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Towards A Theory Of Sustainable Exchange And Trade Or Why We Need To Rethink And Restructure Free Trade, Kenneth A. Dahlberg

Kenneth Dahlberg

Strategic Human Resource Practices, Top Management Team Social Networks, And Firm Performance: The Role Of Human Resource Practices In Creating Organizational Competitive Advantage, Christopher J. Collins, Kevin D. Clark

Christopher J Collins

In this article, we begin to explore the black box between human resources (HR) practices and firm performance. Specifically, we examine the relationships between a set of network-building HR practices, aspects of the external and internal social networks of top management teams, and firm performance. Results from a field study with 73 high-technology firms showed that the relationships between the HR practices and firm performance (sales growth and stock growth) were mediated through their top managers’ social networks.

Mas 2010: Models For Academic Support: Final Report To The Mellon Foundation, Oya Rieger, Karen S. Calhoun, Susan Currie, Edward Weissman

Karen S Calhoun

Assisted by a Mellon planning grant and led by principal investigator Sarah Thomas, a Cornell University project team investigated the potential of significant structural reorganization that would increase the value of the Library’s services to the University. The study revealed that the proposed benefits of restructuring are better support for scholarly creativity and communication; use of library space that privileges library users; more cost-effective allocation of resources; and the development of a new infrastructure to permit new relationships between libraries to flourish, enabling improved services at lower cost. To provide information from all the relevant stakeholders who would be affected …

Building A Direct Marketing Bridge To High Achieving Students: Introducing A Cost Effective Financial Aid Leveraging Model, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Coleman Center Open For Small Businesses

Dr. Harold Welsch

No abstract provided.

Informed Discussion In Information Technology Survey Courses, Amber Settle, André Berthiaume, Evelyn Lulis, Abdulrahman Mirza, Saudi Arabia

Amber Settle

Implementing An Employee Survey That Is Linked To Business Strategy, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Developments And Issues In The Canadian Market For Asset-Backed Commercial Paper, John Kiff, Paula Toovy

John Kiff

No abstract provided.

Development Of A Regression Model For Estimating The Effects Of Assumption Violations On Type I Error Rates In The Student's T Test: Implications For Practitioners, John Fraas, Isadore Newman, Rosalie J. Hall

John W. Fraas

No abstract provided.

Employee Surveys And Hrm Strategy, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

This article demonstrates that employee surveys can be an important strategic tool but poor implementation can diminish their value. Specifically surveys should be linked to Business Strategy and have actionable outcomes.

Review Of 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' (2002) By Jon Mcgregor, Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan S Roberts

No abstract provided.

Aquaculture, Michael Rice

Michael A Rice

This is the chapter on small-scale aquaculture within a volume intended as a guide for practitioners engaged in sustainable rural livelihood and food production projects in the developing world. Included in this chapter on aquaculture are fundamentals of aquaculture water quality, selection of sites and construction methods for fish ponds, and management techniques for carp and tilapia which are nutritious and easy to grow in artisanal ponds. The fundamentals of cage culture of fish is also covered, along with the fundamentals of culturing oysters and other molluscan shellfish in coastal waters.

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center - Grand Opening

Dr. Harold Welsch

No abstract provided.

Community Cultural Development - A Policy For Social Change?, Michelle Evans

Michelle Evans

This thesis explores the area of Community Cultural Development (CCD) through a longitudinal Case Study. It postulates that the potential long-term outcomes of a successful CCD process, including the creation of communities and networks, as well as continuing cultural development for the participants, are frustrated by arts policy and funding. The analysis of the Case Study is contextualised by an examination of the history of CCD in Australia and the cultural policy framework for the funding of CCD projects.

This thesis addresses the following question: Do the long-term outcomes - of creating networks, creation of communities and continued cultural development …

Forecasting Credit Ratings Using An Ann And Statistical Techniques, Kuldeep Kumar, John Haynes

Kuldeep Kumar

In a liberal environment the conceptual importance of credit rating has increased significantly. The objective of this study is to explore and find out the effect of the financial performance data of a firm relative to the credit rating of a debt issue of that firm. The study also proposes to capture the relationship, if any, between financial performance data and credit rating given by experts in an appropriate model. Financial data relevant to debt issue ratings are obtained from the publications of a premier credit rating agency in India. Data analysis involved the building of a model using conventional …

Coleman Foundation Endowment Gift

Dr. Harold Welsch

No abstract provided.

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Dr. Harold Welsch

No abstract provided.

Las Abejas: Pacifist Resistance And Syncretic Identities In A Globalizing Chiapas, Marco Tavanti

Marco Tavanti

Las Abejas came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity construction. The uniqueness of this study is the analysis of the role of international human rights observers in relation to indigenous communities in resistance. In this fascinating study, Marco Tavanti explains how cultural, religious, political, human rights and nonviolent frameworks combine in a syncretic identity of resistance.

Coping With Marketplace Discrimination: An Exploration Of The Experiences Of Black Men, David Crockett, Sonya A. Grier, Jacqueline A. Williams

David Crockett

Differential treatment in the marketplace based on group membership rather than individual differences, which we refer to as marketplace discrimination, has been noted to occur across a multitude of consumption contexts, ranging from purchas-ing automobiles and real estate to browsing at retail stores or even hailing a taxicab. While evidence of marketplace dis-crimination has been widely reported and need not be reproduced here, the important related question of how consumers perceive and cope with the internal strains produced by discrimination remains an under-investigated topic in marketing. This is an important oversight, as research in sociology, anthropology and psychology has demonstrated …

Forward Premiums And Market Efficiency: Panel Unit-Root Evidence From The Term Structure Of Forward Premiums, Atreya Chakraborty

Atreya Chakraborty

A plausible explanation for cointegration among spot currency rates determined in efficient markets is the existence of a stationary, time-varying currency risk premium. Such an interpretation is contingent upon stationarity of the forward premium. However, empirical evidence on the stochastic properties of the forward premium series has been inconclusive. We apply a panel unit-root test – the Johansen likelihood ratio (JLR) test – to forward exchange premiums by utilizing cross-sectional information from their term structure. In contrast to earlier studies, the JLR test provides decisive and temporally stable evidence in support of stationary forward premiums, and therefore foreign exchange market …

Realigning Auditors' Incentives

Patricia A. McCoy

No abstract provided.

Wealth Creation And Managerial Pay: Mva And Eva As Determinants Of Executive Compensation, Ali M. Fatemi, Anand S. Desai, Jeffrey P. Katz

Ali M Fatemi

Designing effective compensation contracts has become increasingly complex due to the globalization of the executive work force and the multitude of incentive schemes. We examine the relationships between managerial pay and firm performance among domestic and global firms using economic value added (EVA) and market value added (MVA) to assess wealth creation. Our work suggests that top managers in domestic- and globally focused firms are not only incented to increase EVA, but also rewarded for past additions to MVA. The results of our research suggest that managers of highly globalized firms tend to be paid at higher levels, reflecting the …

Shattering The Myth Of Costless Price Changes, Mark Bergen, Mark Ritson, Shantanu Dutta, Danny Levy, Mark Zbaracki

Mark Ritson

No abstract provided.

Nearest-Neighbor Forecasts Of U.S. Interest Rates, Atreya Chakraborty

Atreya Chakraborty

We employ a nonlinear, nonparametric method to model the stochastic behavior of changes in several short and long term U.S. interest rates. We apply a nonlinear autoregression to the series using the locally weighted regression (LWR) estimation method, a nearest-neighbor method, and evaluate the forecasting performance with a measure of root mean square error (RMSE). We compare the forecasting performance of the nonparametric fit to the performance of two benchmark linear models: an autoregressive model and a random-walkwith-drift model. The nonparametric model exhibits greater out-of-sample forecast accuracy that that of the linear predictors for most U.S. interest rate series. The …

Technological Achievement And Human Development: A View From The United Nations Development Programme, Kathy K. Dhanda, Ronald Hill

Kathy K Dhanda

No abstract provided.

Stakeholder Legitimacy, Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips

This paper is a preliminary attempt to better understand the concept of legitimacy in stakeholder theory. The normative component of stakeholder theory plays a central role in the concept of legitimacy, therefore, though the elaboration of legitimacy contained herein applies generally to all “normative cores” this paper relies on Phillips’s principle of stakeholder fairness and therefore begins with a brief description of this work. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of legitimacy to stakeholder theory as well as the general ambiguity of the term. A distinction is then drawn between normative and derivative legitimacy. Reference to this …

The Impact Of Strategy And Integration Mechanisms On Enterprise System Value: Empirical Evidence From Manufacturing Firms, Toni M. Somers

Toni M. Somers

No abstract provided.

African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process. The scope of this inquiry examines the qualitative domain of the LASS in which participants were visually primed with a narrative description of a student athlete that has made transition out of sport successfully. Five …

New Paradigm In Classroom Assessment: The Externally Trained (Et) Observer Model, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

Traditional classroom assessment techniques are fraught with weaknesses and inherent contradictions. The proposed paradigm in classroom assessment - the Externally Trained (ET) Observer Model - is not a traditional classroom assessment model. It is a quality control measure which ultimately benefits both students and instructor

Globalisers From Below. A Survey On Global Civil Societ Organisations, Mario Pianta, Federico Silva

Mario Pianta

No abstract provided.