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Understanding The Global Financial Crisis, Eduardo Pol
Understanding The Global Financial Crisis, Eduardo Pol
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The financial meltdown 2007-08 was a vast and complex event that many analysts are still trying to decipher. The purpose of this paper is to impart an understanding of the global financial crisis with a sharp focus on informed conjectures. To this end, the paper first provides a picture in the large of the financial turmoil 2007-08, and then, singles out contributing factors to the crisis (such as sub-prime mortgages, excessive risk-taking and securitization) which taken in isolation could not possibly explain the collapse of the financial system. The main claims of this paper are the following two. First, no …
Co-Creating Corporate Knowledge With A Wiki, Joseph A. Meloche, Helen M. Hasan, David Willis, Charmaine Pfaff, Yan Qi
Co-Creating Corporate Knowledge With A Wiki, Joseph A. Meloche, Helen M. Hasan, David Willis, Charmaine Pfaff, Yan Qi
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Wikis have a growing reputation on the open Internet for producing evolving stores of shared knowledge. However, such democratic systems are often treated with suspicion within corporations for management, legal, social, and other reasons. This article describes a field study of a corporate Wiki that has been developed to capture, and make available, organisational knowledge in a large manufacturing company as an initiative of their Knowledge Management (KM) program. As this approach to KM is a controversial and rapidly changing phenomenon, a Q Methodology research approach was selected to uncover employees- subjective attitudes to the Wiki. Activity Theory was used …
What's New In Online News?, Helen M. Hasan, Nor Hazlina Hashim, Joseph Meloche
What's New In Online News?, Helen M. Hasan, Nor Hazlina Hashim, Joseph Meloche
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines aspects of the field of Information Systems (IS) concerned with its diversity and with the rapid changes within the discipline that have been incurred by the continued evolution of the IS artefact. This examination is done in order to establish the suitability of the Cynefin framework, developed for knowledge management, as a suitable tool for sense-making in IS. A description and assessment of the Cynefin framework is provided with its varied applications in both organisational practice and research. The paper then applies the framework to make sense of some historical trends and contemporary issues of IS emphasising …
The Financial Sector And Economic Growth, Arusha V. Cooray
The Financial Sector And Economic Growth, Arusha V. Cooray
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The Mankiw-Romer-Weil (1992) augmented Solow-Swan (Solow 1956; Swan 1956) model is extended to incorporate the financial sector in this study. Distinguishing between financial capital, physical capital and human capital, the research attempts to identify, in particular, the effects of financial capital on economic growth. The effects of financial sector efficiency on economic growth are also examined. The financial sector augmented model is tested on a cross-section of 35 economies. Strong support is found for the model.
Management Control Systems: A Model For R&D Units, Parulian Silaen, Robert B. Williams
Management Control Systems: A Model For R&D Units, Parulian Silaen, Robert B. Williams
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a proposal for a new conceptual framework for management control systems (MCS) in R&D units. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a descriptive study that reviews the control literature and proposes an MCS framework in the light of four key elements: desired ends, actors, control implementation, and control tools. Findings - The study found two sub-elements of desired ends (directional and yardstick) to be complementary in a low level of uncertainty, while directional should be emphasized more in a high level of uncertainty. Five sub-elements of actors are used differently along …
Beyond Ecotourism: The Environmentally Responsible Tourist In The General Travel Experience, Sara Dolnicar, Patrick Long
Beyond Ecotourism: The Environmentally Responsible Tourist In The General Travel Experience, Sara Dolnicar, Patrick Long
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
A shift of attention from the dominant product-orientation in environmentally sustainable tourism to a demand-orientation has been suggested as a way of minimising the effects of the inherent trade-offs the tourism industry faces between maximization of profits and investment in environmental sustainability. The success of such an approach depends on the existence of a class of tourists who are not only motivated to take care of the natural surroundings of the host destination, whether they are travelling in an ecotourism or general tourism context, but also represent an economically attractive market segment.
Unpacking The Erp Investment Decision: An Empirical Assessment Of The Benefits And Risks, Byron Keating, Tim Coltman, Katina Michael, Valerie Baker
Unpacking The Erp Investment Decision: An Empirical Assessment Of The Benefits And Risks, Byron Keating, Tim Coltman, Katina Michael, Valerie Baker
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Most leading organizations, in all sectors of industry, commerce and government are dependent upon ERP for their organizational survival. Yet despite the importance of the decision to adopt ERP and its impact on the entire firm’s performance the IT literature has been in the large part silent on the nature of the ERP investment decision. This study is the first of its kind to determine the preference structure of senior managers around the organizational benefits and risks of adopting ERP. We present the results which provide interesting insights into how managers’ perceive the benefit and risk factors salient to the …
Profitability Analysis Of Listed Manufacturing Companies In Sri Lanka And Malaysia: An Empirical Investigation, Anura De Zoysa, Athula S. Manawaduge, Palli Mulla K A Chandrakumara
Profitability Analysis Of Listed Manufacturing Companies In Sri Lanka And Malaysia: An Empirical Investigation, Anura De Zoysa, Athula S. Manawaduge, Palli Mulla K A Chandrakumara
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper uses empirical data on 161 listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lankaand Malaysia over the period of 2006 to 2008, and compares the performance of thesecompanies against two commonly used financial performance indicators: Return onAssets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). The results indicate that during this periodSri Lankan manufacturing companies were considerably more profitable than theircounterparts in Malaysia in terms of ROA but less profitable in terms of ROE. It alsoidentifies a relatively weaker position of equity investments in the manufacturing sectorof Sri Lankan companies and attributes this to a number of factors, including: arelatively poor equity market, …
The Management Of Subsidiaries In Emerging Malaysian Multinational Enterprises, Ah Ba Sim
The Management Of Subsidiaries In Emerging Malaysian Multinational Enterprises, Ah Ba Sim
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
While there is increasing research on Asian multinational enterprises (MNEs) from the newly industrialized economies, there is a dearth of studies on MNEs from the lesser developed Asian countries, particularly in the area of subsidiary-management. This paper aims to contribute to this knowledge gap with empirical evidence from a study based on six case studies of MNEs from Malaysia, a rapidly developing country. Some differences as well as commonalities in subsidiary-management were found among our sample firms. These are discussed in relation to the literature on management of subsidiaries in other Asian and western MNEs. Implications for research and limitations …
Company Support For Employee Volunteering: A National Survey Of Companies In Canada, Debra Basil, Mary Runte, M Easwaramoorthy, Cathy Barr
Company Support For Employee Volunteering: A National Survey Of Companies In Canada, Debra Basil, Mary Runte, M Easwaramoorthy, Cathy Barr
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Company support for employee volunteerism (CSEV) benefits companies, employees, and society while helping companies meet the expectations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). A nationally representative telephone survey of 990 Canadian companies examined CSEV through the lens of Porter and Kramer’s (2006, ‘Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility’, Harvard Business Review, 78–92.) CSR model. The results demonstrated that Canadian companies passively support employee volunteerism in a variety of ways, such as allowing employees to take time off without pay (71%) or adjusting their work schedules (78%). These Responsive CSR efforts contribute to the company’s …
The Current State Of Commercial Location-Based Service Offerings In Australia, Roba Abbas, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Anas Aloudat
The Current State Of Commercial Location-Based Service Offerings In Australia, Roba Abbas, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Anas Aloudat
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Location-based services (LBS) provide geographic data for a variety of purposes, and through numerous devices such as mobile phones, GPS navigation systems, palm pilots and increasingly desktop computers. Presently, there is scant information relating to the current state of the LBS market, specifically location-based service applications in Australia. This study makes use of usability context analyses to examine Australiapsilas three leading telecommunications operators- Telstra, Optus and Vodafone- with a view to providing an overview of the types of services and solutions presently offered and targeted at the consumer, business and emergency segments. There are two units of analysis (i) the …