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Entrepreneurship Education’S Impact On Entrepreneurial Intention: A Predictive Regression Model Of Chinese University Students, Brian A. Lavelle

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

“Entrepreneurship education’s impact on entrepreneurial intention: A predictive regression model of Chinese university students” is a dissertation study by Brian A. Lavelle, doctoral candidate at George Fox University. The study investigates the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention using quantitative methods and survey data from China. The study uses Ajzen’s (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior and the Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (Linan & Chen, 2009) to investigate the impact between personal attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention. The data was collected from eleven college and university programs in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, in the People’s …

Impakti I Teknologjisë Informative Në Menaxhimin E Burimeve Njerëzore, Art Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

Teknologjia në ditët e sotme është baza nga e cila po fillon të ndërtohet çdo biznes ku forma e operimit në treg qasja në të dhe ofrimi i çdo lloj shërbimi po ndërlidhet ngushtë me burimet që i takojnë fushës së teknologjisë. Bizneset për të funksionuar në mënyrën më të mirë të mundshme tashmë kanë filluar të implementojnë teknologjitë më të fundit në mënyrë që të jenë në hap me kohën dhe konkurrencën e cila çdo ditë është në rritje e sipër, prandaj implementimi i teknologjisë tashmë është bërë shumë i nevojshëm që biznesi të mbijetoj në ditët e sotme. …

Ndikimi I Marketingut Digjital Në Performancën E Mikrobizneseve, Krenare Sopjani

Theses and Dissertations

Marketingu ka qenë një sfidë për ndërmarrjet e vogla dhe të mesme (NVM) në mbarë botën për shkak të kostos së saj. Marketingu tradicional që përfshin televizion, radio dhe billborde vjen me një kosto të lartë për këto NVM dhe prandaj rritja e këtyre kompanive bëhet një sfidë për shkak të shitjeve të ulëta si rezultat i ndërgjegjësimit të mallrave dhe shërbimeve të ofruara. Marketingu digjital i ka dhënë ndërmarrjeve të vogla dhe të mesme një platformë për të krijuar informata për konsumatorët në atë që ato ofrojnë për shkak të kostos relativisht të ulët.

Turizmi Si Burim Potencial Për Zhvillim Lokal Ekonomik Në Komunën E Prizrenit, Dua Karabaxhaku

Theses and Dissertations

Ky dokument analize i cili është zhvilluar në kuadër të punimit të diplomës, në Fakultetin për Menaxhment, Biznes dhe Ekonomi, të universitetit UBT, do ta elaborojë ndikimin e turizmit si kategori ekonomike dhe burim potencial për zhvillim lokal socio-ekonomik dhe kulturor të komunës së Prizrenit,duke e zabtuar në një metodologji tri dimensionale të analizimit të gjendjes së përgjithshme aktuale në sektorin e zhvillimit ekonomik, rëndësinë e turizmit si kategori e rëndësishme ekonomike, dhe si ndikon turizmi si burim potencial për zhvillim ekonomik dhe në sektorët e ndryshëm në Kosovë, me theks të veqant në komunën e Prizrenit.

Qëllimi i kësaj …

Banka Qendrore Evropiane, Gentijana Blakaj

Theses and Dissertations

Ky studim ka si qëllim të jap një përshkrim të qartë të Bankës Qendrore Evropiane.Banka Qendrore Evropiane (BQE) është një organ i Bashkimit Evropian dhe së bashku me bankat qendrore të 19 shteteve të BE-së formon Sistemin Evropian të Bankave Qendrore (SEBQ).

Ajo nuk është bankë qendrore e një vendi të vetëm, por mbulon një zonë gjeografike të 19 vendeve të ndryshme, secili me historinë e tij, kulturën dhe të kaluarën ekonomike të caktuar. Së bashku me bankat qendrore të vendeve anëtare të zonës së Euros, ato përbëjnë një entitet që quhet "Eurosistem", detyra më e rëndësishme e të cilit …

Sistemi Monetar Europian, Filiz Haxhani

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë temë diplome shqyrtohet roli kryesor i bankës qëndrore evropiane, e cila ka për qëllim ruajtjen e stabilitetit të çmimeve ku objektiv kryesor është të mbështes politikat e përgjithshme të BE-së. Tek shqyrtimi i literaturës trajtohen teoritë e ndryshme të sistemit monetar evropian, formimi dhe zhvillimi, qëllimet dhe mekanizmat e tij.

Nuk munguan as problemet e ndryshme që pësoi SME, të cilat u shfaqën ndër vite, kriza e borxheve që ndodhi në vitet 2008-2009. Shtetet e të cilave u shtyen drejt borxheve që kishin normë të lartë deficiti ishin: Greçia, Spanja, Portugalia, Irlanda dhe Qipro. Në vitin 2012 u …

Edukimi Dhe Pabarazia Në Të Ardhura, Ermal Shala

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim paraqet kuptimin e edukimit dhe pabarazinë në të ardhura, si dhe ndikimin e tij në gjitha kontinetet e botës.

Ky punim përbëhet nga shumë pika të vlefshme që nxjerrin në pah kuptimin e të ardhurave dhe rëndësinë e pabarazisë, faktorët që ndikojnë në pabarazi, teoritë e shpërndarjes së të ardhurave, matësit e pabarazisë së të ardhurave, kuptimin e pabarazisë në edukim dhe matësit e pabarazisë në edukim. Duke patur parasysh se pabarazia e të ardhurave varët nga shumë faktorë ekonomik, politik dhe social atëherë gjatë elaborimit të këtij punimi do të kemi një gjithpërfshirje të këtyre faktorëve.

Punim …

Realizimi I Aktiviteteve Te Marketignut Me Buxhet Te Kufizuar, Halime Martinaj - Gjonbalaj

Theses and Dissertations

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Three Essays On Capital Structure And Cross-Listing, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation includes three chapters. Chapter one examines the effect of economic sanctions on firms and financial markets. Chapter two studies the effect of culture on cross-listing and CEO turnover. Chapter three looks at how geography influences capital structure.

Chapter 1 This paper is the first comprehensive analysis of economic sanctions and measures the effect of imposing and lifting sanctions on the target country's exchange-listed, publicly traded firms and examines how the impact of sanctions on deep state-owned firms differs from their impact on other firms. The paper uses the case of Iran because of its developed financial markets, the …

Motivations To Engage In Word Of Mouth From Non-Market Participants: A Study Using Automotive Business As The Field Of Investigation, Yao Han Kwan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Word of mouth (WOM) can have significant impacts on businesses. Positive WOM can go a long way in helping to grow a brand while negative WOM may cause considerable damages. Managers have constantly attempted to actively manage WOM but often find it difficult to control. Extensive academic research has also been conducted in this field, with a significant amount of literature built up over the last few decades. The advent of the Internet, social media and consequently electronic WOM (eWOM) further intensified practice and research interest in this area.

Despite decades of research and managerial precepts about WOM, the full …

The Design, Test And Evaluation Of A Sensing System For Process Analytical Technology (Pat), Trevor Murphy

Theses

Increased globalisation and competitiveness has given rise to a more dynamic and diverse global market that has begun to place incredible strain on manufacturing supply chains. Conventional manufacturing methods such as the batch manufacturing methods employed largely by the materials processing industries i.e. pharmaceuticals, polymers and magnesium processing plants are ill-suited to cope with the demands of today. As products evolve with technological advancements they become more complex to produce and require alternative approaches to manufacturing to ensure product quality while reducing costs and increasing manufacturing efficiencies.

A potential solution to the growing demands on today’s supply chain is process …

Breaking Down The Barriers To Operator Workload Estimation: Advancing Algorithmic Handling Of Temporal Non-Stationarity And Cross-Participant Differences For Eeg Analysis Using Deep Learning, Ryan G. Hefron

Theses and Dissertations

This research focuses on two barriers to using EEG data for workload assessment: day-to-day variability, and cross- participant applicability. Several signal processing techniques and deep learning approaches are evaluated in multi-task environments. These methods account for temporal, spatial, and frequential data dependencies. Variance of frequency- domain power distributions for cross-day workload classification is statistically significant. Skewness and kurtosis are not significant in an environment absent workload transitions, but are salient with transitions present. LSTMs improve day- to-day feature stationarity, decreasing error by 59% compared to previous best results. A multi-path convolutional recurrent model using bi-directional, residual recurrent layers significantly increases …

Methods To Support The Project Selection Problem With Non-Linear Portfolio Objectives, Time Sensitive Objectives, Time Sensitive Resource Constraints, And Modeling Inadequacies, Neil C. Ranly

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Air Force relies upon information production activities to gain insight regarding uncertainties affecting important system configuration and in-mission task execution decisions. Constrained resources that prevent the fulfillment of every information production request, multiple information requestors holding different temporal-sensitive objectives, non-constant marginal value preferences, and information-product aging factors that affect the value-of-information complicate the management of these activities. This dissertation reviews project selection research related to these issues and presents novel methods to address these complications. Quantitative experimentation results demonstrate these methods’ significance.

The Dark Side Of Charismatic Leadership: A Social Exchange Perspective, Bin Ma

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation focuses on a possible dark side of charismatic leadership and its behavioral consequences from a social exchange perspective. By revealing the positive correlations between charismatic leadership and the Dark Triad personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, this study provides empirical evidence for the possibility of charismatic leaders with negative personality traits generating harm. Based on a sample of 99 leader-follower dyads recruited from a Chinese work organization, the findings suggest that more charismatic leaders are more likely to behave in autocratic ways and the followers of such leaders will more likely enact pro-leader unethical behaviors. These findings …

When Humor Hurts: The Detrimental Effect Of Humor On Brand Attitudes After A Brand Transgression, Lama Lteif

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This work builds on extant research on humor and brand transgressions to demonstrate that the use of humor in brand communication strategies reduces brand attitudes after a transgression. A set of six studies, including a quasi-field study and a field study, show that the use of humor reduces brand trust after a transgression, which in turn, reduces brand attitudes.

Innovation Under Stress, Zhaojun Huang

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The aim of the dissertation is to explore firms’ innovation strategies during certain stressful periods. This dissertation consists of 3 chapters. . .

Chapter 1: Innovation Diversification Under Policy Uncertainty

Using detailed data on patent grants and applications, I explore the effect of policy uncertainty on firms’ innovation strategies. I show that firms that invest in R&D tend to pursue more diversified strategies and are more likely to explore unfamiliar fields during periods of policy uncertainty. These findings hold after adjusting for possible sample-selection bias using variation from patent examiners’ historical approval rates, and after adjusting for potential endogeneity using …

Essays On Innovation, Analyst Coverage, And Corporate Finance, Yang Liu

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation consists of three chapters that encompass corporate innovation, analyst coverage, public firm disclosure, and institutional investors.

Leading Mindfully In Dynamic Times: Can A Mindfulness-Based Leadership Training And Coaching Program Increase Leadership Effectiveness?, Nina Tan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This research examined the influence of a Mindfulness-based Leadership Training and Coaching Program (MBP), in garnering three aspects of leadership effectiveness; extra employee effort, productive performance and followers’ satisfaction with leadership.

We hypothesized that mindfulness-based leadership training and coaching program can influence leaders’ frequency in adopting authentic, transformational and transactional leadership behaviors to enhance leadership effectiveness.

We tested these predictions separately on two control and intervention groups. Results suggested that the combined training and coaching mindfulness-based intervention program had predictive effects between the practice of mindful attunement of leaders’ behaviors and enhancement in leadership effectiveness, even in a short span …

A Closed Mouth Gonna Get You Nothin’: How Conflict Is Handled After Diversity And Inclusion Training, Enrico E. Manalo

Graduate Masters Theses

Diversity and Inclusion training is often used in organizations to engage with the increasing demographic diversity in the United States. However, many organizations continue to base their trainings and initiatives on a paradigm which was primarily motivated to prevent litigation, rather than to ensure economic opportunity for all. Over time, such Diversity efforts failed in many documented instances to ensure such opportunities and in fact, created a host of unwanted side-effects, such as employee turnover, job dissatisfaction, and misconceptions regarding the soundness of Diversity and Inclusion efforts.

However, a number of organizations have undertaken Diversity and Inclusion efforts in earnest. …

Do Auditors Communicate Financial Misstatement Risk In Audit Report? Evidence From Subsequent Accounting Restatements In China, Hau Yi Yeung

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

Regulators worldwide are considering expanding current audit reporting model to include key audit matters (KAM). Proponents argue that current audit reports are standardized and uninformative to financial statement users. Auditors in current reporting regime can choose to add explanatory notes in audit reports, however, few current studies have investigated the information content of these explanatory notes. This thesis conducts a textual analysis of explanatory notes in auditor reports and examines the predictability of auditors’ explanatory notes consisting of both unqualified and qualified opinions in determining the incidence of subsequent restatements. I hand collect material accounting restatements disclosed by the public …

Labor Planning Outcomes: Systemic Management Models, Human Interactions, And Knowledge Sharing, Richard J. Tarpey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project takes a systemic approach to hospital labor planning and allocation rather than sub-optimizing the individual components of workload demand forecasting, scheduling, and staffing separately. The research considers all three components within their interdependent, dynamic, cyclical systemic nature to develop a better labor planning and allocation cycle (LPAC) management model across the various subsystems of the hospital. We used an Action Design Research (ADR) method to the guided emergence of innovative artifacts – Systemic LPAC Management Model and LPAC Performance Metrics – that we evaluate and improve through interventions in situ with practitioners. The Systemic LPAC Management Model leveraged …

Intangible Capital: Culture Of Innovation And Its Impact On The Cash Flow Multiple, James Russell Gregory

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The definition for a culture of innovation (COI) is the perception of a company that prioritizes the advancement of new ideas that create value across all operations. On the face of it that seems a precious attribute for any company to nurture and exploit, but measuring and valuing a culture of innovation has proven elusive for corporations. There is a tendency to break down innovation into R&D, patents granted, and new product development and while these are all significant components of innovation a cultural definition is more encompassing of the entirety of a company and the financial results should be …

Research On The Route Optimization Of Huzhou Port’S Outbound Container, Bo Zhang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Is A Pension Fund's Mix Of Fair Value Investments, Audit Type, And Audit Quality Associated With The Firm's Credit Rating?, Trevor England

Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations

There has been a proliferation of alternative investment holdings by defined benefit pension plans during the 21^st century. While holdings of alternative investments may advantage pension plans and their sponsoring firms through diversification and/or less volatile returns, they may also present valuation problems because underlying investments in opaquely valued (or marked-to-model) securities contain larger estimation error and uncertainty. Such valuation problems may concern credit reporting agencies because the sponsoring firm’s pension plan liability is uncertain. This problem is exacerbated through agency relationships within pension plans that enable executives and investment managers to engage in opportunistic financial reporting of fair …

The Driving Force Analysis Of The Overseas Ports Invested By Shanghai International Port Group, Yuewen Hu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

On The Balance Between Port Integration And Anti-Monopoly : China As A Case, Ying Huang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Strategic Analysis Of Port Enterprise’S Self-Operation Of Fleet, Yu Su

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Wti And The Ordering Of Crude Tankers On Tanker Spot Freight Rate, Jiajia Xu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Study On Bulk Market Of Panamax Carrier In The Past 20 Years(1998-2018), Wei Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

On Optimization Of Cold Chain Logistics Systems For Rokin Logistics Company, Huimin Luo

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.