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An Empirical Analysis Of Environmental Uncertainty, Realoptions Decision Patterns And Firm Performance, Alfred M. Boccia Jr.

Open Access Dissertations

Real options theory has become an influential explanatory and normative framework for making resource allocation decisions. Despite a growing body of strategy research regarding real options, however, there is as of yet little empirical confirmation (1) that firm resource allocation behavior conforms with real options theory, or (2) that employing real options principles has a positive impact on firm performance. This research examines these questions. Using a survey instrument designed to measure a range of real options-theoretic decision patterns, data has been collected from a sample of 173 U.S. manufacturing firms. This data set has been used to test two …

Managing Audits To Manage Earnings: The Impact Of Baiting Tactics On An Auditor’S Ability To Uncover Earnings Management Errors, Benjamin Labrie Luippold

Open Access Dissertations

This study examines an aspect of earnings management that I refer to as audit management. I define audit management as a client's strategic use of techniques (e.g., baiting tactics) to prevent auditors from discovering earnings management during the audit. Specifically, I examine whether two baiting tactics, diversionary statements and distracting errors, affect an auditor's ability to uncover an accounting error used to manage earnings. Auditors performed analytical review on financial statements that contained an earnings management error (i.e., an intentional error that results in the client meeting an earnings target). I manipulated whether management provided a diversionary statement that explicitly …

The Geography Of Hedge Funds, Melvyn Teo

Research Collection BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre

This article analyzes the relationship between the risk-adjusted performance of hedge funds and their proximity to investments using data on Asian-focused hedge funds. We find, relative to an augmented Fung and Hsieh (2004) factor model, that hedge funds with a physical presence (head or research office) in their investment region outperform other hedge funds by 3.72 percent per year. The local information advantage is pervasive across all major geographical regions, but is strongest for Emerging Market funds and funds holding illiquid securities. These results are robust to adjustments for fund fees, serial correlation, backfill bias, and incubation bias. We show …

Managing Maize Production In Shifting Cultivation Milpa Systems In Yucatan, Through Weed Control And Manure Application, David Parsons, Luis Ramirez-Aviles, Jerome H. Cherney, Quirine M. Ketterings, Robert W. Blake, Charles F. Nicholson

Agribusiness

Milpa cultivation involving cutting an area of forest, burning, and planting crops has existed in the Yucatán Peninsula for more than three millennia. Fallow periods are short and decreasing, leading to a productivity collapse of the system. Technologies that increase yield and maintain plots under cultivation have the potential to decrease the land area needed for family food production, resulting in more mature forests. This study was undertaken to examine the relative importance and potential interactions of declining fertility and increasing weed pressure in reducing maize (Zea mays L.) yields, and to examine the effectiveness of combinations of weed …

2009 September-October, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Athletics Press Release Archives

Morehead State Athletics press releases from September to October of 2009.

Situation Awareness Requirements Analysis For Emergency Management Planning, Norman E. Groner

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Investigating The Factors Impacting Retailers Evaluations Of Web Solution Providers, Roisin Vize, Aileen Kennedy, Joseph Coughlan, Fiona Ellis-Chadwick

Conference papers

Relationship marketing has emerged as a central tenet in the B2B literature (Athanasopoulou, 2009). Research indicates that firms will be more successful if they build long term, mutually supportive relationships with their business customers (Rauyruen and Miller, 2007). Retailers are responding to ever increasing competitive challenges by building collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers and service providers. Increasingly SME retailers have been adopting third party web services to help them leverage the technical expertise and knowledge required to become more strategic in their e-business ventures (Ray and Ray, 2006). Such arrangements rely on relational exchange characterized by high levels of trust …

Trade Equilibrium, Jobs, & Stimulus, Narendra C. Bhandari

Faculty Working Papers

As long as the U.S. continues to have huge trade deficits, the American jobs would continue to be off-shored and no net new jobs can be created. Spending billions of American stimulus dollars would end up stimulating foreign economies. It would be like taking wealth from the American workers and giving it to their foreign counterpart.

Traditional techniques such as tax cuts for the rich (fiscal policies), lower interest rates (monetary policies), and “buy American” (patriotic appeals) have failed to solve the problems.

In order to spur its economy and jobs, the U.S. “must” adopt, as its “mission,” bringing parity …

Lying Behavior: Assessing Within- And Betweenherd Variation In Free-Stall-Housed Dairy Cows, K. Ito, D. M. Weary, M. A. G. Von Keyserlingk

Housing and Confinement of Farm Animals Collection

One of the most important design criteria for dairy cow housing is access to a comfortable lying area. Behaviors such as the time cows spend lying down and how often they lie down can be used to evaluate the quality of stalls; however, assessing lying behavior on farms can be challenging. Indices such as the cow comfort index (CCI) and stall use index (SUI) have been widely used in on-farm assessments. The aims were to establish reliable sampling and recording methods for measuring lying behavior, to evaluate the adequacy of the CCI and SUI as estimates of lying behavior, and …

Policies Towards High-Skilled Immigrants In The Eu, U.S.A. And Canada. Comparative Perspective, Hristina Petrova

Hristina Petrova

No abstract provided.

Unasur, ¿Para Qué?, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Las Empresas Ecuatorianas Son Muy Vulnerables Frente A Las De La Región, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Evolución De La Industria Guayaquileña, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Emprendimiento Y Creación De Riqueza, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Las Empresas Que Perduran, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Euro Versus Dolar, Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

Desde septiembre 2008, la crisis internacional en los mercados financieros nos ha puesto a prueba acerca de lo que realmente pensamos o creemos sobre la intervención del estado en la economía. Al igual que en la crisis del ’30, la salida pensada y ejecutada desde los centros de poder ha sido un plan de rescate de distintas compañías y sectores económicos, sin advertir que una vez que comenzamos por un sector seguimos por otros.

Abstract From My Article Re: Proposals For Improving Deficiencies In The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's Noncommercial Risk Insurance Guarantee Program To Enable Private Investor Delivery Of Clean Water Services To Poor Consumers In Africa, Valentina Okaru-Bisant

Valentina Okaru-Bisant

Despite the enumerated advantages of MIGA’s non commercial risks insurance guarantee program, deficiencies in the scope and contents of its guarantee program, particularly 1) absence of corruption and consumer conflicts (consumer resistance to private investor participation in water supply services) risk insurance and 2) absence of development based due diligence and risk assessment (DDRA) strategies, stifles ability to enable private investors to invest in the water sector in African nations. Regarding scope, since MIGA’s inception in 1988, it has not provided risk insurance guarantee to private water investors to encourage participation in the delivery of water services in Africa, a …

The El Paso Zoo: 2008 Economic Impact On El Paso, Texas, Brent Mccune, David A. Schauer, Elizabeth K. Gibson, Roberto Tinajero, Guadalupe Corral, Carlos Olmedo, Dennis L. Soden

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Following The Financial Crisis: Risk And Opportunities For Singapore, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Asian economies are showing signs of recovery, and the stock markets have rebounded, leading to optimism that the worst of the economic crisis is over. However, few are expecting a quick return to the boom years, for weakness still persists in major economies while uncertainties remain in others. Nevertheless, for those Singapore-based regional financial industry players speaking at a recent seminar organised by the Sim Kee Boon Institute of Financial Economics, they are picking up lessons learned, seeing beyond the near-term worries, and finding growth opportunities.

Leave Some Breathing Room For Optimal Value Creation In Asian Family-Owned Firms, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Corporate governance, via the active monitoring of a company’s management by its board of directors, is an accepted practice. For publicly-listed companies controlled by families, the general perception is independent directors should actively take up the mantle of watching out for the interests and rights of minority shareholders. But, is there a possibility whereby over-zealous monitoring might crimp the growth of these family-run companies, thus, doing more harm than good? According to a new study: Yes, it does!

Soaps, Creams And Strips: Procter & Gamble’S Approach To Innovation, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Innovate to give the customers what they desire -- it may sound like a simple and straightforward mantra for success in business, but many companies find themselves struggling to be gainfully innovative! Throw in ‘fickle-minded consumers’ and ‘a myriad of competitor offerings’ into the mix and the challenge magnifies glaringly. Yet, Procter and Gamble (P&G), a 172-year-old company, has somehow managed to get it right – and with more than 300 brands across 80 countries. Dr Shekhar Mitra, P&G’s Senior Vice-President of Research and Development, offers Singapore Management University an insider look into the innovation principles that guide one of …

When Will Service Standards In Singapore Improve?, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Are service standards in Singapore bad, or do Singaporeans expect too much from service providers? Ask any Singaporean about their service experiences and you might evoke strong reactions, accompanied by vivid stories spun out of petty encounters with service providers. Ask a local service provider, however, and you might hear tales of rude, thankless customers. Those in the business of providing service often find themselves walking a thin, fine line between protecting the interests of customers and front-line service personnel. If businesses subscribe to the adage, “the customer is always right”, is it fair to expect those in the “wrong” …

Strategic Management In A Networked World, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

The article provides guidelines to an effective approach of managing employees in the U.S. These include the ability to both detect a problem and to effectively respond to it. It is also considered important when strategies are adopted, where a collaborative action among network partners can be promoted. The author also stresses the importance of valuing and nurturing organizational learning and development.

September 2009, Monte Ahuja College Of Business

Dialogue: News from the Monte Ahuja College of Business

UpFront: How the Nance College of Business spent its summer vacation -- Nance College Awarded Fourth Consecutive Federal Grant to Expand "Best in Practice" Global Business Programs -- Featured Alumni: Jon Eggleton, MBA '00 -- Nance College of Business Launches Capacity Planning Project in Zambia -- Dr. Scherer participates in Fulbright Senior Specialists Program -- Two of Nance's Best Pass Rigorous Level I CFA Exam -- Successful Pre-­College Program Showcases Nance College of Business -- Students Study Abroad in Chile -- Celebrating 44 Years at CSU: Professor Fred Friend -- A Fun Season for CSU Sponsored Softball Team.

Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development In The Visual Communications Sector In Ireland, Con Kennedy

Other resources

This research is concerned with identifying the benefits of Continuous Professional Development for the Visual Communications sector in Ireland, with the aim of establishing what benefits exist for both the employee and employer. Research is undertaken to identify CPD programmes that currently exist in other industries in Ireland for the purpose of establishing commonalities and how this may apply to the Visual Communications sector. This is achieved through a combination of literature review, desk research, surveys of employees and employers in the Visual Communications sector and a number of semi-formal interviews with representatives from various industry sectors with established CPD …

An Analysis Of Freight Logistics Requirements For The Island Of Ireland, Claudia-Maria Wagner, Edward Sweeney, Colm Ryan, Pietro Evangelista

Conference papers

No abstract provided.

Aall Review: Beyond Copyright: How License Agreements & Digital Rights Management Post Challenges To Fair Use & The Provision Of Electronic Or Media Services, Michele Lucero

Faculty Publications

License agreements and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are common among content suppliers. DRM is the use of technological means to control digital content. Librarians need to understand the connection between copyright and contract, and the implications of fair use.

Ua62/3 September Newsletter, Wku Small Business Development Center

University Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Small Business Development Center.

Introduction To Current Empirical Research Section, Veronique Ambrosini

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

On-Campus Service Projects: An Experiment In Education For Liberation, Michael J. Gent

Organization Management Journal

This article describes an approach to service-learning based on Paulo Freire’s model of education for liberation. On-campus Service Projects (OCSPs) differ markedly from typical service-learning assignments in two ways: (1) they take place in the students’ own college setting rather than out in the community; and (2) in my version, they challenge students to engage in critical thinking and acting (praxis) to transform ‘‘oppressive’’ situations within their institution. The article reviews Freire’s pedagogical approach and details how it is implemented in OCSPs. Like all service-learning, the OCSP experience enables students to practice course-related skills (e.g., team building, project planning). More …