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Nebraska Business And Consumer Confidence Indexes: February 3, 2017, Eric Thompson

Leading Economic Indicator Reports

Both business and consumer confidence improved in Nebraska in January 2017, but the gap between the two measures remained. The Consumer Confidence Index – Nebraska (CCI-N) stood at 89.2 during January, well below the neutral value of 100. The outlook of Nebraska businesses, by contrast, was positive. The Business Confidence Index – Nebraska (CCI-N) stood at 107.8 in January, well above the neutral value. Both values were somewhat higher than in December 2016. When asked about the most important issue facing their business, customer demand was mentioned by 30 percent of business respondents, labor availability and quality by 22 percent …

Just Business - 02/02/2017, Satish Deshpande

Haworth College of Business News

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2017-February-02-Ready For The World: Brazilian Colors, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2017-February-02-Crochet Artist Talk, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2017-February-02-New Day Center, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Positive Impacts Of Social Media At Work: Job Satisfaction, Job Calling, And Facebook Use Among Co-Workers, Brittany Hanna, Kerk Kee, Brett W. Robertson

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

The number of Facebook users grew rapidly since its conception. Within today’s workplace, employees are increasingly connecting with each other on Facebook for interpersonal reasons. Due to sensational reports by media outlets of inappropriate social media use, many organizations are taking extreme measures about how their employees who utilize Facebook to connect with colleagues. Contrary to the negative assumptions, McAfee [1] states that social media within the workplace can promote positive dynamics. The present study uses McAfee’s argument to examine if a positive connection exists between colleagues who use Facebook to connect with each other. An online survey with questions …

2017-February-02-Darwin Day, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2017-February-02-Roan Scholars Class Of '21, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2017-02-02 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter for February 2, 2017.

2017-02-02 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes for February 2, 2017.

Subprime Mortgage Lending As It Relates To The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis, Josiah Bardy

The Kabod

The 2007-2009 financial crisis was the worst recession in recent economic history. The financial crisis has been the subject of much academic scrutiny, and many authors have arrived at different conclusions concerning the cause of the crisis and the effects. One of the most interesting real estate investments occurred during the crisis: certain investors and organizations predicted the bursting of the housing bubble and shorted real-estate backed securities, yielding huge profit. This paper will explore the financial crisis as well as the concurrent short selling to gain better understanding of financial markets, economic bubbles and recessions, and real-estate backed securities.

Isetan: Adapting To The New Global Retail Landscape, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Department stores need to rethink their traditional business model and deliver value to shoppers, and it must be done with speed and imagination

Building A Pharmaceutical Company From Scratch, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Carl Firth built ASLAN Pharmaceuticals thanks to Big Pharma, investment banking…and beer

Auditing Organizational Governance: Internal Audit Has An Integral Role To Play In Improving The Organization's Strategic Performance, Sridhar Ramamoorti, Alan N. Siegfried, P. Alan White

Accounting Faculty Publications

Organizational governance is a broad concept that ensures superior strategy formulation, development, and execution in ways that balance performance, conformance, and accountability. It includes systems, controls, and associated processes that promote ethics and values, performance and accountability, and risk communication and coordination among the board, external and internal auditors, and management in meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations. Internal audit’s role in organizational governance has always been recognized and valued, but it has become increasingly important in the wake of governance failures in financial and public sectors throughout the world. As a result, more and more boards as well as executive …

Innovation Through Agile Project Management, Raju Kona

Dissertations and Theses

The traditional, waterfall, project management processes were at a certain moment the latest versions creating a competitive advantage for the business using them. But, the development of technology within business, finds the waterfall methodology confining the implementation of innovation through its requirements. Conversely, the earlier used in agile methods satisfactorily proofed to re-energize project management in huge organizations that do not develop the application.

The researcher focused on finding the ways innovations are possible under agile project management through the following research question. First, how agile project management methodology enable to big organizations to succeed in their life settings by …

Environmental Scanning And Global Marketing Strategy: A Multitheoretical Normative Conceptual Framework, Philip J. Boutin Jr.

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This research paper involves the development of a normative conceptual framework of global or international marketing strategy for academic researchers and practitioners that is informed by multiple literature streams and theoretical foundations, including environmental scanning, the strategy fit paradigm (environment-strategy coalignment), industrial organization theory, the resource-based view, and perceived environmental uncertainty.

Modeling Adoption Dynamics In Social Networks, Minh Duc Luu

Dissertations and Theses Collection

This dissertation studies the modeling of user-item adoption dynamics where an item can be an innovation, a piece of contagious information or a product. By “adoption dynamics” we refer to the process of users making decision choices to adopt items based on a variety of user and item factors. In the context of social networks, “adoption dynamics” is closely related to “item diffusion”. When a user in a social network adopts an item, she may influence her network neighbors to adopt the item. Those neighbors of her who adopt the item then continue to trigger more adoptions. As this progress …

An Investigation Of The Factors Influencing Consumer Wine Choice, Margaret Connolly

Conference papers

No abstract provided.

The Huntsman Post, February 2017, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Employment Interview Screening: Is The Ink Worth It?, Paul J. Antonellis Jr., Gwendolyn Berry, Rachel Silsbee

Management Faculty Publications

This article focuses on how employment interview screeners view applicants with tattoos. Tattoos have been in existence for centuries, for they have been traced back to 400 B.C. In some cultures, tattoos have been used to identify criminals; whereas in other cultures, tattoos represent a rites of passage. There once was a time when tattoos were associated with sub cultures, such as gang members or those classified as a menace to society. Today, tattoos are not only worn by the average citizens but also by public servants and individuals in the armed forces. This qualitative study analyzed data from 578 …

Haworth College Of Business News (02/2017), Haworth College Of Business

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Mere Measurement “Plus”: How Solicitation Of Open-Ended Positive Feedback Influences Customer Purchase Behavior, Sterling A. Bone, Katherine N. Lemon, Clay M. Voorhees, Katie A. Liljenquist, Paul W. Fombelle, Kristen B. Detienne, R. Bruce Money

Management Faculty Publications

In two studies (a longitudinal field experiment with an established B2C national chain, and a field experiment with a B2B software manufacturer), we demonstrate that starting a survey with an open-ended positive solicitation increases customer purchase behavior. Study 1, a longitudinal field experiment, showed that one-year following the completion of a survey that began by asking customers what went well during their purchase experience, customers spent 8.25% more than customers who completed a survey that did not include the positive solicitation. In Study 2, we utilized multiple treatment groups to assess the step-wise gains of solicitation, measurement, and solicitation frame. …

Auditor's Consideration Of An Entity's Ability To Continue As A Going Concern; Statement On Auditing Standards, 132, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Statements on Auditing Standards

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New Vehicle Feebates, Nicholas Rivers, Brandon Schaufele

Business Publications

New vehicle feebate programs encourage improved fleet‐wide vehicle fuel efficiency; yet analyses of these policies have been limited to ad hoc proposals. In this paper, we exploit an extensive, multi‐year dataset which includes more than 16 million observations to evaluate the welfare implications of a long‐standing vehicle feebate program in the Canadian province of Ontario. We: (1) show that second‐best optimal feebates can be written as a function of new vehicle Pigouvian taxes; (2) find that Ontario's feebate program was welfare‐enhancing relative to a no feebate scenario but that a second‐best optimal benchmark would have yielded additional welfare while reducing …

News Management Around Equity Private Placements, Hsiao-Chen Liang, Woan-Yuh Jang

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Private placement is the sale of securities to a limited number of qualified institutions or high-wealth investors. Although private placement is favorable for firms raising capital, it is relatively easy for managers to exploit it to benefit specific investors. Using a sample of Taiwanese private placements covering 2006 to 2010, we use both quantitative and qualitative variables to examine the determinants of the valence and tenor of media coverage around private placement announcements and study whether managers strategically perform news management. The results show that issuers will engage in news management around private placement announcements to facilitate the issue process. …

Feasibility In Applying Agile Project Management Methodologies To Building Design And Construction Industry, Roy S. Moriel

Dissertations and Theses

During the past few decades, fundamental changes have taken place in project development, planning, and execution. This has taken form with embracing new techniques such as various agile project management methodologies to develop products, instead of using the traditional waterfall project management methodology commonly used today. Using agile has been very successful as a large portion of the IT world has integrated it within their companies. Unfortunately, professional fields such as the building design and construction industry have remained mostly with the traditional methods impacting the projects in terms of cost, scheduling, and other project elements that can benefit from …

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going, Antti Fredriksson, Daniela Maresch, Matthias Fink, Andrea Moro

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

A bank’s lending decision is affected by the amount of information it can access and by its capability to manage this information. The latter aspect implies that the bank has to decide whether borrowers should be managed in a local branch of the bank or in its headquarters. By looking at a sample of Finnish banks, the present research investigates a bank’s capability to extract profitability from both locally and centrally managed firms. We find that banks are able to properly discriminate between firms: those which should be managed by loan managers with expert knowledge in the bank’s headquarters due …

Implementation Of Agile Methodology In Public Sector, Kajal Patel

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the drawbacks and positives of agile methodology in public sector projects. This paper will help provide the business groups the solution to overcome any issues with agile for any of the development processes within the Public sector. This assignment will help us see the results of adoption of agile by various business groups within the public sector where it is been implemented. The idea of fast paced development with set goals and deadlines have transformed how the implementation works as compared to traditional methods in Public sector. Agile methodology has always focused …

2017-February-01-Medical Summer Camp, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Institutional Sustainable Purchasing Priorities: Stakeholder Perceptions Vs Environmental Reality, Madeleine Pullman, Robin Wikoff

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose This purpose of this paper is to understand the environmental impacts of stakeholder-driven sustainable purchasing policies in institutional settings. Design/methodology/approach The research is framed using stakeholder and life cycle assessment (LCA) theories. The study uses a multi-method approach. Starting with interviews to understand the breadth of sustainability issues and significant food purchases facing institutional purchasing managers, the authors subsequently perform LCA of these various policies using the most popular food item in different categories. Findings From the interview results, the authors found that food purchasers focus predominately on cost, thus, are committed to food and packaging reduction. They are …