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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)Exploratory research was undertaken to benchmark the profiles and preferences of regional wine tourists in Nova Scotia. This paper describes the consumer profiles of three wine tourist segments in the region: Wine Lovers; ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)Marketing practitioners and academicians have been talking a lot about customer engagement in recent years (Sprott et.al, 2009; Fournier, 2011). By all accounts it is the newest and hottest “construct” in the field these ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)The ubiquity of social network sites and the extensive information shared on these sites raises many questions about privacy. Despite the recognized importance of knowledge in consumer decision making, privacy knowledge ...
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New Brunswick model of shared risk pension plan: human resource implications in an academic setting (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)The province of New Brunswick has introduced changes to the Pension Benefit Act that facilitates the conversion of Defined Benefit Plans to a shared Risk Plan. This paper highlights the implications of one of the key ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)We examine how CEOs use power to address public accusations of illegal activity by the firm. Results from a sample of S&P500 firms are consistent with models of cognitive framing and circulation of power, and suggest that ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)This paper explores ways of enhancing the efficacy of OR/MS techniques within a broader context. We examine differences and complementarities between a pure OR/MS and a Systems approach to problem solving. We attempt to ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)An highly effective algorithm is presented to solve open space facilities layout planning problems involving modules with constant aspect ratios. This algorithmm is a novel combination of steepest descent and corner search. ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)In portfolio management, the means and variances of stock returns are usually estimated on a daily basis and then converted to longer periods of time. This paper examines the issue of how to convert 1-day means for longer ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)In this paper we examine the relationship between transactions costs and options-related trading fre-quency. We develop a model which enables us to examine option hedging behaviour through any set of asset price and time ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)This study focuses on the market reaction to information transfers from economically linked customers. I examine whether investors have limited attention with respect to the information contained in customer earnings ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)This paper investigates whether the relationship between financial constraints and the marginal value of corporate cash holdings varies across firms with and without R&D investment. We find that among firms with positive ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)This empirical paper represents a novel study of a mandatory CSR reporting regime. Five Canadian financial institutions are compared in terms of their references to three voluntary reporting standards in their annual and ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)Small enterprises often struggle with determining the profitability of its product offerings. In some circumstances this may be complicated by the feelings / intuits of the founder of the business. Hop-portunity Lost? is ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)As the 21st Century progresses and Canadian society becomes more diverse, organizational challenges arise when conflicting worldviews collide. The case study Damnant Quodon Intelligent? explores Trinity Western University’s ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)While the recent trend towards the ‘gamification’ of business and organization is forging a new intersectionality between play and games with work and organization, play and games as a subject of research within the MOS ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)The following paper presents an analysis of ontological politics through the development of the Museum of Industry, one of the 27 Nova Scotia Museums in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, and the struggles between actors ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)The quantitative-qualitative debate in Management and Organizational Studies has been of interest to scholars over the years. However, temporality seems to be absent from the discussion. This paper reviews the debate and ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)Cost-Volume-Profit analysis is a major business planning tool. It is limited by its assumptions about known price and costs. This study uses MAPLE software to operationalize CVP under uncertainty for practical application. ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)Les gouvernements fédéral et provinciaux font face à des dettes accumulées et des déficits importants et doivent tenter de rééquilibrer leurs budgets soit par une augmentation des revenus ou une diminution des dépenses. ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2013)We examine the (dis)incentive effects created by the respective tax systems to invest in human capital in Atlantic Canada and compare this to a select group of provinces from the rest of Canada. While findings show a steady ...