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Toward An Historically Informed Asian Model Of Public Relations, Gregor Halff, Anne Gregory Sep 2014

Toward An Historically Informed Asian Model Of Public Relations, Gregor Halff, Anne Gregory

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper undertakes a meta-analysis of the 51 historiographies of public relations in Asia-Pacific countries to identify common themes, threads and theoretical insights. The authors propose a set of necessary components for the study of Asia-Pacific public relations drawn from a historical perspective that differs from the paradigmatic underpinnings of the major Western models. They draw conclusions about epistemological and practice differences between public relations in the West and in the Asia-Pacific region in a globalizing world.


Mobility, Retention And Productivity Of Genomics Scientists In The United States, Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang, Gokhan Ertug Sep 2014

Mobility, Retention And Productivity Of Genomics Scientists In The United States, Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang, Gokhan Ertug

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Scientific and technological innovations by highly skilled scientists and inventors are critical to the long-term economic health of the United States. These scientists enable the creation and flow of scientific research and technologies from public institutions such as universities to private firms and vice versa by forming vital linkages between them. The exchange of new ideas and the commercialization of promising scientific and technological innovations have resulted in the formation of new high-technology startups, growth opportunities within entrepreneurial and established science-based firms, and jobs creation. These form the backbone of the scientific innovation ecosystem in the United States. A potential …


Family Firm Research: A Review, Qiang Cheng Sep 2014

Family Firm Research: A Review, Qiang Cheng

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This article reviews family firm studies in the finance and accounting literature, primarily those conducted using data from the United States and China. Family owners have unique features such as concentrated ownership, long investment horizon, and reputation concerns. Given the distinguishing features of family ownership and control, family firms face unique agency conflicts. We discuss the agency problems in family firms and review the findings of recent family firm studies. We call for more research to understand the unique family effects and encourage more research on Chinese family firms. Part I of the article discusses the fundaments of family firms: …


Dueling Institutional Logics And The Effect On Strategic Entrepreneurship In Chinese Business Groups, Daphne W. Yiu, Robert E. Hoskisson, Garry D. Bruton, Yuan Lu Sep 2014

Dueling Institutional Logics And The Effect On Strategic Entrepreneurship In Chinese Business Groups, Daphne W. Yiu, Robert E. Hoskisson, Garry D. Bruton, Yuan Lu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Focusing on a period of institutional friction when institutions are in transition, this study examines the dueling institutional logics that simultaneously operated as business groups were implemented to foster strategic entrepreneurship activities in China. Our findings from 1,095 Chinese business group-affiliated firms show that the original institutional logic of state control and ownership remains a potent factor, while the new institutional logic in support of strategic entrepreneurship takes place through business groups' informal and formal organization controls. Further, the state logic causes rigidity and inflexibility for firms to react to the new institutional demands, thus weakening the positive effects of …


The Allocation Of Employee Stock Option Proceeds, Xin Chang, Yangyang Chen, Chia Mei Shih, Rong Wang Sep 2014

The Allocation Of Employee Stock Option Proceeds, Xin Chang, Yangyang Chen, Chia Mei Shih, Rong Wang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We separate equity issuance proceeds into two parts: option proceeds generated by employee stock option exercises and non-option proceeds engendered by all other forms of equity issues. We document that over the period 1998-2013, the aggregate amount of option proceeds exceeds that of non-option proceeds for a large sample of U.S. firms. In particular, firms allocate option proceeds predominantly to cash holdings, followed by investment and equity repurchase, while non-option proceeds are mainly allocated to investment and cash holdings. Further analysis shows that financial constraints affect the allocation of equity issuance proceeds by shifting the use of option proceeds away …


Coordinated Exploration: Organizing Joint Search By Multiple Specialists To Overcome Mutual Confusion And Joint Myopia, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Kannan Srikanth Sep 2014

Coordinated Exploration: Organizing Joint Search By Multiple Specialists To Overcome Mutual Confusion And Joint Myopia, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Kannan Srikanth

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this paper, we use an agent-based simulation model to investigate how coordinated exploration by multiple specialists, as in new product development, is different from individual search. We find that coordinated exploration is subject to two pathologies not present in unitary search: mutual confusion and joint myopia. In joint search, feedback to one agent’s actions is confounded by the actions of the other agent. Search therefore leads to increasing mutual confusion because agents are unable to learn from feedback to correct their faulty mental models of the search space. Incorrect beliefs held by one agent lead to mistakes, and because …


Exploring The Relationship Between Online Search And Offline Sales For Better "Nowcasting", Sandeep R. Chandukala, Jeffrey P. Dotson, Qing Liu, Stephan Conrady Sep 2014

Exploring The Relationship Between Online Search And Offline Sales For Better "Nowcasting", Sandeep R. Chandukala, Jeffrey P. Dotson, Qing Liu, Stephan Conrady

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although the conditions that motivate individuals to buy, sell, search, and post on the Internet are diverse, the information generated as a byproduct of these activities has the potential to help marketers develop a better understanding of consumer and firm behavior. In this paper, we utilize online product search data to build a model that links sales to marketing mix activity. The objectives of this research are threefold: first, to incorporate secondary data collected from online sources into a model of demand, thus improving our ability to forecast sales; second, to develop a better understanding of the role of marketing …


The Move To Business Schools: How Is Industrial-Organizational Psychology Holding Up In Europe?, Frederik Anseel, Bernd Carette, Jonas W. B. Lang, Filip Lievens Sep 2014

The Move To Business Schools: How Is Industrial-Organizational Psychology Holding Up In Europe?, Frederik Anseel, Bernd Carette, Jonas W. B. Lang, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Aguinis, Bradley, and Brodersen (in press) empirically documented the move of Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychologists to business schools, thereby mainly focusing on the situation in the US. However, in the last decades, I/O psychology has seen a trend towards internationalization. For instance, since the early 90s, there has been a steady increase in the number of authors from outside of the US publishing in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology (Cascio & Aguinis, 2008). Similarly, in international rankings the number of European business schools has increased (Collet & Vives, 2013). This begs the question as to whether a …


Designing Efficient Infrastructural Investment And Asset Transfer Mechanisms In Humanitarian Supply Chains, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Sameer Hasija, Luk N. Van Wassenhove Sep 2014

Designing Efficient Infrastructural Investment And Asset Transfer Mechanisms In Humanitarian Supply Chains, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Sameer Hasija, Luk N. Van Wassenhove

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We analyze the efficacy of different asset transfer mechanisms and provide policy recommendations for the design of humanitarian supply chains. As a part of their preparedness effort, humanitarian organizations often make decisions on resource investments ex ante because doing so allows for rapid response if an adverse event occurs. However, programs typically operate under funding constraints and donor earmarks with autonomous decision-making authority resting with the local entities, which makes the design of efficient humanitarian supply chains a challenging problem. We formulate this problem in an agency setting with two independent aid programs, where different asset transfer mechanisms are considered …


2014-09-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Sep 2014

2014-09-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress concerns for September of 2014.


Exploring Variety Seeking Behavior In Mobile Users, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Robert J. Kauffman, Archan Misra Sep 2014

Exploring Variety Seeking Behavior In Mobile Users, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Robert J. Kauffman, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Understanding the personality traits and current attitudes of individual consumers is crucial for retailers and mobile advertisers. In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of “variety seeking tendencies" in mobile users in their (1) online (represented by their App usage behavior), and (2) physical (represented by their location visits) worlds. We show that different categories of users exhibit different levels of variety. Further, by analyzing at various time scales, we show that there exists correlation between when a person is likely to visit new places in the real world and when he/she is likely to explore new Apps in the …


Predicting The Presence Of Chief Marketing Officers (Cmos) On Top Management Teams And The Moderating Influence Of Cmo Presence On The Relationship Between Firm Visibility, Market Power, And Industry Orientation And Firm Performance, Laurie Renee Hodge Sep 2014

Predicting The Presence Of Chief Marketing Officers (Cmos) On Top Management Teams And The Moderating Influence Of Cmo Presence On The Relationship Between Firm Visibility, Market Power, And Industry Orientation And Firm Performance, Laurie Renee Hodge

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

In response to increasing demands on firm performance, organizations have attempted to become more consumer and market responsive by adopting industry conventions, such as appointing a chief marketing officer (CMO) to the top management team (TMT). However, scholarly research on the presence or absence of a CMO, and the relationship between the presence of a CMO on the TMT and firm performance is nascent and conflicting. Thus, the purpose of these studies was to address these issues. First, using institutional theory I empirically examined the conditions of firm visibility, firm market power, and industry orientation to predict CMO presence / …


Intent-Based User Segmentation With Query Enhancement, Wei Xiong Aug 2014

Intent-Based User Segmentation With Query Enhancement, Wei Xiong

Dissertations

With the rapid advancement of the internet, accurate prediction of user's online intent underlying their search queries has received increasing attention from the online advertising community. As a rich source of information on web user's behavior, query logs have been leveraged by advertising companies to deliver personalized advertisements. However, a typical query usually contains very few terms, which only carry a small amount of information about a user's interest. The tendency of users to use short and ambiguous queries makes it difficult to fully describe and distinguish a user's intent. In addition, the query feature space is sparse, as only …


2014-August-31-Art Brown, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-31-Art Brown, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-August-31-Katie Prendergast, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-31-Katie Prendergast, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-August-31-Fossil 5k To Benefit Museum Exhibition And Education Programs, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-31-Fossil 5k To Benefit Museum Exhibition And Education Programs, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-August-30-Social Work, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-30-Social Work, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-August-29-Johnson City Community Health Center Receives $250,000 For Mammography Services, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-29-Johnson City Community Health Center Receives $250,000 For Mammography Services, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-August-29-'Still Pointe' Etsu.Edu /News/2014/08_Aug/Stillpointe.Php, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-29-'Still Pointe' Etsu.Edu /News/2014/08_Aug/Stillpointe.Php, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


Comment Letters On Omnibus Proposal Of Revised Interpretations, August 29, 2014, Merican Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Aug 2014

Comment Letters On Omnibus Proposal Of Revised Interpretations, August 29, 2014, Merican Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Omnibus Proposal Of Revised Interpretations, August 29, 2014 Comments Are Requested By October 29, 2014; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2014, August 29, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Aug 2014

Omnibus Proposal Of Revised Interpretations, August 29, 2014 Comments Are Requested By October 29, 2014; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2014, August 29, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Elm Tree Restaurant Glounthaune, Morning Menu, 28th August 2014, Elm Tree Restaurant Aug 2014

Elm Tree Restaurant Glounthaune, Morning Menu, 28th August 2014, Elm Tree Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

No abstract provided.


2014-August-28-Tsbdc Classes To Be Offered In September Article, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-28-Tsbdc Classes To Be Offered In September Article, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


Rudy Blake Frazier And Building Technology Consulting Llc Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long Aug 2014

Rudy Blake Frazier And Building Technology Consulting Llc Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.


The Elm Tree, Glounthaune, The Elm Tree, Glounthaune Aug 2014

The Elm Tree, Glounthaune, The Elm Tree, Glounthaune

Menus of the 20th Century

No abstract provided.


2014-August-28-Etsu To Host Tri-Cities College Fair With 70 Colleges Participating, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-28-Etsu To Host Tri-Cities College Fair With 70 Colleges Participating, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2014-08-28 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate. Aug 2014

2014-08-28 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for August 28, 2014.


2014-August-27-Alliance For Continued Learning 2014, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-27-Alliance For Continued Learning 2014, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


Consumer Financial Anxiety: Us Regional Financial Service Firms’ Trust Building Response To The Financial Crisis, Devon Johnson, Mark Peterson Aug 2014

Consumer Financial Anxiety: Us Regional Financial Service Firms’ Trust Building Response To The Financial Crisis, Devon Johnson, Mark Peterson

Department of Marketing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how small and medium-sized, regional financial service firms reacted to the financial crisis by helping their customers cope with their heightened state financial anxiety during the Economic Crisis of 2008. It also examines the variety of strategies pursued by these firms to rebuild consumer trust in their brands in the ensuing years. Design/methodology/approach–The authors relied on grounded theory as a methodological approach to understand the unfolding situation of the financial crisis and to inductively develop a framework explainingmanagers’ experience with consumer financial anxiety and trust. Data collection involved key informant interviews with …


2014-August-26-Etsu Holding Auditions For Musical ‘Oklahoma!’, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Aug 2014

2014-August-26-Etsu Holding Auditions For Musical ‘Oklahoma!’, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.