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E-Banking Dhe Sfidat E Ofrimit Të Shërbimeve, Dafina Baholli

Theses and Dissertations

Një ndër objektivat parësore të BQK-se është edhe mirëmbajtja e një sistemi efikas, të sigurt dhe të qëndrueshëm të pagesave në vend, si shtylla kyqe e infrastrukturës financiare dhe ekonomisë së vendit. Në funksion të përmbushjes së këtij objektivi BANKA QENDRORE E KOSOVES është e angazhuar në vazhdimësi në avancimin e infrastrukturës financiare, për të zhvilluar transaksionet elektronike në mënyrë që të reduktohen transaksionet në para të gatshme.

Në Kosovë viteve të fundit vërehet një rritje e përdorimit të instrumenteve elektronike për kryerjen e pagesave. Nga të dhënat e fundit statistikore, vërehet rritje në numër dhe vlerë të kredit transfereve …

Dallimi Në Mes Bankës Qendrore Evropiane (Bce) Dhe Sistemit Të Reservës Federale (Fed), Blerina Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

Ky studim shqyrton dhe krahason strategjitë e komunikimit të Federatës Rezerë dhe Banka Qendrore Evropiane, si dhe efektiviteti i tyre.

Së pari, do ti gjej komponentët e papritur të veprimeve dhe deklaratave të politikës monetare të cilat kanë efekte të rëndësishme por të ndryshme në çmimet e aseteve, me komunikim të papritur duke patur një ndikim shumë më të madh në normat afatgjata të interesit.

Së dyti, të dyja BQE dhe Fed kanë provuar të jenë njësoj të suksesshme në lëvizjen e pasurisë së tyre të brendshme çmime duke përdorur ose politikën monetare ose goditjet e lajmeve. Megjithatë, përgjigja e …

Ndikimi I Investimeve Në Produktin E Brendshëm Bruto – Gdp Në Kosovë, Habibe Osmani

Theses and Dissertations

Punimi ka për qëllim dhënien e një informacioni në lidhje me investimet dhe ndikimin e investimeve në GDP si dhe të sqarojë çështje të errëta ose të plotësojë boshllëqe, lidhur me këtë çështje. Investimet janë një fenomen relativisht i ri, që ka pasur një zhvillim mjaft të hovshëm dhe vazhdon akoma te zhvillohet ne vitet ne vazhdim. Nxitur nga ndryshimi teknologjik, konkurrenca globale por edhe liberalizimi i tregjeve, investimet luajnë një rol kyq në procesin e integrimit global ekonomik.

Investimet janë bazë shumë e fortë per zhvillimin ekonomik të cdo shteti, e sidomos shteteve në tranzicion. Investimet e huaja direkte …

Investimet Kapitale Dhe Letrat Me Vlerë, Jehona Rizani

Theses and Dissertations

Për temen në vazhdim Investimet Kapitale dhe letrat me vlerë, do të mundohem që të jap një pasqyrë dhe analizë studimore bazuar edhe në hulumtim dhe studim empirik. Duke u bazuar në të arriturat gjatë studimeve por edhe duke e vlersuar të nevojshme për një studim të tille, si një temë që ka nevoj për shtjellim, kam arritur që të bëjë një koncept shumë dimensional dhe që të ofroj një punim duke i përfshirë në të teorinë, funksionimin në praktikë, institucionet relevante etj. Kam bërë analizë për letrat me vlerë, si: Qka janë letrat me vlerë, funksionimin e tyre, ruajtjen …

Strategjitë E Marketingut Në Nvm, Mirsije Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim është, analiza e gjendjes ekzistuese e njohjes dhe e zbatimit në praktikë të strategjive të marketingut nga ana e NVM-ve, dhe dhënia e rekomandimeve për përmirësime në hartim dhe zbatimin e strategjive të marketingut. Ky hulumtim ka për synim të rritë vetëdijen dhe të siguroj teknikat e ndryshme për marketingun, instrumentet e marketingut, indetifikimin e mangësive dhe pikave të dobëta, eliminimin e dobësive dhe fokusimin për arritjen e rezultateve të larta. Në këtë kontekst, si qëllim paqësor kemi problemet ekonomike me të cilat ballafaqohen NVM-të në vendin tonë, eliminimin e tyre dhe barrierat me të cilat përballen këto …

Impakti I Digjitalizimit Të Operacioneve Të Avancuara Në Rrjetin E Biznesit, Genc Bajraktari

Theses and Dissertations

Fillimi i procesit të digjitalizimit të bizneseve në mbarë botën konsiderohet njëra nga sfidat më të mëdha për ekonominë e vendeve, pasi një proces i tillë është mjaftë i kushtueshëm dhe i rëndon në buxhet vet bizneset dhe shtetet. Mirëpo, si proces konsiderohet si i domosdoshëm, pasi komunikimet, bashkëpunimet dhe bashkëveprimet e bizneseve vendore me ato ndërkombëtare janë në rritje dhe gjithnjë e më shumë në përdorim të teknologjive të reja. Nuk është e vështirë që të konkludohet se digjitalizimi i tyre në masa të ndryshme është i pashmangshëm. Edhe bizneset kosovare janë në situatë të shumë bizneseve të sfiduar …

I See What You Say: Influential Nonverbal Signals Of Frontline Employees On Customer Outcomes, Shuang Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

This research aims to investigate the influential nonverbal signals of frontline employees on customer outcomes. Frontline employees play a vital role in initiating and maintaining customer relationships. The interactions between customers and employees influence not only the immediate reactions, including both affective and cognitive responses, but also customer outcomes, like purchase intention, satisfaction, perceived service quality, and positive word-of-mouth. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are employed in this dissertation.

Previous studies examined the effects of employee nonverbal signals on customers’ cognitive responses, but limited research has been done on the affective responses of customers. Affect-based trust, positive affect, negative affect, …

The Effect Of Horizontal Inequity, Capacity For Budget Slack, And Severity Of Peer Overstatement On Managerial Reporting Behavior, Yiwen Li

Doctoral Dissertations

An ongoing stream of accounting research indicates that non-pecuniary factors significantly affect employees’ reporting behavior. This study investigates the behavioral effects of three non-pecuniary factors - horizontal pay inequity, capacity for budget slack, and severity of peer overstatement. The behaviors of interest are the employees’ level of honesty and whether or not they report a peer that is overstating.

In the experiment, participants acted as division managers who request funding from the owner of a fictitious company to produce certain parts. In each period, participants were paired with a different fictitious peer and were required to make two decisions under …

Grateful Beneficiaries And Proud Benefactors: A Moderated Mediation Model Relating Supervisors' Gratitude Expression To Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior, William Peter Jimenez

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Few organizational researchers have considered examining gratitude or pride—much less both simultaneously. In the present study, two complementary emotion theories (i.e., affective events theory and broaden-and-build theory) are integrated in an examination of the prosocial consequences of supervisors’ gratitude expression, employees’ authentic and hubristic pride experiences, and employees’ narcissism in a large construction company in China. Results from the analyses of the moderated mediation model pathways indicated that most of the proposed relationships were nonsignificant. Supervisors’ gratitude expression predicted employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) but did not predict employees’ authentic or hubristic pride. Employees’ hubristic pride—but not authentic pride—predicted employees’ …

Essays On American Depositary Receipts: New Fears, Investor Attention And Financial Bubbles, Juan P. Gutierrez

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of four chapters, focusing on American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and how they are affected by new measures of investor sentiment, new proxies of investor attention, and financial bubble detection. ADRs are negotiable certificates of ownership in foreign companies that are traded in the U.S. financial markets.

In Chapter I, I make a brief introduction of ADRs. The types of programs there are, the market capitalization and volume in general and to some specific countries.

In Chapter II, I show that negative investor sentiment measures, derived from internet aggregate search indices, have a contemporaneous negative effect on ADR …

Three Essays On Economic And Financial Development In Latin America: Evidence From The 2000s Commodity Boom, Andre Coelho Vianna

Theses and Dissertations

The dynamic forces of commodity prices have become a subject of large interest due to the uprise of a commodity supercycle in the beginning of the 21st century. The main purpose of this dissertation is to assess the role of commodity shocks and international trade in Latin American financial and economic development in the last two decades. The first essay examines how commodity market structural shocks explain the variations in commodity prices. Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) results from 1997 to 2015 show that aggregate demand shocks are more evident during the recent commodity boom period and are robust to different …

The Effects Of Rating Source, Rating Target, And Job Position On Ratings Of Perceived Training Needs, Phillip Joseph Dillulio

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Organizational investments in employee training and development have steadily increased over the past decade, with a recent estimate of $160 billion dollars annually. An important component of any training program is the subsequent training needs assessment (TNA), which provides critical information regarding who and what needs trained. Unfortunately, TNA research is severely limited compared to other aspects of the training process. The primary aim of the current study was to examine two important variables that can potentially influence TNA ratings beyond an actual need for training, the source and target of TNA ratings. Based on the assumptions of attribution theory, …

Essays On Financial Markets And Investments, Shahil Sharma

Theses and Dissertations

Essay I examine regime-switching in the response of U.S. stock price to oil price shocks. We find statistically significant, time-varying, and dynamic state dependent response that resembles to high and low response regimes. Furthermore, we examine whether the timing of the regime shifts are consistent with three (direction, magnitude, and business cycle) manifestations of asymmetry by modeling the transition probabilities governing the switching process as functions of state variables. We observe strong and statistically significant support that stock price responds more aggressively to oil specific shocks during recessions than during expansions, while findings suggest weaker evidence of asymmetry pertaining to …

Foreign Direct Investment, A Movement Toward Investors' Centricity, A Behavioral Perspective, Jimmy Wee Teck Tan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation proposal studies the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in a frontier economy from the behavioral perspective of a manager. There are many determinants used in determining a Foreign Direct Investment. These determinants range from economic, social, institutional, technology, organization, and commercial down to cultural distance. The objective of this research is not to duplicate the methodologies of many quantitative research studies that have been conducted, in which many economists use quantitative analysis of several years of data to determine the many factors that correlate with levels of FDI. The behavioral aspect of a manager’s decision is noticeably …

The Relationships Of Team Diversity, Social Capital And Ambidexterity, Hock Seng Ng

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This study seeks to gain insights into the impact of team diversity on building ambidextrous teams, i.e., managing trade-offs of “exploiting the present” and “exploring the future.” Given the inconsistent findings of the effects of diversity on team outcomes to date, the effect (if any) will likely be mediated and/or moderated by contextual factors. Hence, in this study, I have examined team social capital to understand better its role in fostering the relationship between team diversity and team ambidexterity.

The results of this empirical study using 211 work teams (include 1,342 managers and employees) from two multi-national companies spanning fourteen …

Security Risk Tolerance In Mobile Payment: A Trade-Off Framework, Yong Chen

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Security is identified as a major barrier for consumers in adopting mobile payment. Although existing literature has incorporated security into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Unified Theory of Acceptance, and the Use of Technology (UTAUT) and it has investigated the way in which security affects consumers’ acceptance of mobile payment, security is a factor only in diverse research models. Studies of mobile payment that focus on security are not available. Additionally, previous studies of mobile payment are based on Direct Carrier Billing- (DCB)-based mobile payment or Near Field Communication- (NFC)-based mobile payment. The results regarding security might not be …

Is Information Systems Misuse Always Bad? A New Perspective On Is Misuse In Hospitals Under The Context Of Disasters, Dheyaaldin Alsalman

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Although the extant literature has investigated how individuals engage in inappropriate behaviors based on the rational choice theory (RCT) (e.g., computer misconduct), the neutralization theory (e.g., IS security policies violation), and workarounds under normal situations, it has given little consideration to how individuals are involved in misuse of information systems with a good intention under the context of disasters. To fill this research gap, we propose a selfless misuse model, which offers a theoretical explanation for the concept of individuals’ selfless misuse intention under uncertainty caused by disasters. In this study, we show why employees make decisions to misuse the …

Hybrid Recommender For Online Petitions With Social Network And Psycholinguistic Features, Ahmed Elnoshokaty

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The online petition has become one of the most important channels of civic participation. Most of the state-of-the-art online platforms, however, tend to use simple indicators (such as popularity) to rank petitions, hence creating a situation where the most popular petitions dominate the rank and attract most people’s attention. For the petitions which focus on specific issues, they are often in a disadvantageous position on the list. For example, a petition for local environment problem may not be seen by many people who are really concerned with it, simply because it takes multiple pages to reach it. Therefore, the simple …

Two Essays On The Creation And Success Of New Ventures, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh

Management Theses & Dissertations

New venture creation is a complicated, idiosyncratic process that starts with an individual's ambition to exploit an opportunity and involves putting together resources to create value from the opportunity. During this journey, some entrepreneurs can initiate a new venture while others never exploit the discovered opportunity. Additionally, while many new ventures deploy the same resources, some entrepreneurial ventures are successful whereas others barely break even. Although extant literature acknowledges the importance of new venture creation, nonetheless, various drivers of innovative new ventures and factors facilitating the success of such ventures remain understudied.

Given this gap in the literature, the first …

Execution: A Catalytic Capability In Firm Performance, Robert Frank Keimer

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explores the nature of business execution. Specifically, it seeks to understand the nature of a firm’s capability to execute, how and why some firms execute better than others, and the impact that this capability may have on firm performance and outcomes. A review of the organizational routine, organizational capability, and dynamic capabilities literature reveals a gap where no theory, model, or framework of analysis can be found for the concept of execution. The author proposes a novel definition of execution as a “catalytic capability”; that is, a stored behavioral capability comprised of repetitive, recurrent actions, shaping principles, …

An Essay On Fiscal Policy Transmissions In Currency Union, Nikhil Damodaran

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The effect of changes in fiscal policy for open economies are distinct and different from their effects in closed economies. The main idea behiend this dissertation is to examine why and how these differences affect the choice of fiscal instrument designed to provide stimulative effects to an open economy in a currency union. In extending a two country model and adapting it to examine trade within a currency union, I provide a way to truncate rational expectations equilibrium involving two large countries with endogenous relative price determination in chapter three. Using this model, I show that a spending increase is …

Trust And Distrust Scale Development: Operationalization And Instrument Validation, John D. Rusk

Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations

Trust and distrust have been studied at great length by researchers in the field of information systems and various other fields over the past few decades without reaching consensus on conceptualization and measurement. The goal of this study was to determine if individual trust and distrust are separate constructs or opposite ends of the same continuum. To this end, based on theoretical rationale, an aggregation of extant, validated trust and distrust instruments combined with newly created trust and distrust items were used as input into a rigorous Q-sorting procedure. The Q-sorting process led to the first contribution of this research: …

Essays In Corporate Finance, Nurul Alam Rafi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation contains two essays in corporate Finance. The first essay is on accelerated share repurchases (ASRs) and the second essay is on corporate inversions.

In my first essay, I investigate the use of stock buybacks, specifically accelerated share repurchases, to meet or beat the analysts’ forecasts of EPS. I find that when the companies want to repurchase their stocks in an effort to meet or beat the EPS expectations, they are more likely to choose accelerated share repurchases (ASRs) rather than open market repurchases (OMRs). Interestingly, upon announcements, these EPS motivated ASRs experience strongest market reaction among all the …

Exploring Grit In The Experiences Of Higher Education Development Officers: A Phenomenological Study, Jessica A. Mccann

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative phenomenological study was designed to gain insight into experiences of grit by development officers in higher education as they pursued their goals and processed their disappointments in the course of soliciting major gifts. Three main domains of literature underpinned the research: (a) motivation theory, (b) goal-setting theory, and (c) the grit model. An extensive literature review revealed little is known about how individuals make sense and assign meaning to their experiences of passion and perseverance, and less is known about how development officers in higher education foundations and institutionally-related nonprofit organizations decide how to set and pursue goals …

Essays On Stock Repurchases And Exchange Listing, Dung Thi Bui

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My dissertation consists of two essays on stock exchange switching and the association between discretionary payouts and real investment.

In the first essay, we examine 49 firms that voluntarily switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq for the period from 2000 to 2013 to determine whether the choice between listing on the NYSE versus on Nasdaq matters any more. We find that there is no documentable economic benefits to moving and some costs in the form of lower liquidity. Consistently, there is little evidence of a significant market reaction. We also find that switch firms are far more like the NYSE …

Drone Implementation: Regulatory Barrier, Mitchell Mayes

Honors College Theses

This paper discusses the relationship of the regulatory barriers and the level of innovation with regards to drones in the logistics industry. This relationship is shown in a cohesive and understandable two-by-two matrix that combines both industry and academic articles using a context analysis. This entire matrix not only shows where we are currently with drone technology but also where we are headed within logistics. This matrix can also be used to show how industries can move from different portions of the industry to one that works better for the business model they are pursuing. Also, the matrix can help …

Marketing Plan For Create: Art Studio And Workshop, Rachel Marter

Honors Projects

CREATE: Art Studio and Workshop is a privately-owned art studio that hosts classes, workshops, and camps for both children and adults of varying skill levels. They offer topics such as painting, drawing, hand lettering, and other mixed media options. Although they teach courses for all age groups, their primary focus is the children’s classes. CREATE is owned by two Perrysburg moms: Deborah Lambdin and Kerry Wellstein. They founded the studio in 2014 and are currently in their fifth year of business. They thrive on the idea that art is not solely about the finished product, but rather the process, and …

The Role Of Project Management In Fostering Creativity: Towards Successful Architectural Design Projects, Angeliki Giannoulatou Destouni

Dissertations and Theses

The present study aims to identify best practices for project management, which can reinforce creativity in architectural design projects. Although creativity is a critical component of any successful design process, there is no existing literature or systematic documentation of what project management can do to cultivate it within an architecture work environment. Therefore, this research first explores existing theories and bibliography to define creativity and its conducive factors, and draw some hypotheses on the potential contributions of an architectural project manager. The validity of these hypotheses in practice is then tested through a survey, which mostly confirmed and expanded them. …

Study Of The Impact Of Team Morale On Construction Project Performance, Adrian Gerard Saldanha

Dissertations and Theses

The moral of project teams is an important factor when considering the performance of project teams(Dye, 2011) (Yang, Liu, & Fellows, 2010). Morale can be influenced and project leadership has an important role to play in how people work in teams (Gauvreau & Belout, 2004). In research studying the performance of teams working on technology projects, it was learned that an organizational work environment that satisfies the personal and professional needs of individuals has a strong effect on team cooperation and drives team performance (Thamhain, 2004). In a study performed by the US military (Mael & Alderks, 1993), it was …

Key Competencies For Project Managers: An Empirical Study, Sahil Sandhu

Dissertations and Theses

Extant project management literature on the factors that impact the success of projects suggests that the traits, competencies and leadership style of project managers positively impact project success. Despite this understanding, the key competencies and personality traits of projects managers is an under-researched area. While some studies are available that examine whether a particular behavioural trait of the project manager improves his / her efficiency, few studies prepare a list of the key competencies/traits of successful project managers. Given this consideration, the present study aims to prepare a comprehensive list of the traits/qualities of a project manager crucial for project …