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Evaluating Straddle Carrier Deployment Policies: A Simulation Study For The Piraeus Container Terminal, Eleni Hadjiconstantinou, Nang Laik Ma

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Most container terminals in the world today are operating up to their capacities. In this paper, we have developed a decision support system to optimise yard operations by considering all container flows (import, export and transshipment) through the yard with the view to improving the terminal performance and efficiency. In another paper, we proposed an optimisation model that determines optimal container locations and straddle carrier (SC) movements with the objective of minimising the overall storage and handling cost of containers. In this paper, a discrete event simulation tool for container terminal operations has been developed with three objectives: (i) to …

A Case Study To Examine The Application Of Food Cost Theories In Menu Pricing And Cost Control Management Within A New Restaurant Operation, Mark W. Barnard

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Cost accounting principles regarding identification and allocation of direct raw material costs are widely endorsed as "best practices" for profit maximization throughout the food service industry. From its potential role in establishing menu prices to the need for constant monitoring in operations, food cost control is emphasized as a primary responsibility in managing back-ofthe- house operations (Berberoglu, 1993; Dopson, 2008). Investigation of this topic has indicated that a large number of operators are satisfied that their operations are supported by quality cost control procedures. Inquiry as to specific components of any reliable cost control system often reveals inadequacies that preclude …

Travelocity And The Opaque Booking Model: New Ways To Stimulate Incremental Revenue, Greg Kinchen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In today economy the declining hotel occupancies are motivating hotels to push deeply discounted rates through online travel agency opaque booking models. Online travel sites like Priceline and Hotwire have benefited from the opaque booking model even though overall travel and the economy is down.

Digital/Social Media As An Audience Marketing Tool To Promote Corporate Events, Corie Rand

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this professional paper, a case study, is to determine the benefits of using digital/social media as an additional audience-marketing tool in promoting and increasing registration for business-to-business (B2B) corporate in-person events. This case study researches the state of the B2B publishing/media industry, and the media company, Reed Business Information (RBI) is the focus of this study. This paper will address RBI's business need to invest in additional revenue streams, and the potential of applying researched marketing tools that could help to promote and drive registration for events. The impact of applying digital/social media, as a marketing tool, …

Americans Abroad: International Hospitality Careers, Julienne Chranowski

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This is an exploratory research paper reviewing international tourism and hospitality careers with a focus on Abu Dhabi, the capitol of the United Arab Emirates. The paper reviews the cultural aspects of business life in the country and gives Americans the necessary steps to finding a career in this foreign land

Introducing Pr Strategies Into Chinese Exhibition Planning Services, Fei Xia

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This professional paper focuses on case studies from three Chinese companies’ exhibition experiences. This paper will use the case studies to investigate clients’ perspectives on the planning deficiencies of Chinese exhibition companies or professional associations. Finally, this paper will propose a relatively executable guide that includes an advanced U.S. planning process for Chinese exhibition companies.

The Impact Of Mentoring On Retention Through Knowledge Transfer, Affective Commitment, And Trust, Michelle M. Fleig-Palmer

College of Business: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Organizations today face a dilemma regarding the retention of key knowledge workers. Knowledge transfer amongst employees is crucial for organizational productivity. Yet, this same knowledge transfer assists employees in improving their skill sets which increases their marketability and the potential for them to pursue career opportunities elsewhere. This study proposed that mentoring relationships can assist organizations in addressing this dilemma. Results of research conducted in a healthcare facility indicated that protégés reported higher levels of knowledge transfer and affective commitment. On average, protégés who reported higher levels of knowledge transfer were more likely to report higher turnover intentions. Supplemental analyses …

Your Inbox Is Killing Your Productivity, Focus And Time: Getting To An Empty Inbox Everyday, Keith W. Krieger

SIDLIT Conference Proceedings

An inbox often controls people instead of people controlling their inbox. The result is an overloaded inbox, warnings from Information Services, important messages being missed, and a feeling of being weighed down by too much email. By managing an inbox effectively, faculty and staff can become more productive, accomplish more, and be free of the issues caused by an overflowing inbox. Simple techniques useful to email users will be demonstrated.

The Role Of Ethnocentrism And Firms Reputation Of A Country Of Origin On Consumer Purchase Intention, Nadia Jimenez, Sonia San Martin

Asia Marketing Journal

The growth of international trade and the formation of supranational economic and political trading blocks have noticeably widened the presence on the market of products of different national origins. This has stimulated interest in explaining the Country-of-Origin (COO) role in domestic and international markets and its consequences on consumer behaviour. Since the consumer purchasing decisions can be decisive to the success of a company`s strategy in domestic and foreign markets, the objective of this study is to present empirical evidence on the extent to which reputation of firms associated to a certain COO are related to consumer purchase intention. Additionally …

Doing Business In India, Yong June Kim, Joon Hwan Lee

Asia Marketing Journal

In December 5, 2006, "The Economic Times", India`s the most famous economy daily newspaper, reported Korea Lotte Mart is planning to enter into India`s market. Lotte group, marking number 7th in Korea`s list of conglomerates, established VRIC(Vietnam, Russia, India, China)`s strategy. This strategy is targeted to enter into emerging markets such as Vietnam, Russia, India, China and etc. As of 2007, Lotte Group aggressively is placing its subsidiaries such as Lotte Department Store in Russia and China, Lotte Mart in Vietnam and China and Lotte Confectionery in China and India, into emerging markets. From this case, Based on the assumption …

The Roles Of Market-Based Learning And Customer Orientation In Shaping Effective Selling Behavior And Efforts, Jeong Eun Park, Seong Jin Kim, Sung Ho Lee

Asia Marketing Journal

Although previous studies have made significant progress in adaptive selling behavior (ASB), few studies have considered salesperson`s customer orientation (CO) and learning behavior as determinants of effective sales management (ASB and relationship-making efforts), despite the discussion of important roles of these constructs. The authors test not only the relationships of salesperson`s CO and market-based learning behavior to ASB and relationship-making efforts, but also the effects of ASB on relationship-making efforts and performance. The results of the study, which is done with samples of salespeople from Korean companies, indicate that salesperson`s CO and market-based learning behavior are identified as significant determinants …

Movie Marketing By Showbox, Sang Hoon Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

In the summer of 2008, the movie Dachimawa Lee: Villain, Get on the Express to Hell is waiting for its first release. This movie is based on a short film which was tremendously popular when it was first introduced on the internet in 2000, and the director Ryu Seung Wahn is expecting a mega hit of the movie this summer. Showbox is one of the leading movie distributors in Korea. After a series of blockbuster hits such as Welcome to Dongmakgol, The Host, and The Chaser, Showbox is now in stagnation. Along with sluggish economy in Korea, most of recent …

Ten-Year After The Asian Financial Crisis: Understanding Spread Determinants On New Emerging Market Bonds, Gracia S. Ugut

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

The spread determinants of emerging market bonds have shown some similarity with the non-investment grade bonds. In the study, the author found that there are significant numbers of quantitiable factors to explain the variance in the risk premium. The factors were classified into company speciic variables and macroeconomic variables, such as rating, term, and secondary market spread, interest rate change and rising price of commodities. For the unexplained variance in risk premiums, the study suggested some explanation on the underwriter's effectiveness in presenting the issuer to the investors and correlation of the emerging-market debt to the other asset classes.

The Relationship Between The Movements Of Capital Markets In Developed Economies And Their Emerging Market Counterparts In The Asian Paciic Region, Noor Azlinna Azizah, Zamri Ahmad

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This research revisits at the relationship between the movements of capital markets in developed economies and their emerging market counterparts in the Asian Paciic region using market indices of the American, British, Malaysian, Singaporean, Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Indian, Japanese and Australian markets for the periods 1997 to 2007. The Johansen's Cointegration Test, and Vector Correction Model Test were used to determine the long term relationship between the markets. This study inds that the Asian markets are very much inluenced by the events in the United States rather than other developed markets. Of all the markets …

Integration Versus Segmentation In Asian Financial Market: The Prospect Of Regionalism In Asia, Herlina Yoka Roida

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This paper draws the prospect of regionalism among inancial market in Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea). The irst part examines the correlation among them that lead to regional integration. The second part shows the possibility of integration or segmentation between Asia countries and world. The next part, tries to draw whether last inancial crises 1997 gave different result to the integration process. The correlation between Asia regional return and world return is tested by F-test (degree of signiicant 5%). The inal part of this paper gives a picture as to how the prospect …

Reporting Intellectual Capital In Annual Reports: Evidence From Indonesia, Parulian Sihotang, Yulia Sanjaya

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This exploratory study which replicates the content analysis methodology of Guthrie et all (1999, 2004) towards Intellectual Capital (IC) disclosures in the annual report has set several objectives. Primarily, the empirical investigation assesses the extent to which Indonesian listed companies are publicly reporting their IC both the amount and type of information being reported. Secondly, the investigation also examines the extent to which the various categories of IC are represented in the annual reports of the sample companies. Finally, the study explores the extent to which the level of IC disclosures could be related to companies' characteristics such as industry …

Consumer Typology And Online Travel Websites, Hong Youl Ha, Felix Mavondo, Siva Muthaly

Asia Marketing Journal

This research attempts to investigate differences in past experiences of using internet in repurchasing. In doing so, the authors identify online consumer characteristics, particularly one-time and repeat users comparison across geographical borders of Korean and Taiwanese teenage customers. Results show that there are significant differences in online shopping typologies between Korean and Taiwanese customers. While attitude serves as a distinguishing factor for both data sets along the other two dimensions, trust does not. Since researchers have focused on comparisons between Western cultures and Asian cultures` online purchase behavior or Internet use, the current study provides a valuable comparison for this …

브랜드의 시장성과 정보가 브랜드 평가에 미치는 효과, Sung Youl Jun, Tae Wook Ju, Do Hyung Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

Prior research has investigated different effects of brand performance information such as premium price information and market share information on brand equity components-quality perception and brand preference. It was shown that the differential effects of brand performance information could depend on product-related variables like product category concept and quality variation in the product category. In this study, we conducted an experiment to find out how personal characteristics such as self-construal, price perception and brand commitment could influence the effects of different types of brand performance information. The results show that individuals who have independent self-construal, favorable price perception and emotional …

Relationships Between The Attitude Toward Video Games And Use Of The Video Game Rating System In Global Markets, Hong Sik Cheon, Ho Chul Shin, Bong Kun Song

Asia Marketing Journal

As video games gain popularity and become a normal part of home entertainment, concern about youth access to inappropriate games continues to grow. Some people have claimed that violent video games influence children`s aggressive behavior and that violent video games have some responsibility for violence in the school. In response to people`s concerns, the video game industry created a video game rating system in 1995 to help parents decide which video games are appropriate for their children. This study investigated whether parents were aware of the video game rating system and how often they have used it when selecting video …

인터넷 정보확산의 성공과 실패에 미치는 사회적 네트워크 영향자의 영향, Sang Man Han, Kyoung Cheon Cha, Jae Weon Hong

Asia Marketing Journal

In this paper, authors focused on the difference between successful and unsuccessful items in terms of the innovation and imitation parameters of Bass diffusion model. Each item was scraped by members directly from the minihompies they visit. Top 50 items in terms of total number of adoption are classified as successful items and the 50 items whose total number of adoption was just below the average are classified as unsuccessful items. In particular, authors are interested in investigating the role of influentials in the diffusion process. Influentials are defined as those people whose network centrality (Indegree, Outdegree, and Betweeness centrality) …

Marketing Feng Shui To Asia, Bela Florenthal, Noriko Yagi, Hong Jiang Xu

Asia Marketing Journal

Feng Shui practice is very popular in East Asia and has been rapidly adopted by the population of the West. As Feng Shui involves knowledge of object placement, it opens opportunities to market Feng Shui knowledge and products. This paper presents an analysis of a successful Feng Shui enterprise, World of Feng Shui (WOFS), that has been established by a well-known Feng Shui expert Lillian Too and her daughter Jennifer Too. The enterprise`s marketing strategies and tactics are tied to the theoretical concept of social influence, widely researched in the consumer behavior literature. The three types of social influence (informational, …

How The Indonesia Stock Exchange Reacts To Information: A Speed Of Adjustment Coeficients Study, Yessy Peranginangin

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

This study applies the ARMA model to estimate the speed of adjustment coeficients, as suggested by Theobal and Yallup (2004), in the IDX. There is not suficient evidence to conclude that the IDX overreacts to information. However, the indings suggest that the market either underreacts or fully adjusts to information. The IDX displays signiicant underreactions at weeky intervals that occur after the full adjustment. Investors' reaction is not sensitive to the size and liquidity of the indices. Size alone could not provide suficient explanation for the different adjustment pattern across sector indices.

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Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Comment Letter: Aicpa Accounting Standards Team Feedback On Joint Fasb/Iasb (Boards) Discussion Paper, Preliminary Views On Revenue Recognition In Contracts With Customers., Kim Kushmerick, Don Noll

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Comment Letter: Aicpa Accounting Standards Executive Committee (Acsec) Comment On Joint Fasb/Iasb Discussion Paper, Preliminary Views On Revenue Recognition In Contracts With Customers., American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee, Jay D. Hanson, Glenn Bradley

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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An Amazing Open, And An Obscenity In Arlington, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

If you watched The Open from Turnberry this weekend there were two surprises: Tiger Woods didn’t make the cut and Tom Watson nearly won the tournament. It became obvious that Tiger wasn’t playing his A-game when in the middle of his second round he played himself out of the tournament. Woods was one under par after seven holes and then went bogey, bogey, double bogey, par, bogey, double bogey. He was hitting shots that any weekend duffer could relate to as he topped the ball, mishit the ball several times, and explored all of the varieties of the rough. It …

Entrepreneurial Leadership And Teamwork: The Key To Innovation In The 21st Century, Connie I. Reimers-Hild, Susan N. Williams

Kimmel Education and Research Center: Presentations and White Papers

Entrepreneurial leadership and continuous innovation are vital components of 21st century communities and organizations. Entrepreneurial leaders must realize the importance of environmental, social and global issues while creating an atmosphere of innovation designed to help followers become more entrepreneurial themselves.

Entrepreneurial individuals and teams have the ability to recognize and capitalize on opportunities, innovate, take risks, adapt to rapid change and marshal resources to achieve their goals. When individuals come together as an effective team, they can produce a synergy to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and competitive work environment. Therefore, entrepreneurial leaders must develop entrepreneurial individuals and …

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Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Research On Scf Model Under Financial Crisis : An Integrated Sc Project In China Based On Financing, Rui Liu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analysis On Development Of Empty Container Distribution Center In Shanghai Port, Jieyua Xu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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