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The Impact Of Entrepreneurial Leadership On Team Climate And Innovation Work Behaviour In Start-Up Contexts, Kin Kah Neo

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Achieving start-up success is a multi-dimensional challenge. Against this background, this research centres around the experiences gained at an Asian University with a postgraduate Master of Science in Innovation program (MI) aimed at creating novel and viable business ventures as part of so-called Capstone Projects. Given concerns about the - at times - somewhat mediocre nature of ideation and business model creation outcomes of some of the students’ capstone projects in contrast to a couple of very successful, award-winning innovation projects, emphasis was put on identifying and understanding the type of leadership that drives high-quality new ventures, namely entrepreneurial leadership …

Eksporti Si Strategji Ndërkombëtarizimi Për Kompanitë Kosovare, Uvejs Sermaxhaj

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim synon të analizoj të dhënat dhe të arrij në përfundim se a është eksporti strategji e përshtatshme ndërkombëtarizimi për kompanitë kosovare.

Për të arritur në përfundim, kemi analizuar të dhënat nga Agjensioni i Statistikave të Kosovës dhe të dhënat që i kemi marrë nga intervista me kompanitë e rasteve të studimit.

Si raste të studimit kemi marrë kompanitë Frutex me brendin Golden Eagle dhe kompaninë Proper Pizza.

Arsyeja që kemi marrë këto dy kompani bazohet nga strategjia që këto kompani e përdorin. Strategjitë më të përdorura nga kompanitë kosovare janë franshiza dhe eksportimi, kështu që si kompani përmes …

Investimet Në Arsim Dhe Ndikimi I Tyre Në Rritjen Ekonomike Në Kosovë, Taulant Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Kapitali njerëzor është burimi themelor i rritjes ekonomike. Është çelësi për rritjen e efikasitetit ekonomik. Dihet se investimet në arsim rrisin fuqinë punëtore të kualifikuar, e cila rrit produktivitetin e punës dhe kështu do të ketë rritje ekonomike në mënyrë të vazhdueshme drejt një niveli më të lartë të ekuilibrit të ekonomisë. Arsimi në çdo kuptim është një nga faktorët themelorë të zhvillimit. Asnjë vend nuk mund të arrijë një zhvillim të qëndrueshëm ekonomik pa investime të konsiderueshme në kapitalin njerëzor. Arsimi pasuron të kuptuarit e njerëzve për veten dhe botën. Ai përmirëson cilësinë e jetës së tyre dhe çon …

Ndikimi I E-Banking Në Shërbimet E Klientëve Dhe Në Bankat E Republikës Së Kosovës, Venera Nuha

Theses and Dissertations

Ndikimi i revolucionit teknologjik po përjetohet në të gjitha sferat e jetës dhe sektori bankar në Kosovë ka dëshmuar të njëjtën gjë. Banka nuk është më e kufizuar vetëm në sistemin tradicional të pagesave por është transformuar në një sistem modern të afarizmit bankar virtual. Rritja e përdorimit të internetit në mesin e njerëzve është arsyeja e rritjes së përdorimit të e-banking në Kosovë. Studimi synonte të kuptonte efektin e bankingut elektronik në shërbimet e klientëve që ofrohet nga bankat e Republikës së Kosovës dhe gjithashtu, identifikimin dhe analizimin e faktorëve më të rëndësishëm që mund të ndikojnë në miratimin …

Ndikimi I Marketingut Dhe Elementeve Të Tij Në Rritjen E Performancës Së Bizneseve, Xheneta Hasani

Theses and Dissertations

Marketingu është një nga gjërat më të rëndësishme që ndikojnë në rritjen e performancës së synuar në biznese, marketingu është thelbësorë për arritjën e synimeve të bizneseve. Në këtë punim sjellim informacione të shumta nga burime të ndryshme për marketingun si dhe për elementet e marketingut (çmimi, produkti, promocioni, vendi, njerëzit, evidenca fizike, dhe proceset), ku rëndësi e veqantë i kushtohet ndikimit të marketingut dhe elementeve në rritjen e performancës së bizneseve, kryesisht biznesit IPKO.

Ky punim ka për qëllim të trajtojë marketingun me elementet e tij, funksionet, përparësit e marketingut, ndikimet positive që ka në biznes, njëkohësisht ka për …

Ndikimi I Politikave Fiskale Dhe Doganore Në Zhvillimin E Bizneseve Në Kosovë, Besarta Sylejmani

Theses and Dissertations

Ekonomia e Kosovës varet shumë nga masat fiskale që i aplikon shteti. Përmes Institucionit të doganës së Kosovës realizohet zbatimi i politikës fiskale dhe tregtare në vend,aplikimi i taksës doganore luan një rolë shumë të rëndësishëm në trendët zhvillimore ekonomike të Kosovës. Kosova bënë pjesë në kategorinë e vendeve që ende janë në tranzicion, ajo ka një zhvillim të ngadalshëm ekonomik. Politika fiskale është e rëndësishme e politikës ekonomike, edhe në Kosovë ajo përfshin : politiken e sigurimit të të ardhurave buxhetore, politikës e shpenzimeve buxhetore dhe politikën e administrimit të borxhit shtetëror. Qëllimi i këtij punimit është për me …

Efekti I Marrëveshjes Së Stabilizim Asociimit Në Të Hyra Doganore Ne Kosovë, Dardan Ismajli

Theses and Dissertations

Marrëveshja e Stabilizim Asociimit është marrëveshja e parë kontraktuale mes Kosovës dhe BE-së dhe si e tille, MSA, paraqet një fazë të re të marrëdhënieve politike ndërmjet Kosovës dhe BE-së. Ky punim masteri ka për qëllim të evidentojë efektin që ka Marrëveshja e Stabilizim Asociimit në të hyrat doganore në Republikën e Kosovës. Për më tepër studimi synon të qartësojë efektet e zbatimit të MSA-së që do t’i ketë në realizimin e të hyrave doganore, të cilat do të ndikojnë në ekonominë e Kosovës.

Gjatë realizimit të kësaj pune hulumtuese mbi temën e masterit, kryesisht u përdor metoda standarde e …

Roli I E-Marketingut Dhe Strategjisë Wom Në Zhvillimin E Bizneseve, Doruntina Maliqi

Theses and Dissertations

Zhvillimi i shpejtë i teknologjisë dhe ndryshimet në standardin jetësor në njërën anë dhe kërkesa për shërbime më të shpejta, kualitet më të mirë në anën tjetër ishin ndër qëllimet kryesore që shtyen drejt kryerjes së këtij hulumtimi.

Ky punim ka për qëllim të trajtojë zhvillimin e E-marketingut dhe strategjisë WOM duke përfshirë edhe llojet, avantazhet dhe disavantazhet, shkallën e përdorimit në zonën ku është kryer hulumtimi në Ferizaj, si dhe në të njejtën kohë ka për qëllim të tregoj rezultatet në lidhje me atë se sa janë të informuar klientët për këto dy elemente a janë të gatshëm të …

Banka Qendrore E Kosovës Dhe Politikat Monetare, Edona Tasholli

Theses and Dissertations

Këto viteve të fundit, Qeveria e Kosovës ka bërë ndryshime të rëndësishme politike, ekonomike dhe shoqërore që kanë ndikuar thuajse në të gjithë aspektet e jetës në Kosovë, përfshirë këtu edhe rezultatet e shërbimeve bankare. Pavarësisht nga njëfarë përparimi që është bërë gjatë viteve të fundit, gjendja e sistemit bankar në Kosovë mbetet nën atë të shumicës së vendeve të tjera të rajonit. Për më tepër, vitet e tranzicionit kanë çuar në ndryshime të theksuara të mënyrës së jetesës dhe përmirësimit të gjendjes financiare të popullsisë së Kosovës. Banka Qendrore e çdo shteti është institucioni financiar që udhëheq politikën monetare …

Faktorët Kyç Të Performancës Që Ndikojnë Në Rritje Të Ndërmarrjes, Erseka Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

Ndërmarrjet e Vogla dhe të Mesme luajnë një rol të rëndësishëm në ekonominë kombëtare dhe zhvillimin e vendit, kjo shprehet në ndikimin që ato kanë në treguesit e punësimit në sektorin privat, në kontributin tek të ardhurat kombëtare dhe në nivelin e mirëqenies së popullatës. Në kushtet ekonomike dhe sociale në te cilat ndodhemi, zhvillimi i sipërmarrjeve të biznesit të vogël zë një vend parësor përveç se të rëndësishëm. Studimi ka për qëllim të identifikojë dhe të analizojë treguesit kryesorë që ndikojnë në suksesin dhe rritjen e ndërmarrjeve të vogla dhe të mesme (NVM), dhe të analizoj efektet që i …

Electronic Markets In Emerging Markets, Xiongfei Cao, Sohail Chaudhry, Li Da Xu

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) Electronic markets and networked business is one of most challenging areas for industry and research communities. Electronic markets have evolved from the classic article on the Electronic market hypothesis published in Communications of the ACM in 1987 to the highly integrated and collaborative e-business such as Alibaba (Malone et al. 1987;Wangetal. 2008). This evolution has reshaped the ways of doing business and supply chain networks (Peruzzini and Stjepandić 2018). In last two decades, we have seen how novel and dynamic electronic markets applications have been bringing about a variety of new developments, new organizational forms and shapes in …

Aged Graduate Internship In Agricultural Education, Darby Ann Toth

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

The AGED 539 Internship Report including the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) Demonstration Project and supporting Educational Materials connects dairy operators with resources to complete California Department of Food and Agriculture Grants in order to successfully assist in reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California.

Adopting The Cybersecurity Curriculum Guidelines To Develop A Secondary And Primary Academic Discipline In Cybersecurity Postsecondary Education, Wasim A. Alhamdani

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

A suggested curriculum for secondary and primarily academic discipline in Cybersecurity Postsecondary Education is presented. This curriculum is developed based on the Association for Computing Machinery guidelines and the National Centers of Academic Excellence Cyber Operations program.

The Nonprofit Nerd (June 2019), The Nonprofit Institute At Portland State University

The Nonprofit Institute Newsletter

This month’s topic is evaluation with immigrant communities.

For years, immigration and immigrant communities have been at the center of a national and international conversation about nationhood, global dynamics, and human rights. Despite the enormity of this complex conversation, the below interview with Nelda Reyes, principal at AB Cultural Drivers, highlights the possibilities evaluators and researchers have working with these populations.

We hope that through reading this edition, our readers feel prepared to “be of service,” as Nelda puts it, when researching or evaluating with diverse and multi-dimensional immigrant communities.

Let the resources and insights we share in The Nonprofit …

From The Editors, Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord, Carole L. Hollingsworth

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

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Next Generation Of Evidence Collecting: The Need For Digital Forensics In Criminal Justice Education, Scott H. Belshaw

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Digital forensics poses significant challenges to law enforcement as the information found in a computer system is often present at most crime scenes in the form of computer data and cell phones. Digital evidence contained on common devices, such as cell phones and laptops, includes information that can be pertinent to the investigation of crimes. Law enforcement is increasingly identifying the need to be able to process their evidence internally warranting the exploration of the need for digital forensics training as part of a broader study of criminal justice for future law enforcement practitioners. This paper uses telephone surveys of …

Car Hacking: Accessing And Exploiting The Can Bus Protocol, Bryson R. Payne

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

With the rapid adoption of internet-connected and driver-assist technologies, and the spread of semi-autonomous to self-driving cars on roads worldwide, cybersecurity for smart cars is a timely concern and one worth exploring both in the classroom and in the real world. Highly publicized hacks against production cars, and a relatively small number of crashes involving autonomous vehicles, have brought the issue of securing smart cars to the forefront as a matter of public and individual safety, and the cybersecurity of these “data centers on wheels” is of greater concern than ever.

However, up to this point there has been a …

A Design Case: Assessing The Functional Needs For A Multi-Faceted Cybersecurity Learning Space, Charles J. Lesko Jr.

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Following a multi-year effort that developed not only a detailed list of functional requirements but also the preliminary physical and logical design layouts, the concept for a multi-faceted cybersecurity center was approved and the physical, as well as, additional infrastructure space was subsequently allocated. This effort briefly describes the structure and scope of the current cybersecurity program being supported and then draws out the functional requirements that were identified for the center based on the needs of the institution’s cybersecurity program. It also highlights the physical and logical design specifications of the center, as well as, the many external program …

Standard Of Living Comparison: Tyler, Tx And Other Selected Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Manuel Reyes-Loya, Mariyln Young

Whitepapers and Technical Reports

The Standard of Living is a measure commonly used to compare the level of well-being, comfort, or “livability” of people in a certain geographic area. This measure may include a number of socioeconomic variables, which together provide a thorough idea of the overall performance of a particular city or county.

The Sensitivity Of Sector Stock Returns To Exchange Rate Risks In Nigeria, M. A. Adebiyi, M. O. Abeng

Economic and Financial Review

Exchange rate exposure has been identified in the literature as one of the standard metrics for measuring the performance of stock returns in both advanced and developing economies. This study adopts the capital market approach in investigating the effects of exchange rate exposure on stock returns in Nigeria, using monthly data spanning 2009 to 2018. The findings show that three sector stock returns, namely the NSE30, pension and banking indices, were significantly vulnerable to nominal effective exchange rate and bilateral exchange rates shocks. The non-significance of energy sector, proxied by the oil and gas, to exchange rate risk, is puzzling, …

The Central Bank Balance Sheet As A Tool For Monetary Policy: Evidence From Nigeria, E. U. Kure, O. O. Mbutor, U. A. Rotimi, Y. Adamu

Economic and Financial Review

The study examined the impact of the Central bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) balance sheet on the growth of private sector credit, economic growth and price stability during the period 2006-2017. Balance sheet indicators used were total assets of the CBN and proxy for asset distribution. Employing a vector autoregressive (VAR) model, the study found balance sheet policies to be effective in reducing cost of credit, increase in bank lending, economic activities and a decline in inflation. However, the effects favour asset dispersion (credit easing) against growth in assets (quantitative easing), implying that the Bank can, in the short- to medium-term, …

Estimation Of Fiscal Multipliers And Its Macroeconomic Impact: The Case Of Nigeria, D. J. Penzin, E. T. Adamgbe

Economic and Financial Review

Fiscal multipliers are important tools for macroeconomic projections and policy design. However, very little is known about the size in developing countries, given the complexity of their estimation. The unavailability of reliable high frequency data and structural characteristics of these countries also make the estimation of fiscal multipliers difficult, in such countries. This paper estimated fiscal multipliers associated with government spending and tax-related revenue for Nigeria using quarterly data, spanning 1985: Q1 to 2015 Q4. The structural vector autoregression (SVAR) methodology suggested by Blanchard and Perotti (2002) was utilised in the model. The SVAR framework applied followed the approach by …

Current Account Balance And Economic Growth In Nigeria: An Empirical Investigation, G. K. Sanni, A. U. Musa, Z. Sani

Economic and Financial Review

This study examined the relationship between current account balance and economic growth in Nigeria. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds Testing methodology was employed to investigate the relationship, using annual data spanning from 1970 – 2016. The study found a long-run relationship between the current account balance, the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth and bilateral real exchange rate in Nigeria. The positive relationship between real GDP growth and the current account balance implies that increase in real GDP growth would lead to an improvement in the current account balance. However, the study found a negative relationship between real exchange …

Understanding The Consequences Of Newcomer Proactive Behaviors: The Moderating Contextual Role Of Servant Leadership, Talya N. Bauer, Serge Perrot, Robert C. Liden, Berrin Erdogan

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Proactive newcomers are more successful in terms of integration and job satisfaction, than newcomers who are less proactive. However, it is unclear whether contextual factors, such as the leadership style experienced by newcomers, matter. To address this gap in the literature, we gathered data at three times from 247 new employees across their first six months after joining a company in France. Given that past research has found that newcomers play an active role in their own adjustment process, in the current study we investigate how newcomer proactive behaviors relate to the key outcomes of job satisfaction, person-job fit, and …

Below The Waterline: Developing A Transformational Learning Collaborative For Foundation Program Officers, Annie Martinie, Jaime Love, Michael Kelly, Kirsten Dueck, Sarah Strunk

The Foundation Review

Learning from fellow grantmakers is imperative in today’s ever-changing world. In late 2016, four health legacy foundations partnered to launch the Health Legacy Collaborative Learning Circle, creating an opportunity to understand not just the participating foundations’ visible investments and programs, but also the underlying behaviors, structures, and mindsets that ultimately explain why certain results were or were not achieved.

This article describes the yearlong process of creating the collaborative, and presents a new learning framework — based on the iceberg metaphor — that can be used to create learning environments that test and expand assumptions about promising approaches to common …

Collusion Attacks And Fair Time-Locked Deposits For Fast-Payment Transactions In Bitcoin, Xingjie Yu, Shiwen Michael Thang, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In Bitcoin network, the distributed storage of multiple copies of the block chain opens up possibilities for doublespending, i.e., a payer issues two separate transactions to two different payees transferring the same coins. While Bitcoin has inherent security mechanism to prevent double-spending attacks, it requires a certain amount of time to detect the doublespending attacks after the transaction has been initiated. Therefore, it is impractical to protect the payees from suffering in double-spending attacks in fast payment scenarios where the time between the exchange of currency and goods or services is shorten to few seconds. Although we cannot prevent double-spending …

Exploratory Analysis Of Individuals' Mobility Patterns And Experienced Conflicts In Workgroup, Nur Camellia Binte Zakaria, Kenneth T. Goh, Youngki Lee, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Much research argues the importance of supporting social interactions in teams and communities. The field of mobile sensing alone offers significant advances in recording and understanding human and group behaviours. However, little is known about behavioural changes as a consequence of in-group phenomena. One prominent example is intra-group conflict, which naturally arises between diverse groups of people. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach to extract mobility patterns of individual's group behaviours sensed from a WiFi indoor localisation system and explore how these patterns relate to their team processes. 62 students enrolled in a project-intensive module, Software Engineering, were tracked …

Coordinating Supply And Demand On An On-Demand Service Platform With Impatient Customers, Jiaru Bai, Kut C. So, Christopher S. Tang, Xiqun Chen, Hai Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We consider an on-demand service platform using earning sensitive independent providers with heterogeneous reservation price (for work participation) to serve its time and price sensitive customers with heterogeneous valuation of the service. As such, both the supply and demand are "endogenously'' dependent on the price the platform charges its customers and the wage the platform pays its independent providers. We present an analytical model with endogenous supply (number of participating agents) and endogenous demand (customer request rate) to study this on-demand service platform. To coordinate endogenous demand with endogenous supply, we include the steady-state waiting time performance based on a …

Social Customer Relationship Management In Rural Commerce: A Study Of Small Businesses In Southern West Virginia, Timothy John Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The limited-resource context in which small businesses operate impedes the ability of the proprietors of small businesses in implementing customer relationship management. Despite the availability of a more cost-effective alternative in the form of social customer relationship management, there is a failure to utilize the practice because of a lack of knowledge of the use of social media platforms for the purposes of customer relationship management. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence that the use of social customer relationship management has on the small businesses located in Southern West Virginia. The study used a qualitative research …

Leader Behavior In Successfully Completing An Erp Implementation At An Army Installation, Roy T. Ray Jr

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has emerged as one of the breakthrough information technologies that can reshape business practices. The Army ERP systems are the central component of the Army’s business mission process. However, these ERP systems have yet to provide Army-wide, enterprise-level integration and resource visibility, which is needed to increase efficiency and effectiveness of Army operations and justify the cost of future ERP investment. Few companies complete their ERP implementation on time and within budget, and the incidences of underperformance and failure are incredibly high. Current research notes that the primary determinant of a successful ERP implementation is leadership. …