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Interactions Between Price And Price Deal, Kunal Swani, Boonghee Yoo

Marketing Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effect of price and price deal. Specifically, we want to measure how consumers' behavioral intentions toward the brand are affected for a high-priced brand and a low-priced brand when a price deal is offered.

Mis 799 Capstone: 2009 Summer Cohort List, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Master of Information Systems Capstone Executive Summary

Available for download is a list of the 2009 Summer Cohorts, complete with student names, project titles, and faculty advisor names.

A Case Of Voip Implementation Using Open Source, Russell J. Roysden

ISSCM Faculty Publications

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has progressed from a limited, untested technology to a feature-rich service that continues to find a place in all types of businesses. Companies such as Vonage and Skype have built successful business models based on VoIP services, and major telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Time Warner have followed suit with bundled offerings of phone, cable, and Internet services. Research has suggested that the Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) marketplace is quickly moving towards VoIP for productivity and efficiency benefits, convenience, and cost savings (Frost & Sullivan Company, 2006).

Oracle E-Business Suite In The Enterprise Systems Course At The Raj Soin College Of Business, Anand Jeyaraj

ISSCM Faculty Publications

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, or simply enterprise systems, are enterprise-wide information systems that enable core activities underlying business processes in organizations. Enterprise systems incorporate several standalone information systems ranging from marketing, purchasing, sales, distribution, scheduling, human resources, customer relationship, financials and decision support through a single integrated central database that captures data relating to the various activities and business processes in organizations.

Undergraduate Course On Business Intelligence At The Wright State University Raj Soin College Of Business, Anand Jeyaraj

ISSCM Faculty Publications

Business intelligence (BI) tools enable senior, middle, and line managers to better understand their current operations and determine future strategies. There is a growing recognition among business professionals that the practices relating to BI are crucial for evaluating organizational performance, charting new directions, and everyday decision-making. According to Ziff Davis Enterprise, BI experts are ranked as the #1 job in the information technology sector for 2009.

Document Sql (Dsql) - An Accessible Yet Comprehensive Ad-Hoc Querying Frontend For Xquery, Arijit Sengupta

ISSCM Faculty Publications

This article presents a declarative query language, Document SQL (DSQL) that has the same look and feel as SQL and was designed by updating the semantics of SQL operations in the structured document domain. At the same time, DSQL was designed such that all queries written in it have equivalent counterparts in XQuery. Thus, by using such a language, users can take advantage of their existing SQL knowledge when writing ad-hoc queries without losing the expressive power of XQuery.

Is The United States Postal Service's Business Model Broken? Fixing The Model Through Innovation Not Competitive Postal Services, Paul J. Martin

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This project suggests that the United States Postal Service (USPS) business model that utilizes very large mail volume revenues to cross-subsidize last-mile delivery is broken by the continuing trend of paper documents converted to electronic documents. As the paper to electronic conversion trend continues, the USPS will need to develop additional revenue sources and/or cut costs to survive without government funding. In response to the shift from paper mail to electronic mail, other countries have liberalized postal services to make competitive postal mail systems with the goals of achieving postal service innovation, better service, and reduced prices. Postal liberalization is …

Sustainable Development And Exhaustible Resources: The Case Of Bauxite Mining In Vietnam, Hoa Hoang

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

In 2007, the Vietnamese government declared an ambitious master plan to extract its bauxite resources, mainly concentrated in the Central Highlands. The impact of bauxite mining on the livelihoods of indigenous people and the macroeconomy have been debated by many scientists, economists, environmentalists, and journalists, both in Vietnam and among the Vietnamese who live overseas. From a holistic perspective to sustainable development, this paper analyzes the potential impacts of the Tan Rai and Nhan Co bauxite mining and alumina refining projects, the major part of the Vietnamese government’s master plan. At a macroeconomic level, the possible occurrence of the “resource …

Mis 799 Capstone: 2009 Winter Cohort List, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Master of Information Systems Capstone Executive Summary

Available for download is a list of the 2009 Winter Cohorts, complete with student names, project titles, and faculty advisor names.

The Importance Of Police Performance As A Determinant Of Satisfaction With Police, James E. Larsen, John P. Blair

Finance and Financial Services Faculty Publication

Problem statement: Citizen satisfaction with police performance is an important concern of public managers because police performance is central to citizens and accounts for a large share of urban budgets. Also, there is substantial disagreement in the literature regarding determents of citizen satisfaction.

Approach: Logistic regression was used to investigate the results of three public opinion surveys, conducted biannually, to identify determinants of citizen satisfaction with police.

Results: The explanatory power of the models was indicated by concordance of over .80. The findings indicated that satisfaction was largely determined by citizen perception of police behaviors. Four variables reflecting perceptions of …

Isscm Graduating Cohort, 2009, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Master Cohort Posters

Poster congratulating the 2009 Graduating Cohort from the Master of Information Systems and the Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Programs.

An Investigation Into The Forecasting Methods Of Dayton Power And Light, Andrew John Gleason

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

Dayton Power and Light commissioned this capstone project to test DP&L’s hypothesis that individual forecasting models for each of its different customer classes when combined will generate a better forecast of total load than their current practice of using one model that does not make a distinction between the electrical use of different customer classes. This hypothesis was based on the observable fact that a change in weather does not create a change in electrical consumption equal across all customer classes. Forecasting models were created for each customer class within the data limitations. A forecasting model for total load was …

Diffusion Of Complex Information Systems Across Organizations, Anand Jeyaraj

ISSCM Faculty Publications

Organizations deal with complex information systems innovations such as enterprise resource planning systems to enable and support their operations. While there is considerable research on organizations’ adoption, implementation, and use of such complex information systems, prior literature has not dwelt as much on the diffusion or the spread of such complex information systems across a population of organizations. A limited number of studies have shown different information sources such as external, internal, and mixed influences to drive diffusion, and found variations in the diffusion patterns of different complex information systems. These findings, however, belong to different populations and do not …