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Conference Proceedings 2011: Recent submissions
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)The paper reports upon a series of depth interviews conducted with members of the NASCAR culture of consumption. It was found that fans are committed to the drivers they support and that drivers have the ability to influence ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Too many students aren’t reading the required material for class. They aren’t reading anything else either. This study describes the reading practices of students in a business administration program in relation to both ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)A survey was developed to gather user expectations of privacy and concerns related to network traffic monitoring. Data from people originating in 27 countries is presented. Empirical data was collected to determine user ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)This paper presents a critical analysis of a subset of solutions of the too big to fail, TBTF, problem in the banking sector. For evaluation, it uses specified criteria factors which are pooled in one place from the existing ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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