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Audit Committee Effectiveness: A Synthesis Of The Empirical Audit Committee Literature, F. Todd Dezoort, Dana R. Hermanson, Deborah S. Archambeault, Scott A. Reed

Accounting Faculty Publications

The empirical audit committee literature is both diverse and expansive, with rapid growth in recent years based on increased concerns about corporate governance and the quality of financial reporting. Our objective in this paper is to synthesize empirical literature on audit committee effectiveness to guide future thinking and research on audit committees. To organize our review, we focus on four components that we believe contribute to audit committee effectiveness (ACE) - audit committee composition, authority, resources, and diligence.

Empower Update 3rd Quarter 2002, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Empower Update 3rd Quarter 2002 from October 3, 2002.

Towards An Integrated Theory Of Intellectual Property, Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article addresses a curious gap in the theory of intellectual property. One of the central dogmas in both the legal and economic literatures is that patents, copyrights and trademarks constitute separate forms of protection, each serving different purposes and designed to operate independently of the others. By challenging this dogma, however, this Article shows that certain combinations of intellectual property protection give rise to important synergies. When a patentee can develop brand loyalty among its customers, the existence of trademark protection allows her to extend its protection even after her patent expires, and thereby earn higher profits than would …

Reconsidering Estoppel: Patent Administration And The Failure Of Festo, R. Polk Wagner

All Faculty Scholarship

Last Term, in Festo Corporation v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabashuki Co., the United States Supreme Court missed perhaps the most important opportunity for patent law reform in two decades. At the core of the failure to grasp the implications of "prosecution history estoppel" - a judicially-crafted principle limiting the enforceable scope of patents based on acts occurring during their application process - is the heretofore universal (but ultimately unsupportable) view of the doctrine as an arbitrary ex post limitation on patent scope. This Article demonstrates the serious flaws in this traditionalist approach, and develops a new theory of prosecution history …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 44 Number 3, Winter 2002, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - GLOBALIZATION EMPOWERS GOOD AND EVIL By Rob Elder. Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prizewinning author and international affairs columnist for The New York Times, discusses this complex issue during a visit to campus.

14 - ON THE COLLISION OF WORLDS By Fred White. Corny science fiction movies inspire an SCU English professor to ponder deeply cosmic questions.

18 - THE CAMPAIGN FOR SANTA CLARA By Elizabeth Kelley Gillogly '93. SCU launches the largest campaign in its history, with plans for endowed scholarships, a new library, a new building for the Leavey School of Business, and much more.

Employer Perceptions Of Work Flexibility: Role Of Skills And Wages In Job Performance, Raymond L. Raab, Pradeep Kotamraju, Maureen O'Brien

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A programming approach, data envelopment analysis (DEA), will sort and rank occupations on the basis of maximizing skills required and minimizing that occupation's wage resulting in a set of "hiring" efficiency scores. This procedure improves Borda rankings (rankings based on the average of rankings of the individual components), fixed weight, or subjective weighting schemes. In DEA, the linear programming weights or coefficients are explicitly chosen to maximize the discrimination between the skills and wages. A rank correlation between the efficiency scores and various work and demographic variables is performed. The results show a negative correlation between the wage rate and …

Bluecross Blueshield Of Florida Health Issues Lecture Series Packet, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Packet contains: Brochure/Program Agenda: Health Issues Lecture Series -The Future Uncovered: Face the Challenged of the Uninsured, w/ completed registration form for Susan B. Towler, Brochure/Program Agenda: Health Issues Lecture Series -The Future Uncovered: Face the Challenged of the Uninsured, w/ blank registration form, Fact Sheet: C.H.A.I.N. (Communications Health Action Information Network) Linking Floridians Who Care, Flyer: The Center for Practical Health Reform, Information Sheet: CommunitiesInCharge – Jacksonville: Financing and Delivering Health Care to the Uninsured w/ Jax Care diagram, Facts Sheet: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Key Facts, Brochure: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: Fast Facts About …

Manual: Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida And Brunson Enterprises-You Have The Power To Change A Life: - Image Award Entry, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Manual: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Brunson Enterprises-You have the Power to Change a Life: - Image Award Entry.

Manual: The Blue Foundation For A Healthy Florida – 2002 Public Relations Results, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A Blue Foundation For a healthy Florida Manual for 2002 Public Relations Results.

Written Notes: Fabian Fuentes, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Written Notes: Fabian Fuentes.

Photocopies Of Items Related To Dr. Edward Jelks, With Attachments, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Photocopies of items related to Dr. Edward Jelks, including: Resolution of appreciation from Blue Shield of Florida board of directors to Edward Jelks, List of Duval County Medical Society Presidents 1916-1940, and Dr. Jelks’ obituary and application for membership to the Duval County Medical Society, Inc.

An Investigation Into The Sources Of Economic Growth Differentials Among Nations, John Roppenecker

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This study was conducted to comprehensively review established growth economics literature, analyze newly revised data sources, and reestimate generally accepted economic growth models using the revised data. Specific findings include the revalidation of the MRW model, discovery of a satisfactory alternative measure of human capital, sensitivity issues when performing Barro-style regressions, and data trends that may have an alarming impact on certain of the growth models.

Reestimation of the MRW model was found to be robust, and satisfactorily explains differences in productivity among nations. Additionally, human capital as measured by the literacy rate of the population was found to be …

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment To Latin America, Carlos A. Loredo

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The purpose of the paper is to examine the literature of foreign direct investment to evaluate what factors are determinant to attract inflows of foreign capital to Latin-American and Caribbean countries. The paper focuses on factors such as market size, degree of openness, rule of law, political stability, trade, regional integration, democracy, availability of natural resources, government efficiency, and infrastructure (i.e. energy generation, transportation systems, ports and telecommunication services). The regression results showed that the degree of openness, trade reform, education, market size, and infrastructure are the most important determinants of foreign investment. Based on my analysis, different Latin American …

Corporate Courtesy - Using Business Etiquette In A Professional Environment, Shayna Sanchez

Senior Research Projects

No abstract provided.

Dangerous Liaisons: Corporate Law, Trust Law, And Interdoctrinal Legal Transplants, Edward B. Rock, Michael L. Wachter

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Securities Regulation As Lobster Trap: A Credible Commitment Theory Of Mandatory Disclosure, Edward B. Rock

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2002 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for January of 2002.

Webspy: An Architecture For Monitoring Web Server Availability In A Multi-Platform Environment, Madhan Mohan Thirukonda, Shirley Ann Becker

Business Faculty Publications

For an electronic business (e-business), customer satisfaction can be the difference between long-term success and short-term failure. Customer satisfaction is highly impacted by Web server availability, as customers expect a Web site to be available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Unfortunately, unscheduled Web server downtime is often beyond the control of the organization. What is needed is an effective means of identifying and recovering from Web server downtime in order to minimize the negative impact on the customer. An automated architecture, called WebSpy, has been developed to notify administration and to take immediate action when Web …

Market Efficiency And The Returns To Simple Technical Trading Rules: New Evidence From U.S. Equity Market And Chinese Equity Markets, Gary Gang Tian, Guang Hua Wan, Mingyuan Guo

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Numerous studies in the finance literature have investigated technical analysis to determine its validity as an investment tool. This study is an attempt to explore whether some forms of technical analysis can predict stock price movement and make excess profits based on certain trading rules in markets with different efficiency level. To avoid using arbitrarily selected 26 trading rules as did by Brock, Lakonishok and LeBaron (1992) and later by Bessembinder and Chan (1998), this paper examines predictive power and profitability of simple trading rules by expanding their universe of 26 rules to 412 rules. In order to find out …

A Review Of Data-Driven Market Segmentation In Tourism, Sara Dolnicar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Clustering has become a very popular way of identifying market segments based on survey data. The number of published segmentation studies has strongly increased since the milestone publication on benefit segmentation by Haley in 1968. Nevertheless, numerous very fundamental weaknesses are permanently encountered when studying segmentation studies in detail, thus making the results reported more than questionable. This article illustrates how data-driven segmentation studies are typically conducted in the field of tourism research, provides a systematic overview of applications published in the last decades, outlines critical issues that often lead to overestimation of the validity of results and offers solutions …

Business Travellers’ Hotel Expectations And Disappointments: A Different Perspective To Hotel Attribute Importance Investigation, Sara Dolnicar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Hotel attribute importance studies have a long tradition in hospitality research. This study investigates the issue for business travelers by asking the respondents to state their expectations and disappointments / dissatisfaction in an open question format instead of rating the importance of attributes directly. The aim of the study is twofold: (1) to learn about expectations and past disappointments of this particular segment to provide additional insight for customizing hotel offers and (2) to investigate whether the findings reported in literature so far are mirrored or not.

British Transport History: Shifting Perspectives And New Agendas, Simon Ville

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This chapter is a contribution to the festschrift of Derek Aldcroft, formerly Professor of Economic History at Leicester and Manchester. It offers a retrospective on his contribution to transport history and suggests new research agendas for the subject.

Encouraging Tutorial Attendance At University Did Not Increase Performance, Joan R. Rodgers

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

When tertiary education is subsidized the cost of poor student performance in university subjects falls not only on the individual student but also on society in general. Society therefore has an interest in promoting student performance. There is evidence in the literature that absenteeism from university classes is widespread and that absenteeism adversely affects student performance. In this paper I describe an incentive scheme that increased attendance of business and economics students in an introductory statistics subject at a typical Australian university. Like other authors I find a strong positive association between attendance and academic performance, both in the presence …

Profiling Vacation Segments With An Environment Protection Attitude – A Strategic Marketing Approach Towards Sustainability, Sara Dolnicar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The optimal way of implementing sustainable tourism is to identify that particular market segment that cares about environmental issues and does not perceive it as sacrifice to treat the destination’s resources with care. This study aims at reviewing past endeavours in this direction and empirically illustrate the approach suggested by characterizing the group of sustainable summer vacationers in Austria. These tourists turn out to offer a strong basis for the creation of a sustainable niche segment for future marketing action.

Explaining Union Mobilisation In The 1880s And Early 1900s, R. Markey

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The two great upsurges in Australian union mobilisation occurred in the 1880s and the first decade of the twentieth century. In both cases membership increased in scope and intensity: an expansion of the number of union organisations across a wider range of industries and occupations, as well as an increase of union density in industries and occupations where unions already existed. However, a major environmental difference between the two upsurges in mass unionism was the existence of a system of compulsory state arbitration, from 1901 in NSW and from 1904 in the Commonwealth. It has commonly been observed that the …

India: The Role Of Small-Scale Industries In An Emerging Economy, Shyam Bhati

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The role of small-scale industries in the economic development of India in recent years is critically analysed in this paper. Various factors affecting the growth and development of small-scale industries and the problem faced by this vital sector of Indian economy is examined. The contribution of small-scale industries in employment growth, production, export promotion and other economic indicators are discussed. Conclusions drawn from the analysis of the data suggest that the various policy initiatives taken by the Government of India since independence have helped this sector to grow considerably. Some of the policies of the Government of India may, however, …

Operationalizing Segment Choice Criteria, Sara Dolnicar, Roman Freitag

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Market segmentation has become one of the fundamental building blocks of strategic marketing during the last decades. Although the methodology of deriving market segments from survey data became more and more sophisticated, no operationalized list of selection criteria for alternative segment options has been introduced so far to the authors' knowledge. The purpose of this paper is (l) to illustrate the lack of operationalized segment choice (or attractiveness evaluation) criteria and (2) to make a first step towards filling this gap.

Identifying The Corporate Leaders, Simon Ville

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In chapter two we used a range of aggregated time series and pooled cross-sectional data on the economy and firms to present a broad picture of the growth of big business in the Australian economy, and drew parallels with the experience of other nations. We were able to identify in which sectors our largest firms have been located, how this changed over the course of the twentieth century, and who these firms were. This provides the basis for a closer investigation of some of these firms in this and the subsequent chapters. Thus, in the current chapter, we develop the …

Institutional Isomorphism And The Adoption Of Lass In A Developing Country: Another Crisis Of External Dependence, Monir Zaman Mir, Abu Shiraz Rahaman

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper provides a critical evaluation of the recent decision of the Bangladeshi accounting profession to adopt all applicable International Accounting Standards. The paper argues that institutional legitimisation is a key factor that drives the adoption process. This argument is based on evidence of immense pressure that major international donor/lending institutions put on the Bangladeshi government and professional accounting bodies to adopt lASs not only to provide credibility to foreign investors but also ensure that accountability arrangements with lending/donor agencies are tight enough. Clearly, the government and other institutions in Bangladesh have very little option (if any at all) because …

Internationalisation Process: Revisiting The Uppsala Model In The Asian Context, J Rajendren Pandian, Ah Ba Sim

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The Uppsala model of the intemationalisation process in terms of gradual incremental steps had been widely adopted in empirical research, particularly in the context of western multinational firms. We revisited this model in the context of Asian multinational firms. Examining case studies of Asian MNEs from Taiwan and Singapore in the textile and electronics industries, we found variations in the process postulated by the Uppsala model, and seek to explain them in terms of proactive actions and absorptive capacity perspective. Future research and limitations are also indicated.