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  An empirical evaluation of the determinants of executive perks at S&P 500 firms 

  Carrothers, Andrew (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2017)

  This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of executive perks at S&P 500 firms using manually collected panel data. CEOs receive perks more frequently and at higher levels than other named executive ...
  
  
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  A decade of teaching evidence-based management: initiatives and future directions 

  Saksida, Tina; Jelley, R. Blake (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2017)

  Practitioners who apply insights from organizational research to managerial decision making can make better decisions, yet there remains a disconnect between research, teaching, and practice in management. This paper ...
  
  
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  Organizational historicizing: the need for the new to be old 

  Weatherbee, Terrance; Sears, Donna (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper investigates processes of organizational historicizing as undertaken by Nova Scotia wineries. Results suggest that wineries engage in intentional construction of rhetorical histories and the projection of a ...
  
  
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  Canadian plurism an institutional logic in CJAS 

  Doucette, Mary E. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) is comprised of management educators and practitioners interested in advancing Canadian management scholarship, teaching and practice. It has been challenged by a ...
  
  
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  “You are just a temp” : intersectional experiences of temporary help agency workers In Nova Scotia 

  Shaffner, Ellen C. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper examines the intersectional experiences of temporary help agency workers. Temporary help agency work is overrepresented by women and individuals occupying multiple marginalized categories of identity, such as ...
  
  
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  Employee resource groups in the workplace: their prevalence, composition, and concerns 

  Krishnamurty, Keshav; Scully, Maureen; Carberry, Edward J. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  Employee resource groups (ERGs) in the U.S. are voluntary employee-led groups that are created to act as a resource for both employees and the organization and to foster a more inclusive and diverse work environment. These ...
  
  
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  Emergence of women’s entrepreneurship in local development processes: what are the key factors to consider in rural areas? 

  Ayayi, Ayi Gavriel; Dali, Chantale; Nomo, Théophile Serge (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  The article aims to clarify the factors that promote women’s micro-enterprises in a rural local development context. Specifically, the study examines the impact of entrepreneurial capacities, environmental support and the ...
  
  
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  A third wave for entrepreneurship research: mending the split between causation and effectuation through complexity 

  Nason, Rick; James, Albert (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  In this paper we propose that the theoretical framework for understanding entrepreneurship of Effectuation as developed in Sarasvathy (2001) can be reframed as a subset of complexity management as proposed by Nason (2017). ...
  
  
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  The relationship between corporate governance and dividend payouts in Canada 

  MacAulay, Ken; Oxner, Mary (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper studies the relationship between corporate governance and dividend policy in Canada. We find that corporate governance is positively related to the size of the dividend paid for dividend paying companies. We do ...
  
  
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  Can efficiency and equality have both? 

  Zhou, Grace Lei (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper extends the theory of income liquidity to the study of listed companies, shows the relationship between pay gap, income liquidity and enterprise performance, and improves the classical tournament model. This ...
  
  
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  Accounting and accountability in workfare programs 

  Chawla, Akhila (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper is a comparative study of national workfare programs from an empirical accounting perspective, informed by the works of Bourdieu. The site of investigation includes four fundamentally different models run in the ...
  
  
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  L’adoption de la nouvelle réforme de l’acte uniforme relatif au droit comptable et à l’information financière face aux normes IFRS: mimétisme ou réalisme ? 

  Avelé, Donatien; Tachouola, Vincent (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  Le passage d’une culture comptable plan OCAM18 à un système comptable doté d’un cadre conceptuel inspiré des normes comptables internationales est une avancée notoire dans les économies de l’Afrique sub-saharienne. Les ...
  
  
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  Changing attitudes toward executive perquisites: indications from TARP 

  Carrothers, Andrew; Yao, Liufang (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This paper examines what happened to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) monetary and nonmonetary compensation at Standard & Poors (S&P) 500 firms in the years surrounding the 2008 financial crisis and in the context of the ...
  
  
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  Alternative asset holdings by US pension funds since the 2008 financial crisis 

  MacLean, Stephen J. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  Since the financial crisis of 2008, the percentage of alternative asset holdings by institutional investors has increased dramatically. The current study utilizes the Public Plans Database to analyze both the drivers and ...
  
  
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  Motivational dynamics: understanding the perceptions of self and others in the Canadian lodging industry 

  Murray, William C. (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  This study explores the motivations of Canadian hotel employees by measuring self-reported rankings of preferred job rewards using the Ten Factor Model. Responses were compared specifically between job levels, as well as ...
  
  
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  The Wolfville Magic Winery Bus: a grounded theory approach to understanding the consumer view of winescape 

  Robertson, Jenna; Sears, Donna; Weatherbee, Terrance (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  The tourism literature uses two perspectives to understand the wine tourism, the micro approach (an individual winery) and the macro approach (the winery area/region). This study reveals the important role played by tour ...
  
  
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  First thoughts on an event: what do they tell us?: preliminary findings from a project on the First World War 

  Das, Mallika; George, E. Wanda (2018)

  This year marks the end of the centenary of the First World War (FWW/WWI from now on), an historic event that changed the course of history in significant ways. The centenary of the FWW has been marked by special events ...
  
  
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  What should Canada export under the CETA?: an examination of the Canada-European trade agreement for the aircraft sector 

  Soral, Lovika; Lin, Hsin-Chen (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  We identify three specific products within the aircraft sectors that offer Canadian exporters the highest potential to export to the European Union under the newly signed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between ...
  
  
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  Testing an extension to the model of acceptance of technology in household with undergraduate and graduate students of four universities in three global countries 

  Fillion, Gérard; Ekionea, Jean-Pierre Booto; Gonye, Kathy; Nguejo, Aurelia Nicole (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  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, mobile phone is now ...
  
  
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  Integrating ICT Into higher education: onsite and online students’ perceptions in a large vs a small university 

  Fillion, Gérard; Ekionea, Jean-Pierre Booto (Atlantic Schools of Business, 2018)

  For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. This paper aims to compare the perceptions of onsite students (blended mode) and of ...
  
  

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