Research Study Proposal For Nightlife Company (San Francisco, Ca), 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Research Study Proposal For Nightlife Company (San Francisco, Ca), Trevor Hewitt
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Introduction:
This research proposal proposes a study to evaluate the differences in consumer spending amongst a company’s three types of customers (pre-sale ticketed, paid admission, free admission) once granted entry to one of the company’s nightclub venues in order to evaluate the optimal supply mix of customer type to maximize revenues. Since the company’s venue has a finite customer capacity limit due to safety and fire regulations and laws and it generally reaches these legal capacity levels on the vast majority of the nights it is open for business (leaving surplus customers unable to enter the venue), the proposed research …
Business Plan For 1st Street Diner And Nightclub, 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Business Plan For 1st Street Diner And Nightclub, Brian D. Deets
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A business plan was created for a diner and nightclub located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, and the concept was found to be unique to the Des Moines area. The downtown community is home to sixty-six American-cuisine eateries, is under continued development, and looking to house more restaurant and entertainment establishments. Des Moines has a five-county metropolitan area with a population of 562,000 and Des Moines alone is home to 200,000 people. The downtown community is growing, and with the projected employment outlook to rise 11%, downtown’s 77,000 employees will also increase. These findings suggest that there is a market …
Sme Inc: Corporate Success And Social Good, 2011 Singapore Management University
Sme Inc: Corporate Success And Social Good, Paul Lim, Brendan Barrett, Nils Steinbrecher, Tomoki Fujii, Ted Tschang, Lieven Demeester
Research Collection School Of Economics
Panel of experts share their views ranging from the definition of sustainable business to how governments should lead by example.
Managing Communication In New Product Development Process: Virtual R&D Teams And Information Technology, 2011 Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
Managing Communication In New Product Development Process: Virtual R&D Teams And Information Technology, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of technology should be used”. To address the gap and answer the question, the paper presents a set of factors that make a construct that contribute to effective communication strategy for virtual R&D teams. The proposed construct has been modified based on the findings of a field …
The Impact Of Interorganizational Imitation On New Venture International Entry And Performance, 2011 Butler University
The Impact Of Interorganizational Imitation On New Venture International Entry And Performance, Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Dan Li
Stephanie A. Fernhaber
We examine the impact of interorganizational imitation on new venture international entry and subsequent performance. Using a sample of 150 U.S.-based publicly held new ventures, we find that new venture international entry is in part an imitative response to the internationalization of other firms in the venture's home country industry and/or subsets of firms with certain traits or outcomes. We also find that interorganizational imitation moderates the relationship between new venture international entry and profitability, but not the relationship between new venture international entry and sales growth. These findings contribute to the growing body of literature on new venture internationalization.
Exploring The Role Of Industry Structure In New Venture Internationalization, 2011 Butler University
Exploring The Role Of Industry Structure In New Venture Internationalization, Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Patricia P. Mcdougall, Benjamin M. Oviart
Stephanie A. Fernhaber
While we have gained considerable knowledge since the late 1980s regarding the phenomena of international new ventures, less is known about the influence of industry structure on these ventures. In the present paper, we draw on literature from industrial economics, international business and entrepreneurship to identify industry structure variables that fit within the theoretical framework of international new ventures. We then offer propositions as to how the identified industry structure variables individually and jointly influence the likelihood of new venture internationalization.
Venture Capitalists As Catalysts To New Venture Internationalization: The Impact Of Their Knowledge And Reputation Resources, 2011 Butler University
Venture Capitalists As Catalysts To New Venture Internationalization: The Impact Of Their Knowledge And Reputation Resources, Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Patricia P. Mcdougall-Covin
Stephanie A. Fernhaber
Venture Capitalists (VC) play an important role in influencing the strategic direction of the firms in which they invest. The findings of this study reveal that VCs can serve as a catalyst to new venture internationalization through the provision of knowledge and reputation resources. Furthermore, the international knowledge of a VC is more positively related to new venture internationalization when the VC is also reputable.
Market Research For Kenz Kouture Accessories, 2011 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Market Research For Kenz Kouture Accessories, Mackenzie Kassis
Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration
Kenz Kouture is a recently developed business venture specializing in handmade jewelry. This study was conducted to understand the market and the consumer’s wants and needs of the products and prices of this new venture. The purpose of this study was to assess the market, product development, and potential success for the custom jewelry company, Kenz Kouture. Topics for the literature review included consumer buying behavior and entrepreneurship. An online questionnaire was distributed using Facebook and utilized snowball sampling to gather data from 238 subjects. The results indicate Kenz Kouture’s current fan base and product base have the potential to …
User Patterns Of Key Performance Indicators Among Non-Profits In New York City And Westchester County, 2011 Pace University
User Patterns Of Key Performance Indicators Among Non-Profits In New York City And Westchester County, Gregory Holtz Phd
Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
After a brief description of the study participants, the four major questions which guide the research are explored:
- What percent of the non-profits in the study use KPI’s and what are the different purposes served by the non-profit’s sector adoption of KPI’s?
- What are the various uses of KPI’S by non-profits?
- What are the pressures that come from funders to use KPI’s?
- Why do some non-profits not use Key Performance Indicators?
The context inside of which these questions were posed is one that has changed rapidly over the last several years. For many years non-profit organizations concentrated their considerable energies …
Public Relations: The Importance Of Community Relationships Between Small-Businesses And The Community, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Public Relations: The Importance Of Community Relationships Between Small-Businesses And The Community, Jayne Elizabeth Crabtree
Journalism
With the downturn of the economy public relations has been one of the first departments to be discontinued in many businesses as an effort to save more money. This paper addresses the importance of community relationships, particularly in the small town of Cambria, California. The importance of the building relationships will be addressed from the prospective of successful Cambrian businesses currently involved in the community, as well as the perspective of one business not yet getting involved, The Tea Cozy.
Recommendations For Economic Development In Guadalupe, Ca, 2011 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Recommendations For Economic Development In Guadalupe, Ca, Larissa Requa Heeren
Master's Theses
It is recommended that the City of Guadalupe prepare and implement a small-scale business expansion and retention program using existing service providers in the area. This type of program model seems to hold the most potential for Guadalupe. A mixed-methods approach including in-depth cases studies of existing economic development programs and an analysis of opportunities and constraints in Guadalupe informs a set recommendations for future economic development in the City. Data was collected in three phases: short interviews with a variety of economic development program staff, short interviews with Guadalupe business owners and City officials and in-depth interviews with staff …
बाधकृत मैदानी आद्र क्षेत्रो में मातस्यकी प्रबंधन (Fisheries Management In Floodplain Wetlands), 2011 ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, (ICAR) Barrackpore, India
बाधकृत मैदानी आद्र क्षेत्रो में मातस्यकी प्रबंधन (Fisheries Management In Floodplain Wetlands), Ganesh Chandra
Ganesh Chandra
No abstract provided.
The Effectiveness Of Virtual R&D Teams In Smes: Experiences Of Malaysian Smes, 2011 Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
The Effectiveness Of Virtual R&D Teams In Smes: Experiences Of Malaysian Smes, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Interview With Franklin Jones, B-Line, 2011 (Audio), 2011 Portland State University
Interview With Franklin Jones, B-Line, 2011 (Audio), Franklin Jones
All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories
Interview of Franklin Jones by Grant Russ at Portland, Oregon on May 31st, 2011.
The interview index is available for download.
Enabling Building Efficiency: The New York City Urban Technology Innovation Center, 2011 Columbia University
Enabling Building Efficiency: The New York City Urban Technology Innovation Center, Timothy P. Cross Ph.D
Timothy P Cross
No abstract provided.
Risky Business? Entrepreneurship In The New Independent-Power Sector, 2011 Cornell University
Risky Business? Entrepreneurship In The New Independent-Power Sector, Wesley D. Sine, Heather A. Haveman, Pamela S. Tolbert
Pamela S Tolbert
Building on sociological research on institutions and organizations and psychological research on risk and decision making, we propose that the development of institutions that reduce the risks of entering new sectors has a stronger effect on the founding rates of firms using novel technologies than on firms using established technologies. In an analysis of the independent-power sector of the electricity industry from 1980 to 1992, we found that the development of regulative and cognitive institutions legitimated the entire sector and provided incentives for all sector entrants; thus, foundings of all kinds of firms multiplied rapidly but had a stronger impact …
Auburn University Team Takes Third Place In 2011 Launchpad Competition, 2011 SelectedWorks
Auburn University Team Takes Third Place In 2011 Launchpad Competition
Paul Swamidass
"Launchpad helps motivate the Thomas Walter Center to prepare a sound business plan for a promising Auburn University engineering invention each year," said Swamidass. "The screening provided by the Launchpad judges and publicity offered by the competition increases the chances that a strong Auburn invention will get to market for the benefit of the economy and the public. We expect IPC Foam to attract a CEO and private capital to establish a local startup to successfully commercialize this technology."
Facebook And College Students: Is Marketing Effective, 2011 University of Tennessee
Facebook And College Students: Is Marketing Effective, Kelsey Craig
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Essays On Gross Receipts Taxes, 2011 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Essays On Gross Receipts Taxes, Zhou Yang
Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation focuses on the incentives and economic effects of gross receipts taxes (GRTs) versus corporate income taxes (CITs). Conventional wisdom holds that GRTs are very poor tax instruments; however, several states have shown renewed interest in GRTs since 2002. An interesting question to ask is why states are reconsidering GRTs in spite of all criticisms. Are GRTs really as bad as what conventional wisdom says? There is little rigorous theoretical or empirical work on GRTs. My dissertation aims to help fill this gap by providing both theoretical and empirical analysis on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of GRTs versus …
Risky Ventures With Possibly No Returns: The Allure Of The "Wonderful But Weird World Of Biotechnology", 2011 Singapore Management University
Risky Ventures With Possibly No Returns: The Allure Of The "Wonderful But Weird World Of Biotechnology", Knowledge@Smu
Knowledge@SMU
Entrepreneurs in the biotech industry require large risk thresholds. For one, the business of research is an expensive one, the results of which may not necessarily translate to commercial viability. Investors with the foresight and patience for such long-term, high-risk ventures are also hard to come by. At a talk organised by SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Dr. Steven Fang, founder of CordLife, shared insights on what 'biotechopreneurship' entails.