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Opportunity Costs, Profits, And Value, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

Nanny Knows Best: The Problem Of Setting Efficient Accounting Standards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

Accounting And Controls In E-Commerce: Expectations, Common Knowledge And Culture, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

Can Emotional Intelligence Be Increased Through Training?: An Experimental Study, Jane Murray, Peter Jordan, S Hall-Thompson

Jane Murray

The training of emotional intelligence in organizations continues to be the subject of much academic discussion. Since the emotional intelligence construct first began to gain attention in the early 1990's academics and practitioners alike have debated whether the skills and abilities associated with emotional intelligence can be learned. As the debate continues, organizations maintain their investment in emotional intelligence training programs that propose to increase the emotional intelligence of individuals, and also increase their overall workplace performance. In this paper we identify specific emotional intelligence skills and abilities that can be trained, and compare these skills to current emotional intelligence …

Does Training Increase Emotional Intelligence In Groups And Group Performance?, Peter Jordan, Jane Murray

Jane Murray

In this presentation we will discuss the results of a study examining the efficacy of training emotional intelligence skills and abilities in groups. While performance differences have been found between groups with members that average high in emotional intelligence and groups with members with average low in emotional intelligence (Jordan & Troth, 2004), other longitudinal research suggests that these performance differences were minimized the longer the groups worked together (Jordan, Ashkanasy, Hartel, & Hooper, 2002). Thus, we present a field study that examines this question at a greater level of depth.

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A Capacity Market That Makes Sense, Peter Cramton, Steven Stoft

Peter Cramton

We argue that a capacity market is needed in most restructured electricity markets, and present a design that avoids problems found in the early capacity markets. The proposed market only rewards capacity that contributes to reliability as demonstrated by its performance during hours in which there is a shortage of operating reserves. The capacity price responds to market conditions, increasing when and where capacity is scarce and decreasing to zero when and where it is sufficiently plentiful. Market power in the capacity market is addressed by basing the capacity price on actual capacity, rather than bid capacity, so generators cannot …

Agglomeration Effects And Strategic Orientations: Evidence From The U.S. Lodging Industry, Linda Canina, Cathy A. Enz, Jeffrey S. Harrison

Cathy A. Enz

This study provides evidence regarding the strategic dynamics of competitive clusters. Firms that agglomerate (co-locate) may benefit from the differentiation of competitors without making similar differentiating investments themselves. Alternatively, co-locating with a high percentage of firms with low-cost strategic orientations reduces performance for firms pursuing high levels of differentiation. Further, the lowest-cost providers with the greatest strategic distance from the norm of the competitive cluster reap the greatest benefit from co-location with differentiated firms. We find empirical support for these ideas using a sample of 14,995 U.S. lodging establishments, and controlling for a number of key demand-shaping factors.

Work And Family Conflict: Does Home-Based Telework Make A Difference?, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Organizations continually seek to find ways to improve the performance of individuals, groups, and the entire organization. Research has shown that, when employees’ work-family conflict levels are reduced, performance in the workplace can be increased. How to reduce these levels, however, is a complex task. One claim that has been made, but not thoroughly researched, is that teleworking can assist employees in reducing their work-family conflict. This empirical study researched the effects of home-based teleworking on work-family conflict. Its purpose was to investigate the differences in work and family conflict (i.e., overall, forms, directions) between full-time worksite employees and full-time …

Collateral Learning Through Service-Learning: Developing Competent Business Professionals, Janice Gygi, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Stakeholders of business schools expect graduates to have certain collateral skills in addition to the specific skills required by the discipline. These skills have been identified as quantitative analysis, information technology, diversity, teamwork and interpersonal, critical and analytical thinking, verbal and written communication, and ethical. This literature review suggests that service-learning should be an excellent way to help students develop collateral as well as discipline-specific skills. This may be due to the high motivation to learn that students gain from working in the real world with individuals whose lives are impacted by the quality of service provided by the students.

Strategic Faculty Development (Professional Development Workshop), Susan R. Madsen, Scott C. Hammond

Susan R. Madsen

This workshop addresses the following: 1) How to create a strategic planning process that honors the principles of faculty governance; 2) How strategic planning for academic organizations is fundamentally different from strategic planning in business; 3) The essential process and content elements in academic strategic palling; 4) Real case examples from private and state run institutions; and 5) How to use faculty development to successfully implement college and departmental strategy.

The Impact Of The Stock-For-Debt Exception On Corporate Bankruptcy Restructurings, William Terando, W. Shaw

William D. Terando

No abstract provided.

Sorry, But It's The Law: The Westernization Of Islam, Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis

Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis

The last quartile of the 20th Century vastly changed the religio-cultural landscape of the West. Previously the stronghold of Christianity, the West has entered into a period of deep diversity as a result of the unprecedented level of migration of non-Western, non-Christian peoples to western destinations. These new immigrants, with their foreign cultures and unfamiliar religions, came westward with the full expectation that they--like the diverse array of Christian emigrants who migrated westward decades before--would fully enjoy religious liberty in nations long heralded for their commitment to democratic principles and respect for civil rights. How are these immigrants faring on …

Sorry, But It's The Law: The Westernization Of Islam, Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis

Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis

The last quartile of the 20th Century vastly changed the religio-cultural landscape of the West. Previously the stronghold of Christianity, the West has entered into a period of deep diversity as a result of the unprecedented level of migration of non-Western, non-Christian peoples to western destinations. These new immigrants, with their foreign cultures and unfamiliar religions, came westward with the full expectation that they--like the diverse array of Christian emigrants who migrated westward decades before--would fully enjoy religious liberty in nations long heralded for their commitment to democratic principles and respect for civil rights. How are these immigrants faring on …

Book Review 5 Confidence: How Winning Streaks And Losing Streaks Begin And End By Rosabeth Moss Kanter, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and published by Crown Business in 2004.

An Amt Trap That Caught Teresa Heinz Kerry In 2003, Greg Geisler

Greg Geisler

Staging Intangible Cultural Heritage In Xi’An., William Feighery

William Feighery

No abstract provided.

Triple Bottom Line Event Evaluation: A Proposed Framework For Holistic Event Evaluation, Liz Fredline, Michael Raybould, Leo Jago, Marg Deery

Michael Raybould

Although there has long been an interest in measuring the economic impacts of events, it is only relatively recently that concern about the sustainability of event tourism has driven an imperative to develop methods for evaluating and monitoring other sorts of impacts including social and environmental. This trend mirrors moves in general tourism and business more broadly where discussion about triple bottom line reporting underpins a move for enterprises to be accountable to stakeholders, not only in regard to the economic bottom line, but also with regard to their “footprint” on the environment and on society more broadly. There is …

The Highs And Lows Of Emotional Intelligence: How Does Emotional Labour And Workplace Training Affect Emotional Intelligence, Peter Jordan, Jane Murray

Jane Murray

The emotional intelligence construct continues to attract significant attention, research and investment from industrial and organisational psychologists, practitioners and organisations worldwide. This symposium presents some of the most recent academic and practitioner work being conducted in the area of emotional intelligence in Australia. Specifically, this symposium examines how these differing areas of research interrelate to increase our understanding of the affects emotional intelligence has on individuals in organisations. In total, three papers will be presented. The first presentation provides an overview of emotional intelligence from a practitioner perspective. In particular, this presentation focuses on some misconceptions that are currently impeding …

Comments On Doc Notice Of Preliminary Results Of Countervailing Duty Review, Peter Cramton, Susan Athey

Peter Cramton

US-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Dispute, On behalf of British Columbia Ministry of Forests.

An Investigation Of Voluntary Discovery And Disclosure Of Environmental Violations Using Laboratory Experiments, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund

John K. Stranlund

This paper uses laboratory experiments to test individual responses to policies that seek to encourage firms to voluntarily discover and disclose violations of environmental standards. We find that while it is possible to motivate a significant number of voluntary disclosures without adversely affecting environmental quality, this result is sensitive to both the fine for disclosed violations and the assumption that firms know their compliance status without cost. When firms have to expend resources to determine their compliance status, motivating a significant number of violation disclosures yields worse environmental quality. Finally, relative to conventional enforcement, disclosure polices will result in more …

Controllability Of Galvanic Skin Response, Adriane Randolph, Luke Mccampbell, Melody Moore, Steven Mason

Adriane B. Randolph

No abstract provided.

Kundenprozess - Treiber Der Veränderung In Organisation, Prozess Und Informationssystem, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Emotions At Work: What Emotions Dominate Working Lives?, Peter Jordan, Jane Murray

Jane Murray

There has been extensive research on peoples' experience of emotions at work. In particular, Weiss and Cropanzano's (1996) affective events theory has provided the research community with a model that enables emotions to be identified as influencing specific events in the workplace. While this model deals with the generation of emotion in response to specific events we are yet to understand what recent affective memories individuals have of their workplace. This is significant as these memories can contribute to an overall affective climate within organisations. In this study, data were collected from 365 individuals across 16 workplaces. Respondents were asked …

Increasing Emotional Intelligence: Presenting The Results Of A Training Intervention, Jane Murray, Peter Jordan, Neal Ashkanasy

Jane Murray

This poster presents the results of an eighteen month study examining the impact of an emotions focused training intervention on emotional intelligence. In total 280 staff from a large Queensland public sector organisation attended a two-day training program that focused upon imparting the skills and abilities associated with Mayer and Salovey's (1997) four-branches of emotional intelligence (awareness, understanding, facilitation and management of emotions). Utilising an experimental methodology, the experimental group's emotional intelligence was tested prior to the commencement of training and again after the training had been completed using the Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile (WEIP-6; Jordan, Ashkanasy, Härtel, & Hooper, …

Testing First: Emphasizing Testing In Early Programming Courses, Will Marrero, Amber Settle

Amber Settle

Consolidation And Competition In Public Accounting: An Analysis Of The Gao Report, Robert Bloom, David Schirm

Robert Bloom

Analyzes the report "Public Accounting Firms: Mandated Study on Consolidation and Competition," which focused on the implications of the mergers of accounting firms of Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers for smaller firms, released by the U.S. General Accounting Office in July 2003. Status of the competition among audit firms; Limitations of a pure-competition model of the audit market structure which was used to address the observed concentration in the market for audit services; Impact of the merger on public companies.

Nanny Knows Best: The Problem Of Setting Efficient Accounting Standards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

Mobile Und Ubiquitous Computing In Der Instandhaltung – Bewertung Der Anwendungsszenarien Bei Der Fraport Ag, Daniel Hanhart, Ralf Jinschek, Ulrich Kipper, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Implementing Collaborative Process Management – The Case Of Net-Tech, Florian Leser, Rainer Alt, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

Konzept Des Supply Chain Event Management Im Überblick, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.