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Prelude To Virtual Groups: Leadership And Technology In Semi-Virtual Groups, Terri L. Griffith, David K. Meader

Management & Entrepreneurship

A study of 76 more and less virtual investment clubs examines the relationships between communication technologies used for club business (from face-to-face to more highly technologically enabled), group leadership role behaviors, and club portfolio value. The results are interesting, with more and less virtual clubs benefiting from different forms of leadership behaviors. Clubs using fewer technologies seem to benefit from a greater focus on socioemotional role (communication) behaviors, while the opposite is found in clubs using more technologies. The effect for procedural role behaviors (agenda setting and the like) appears to run in the opposite direction: clubs using more technologies …

Follower-Oriented Leadership, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Management & Entrepreneurship

Leadership is a symbiotic relationship between those who choose to lead and those who choose to follow. Any di scussion of leadership must attend to the dynamics of this relationship. Strategies, tactics, skills, and practices are worthless unless the fundamental human aspirations that connect leaders and their constituents are understood (the word constituents is preferred to followers because the former connotes a greater sense of engagement and commitment than the latter term). What leaders say they do is one thing; what constituents say they want and how well leaders meet these expectations is another. For a balanced view of leadership, …

Human Nature: An Economic Perspective, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

An economist writing on the topic of human nature is surely expected to talk about decision making by narrowly self-interested rational agents.

Land For Maine's Future Program: Increasing The Return On A Sound Public Investment, Richard Barringer, Hugh Coxe, Jack Kartez, Catherine Reilly, Jonathan Rubin

Economics and Finance

Maine is nowhere a more special place than in the quality of its landscape and the traditions of its land use. Among the mo st privately-owned of all the states, Maine’s natural diversity and beauty combine with its traditions of resource stewardship, open access, and appreciation of nature to distinguish it in the public mind and national imagination. In recent decades, however, these traditions have come under assault from the forces of economic and social change; and the people of Maine have responded. In 1986, Governor Joseph Brennan’s Special Commission on Outdoor Recreation recognized the growing threats to Maine’s natur …

Annual Report 2003-2004, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Acting on beliefs...stepping up for IMSA. That is what you have done, and we truly appreciate your support.

Gifts and grants from the private sector advance and support IMSA program needs that cannot be funded in other ways, seed innovation and enable IMSA to pilot promising new initiatives. They also support the operations of the IMSA Fund, activities of the IMSA Alumni Association and the IMSA Parents Association Council, not to mention unexpected opportunities and emergency needs that arise. Unrestricted gifts are especially important because they provide the most flexibility for allocation where the need is greatest.

In FY04, the …

William Thomas Thornton’S Career At East India House: 1836–1880, Mark Donoghue

Business Papers and Journal Articles

Some recent work on William Thornton (1813–1880), culminating in Philip Mirowski and Steven Tradewell’s recently published Economic Writings of William Thornton (1999), seeks to cement his place in the history of nineteenth-century economics (see Donoghue 2002). But despite the notoriety Thornton achieved through his role in the wage-fund debates of the 1860s and 1870s, few commentators have explored other aspects of his work, particularly his prescient remarks on the nature of economic, political, and social reform in India.¹ This absence is somewhat surprising because, for much of his professional career, Thornton served the East India Company at its …

The Moderating Roles Of National Culture And The Country Institutional Profiles On The Effect Of Market Orientation And Entrepreneurial Orientation On The Performance Of Banks In Jordan: An Empirical Investigation, Musa A. Dwairi

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of the study was to extend Jaworski and Kohli's (1993) market orientation (MO) model in the banking industry of Jordan. Specifically, the study (1) added entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as a second mediating variable with market orientation, (2) incorporated national culture and country institutional profile as moderators on the performance effects of MO and EO, and (3) replicated other relationships in the market orientation model of Jaworski and Kohli in the banking industry of Jordan. These moderating variables explained some of the discrepancies in the direct performance effects of MO and EO observed in international contexts.

To accomplish …

Msu Update, January 2004, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

MSU Update Newsletters for 2004.

Morehead State University 2004 Eagle Football, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University football team.

Morehead State Univerity 2004 Eagle Soccer, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University soccer team.

Eagle Excellence Morehead State University Lady Eagle Basketball 2004-05, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004-2005 official media guide of the Morehead State University women's basketball team.

Morehead State 2004 Eagle Softball, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University softball team.

Morehead State Eagle Golf 2004, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University golf team.

Eagle Excellence Morehead State University Eagle Basketball 2004-05, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004-2005 official media guide of the Morehead State University basketball team.

2004 Eagle Baseball, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University baseball team.

Morehead State Rifle 2003-2004, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2003-2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University rifle team.

2003-2004 Eagle Basketball, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The 2003-2004 official media guide of the Morehead State University Basketball team.

2003-2004 Financial Summary, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office.

Morehead State University Financial Summaries Archive

2003-2004 Financial Summary of Morehead State University.

2004 January-August, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Athletics Press Release Archives

Morehead State Athletics press releases from January to August of 2004.

Community Economic And Demographic Research : Ruskin Cdbg Area : Excel Tables / : Prepared For Hillsborough County Economic Development Department By The Center For Economic Development Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of South Florida.], University Of South Florida. Center For Economic Development Research, Hillsborough County. Economic Development Department

College of Business Publications

Statistical tables in Excel format that accompany the text: Community economic and demographic research : Ruskin CDBG area.

Community Economic And Demographic Research : Usf Cdbg Area : Excel Tables / : Prepared For Hillsborough County Economic Development Department By The Center For Economic Development Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of South Florida], University Of South Florida. Center For Economic Development Research, Hillsborough County. Economic Development Department

College of Business Publications

Statistical tables in Excel format that accompany the text: Community economic and demographic research : USF CDBG area.

Economic Impact Of Proposed Town Centre At Cielo Vista, Mathew Mcelroy, Dennis L. Soden

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

2002 Economic Impact Of White Sands Missile Range (Wsmr) On The Regional Economy, David A. Schauer, Dennis L. Soden, Brent Mccune, David Coronado

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

2002 Economic Impact Of Holloman Air Force Base (Hafb) On The Regional Economy, David A. Schauer, Dennis L. Soden, Brent Mccune, David Coronado

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Transformational Leadership, Perceived Union Support, And Union Citizenship Behaviors: A Social Exchange And Social Identity Perspective, Nicholas William Twigg Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this dissertation is to empirically assess the relationship between transformational leadership and union citizenship behaviors from a social exchange and social identity perspective. The relationship was studied through a covenantal relationship perspective. Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Paine, and Bachrach (2000) suggested that there were conceptual similarities and differences in the relationships between transformational leadership, perceived organizational support, trust, intrinsic satisfaction, and commitment in an organizational citizenship behavior framework. This dissertation has developed and tested a model that provides a framework to describe the mechanism by which transformational leadership behaviors effect union citizenship behaviors through perceived union support, felt obligation, …

Aicpa Committee Handbook For 2001-2002, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

AICPA Committees

No abstract provided.

Advertisers And Consumers In Transition, Katherine Sredl, Nataša Renko

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Globalization of consumption and advertising is a dominant aspect of the post-socialist economic and social transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Yet we are only beginning to understand how consumers and local advertisers make sense of this, the role of historical infl uences, and the meaning of current outcomes. Croatia is an excellent site for researching this. How local advertisers and consumers adjust to globalization, and adjust its forces to their culture, will in no small way determine Croatia’s future, socially, economically, and politically. Through a year of ethnographic fi eldwork in Croatia, the authors hope to unlock the local …

International Tourism, Demand, And Gdp Implications: A Background And Empirical Analysis, Michael Brakke

Undergraduate Economic Review

International tourism, a primary source of growth for many countries, is inadequately represented in the economic literature. This paper attempts to expand upon past research, thereby supplementing some deficiencies and posing new questions. A pooled model for international tourism demand is constructed for 85 countries using fixed-effects specification. In addition to conventional variables, a variable representing political conditions acts as a proxy for the many exogenous impacts that affect tourism. The nature of tourism volatility due to the exogenous shocks is discussed, and a statistical link between concentrations in tourism as an export good and GDP volatility is explored.

Institutional Factors Influencing E-Business Adoption, Anand Jeyaraj, Deborah Balser, Charles Chowa, Gary Griggs

Management Information Systems Faculty Publications

Studies of e-business adoption have generally been restricted to understanding organizational factors. Institutional factors provide an alternate explanation of the diffusion of e-business across organizations. We test the influence of coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures on first-time adoption of B2B and B2C innovations by organizations. We further propose that an organization’s response to institutional pressures may be affected by its distinctive organizational identity. Specifically, we hypothesize that those organizations that value innovation and customer service will be more likely to adopt e-business over time. We test the likelihood that the intensity of institutional pressures will vary over different time periods. …

A Comparative Evaluation Of The Cost Effectiveness Of Treating The Metabolic Syndrome In African Americans And The General Population, Joseph T. Tasosa

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The Metabolic Syndrome poses an important public health threat to the U.S. health care delivery system. Disparate access to quality health care makes African Americans (blacks) especially susceptible to the adverse effects of MS. Although direct evidence suggests that early treatment of MS risk factors saves lives, no study to date has compared the cost effectiveness of such measures in blacks and the general population. Interventions that promote early treatment of MS risk factors may improve public health but could also lead to excess costs that are ultimately borne by society. The objective of this study was to assess the …