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Taxonomy Of Business Ethics Theories, Grace S. Thomson

Dr. Grace S. Thomson

An increasing interest on ethics in business has resulted in a fruitful production of scholarly research that provides business leaders and decision-makers with references to bridge theory and practice (Cherry, Lee, and Chien, 2003). For an effective application of business ethics theories, it is necessary to comprehend their domains, their external and internal logic, and the specific applications to the ethical issues under analysis (Wempe, 2008).

This document presents a taxonomy of 11 ethical theories applied to business ethics that incorporate grounded theory and conceptual frameworks. As a basis for the construction of this taxonomy, the selection of the theories …

The Italian Chamber Of Lords Sits On Listed Company Boards. An Empirical Analysis Of Italian Listed Company Boards From 1998 To 2006 - Presentation (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo

Paolo Santella

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The Italian Chamber Of Lords Sits On Listed Company Boards. An Empirical Analysis Of Italian Listed Company Boards From 1998 To 2006 - Presentation (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo

Carlo Drago

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Sla Automated Negotiation Manager For Computing Services, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry

Mark Perry

Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service supply industry, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are commonly prepared and signed agreements between the service provider and its customers. SLAs should match business needs of both sides of the agreement as closely as possible. This paper focuses on at the steps and activities that the service provider can take to facilitate agreement. It proposes an automated way for creating SLA’s from a set of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The SLA should achieve business goals, including …

E-Business: Revolution, Evolution, Or Hype?, T. Coltman, T. M. Devinney, A. Latukefu, D. F. Midgley

Tim Coltman

As the Internet continues to grow in size and capability, many firms are implementing Web-based applications and Internet-derived economic change continues to occur. If this change is revolutionary, now or in the near future, then many managers will be required to rethink their firm strategies and managerial responses in a profound way. On the other hand, if the change is simply evolutionary, it will apply more to some firms than to others, and pre-Internet strategies and managerial responses will still be appropriate in many circumstances. While it is premature to categorize e-business as revolutionary, e-business is not a silver bullet, …

The Value Of Managerial Beliefs In Turbulent Environments: Managerial Orientation And E-Business Advantage, T. Coltman, T. M. Devinney, D. F. Midgley

Tim Coltman

There is a great divide between the degree to which academic research accounts for the role of managerial discretion in firm performance and the weight given by the popular press and financial community to the importance of the management of an organization. The purpose of this paper is to bridge this gap by quantifying the way managerial beliefs influence the quality of firm performance in a turbulent environment based on e-business. An e-business research setting is used that is associated with a situation of environmental turbulence to allow for sufficient variance in managerial beliefs to measure their effect on firm …

A Methodology To Allow Rural Extension Professionals To Build (With Don Kerr And John Gammack), Shah Jahan Miah

Dr Shah Jahan Miah

Expert systems (ES) development technology has been used to build rural business applications in the past but these have usually been developed using traditional expert systems shells. This paper introduces a new architecture for the development of a design environment where the domain experts can build a knowledge base for target-specific ES for rural business operators. The system allows rural business operators to use their own knowledge in building their own, target-specific ES for tailored development to their own specific requirements. At this stage, this reusable design environment caters for the Australian dairy industry but in the long run we …

Financial Distress And Idiosyncratic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation, Lorán Chollete, Jing Chen, Rina Ray

Lorán Chollete

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Financial Implications Of Extreme And Rare Events, Lorán Chollete, Dwight Jaffee

Lorán Chollete

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Dependence Of Macro Variables In The Us Economy, Lorán Chollete, Cathy Ning

Lorán Chollete

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Modeling International Financial Returns With A Multivariate Regime-Switching Copula, Lorán Chollete, Andreas Heinen, Alfonso Valdesogo

Lorán Chollete

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Review Essay: Disagreeing About The Climate, Donald Nordberg

Donald Nordberg

This paper is an early draft of a review essay that subsequently appeared in the journal Business and Society in 2010. The science concerning climate change is clear, both sides of the argument agree. What they don't agree about is what that clarity means. Each side considers the matter settled, and their points of view unsettle each attempt to make public policy. Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, thinks the reasons for the persistent differences lies in the complex ways we see and use climate change as a totem …

The Irony In The Poetry Of Murid Al-Barghothi, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Laboratory Quality Control, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Mixed Reality Environment For Web-Based Laboratory Interactive Learning, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Modeling And Experimental Studies On A Domestic Solar Dryer, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Neuro-Fuzzy Controller Of A Sensorless Pm Motor Drive For Washing Machines, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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An Ontology For The Quality Attributes Of Web Services, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

A Solar Still Augmented With A Flat-Plate Collector And A Reflector, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Smoking Practices In Jordanian People And Their Impact On Semen Quality And Hormonal Levels Among Adult Men, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Swine Flu, Fiction Or Reality, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Gdp, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Formants Speaker Identification Based System Via Neural Network, International Journal Of Recent Trends In Engineering, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Viral Replication And Genetics, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Wireless Gateway Programming Model, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Windows-Based Active-Router Design And Evaluation, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Local Spectral Analysis Via A Bayesian Mixture Of Smoothing Splines” Journal Of The American Statistical Association, Sally Wood, Ori Rosen, David Stoffer

Sally Wood

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A Bayesian Approach To Ordinal Outcomes For Neurosurgical Clinical Research., Sally Wood

Sally Wood

The objective of this study is to demonstrate a Bayesian approach for the statistical analysis of neurosurgical data where the investigators have used an ordinal scale for the outcome. A Bayesian approach that uses data augmentation and Gibbs sampling to perform ordinal probit regression is demonstrated in a neurosurgical context. The statistical approach is applied to a regression analysis to examine the relationship between female gender and the outcome of severe traumatic brain injury measured with the Glascow Outcome Scale. The approach is applied to a hierarchical meta-analysis to examine the relationship between age and the outcome from subarachnoid haemorrhage …

Trans-Dimensional Metropolis-Hastings Using Parallel Chains, Sally Wood, James Pullen, Robert Kohn, David Leslie

Sally Wood

A general Bayesian sampling method is developed that uses parallel chains to select between models and to average the predictive density over such models. The method applies to both non-nested models and to nested models, and is particularly useful for mixtures of complex component models, where a novel approach to overcome the label-switching problem is used. The method is illustrated with real and simulated data in model-averaging over alternative financial time series models, mixtures of normal distributions, and mixtures of smoothing spline models.

Mixture Of Random Effects For Individual Learning Curves, Sally Wood, Edward Cripps, Robert Wood

Sally Wood

In the pyschology literature individuals are often classified as entity theorists or incrementalists. In this paper we explore the different learning behaviours over time of these two groups. To assess learning an individual is assigned a task and their performance on the task is measured over a number of trials. Learning behaviour is modelled as a mixture of two random effects, where the random effects components of the mixture correspond to increased learning and spiralling behaviour. We find significant differences in the learning behaviours of the two groups. Specifically those individuals who are categorized as entity theorists are more likely …