the discursive constructions of four women managers in Mexico, in three business magazines. Strategies of fixing the women ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This study finds time-varying risk premia for Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indices and T-bills in China. We use Bollerslev, Engle, and Wooldridge’s (1988) multivariate GARCH in mean to estimate the time-varying risk ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Investor response to changes in income trust payouts is measured using the implied cost of capital. As trust units are purchased primarily for the income stream, valuation using discounted cash flow models is appropriate ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Decomposing excess return into asset allocation and security selection components is ambiguous when the return is expressed in terms of asset classes. We present two methods for eliminating this ambiguity.
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper explores empirically and conceptually the importance of understanding regulatory risk by Aboriginal economic development officers. It argues that the management of regulatory risk should be an essential component ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)L’objectif de cette étude est d’une part, de vérifier si les administrateurs des grandes banques canadiennes obtiennent des rendements anormaux en achetant ou en vendant des actions de leurs banques et, d’autre part, ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper focuses on the creation of spin-offs in traditional and low-tech sectors located in a Mexican region. We analyze different factors that affect the creation of spin-offs such as the strategy of linking, role of ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)When the United Way of Halifax Region received an unsolicited gift from a tobacco company, the organization faced a dilemma. With no formal gift acceptance policy in place, the Board of Directors had to decide whether or ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The federal government’s business of developing entrepreneurs is “big business”. Some agencies involved in assisting individuals in developing a business measure success by tracking the number of businesses they assist in ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)We explore the regulatory and legislative barriers to addressing accessibility of capital for First Nations businesses and communities in Atlantic Canada. Specifically we examine what, if any, legal and regulatory impediments ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) have been hosting an annual business conference for the past 39 years. This conference does not belong to any one organization and has long been perceived as not having a structure. ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)La présente étude a pour objectif d’évaluer la pertinence de la divulgation de la juste valeur des instruments financiers selon le chapitre 3860 du manuel de l’Institut Canadien des Comptables Agréés (ICCA). L’analyse de ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)This paper explores a Canadian public sector agency’s employment of Kaplan and Norton’s (1992) Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to provide progress reports on achievement of its strategic plan. This research contributes to the BSC ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)Accounting or book rate of return on common shareholders’ equity is often disaggregated into profit margin, asset turnover, and financial leverage in financial statement analysis. Our paper investigates and finds that ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)L’objectif de cette étude est de dresser un portrait du contenu des rapports de développement durable publiés par les entreprises canadiennes en fonction des trois volets du Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Les résultats ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)L’objectif de la présente étude est d’analyser certaines caractéristiques des rapports de développement durable de sociétés canadiennes exploitant des ressources naturelles. Les caractéristiques étudiées sont les parties ...
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