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2022-2023 Operating Budget, Southern University And A & M College. Office Of Finance & Administration.

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2022-2023 Operating Budget of Southern University, Baton Rouge Campus.

2022-08-19 Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee meeting minutes from August 19, 2022.

Plaster College Of Business And Entrepreneurship Gains New Faculty, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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The New Consumed Consumer: The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On The Compulsive And Impulsive Buying Habits Of Gen Z, Kristen Kline

Honors Program Theses and Projects

This study focuses on the compulsive and impulsive spending habits of Gen Z over the past year. Gen Z is defined as the generation born within the years of 1997-2013, following the millennial generation. This generation has been raised surrounding the internet and social media and are considered one of the most technologically advanced generations (Schroth, 2019). Gen Z’s use of technology continues to drastically increase. Recent Data shows that 98% of Gen Z own a smartphone and average a usage time of about 4 hours per day (Kastenholz, 2021). The most popular social platforms among Gen Z are Instagram, …

How Technology Has Changed The Field Of Accounting, Emmanuel J. Quinto Ii

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The thesis aims to discuss how technology has changed the field of accounting. The research focuses on information from journal articles and research reports to discover the changes that technological advancements have brought to the accounting industry and profession. The customer Satisfaction Model is one of the researcher's theories in this thesis. The theoretical framework also consists of the Technology Acceptance Model as the other theory. The discussion emphasizes the technological advances in accounting and the shortcomings of technological advancements in accounting. Each type of business is affected differently by technology. Accounting, for example, must keep up with the rapid …

2022-08-18 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from August 18, 2022.

Mcnally, Martin V., Collection, 1910-1918, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of photographs and a scrapbook relating to the college life of Vincent McNally at the State Manual Training Normal School, circa 1910.

Born on July 10^th, 1892 in Hindsboro, Illinois, Martin Virgil McNally grew up in Olathe, Kansas. In 1910, McNally enrolled at the State Manual Training Normal School in Pittsburg (today’s Pittsburg State University), and was involved several school activities, including basketball, track, baseball, football, and theater. In 1917 he enrolled in Company A, 353^rd Regiment, 89^th Division as a 2^nd Lieutenant. He married M. Alma McNally and in 1942 he began …

Adapting North American Selling Methods To Cross-Cultural Technology Sales Engagements In The Borderless Global Economy, Zachary Paul Mckinley

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Successful selling relies heavily upon effective communication, mutual understanding, and other complex interpersonal dynamics. Accordingly, the highly unique qualities distinguishing North American culture from other global regions can create unique challenges for North American salespeople attempting to sell to non-US buyers from different cultural backgrounds, especially when competing against non-US salespeople. This study examined these challenges through a phenomenological framework to identify pattern cultural interactions and their consequences upon selling outcomes from the described cross-cultural sales experiences of twelve highly tenured North American technology salespeople who participated in this study. The observed phenomena were analyzed through a qualitative coding process …

Local Food In Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Sids) Destination Marketing – The Case Of Trinidad & Tobago, Winston Mohammed

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Trinidad & Tobago is a Caribbean and Small Island Destination State (SIDS) tourism anomaly because it is neither a mass leisure nor a traditional (3S) sun, sea, and sand tourist destination. There is growing scholarly attention on food-related destination marketing in the most successful and attractive tourist destinations globally. Despite the influence of food on a destination's competitiveness and attractiveness, policymakers and tourism organizations of the Caribbean and Trinidad & Tobago have at best underutilized and even ignored the potential of local food because they poorly understand its capacity and capability. Traditional destination marketing treats food merely as a complementary …

Leadership Strategies And Behaviors That Support Career Advancement For Teleworkers, Glory Ann Sanders

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Research in telework has primarily focused on the study of teleworkers or on the comparison between teleworkers and non-teleworkers. For this reason, leader behaviors in the telework context has been a relatively neglected area of study. This study emphasizes the lack of career advancement within the telework arena that has contributed to higher turnover intentions and a reluctancy to participate in telework programs. This research specifically explores leader behaviors and strategies that support career advancement for teleworkers within Denver, Colorado. The findings indicate that leaders are more intentional about communication with teleworkers than with non-teleworkers. Physical distance creates many challenges …

Government Contract Re-Compete Impacts On Employees, John James Bergmann

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative, case study research project was to examine the impacts of recurring contract re-competes on the defense contractor workforce. The primary focus was on how these every 5-year events affected morale, job satisfaction, productivity, and retention. The initial research effort explored factors which motivate and de-motivate employees, described common attributes of defense contractors, and discussed the vagaries of the contract re-compete process specifically and government contracting in general. This led to development of a conceptual framework, identification of several theories to assist in explaining and predicting employee behavior, and the design of semi-structured research questions to …

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Leadership Development Programs In The Public Sector And Its Impact On Organizational Performance, Chijioke Henry Osuagwu

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The main focus of public sector organizations is to provide efficient services to stakeholders and continuously adapt, redesign, and reinvent through effective LDPs. The qualitative flexible multiple case study explored what strategies and tools were implemented to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of LDPs to improve frontline leaders and the delivery of services to stakeholders in public sector organizations in Owerri-Imo State, Nigeria. Online surveys and semi-structured interviews were used to gather information to study the research problem. The online survey measured employees' perception of public sector frontline leaders and their impact on performance. The findings revealed ineffective frontline leadership, …

An Analysis Of Weighted Least Squares Monte Carlo, Xiaotian Zhu

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Since Longstaff and Schwartz [2001] brought the amazing Regression-based Monte Carlo (LSMC) method in pricing American options, it has received heated discussion. Based on the research done by Fabozzi et al. [2017] that applies the heteroscedasticity correction method to LSMC, we further extend the study by introducing the methods from Park [1966] and Harvey [1976]. Our work shows that for a single stock American Call option modelled by GBM with two exercise opportunities, WLSMC or IRLSMC provides better estimates in continuation value than LSMC. However, they do not lead to better exercise decisions and hence have little to no effect …

Online Influencer Marketing – An Effective Marketing Technique For Strategic Branding, Resonating Communication And Customer Engagement, Prashant Chaudhary

Management Dynamics

The power of word-of-mouth is all omnipresent, but with the advent and proliferation of social media with its speed of spreading the word, it’s more significant than ever before. Online influencer marketing is bringing fashion brands and customers specifically to the millennials – closer than ever before. Personality and content are what social influencers provide to the prospective customers of a fashion brand. Having created their online niche and their follower base these influencers are often probably like-minded individuals. Recommendations from influencers have become more effective and can hold more weight than various impersonal forms of advertisement. A business partnership …

Public Sector Unions And Government Financing, Qian He

Lingnan Theses and Dissertations (MPhil & PhD)

Unions play a significant role in the U.S. public sector. Most studies focus on unions in the private sector, but their role in the public sector is much more significant. According to the latest Current Population Survey (CPS) by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than one-third of public sector employees are union members, whereas private sector union membership is around 6%. In this paper, we examine the impact of public sector unions on the financing costs of government because the cost of financing is one of the major concerns of governments.

We employ an exogenous shock induced by the Supreme …

A Psychological Profile Of The Digitized Economy: Who Buys Cryptocurrencies, Nfts, And Meme-Stocks (And Why)?, Nicole Wolfe

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

As the global digital economy continues to grow in interest and financial worth, it is imperative to harvest data to gain early information on this nuanced economy. Already, we have witnessed billions of dollars in losses and wins at the blink of an eye, encouragement to invest from well-known celebrities and politicians, and high anxiety from the newness, power consumption, and potential outcomes of this nuanced system. Stemming from the lack of solid evidence in this emerging field, we hope to gain more insight on the early players and variation within the digitized economy. Similarly, we hope to identify specific …

Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond Replication, Si Zhe Yuan

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

Description of the work that I did the summer and its respective outcomes.

The Rise Of Blockchain Technology In Businesses, Haiqiang Chen

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

A blockchain is a digitally distributed and decentralized ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. Using this technology, transaction participants can confirm transactions without a need for a central clearing authority, making the technology a legitimate disruptor for fields like contracts, financing, and supply chain. Benefits of blockchain technology include immutability, efficiencies, and decentralization.

This project poster studied how blockchain technology influences supply chain, logistics, and supply chain finance through case studies. Particularly, this project examined Walmart's 2016 pork pilot program launch, the Haikou and Sanya Port hub in China, and the "We Chain" financing system in Tencent company.

A Qualitative Look Into Repair Practices, Jumana Labib

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

This research poster is based on a working research paper which moves beyond the traditional scope of repair and examines the Right to Repair movement from a smaller, more personal lens by detailing the 6 categorical impediments as dubbed by Dr. Alissa Centivany (design, law, economic/business strategy, material asymmetry, informational asymmetry, and social impediments) have continuously inhibited repair and affected repair practices, which has consequently had larger implications (environmental, economic, social, etc.) on ourselves, our objects, and our world. The poster builds upon my research from last year (see "The Right to Repair: (Re)building a better future"), this time pulling …

A Meta-Analysis On Diverse Teams, Jeeyun Han

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

A meta-analysis on the relationship between diversity and effectiveness in teams. This is a follow up to the Journal of Business Studies Decade-Award paper Professor Gunter Stahl & Professor Martha Maznevski published in 2010, applying new, advanced meta-analysis techniques developed by Professor Piers Steel to a much larger database of articles. We will examine all types of diversity in teams, including intersectionalities and their impact.

How Can Social Networks Impact Careers In Game Development?, Tongzhang Wang

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

The game development industry is one characterized by young workers and fast worker turnover. The popularity of using twitter as a professional tool within the video games industry presents a potentially insightful view port into a professional's informal network. Investigating characteristics of the social networks of newly graduated students in the game development industry may reveal what factors contribute to fast worker turnover and how certain cohorts may face additional barriers.

Exploring Digital Transformation In Dentistry At The Ssmd Dental Clinic, Aliaa Abdelmeguid

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

Digital transformation in healthcare includes an array of digital technologies that are rapidly transforming every domain of healthcare. Digital transformation has had a massive influence on Dentistry as common practices in the field continue to shift from traditional methods to digitally backed processes. This impacts not only dental practices but also dental education required to train dentists for a digital future. Regardless of this impact, adopting digital tools and techniques in healthcare practice and in education remains a significant challenge to accomplish successfully. This research aims to explore and tackle the barriers of adopting Intraoral Cameras within the SSMD Clinics …

Recreation Programming, Anne Demartini

KSU Distinguished Course Repository

This course will provide students with an overview of recreation programming across the age spectrum and diverse populations. Leisure programming trends and niche marketing are examined as well. This course also facilitates the understanding and application of the recreation program process for leisure delivery systems including an introduction to activity plans, program design, delivery and evaluation.

This class uses a hybrid format which gives students some flexibility and independence. It also allows for "flex time" for our high impact learning activies. The class performs service learning directly related to the course topic through volunteering with recreation programs both on campus …

Conflicts Of Interest In Decision-Making For The Transportation Of Dangerous Goods By Sea: Perspectives Of Freight-Forwarding Sales People, Hsi-Kun Chen, Shiou-Yu Chen, Kung-Don Ye

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

This study develops and investigates an ethical decision-making model to evaluate the major factors-moral sensitivity, moral consensus, desire for power, and desire for money-that influence conflicts of interest in decision-making among ocean-freight-forwarding salespeople. To empirically test this conceptual model, we used a scenario-based questionnaire to collect 139 valid samples and then conducted further analyses using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients and hierarchical regressions. The results of the preliminary analysis revealed two types of conflicts of interest in decision-making, namely avoidance of negative effects and positive promotion, which were significantly related to moral sensitivity and moral consensus. Advanced regressions partially supported the …

Explaining The Scarcity Of Women Accounting Partners: Male And Female Accountants Respond, Rebekah Joy Maupin

Southern Business Review

Rebekah J. Maupin is Professor of Accountmg, School of Accountancy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Equity And Efficiency Through Local Measured Service Revisited, Dale E. Lehman, Iqbal A. Memon

Southern Business Review

Dale E. Lehman is an Associate Professor of Economic,. School of Business Administration at Fort Lewis College. Iqbal A Memon is an Assistant Professor of Finance School of Business Administration at Fort Lewis College.

Mutual Fund Performance In The Eighties: Has It Improved?, George W. Kester

Southern Business Review

George W. Kester is a Professor of Finance m the Department of Management at Bucknell University.

The Who, What, When, Where, How, And Why Of Forecasting, Paul Herbig, John Milewicz, James E. Golden

Southern Business Review

Paul Herbig, John Milewicz, and James E. Golden are Professors in the Department of Management/Marketing, College of Commerce and Business Administration at Jacksonville State Unversity.

Capital Structure: A Literary Synopsis And Reexamination, E. Tylor Claggett Jr.

Southern Business Review

E. Tylor Claggett, Jr., is an Assistant Professor, Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University.

Southern Business Review Title Page

Southern Business Review

Southern Business Review Title Page. Spring, 1994 Volume 20 Issue 1