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Canada's Role As A Clean Technology Innovator: A Governmental Proposal, Charlie Connell

Major Papers

Clean technology innovation and development can play a critical role in climate change mitigation strategies. Targeted at the Canadian government, this paper outlines the important role clean technology can play in achieving Canada’s 2030 emissions reduction targets and recommends strategies to establish the country as an international force in clean technology innovation. This paper evaluates the successes of international leaders in clean technology innovation, identifies hindrances to the progression of clean technology in Canada, and proposes multi-level strategies to overcome the obstacles hampering the Canadian clean technology industry. Lastly, this paper concludes with a call to action for continued research …

Bad Boy Furniture Co.: Case-Based Analyses Of Retail Expansion And Brand-Building, Bradley Lastman

Major Papers

Case-based research facilitates two major objectives. First, it provides insights into a company, which informs managerial decision-making. Second, case-based learning allows a classroom to evaluate a real problem facing a business. In doing so, an instructor focuses on the options, criteria and decision. Also, an instructor uses the case as a tool, from a pedagogical perspective, to reinforce course material.

The following two cases provide scenarios where a business is uncertain of how to overcome challenges. The decision-maker is provided with information in order to evaluate the options, weigh the options against the criteria and decide which option is ideal. …

Development Finance Institutions As Tools For Foreign Aid Distribution: A Comparative Analysis Of The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Findev Canada And Deutsche Investitions – Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, Kamal Mann

Major Papers

An understanding of how foreign aid has changed requires a thorough examination of the efforts taken in aid to address the widening finance gap in development, alongside the often-contested issue of aid effectiveness. This is particularly the case when looking at how aid should be paid for. Yet the question of how to best program and deliver foreign aid remains unanswered.

Aid remains one of the largest aspects of international transfers of resources that occur in the world, as such it is important to study it. The rise of Development Finance Institutions, which are publicly owned, private lending institutions helps …

Access To Justice Meets Opportunity: Reverse Auction Ventures As A Possible Solution To The Unaffordability Of Personal Plight Legal Services And Oversupply Of Lawyers, Shawn P. Quigg

Major Papers

Individuals who experience personal plight legal issues face several barriers to justice. Low- and medium-income earners are especially disadvantaged, given the high financial, temporal, and emotional costs associated with accessing justice. Simultaneously, law schools are graduating more law students than jobs available. The imbalance leaves many young lawyers, with mounting debt, no means with which to pay off the debt. The purpose of this study is to assess the viability of a legal services reverse auction platform as a solution to the access to justice and lawyer oversupply problems.

The feasibility study examines the characteristics of the business models of …

Management Of Interpersonal Conflict In Negotiation With Chinese: A Perceived Face Threat Perspective, Zhoujia Zhao, Hung-Hsin Chen, Kevin Li

Odette School of Business Publications

Despite increasingly frequent business interactions between China and the West, negotiations with Chinese remain a great challenge to most Westerners. Sino-Western discrepancies in cultural values and social norms lead to massive misunderstandings and inevitable conflicts in business negotiations. Grounded on the Politeness Theory (Brown and Levinson 1987), this study aims to better predict Chinese negotiation behaviors from an indigenous perspective by exploring the impact of face on Chinese conflict handling strategies. With a sample of 608 Chinese business representatives, this research demonstrates the significant effect of perceived fellowship-, moral-, competence- and autonomy-face threats on Chinese conflict management styles in business …

Pricing And Warranty Decisions In A Two-Period Closed Loop Supply Chain, Juan Tang, Bang-Yi Li, Kevin Li, Zhi Liu, Jun Huang

Odette School of Business Publications

For a two-period closed loop supply chain (CLSC) consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer, Stackelberg game analyses are conducted to examine pricing and warranty decisions under two warranty models depending on who offers warranty for new and remanufactured products and the corresponding benchmark models with warranty for new products only. Next, we identify the conditions under which warranty for remanufactured products is offered and investigate how this warranty affects the CLSC operations. Subsequently, comparative studies are carried out to examine equilibrium decisions, profitability and consumer surplus of the CLSC between the two warranty models. Analytical results show that offering …

Cooperative Game Approaches To Coordinating A Three-Echelon Closed-Loop Supply Chain With Fairness Concerns, Xiao-Xue Zheng, Zhi Liu, Kevin Li, Jun Huang, Ji Chen

Odette School of Business Publications

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Impact Of Product-Design Strategies On The Operations Of A Closed-Loop Supply Chain, Zhi Liu, Kevin Li, Bang-Yi Li, Jun Huang, Juan Tang

Odette School of Business Publications

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