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When Kids Are The Last To Know: Embodied Tensions In Surprising Children With Family Vacations, Jenna M. Drenten

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Purpose

Surprise family vacations have become increasingly prevalent in today’s digitally mediated consumer culture. Drawing on a performance-based view of tourism, this paper aims to explore the performance practices and embodied experiences by which young consumers are the recipients of last-minute surprise vacations.

Design/methodology/approach

YouTube offers a space for examining surprise family vacations, as captured in real time by consumers. The visual elements and verbal discourses of 139 surprise family vacation reveal videos were analyzed using a hermeneutical approach.

Findings

Findings suggest that surprise family vacations are characterized by three performance practices in which embodied tensions arise between normative expectations …

Foundations In Wisconsin: A Directory (37th Ed. 2018), Mary C. Frenn, John Francis Brick, Clare Casey, Jeremy Cluth, Kathryn Hendrickson, Madeline Murphy, Sareene Proodian

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory

The 2018 edition of Foundations in Wisconsin is the 37th edition of the print directory and the 18th year of the online version. The directory is designed as a research tool for grantseekers interested in locating information on private, corporate, and community foundations registered in Wisconsin. Each entry in this new edition has been updated or reviewed to provide the most current information available. Most of the data was drawn from IRS 990-PF tax returns filed by the foundations. Additional information was obtained from surveys, foundation websites, and annual reports.

New Approaches To Selection System Design In Healthcare: The Practical And Theoretical Relevance Of A Modular Approach, Filip Lievens, Jan Corstjens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This chapter presents a modular approach to healthcare selection system design. Contrary to the traditional holistic view on selection procedures, a modular approach highlights the components underlying selection procedures. Our framework identifies seven key design components of selection procedures (The stimulus format, contextualization, stimulus presentation consistency, the response format, response evaluation consistency, information source, and instructions) and reviews studies in the healthcare selection literature that compared the effect of these components on key selection outcomes. A modular approach allows (1) gaining insights into how the different components underlying selection procedures affect selection outcomes and (2) drawing conceptual similarities between components …

Regulating Complacency: Human Limitations And Legal Efficacy, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines how insights into limited human rationality can improve financial regulation. The Article identifies four categories of limitations—herd behavior, cognitive biases, overreliance on heuristics, and a proclivity to panic—that undermine the perfect-market regulatory assumptions that parties have full information and will act in their rational self-interest. The Article then analyzes how insights into these limitations can be used to correct resulting market failures. Requiring more robust disclosure and due diligence, for example, can help to reduce reliance on misleading information cascades that motivate herd behavior. Debiasing through law, such as requiring more specific, poignant, and concrete disclosure of …

สภาพปัญหาและแนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหาขยะจากระบบขนส่งสินค้าทางทะเล จากเรือขนส่งสินค้าและเรือลำเลียง บริเวณพื้นที่จอดทอดสมอเรือบริเวณเกาะสีชัง จังหวัดชลบุรี, ณัฏฐภรณ์ ระลึกมูล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการศึกษาเชิงพรรณนา มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสภาพปัญญาและหาแนวทางการแก้ไขปัญหาขยะจากระบบการขนส่งสินค้าทางทะเล ขยะจากเรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศและเรือลำเลียง ซึ่งเป็นหนึ่งในสาเหตุของมลพิษทางทะเลแก่เกาะสีชัง ดังนั้นจำเป็นต้องมีการจัดการที่ดี เพื่อผลประโยชน์แห่งชาติทางทะเลของไทยในระยะยาว เพื่อความมั่นคง มั่งคั่ง และยั่งยืน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) สำหรับเรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศ ผลจากการไม่ได้เข้าเป็นภาคีในอนุสัญญาระหว่างประเทศว่าด้วยการป้องกันมลภาวะจากเรือ ค.ศ.1973 และพิธีสาร ค.ศ. 1978 ภาคผนวกที่ 5 ข้อบังคับเกี่ยวกับการป้องกันมลพิษจากขยะบนเรือ ทำให้ 1.1) ประเทศไทยไม่มีอำนาจในการตรวจเรือและบังคับใช้กฎหมายแก่เรือได้อย่างสมบูรณ์ และการดำเนินการในปัจจุบันพบว่าสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกในการรองรับของเสียจากเรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศไม่เพียงพอ 1.2) ประเทศไทยไม่สามารถกำหนดพื้นที่ให้เป็นพื้นที่พิเศษและพื้นที่ทะเลที่มีความอ่อนไหวเฉพาะ ที่จะดำเนินการออกกฎหมาย เพื่อป้องกัน ลด และควบคุมมลพิษจากเรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศได้ และ 2) สำหรับเรือลำเลียง ประกอบด้วย 2.1) ไม่มีการออกกฎหมายที่บังคับเฉพาะเรือลำเลียง ไม่มีการกำหนดแผนในการจัดการขยะแก่เรือลำเลียง 2.2) สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกในการรองรับของเสียจากเรือลำเลียงไม่เพียงพอ เนื่องจากกระบวนการจัดการขยะโดยเทศบาลตำบลเกาะสีชัง โดยนำขยะจากเรือลำเลียงไปกำจัดที่ศูนย์กำจัดขยะของเกาะสีชังที่ประสบปัญหาเรื่องขยะตกค้างและก่อมลพิษแก่ชุมชนบนเกาะสีชัง โดยข้อเสนอแนะในการแก้ไขปัญหา ดังนี้ 1) สำหรับเรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศ ไทยควรเข้าสู่การเป็นภาคีอนุสัญญาระหว่างประเทศว่าด้วยการป้องกันมลภาวะจากเรือ ค.ศ.1973 และพิธีสาร ค.ศ. 1978 ภาคผนวกที่ 5 ข้อบังคับเกี่ยวกับการป้องกันมลพิษจากขยะบนเรือ เพื่อทำให้ 1.1) ประเทศไทยมีกฎหมาย ระเบียบ ข้อบังคับ ที่สามารถดำเนินการบังคับใช้และกำหนดข้อปฏิบัติแก่เรือสินค้าระหว่างประเทศที่เข้ามาเทียบท่า และเพื่อการจัดการเรื่องสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกเพื่อรองรับของเสียอย่างเพียงพอและมีประสิทธิภาพ 1.2) ทำให้ประเทศมีประกาศอ่าวไทยเป็นพื้นที่พิเศษและพื้นที่ทะเลที่มีความอ่อนไหวเฉพาะ ที่จะทำให้เกิดข้อบังคับพิเศษที่จะช่วยป้องกันมลพิษทางทะเลจากกิจกรรมการใช้ประโยชน์จากทะเล และ 2) สำหรับเรือลำเลียง 2.1) ไทยควรออกกฎหมายข้อบังคับที่บังคับแก่เรือลำเลียงโดยตรง โดยกำหนดให้เรือลำเลียงมีแผนจัดการขยะ เช่น ข้อกฎหมายบังคับแก่บริษัทเจ้าของเรือลำเลียง ให้กองเรือลำเลียงแยกขยะก่อนนำไปกำจัด 2.2) ควรให้องค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นมีหน้าที่เพียงลำเลียงขนส่งขยะตามหลักสุขาภิบาล โดยให้หน้าที่การกำจัดขยะเป็นของหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องแทน และควรนำข้อแนะนำปฏิบัติจากอนุสัญญาระหว่างประเทศว่าด้วยการป้องกันมลภาวะจากเรือ ค.ศ.1973 และพิธีสาร ค.ศ. 1978 ภาคผนวกที่ 5 มาปรับใช้กับกฎหมายภายใน เพื่อบังคับใช้แก่เรือลำเลียงและข้อกำหนดเกี่ยวกับสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกเพื่อรองรับของเสีย

Scarcity In The Twenty-First Century: How The Resource Nexus Affects Management, Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx, Mark Workman, Charles Dean

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Since theadvent of the 21st century and especially since the food andfinancial crisis in 2008, concerns about natural resource availability haveresurfaced. While scarcity concerns date back hundreds of years and arefoundational to economics, how scarcity is interpreted or framed has evolved significantlyin the last two centuries. In this chapter, we recount the evolving scarcity discourseand specifically address the most recent iteration that centres on the idea ofa resource nexus. While significant attention to the nexus has been paid bypolicy-makers and scholars interested in especially water, management scholarshave so far remained absent from these debates. Given recent calls to address grand …

Good Game, Greyory Blake

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …

2018-00-00 Water Quality Report, Morehead State University. Water System Office.

Staff Congress Records

Water quality report for Morehead State University for 2018.

Oregon Nonprofit Disaster Preparedness: Finding From The 2018 Survey, Grace L. Chikoto-Schultz, Andrew Russo, Paul Manson, Jim White

The Nonprofit Institute Research

This report summarizes results from a survey administered in spring 2018 to 501(c)(3) charitable benefit nonprofit organizations across Oregon. The survey was developed by Portland State University in collaboration with the City Club of Portland’s Earthquake Report Advocacy Committee (CCERAC) and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon (NAO), following Sutton & Tierney’s (2006) and Ritchie, Tierney, & Gilbert’s (2010) classification and previous survey. Based on the survey distribution process, primarily through NAO, PSU’s Nonprofit Institute, and other nonprofit and public agencies’ networks, these survey results are based on a convenience sample of nonprofits that responded to the survey. As such, the …

Shalom And Moral Imagination For Business Technologists, Jason M. Stansbury

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This essay addresses the problem “What are the ethical implications from a biblical perspective as technological changes reshape stakeholder relationships?” It characterizes the effects of technological change upon stakeholder relationships in microeconomic terms, so that various technologies can be understood in terms of their implications. It then describes the Christian ethical concept of “shalom,” and explores some of its implications for stakeholder relationships with biblical grounding. It next explores the microeconomic stakeholder implications of technological change in terms of shalom. It finally discusses moral imagination as a practical technique for understanding the ethical implications of a novel situation, envisioning practical …

Mindfulness And The Risk-Resilience Tradeoff In Organizations, Ravi S. Kudesia, Jochen Reb

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Through this chapter, we seek to contribute to ongoing discussion about risk, resilience, and how they can be jointly managed (see Linkov, Trump, & Keisler, 2018), particularly in the context of organizations. We start by reviewing the traditional image of organizations. In this traditional image, processes related to risk and resilience are seen as complementary, as these processes pertain to distinct aspects of the organizational environment. We then complicate this theoretical image by introducing five underappreciated ways that risk and resilience processes may not be complementary in practice—because the aspects of the environment to which these processes pertain cannot always …

2018 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases from January of 2018.

2018 February, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for February of 2018.

Strategies For Low Employee Turnover In The Hotel Industry, Odetha Antonnett Davis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Employee turnover affects the profitability, performance, and customer service of an organization. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that leaders in the hotel industry used to maintain a low rate of employee turnover. Motivation-hygiene theory was the conceptual framework for the study. The study population included 9 hotel leaders from 2 international hotels operating in Jamaica. Methodological triangulation involved the comparison of data from observation of hotel facilities and leaders' interactions with employees, review of company documents, and semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed into emerging themes using a Gadamerian hermeneutics framework of interpretation. Four major …

Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation Framework, Samuel Bonsu

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As social problems, such as environmental pollution persist, the need to implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) to enhance societal well-being becomes important. However, little is known about how corporate leaders implement CSR. The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to identify and report the lived experiences of corporate managers relevant to CSR implementation. This study was guided by ecological systems theory, the Porter hypothesis, the Maslow hierarchy of needs theory, and the Harrod-Domar growth model, which justify the importance of societal well-being to business profitability and growth. The research question regarding the lived experiences of corporate managers of …

An Exploratory Study On Ethical And Legal Issues Of Marketing Strategies In The Cigarette Industry: Perspectives On E-Cigarettes, Jason Bruce Kilby, Ismet Anitsal, Melek Meral Anitsal

AMTP Proceedings 2018

Cigarette and E-Cigarette companies use different marketing strategies to promote their product. Some of these marketing strategies could be considered by many to be both unethical as well as illegal. Many ethical and legal issues surround the cigarette industry and these same issues could be relevant in the emerging E-cigarette industry. This research organized cigarette industry behavior into a matrix where a behavior was classified on whether it was ethical, unethical, legal or illegal. In order for a behavior to be considered ethical it must meet the minimum standard of being legal except under moral exception. What is considered to …

Sports Logistics Outsourcing: A Conceptual And Qualitative Study In The Equine Industry, Stephen E. Genchev, Gordon Gray, Stacia Wert-Gray

AMTP Proceedings 2018

The equine industry, despite its considerable impact on the economy, remains overlooked in contemporary supply chain research. The current paper aims at narrowing the gap along two directions: First, the equine industry supply chain is conceptualized, and its main participants and relationships involved are identified. Second, the complex nature of these relationships is illustrated within the context of a specific strategic decision, outsourcing. For years, outsourcing was considered a formal transaction-cost economics decision with little or no consideration for additional factors. This limiting perspective provides the stimulus for the current study’s use of a qualitative approach to get a better …

Human-Intelligence And Machine-Intelligence Decision Governance Formal Ontology, Faisal Mahmud

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Since the beginning of the human race, decision making and rational thinking played a pivotal role for mankind to either exist and succeed or fail and become extinct. Self-awareness, cognitive thinking, creativity, and emotional magnitude allowed us to advance civilization and to take further steps toward achieving previously unreachable goals. From the invention of wheels to rockets and telegraph to satellite, all technological ventures went through many upgrades and updates. Recently, increasing computer CPU power and memory capacity contributed to smarter and faster computing appliances that, in turn, have accelerated the integration into and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in …

Three Essays On Contagion Risk In Supply Chain, Alireza Azimian

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Firms often benefit when an unfavourable event befalls a rival, usually through a shift in demand. But sometimes negative events can adversely affect other firms in the industry, a phenomena referred to as contagion. While contagion can harm the supply chain by disrupting supply or demand, or increasing operating costs, it has not yet been studied in the area of supply chain risk management. Aiming to fill this gap, in the first essay I use real cases to conceptualize the process of contagion and apply related theories and literature to theorize the key factors contributing to contagion risk. The …

Evaluation Of An Adaptive Reading Program At A Title I Public Elementary School, Monica M. Gordon

Theses and Dissertations

This applied dissertation was designed to evaluate the I-station adaptive reading program and determine its impact on reading proficiency of third-grade students. The school of study was a Title I school with proficiency rates for third-grade students of about 40% annually. The district recommendation for student usage mirrored the recommended minutes per week established by Imagination Station, the I-station parent company.

The program evaluation utilized the context-input-process-product model components, measuring process and product. There were two research questions underpinning the study: 1. Process: Is the I-station program being used with fidelity at the school of study to achieve program intended …

Geotourism And Cultural Heritage, Kerran Olson, Ross Dowling

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Geotourism is often thought to refer solely to ‘geological tourism’, however, more recent views suggest that the term in fact refers much more broadly to encompass not only geology, but also fauna and flora as well as cultural aspects. An area’s geo-heritage can be defined as the geological base that, when combined with climate, has shaped the plants and animals of an area, which in turn determine an area's culture; that is, how people have lived in that area both in the past as well as in the present. This link has rarely been explored in academic literature, so this …

Violence, Aggression, And Ethics: The Link Between Exposure To Human Violence And Unethical Behavior, Joshua R. Gubler, Skye Herrick, Richard Price, David A. Wood

Faculty Publications

Can exposure to media portrayals of human violence impact an individual’s ethical decision making at work? Ethical business failures can result in enormous financial losses to individuals, businesses, and society. We study how exposure to human violence—especially through media—can cause individuals to make less ethical decisions. We present three experiments, each showing a causal link between exposure to human violence and unethical business behavior, and show this relationship is mediated by an increase in individual hostility levels as a result of exposure to violence. Using observational data, we then provide evidence suggesting that this relationship extends beyond the context of …

Becoming A Decolonial Feminist Ethnographer: Addressing The Complexities Of Positionality And Representation, Jennifer Manning

Articles

Abstract Organisation and management scholars are often preoccupied with developing, refining and advancing knowledge, and in so doing, the empirical process through which knowledge is advanced can be ignored together with the impact this process can have on participants and scholars. This article draws attention to how management scholars might negotiate the complexities of positionality and representation through an illustrative case: my experience of becoming a decolonial feminist ethnographer. Drawing upon my doctoral research, I share the experience of my ethnographic journey to become a decolonial feminist ethnographer. Developing a decolonial feminist approach to ethnography enabled me to identify positionality …

Environmental Risk, Resource And Production, Nancye Gannaway

Farm Systems and Economics published reports

Plan Prepare Prosper - workshop

Aims

• To identify and plan for projected changes in weather patterns and in the physical resources that underpin the productivity of the farm enterprise.
• To develop initiatives to manage observed and likely threats from the environment to farm enterprises.
• To support the achievement of long-term economic viability of land under production

Today's content will help develop risk management strategies for agricultural production systems.

The Continuance Intention Of User’S Engagement In Multiplayer Video Games Based On Uses And Gratifications Theory, Ira Puspitasari, Elzha Odie Syahputra, Indra Kharisma Raharjana, Ferry Jie

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

One of the key success factors in video game industry, including multiplayer video game (MVG), is the user’s continuance intention. The MVG industry runs in a highly competitive market. Users can shift to another game as soon as they discover a slightly inconvenient issue. Thus, maintaining the user’s enthusiasm in playing MVG for a long time is challenging for most games. The solution to prolong the users’ engagement can be initiated by identifying all factors that facilitate the continuance use of playing MVG. This study applied uses and gratifications theory to examine seven variables (enjoyment, fantasy, escapism, social interaction, social …

An Integrated Approach To Improving Rural Livelihoods: Examples From India And Bangladesh, Barry Croke, Wendy Merritt, Peter Cornish, Geoffrey J. Syme, Christian H. Roth

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper presents an overview of work in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and SW Bangladesh through a series of projects from 2005 to the present, considering the impact of farming systems, water shed development and/or agricultural intensification on livelihoods in selected rural areas of India and Bangladesh. The projects spanned a range of scales spanning from the village scale (∼  1 km²) to the meso-scale (∼  100 km²), and considered social as well as biophysical aspects. They focused mainly on the food and water part of the food-water-energy nexus. These projects were in collaboration with a …

Residents’ Perceptions Of Geotourism In Qeshm Island Unesco Global Geopark, Iran, Shahrzad Khodayar

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

While much scholarly attention has explored the impacts of tourism behaviour on a destination, little is known about the effects of geotourism activities on host communities. Geotourism is a type of tourism based on geological features. It has been variously defined as a tourism with a ‘geological’ or ‘geographical’ orientation. This study addresses this gap in the literature by exploring residents’ perceptions of the impacts of geotourism development in the Qeshm UNESCO Global Geopark in the Persian Gulf in Iran. Qeshm Geopark has a sensitive environment as well as a strict traditional culture and it receives about 3 million visitors …

Relating Group Size And Posting Activity Of An Online Community Of Financial Investors: Regularities And Seasonal Patterns, P. Racca, R. Casarin, Pierpaolo Dondio, F. Squazzoni

Articles

Group size can potentially affect collective activity and individual propensity to contribute to collective goods. Mancur Olson, in his Logic of Collective Action, argued that individual contribution to a collective good tends to be lower in groups of large size. Today, online communication platforms represent an interesting ground to study such collaborative dynamics under possibly different conditions (e.g., lower costs related to gather and share information). This paper examines the relationship between group size and activity in an online financial forum, where users invest time in sharing news, analysis and comments with other investors. We looked at about 24 million …

Peruvian Antiquities And The Collecting Of Cultural Goods, Terrence H. Witkowski

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Ancient art, artifacts, and architecture have long excited the intellectual curiosity and acquisitive passions of private and institutional collectors who, in turn, have funded archaeological research, preservation initiatives, and public education. Yet, the procurement of these goods also has encouraged looting and trafficking activities. Supplying collectors has destroyed much cultural evidence in source countries and has raised questions about who should control heritage and history. This article investigates the market for Peruvian antiquities, the surviving material culture created by the country’s inhabitants before the Spanish Conquest. It briefly reviews Peru’s early history and the history of collecting its artifacts, and …

Microcredit And Survival Microenterprises: The Role Of Market Structure, P.V. Viswanath

Faculty Working Papers and Articles

Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very successful in helping survival microenterprises, i.e., businesses that the very poor with limited human capital have access to, in sectors with low barriers to entry and selling undifferentiated products. In this paper, I examine the role of market structure in mediating the impact of micro-lending to such survival enterprises. While there have been many evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been …