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The Role Of The Sense Of Community In The Sustainability Of Social Network Sites, Stanislav Mamonov, Marios Koufaris, Raquel Benbunan-Fich

Department of Information Management and Business Analytics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

ABSTRACT: The evolution of information technologies enables new forms of communication and facilitates the emergence of different types of virtual communities, such as social networks. While some social network services have succeeded, others have failed. Understanding the factors that affect the sustainability of social network sites is important for both research and practice. We draw on the sense of community theory to develop a nomological framework of antecedents and consequences associated with sense of community in social network sites. We evaluate the framework with a survey of 506 Facebook users. We find that sense of community has a strong effect …

Still A Man's World? Second Generation Gender Bias In External Equity Term Sheet Negotiations, Ethne Swartz, Frances M. Amatucci, Susan Coleman

Department of Information Management and Business Analytics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Women increasingly start and lead growth ventures yet receive a small proportion of external equity funding. Term sheet negotiation is a pivotal moment for obtaining growth capital. We employ a multi-method, mixed mode research design to explore strategies of women entrepreneurs who have negotiated term sheets and discuss our quantitative findings. Results indicate that women entrepreneurs in our sample worked hard to achieve optimal outcomes yet come up short because of exogenous and endogenous factors linked to second generation gender bias in the negotiation process. Propositions for future research are generated given the results of this exploratory research.

An Integrated Approach To The Teaching Of Operations Management In A Business School, Ram Misra, Handanhal Ravinder, Richard Peterson

Department of Information Management and Business Analytics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The authors discuss a curriculum integration effort that a school of business piloted recently. This effort was aimed at integrating the core functions (finance, marketing, management, and operations) so that undergraduate students would better appreciate the full impact of functional decisions on each other and in achieving the corporation's business objectives. The authors deployed a webbed integration model in which a business case was used to highlight the impact of a functional decision on the other three functions. The focus of the article is on how this model was implemented in the context of a required introductory course in operations …

2016 Ijbe Front Matter, Tamra Connor

International Journal for Business Education

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2. President's Letter
3. SIEC-ISBE International

Using A Multiple Method And Mixed Mode Approach To Examine Women Entrepreneur Negotiating Styles, Ethne Swartz, Frances M. Amatucci, Susan Coleman

Department of Information Management and Business Analytics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore an optimal research design for research on women entrepreneurs involved in negotiating term sheets for private equity capital. This research explores new ways for researchers to connect with such current “invisibles” through the use of a mixed method and mixed mode research design to expand sampling options and secure respondent participation. The authors discuss existing data sets that have been used as secondary sources for data on financing of companies and consider their inadequacy for research questions about process issues in negotiation. The authors present process-related findings regarding the efficacy …