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Conference Proceedings 2014
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)In just over a five week period, three towns located in Nova Scotia voted for the dissolution of their municipal status: Springhill on March 4, 2014; Bridgetown on April 1, 2014; and Hantsport on April 16, 2014. The Future ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)In 2014 the eponymous campus bookstore is in a tenuous position – increasing textbook prices and new competitors who are leveraging technology to capture their traditional market (students) have served to deplete ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)What happens to acquisition price premiums when a powerful bidder CEO confronts a powerful CEO of the target firm? We examine the effect of relative power relationships between the CEOs of the bidder and target firms to ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)This paper enhances the understanding the concept of 'power' in marketing channels by bringing the broader social sciences debates on power to the field of Industrial Marketing. Through presentation and analysis of three ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Strategic planning is an important organizational event, yet there is little research on how individuals experience the process and how it impacts the community. This research examined a recent university strategic planning ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to extend Ashforth et al's (2000) integration-segmentation continuum by considering the virtual domain. The focus of the integration-segmentation continuum was on the multiple role identities ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)This research identified risks that women perceive before embarking on a Tall Ship travel adventure experience. It was found that most participants perceived the risk of social adaptability more so than the physical risks ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Very little research has been carried out to determine the links between social-cognitive mechanisms and employees' counterproductive computer security behaviors (CCSB). Accordingly, we aim to contribute to the literature ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Logistic regression was conducted to determine the relative influence of professional advice, social influencers and self-efficacy on university students’ health capital. The results demonstrated that students with high ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)In this preliminary paper, I use the ANTi-History approach to (re)assemble 3 histories of "the oceans cluster" in Nova Scotia. Accounts from 1960, 1980 and 2012 are examined to reveal their constituent actor-networks. These ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Although a distinct country from the United States, with different management challenges and opportunities, management theory as taught in Canada is a US-centric body of research that is considered scientific, rational, ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)The spread between the current spot and futures prices (the basis) is one of the most popular predictors of movement in the future spot price.
This paper demonstrates that the use of a popular regression technique ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Innovation taxonomies help us understand firms’ technological trajectories. We used website material to classify 117 ocean technology firms into 6 innovation patterns from the Castellacci (2008) taxonomy. This revealed 3 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Nova Scotia’s co-op sector has a rich history going back to the 1860s but detailed knowledge of the role of the sector in the economy is limited. We estimated the economic impact of co-ops and credit unions, including GDP, ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)This paper constructs one history of public relations ethics in Canada. Looking specifically at the development of key texts in this process, the author attempts to contextualize understandings of ethical practice in ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Les sièges sociaux sont importants pour l’économie d’une région pour le dynamisme économique qu’ils créent dans une région. La recherche a pour objectifs d’identifier si 1) les sièges sociaux des plus grandes sociétés ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)This paper presents the results of a study using participants from an Atlantic Canadian university (n=997) which indicates that accounting students differ significantly in their level of self-interest and perceptions of ...
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