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Roli I Eksportit Në Rritjen Ekonomike, Adelina Çollaku

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë temë janë analizuar dhe prezantuar disa aspekte teorike të ndikimit të eksportit në rritjen ekonomike, në këtë rast në kushtet dhe rrethanat e Kosoves. Në bazë të aspekteve teorike dhe praktike të rolit të eksportit në rritje ekonomike, janë hulumtuar dhe dokumentuar shumë çështje që tregojnë se ekziston një lidhje pozitive në mes rritjes ekonomike dhe eksportit.

Rezultatet e nxjerra nga këto hulumtime tregojnë se në Kosovë eksporti luan rol të rëndësishëm dhe mund të ketë ndikim pozitiv në rritje ekonomike, nëse shteti vazhdon të implementoj politika ekonomike që promovojnë rritjen ekonomike. Edhe pse ndikimi i tij deri …

Prokurimi Publik Në Kosovë Dhe Shqipëri Dhe Sfidat E Prokurimit Elektronik, Benita Syla

Theses and Dissertations

Prokurimi publik ndërtohet mbi krijimin e vlerës për para dhe efektivitetin e atyre se çfarë blen. Në momentin që kemi të bëjmë me prokurimin, instinktivisht mendja i referohet ligjit dhe rregullave të sanksionuara që duhet të përdoren në mënyrë strikte dhe rigoroze. Ky punim ka për qëllim që të paraqes një tablo gjithëpërfshirëse të prokurimit publik në Kosovë dhe Shqipëri, e veçanërisht funksionimit të platformës elektronike të prokurimit në Kosovë. Ideja ishte që të filloj punimin nga historia e zhvillimit të prokurimit publik në Kosovë dhe Shqipëri, parimet mbi të cilat funksionon prokurimi e deri tek pjesa e elaborimit të …

Ndikimi I Nevojës Dhe Motivimit Në Performancë Ipko-Case Study, Aida Dibra

Theses and Dissertations

Kjo tezë përpiqet të kuptojë mardhënjet e performancës me motivimin dhe nevojën. Teza përdor një metodë sasiore për të kuptuar këto marrëdhënie nëpërmjet lidhjes së korrelacionit dhe regresionit linear. Paketa statistikore për Shkencat Sociale (SPSS) është përdorur për të përpunuar të dhënat e mbledhura përmes pyetësorëve të dorëzuar tek punonjësit e kompanisë IPKO në Kosovë. Sipas analizës, ekziston një korrelacion i fortë midis motivimit dhe performancës. Për më tepër, korrelacioni midis performancës dhe nevojës është gjithashtu pozitiv. Analiza e regresionit linear tregon që motivimi është një faktor i rëndësishëm drejt shpjegimit të performancës, ndërsa nevoja eliminohet nga ekuacioni i regresit …

Earnings Relevance Changes Post The Egyptian Revolution Crisis, Sara Abdallah

Business Administration

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether the value relevance of accounting information has been affected by the occurrence of the Egyptian revolution financial crisis. More specifically, this paper examines the value relevance changes of three key accounting constructs: operating cash flow, normal nondiscretionary accruals and discretionary accruals before and after the Egyptian revolution crisis.

Design/methodology/approach – Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression is used to examine the changes in earnings value relevance across before and after the Egyptian revolution crisis. The performance matched Jones model (Kothari et al., 2005) is used to estimate the discretionary accruals.

Findings – After …

Big Sister Enterprise: Just Be There, Wai Ying Zhao

Theses and Dissertations

Wai Ying Zhao, an artist and curator, instituted an American company named Big Sister Enterprise in 2018. BSE is a Delaware registered LLC that imitates briefcase companies implemented in order to foster a community of emerging artists with the intent of exhibiting and promoting their works. Zhao’s initiative stems from the awareness that many artists are struggling to continue their studio practices because of unstable income or being overworked in jobs such as art handling, gallery sitting and bartending. Through openings and events held in spaces in both New York and Shenzhen, she aims to create a community where emerging …

Belleville Alumnus Logan Wolf Honored By Quilt Of Valor, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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#Thisisirishfood - The Flavour Of Ireland's West Coast, Anke Klitzing

Articles

In the West of Ireland, a new awareness for quality ingredients and indigenous flavours are drawing out the potential of local produce and craftsmanship.

Visualizing The Decline Of The Corset Business, Iris Finkel

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The corset defined a woman’s silhouette for nearly four hundred years. It continues to fascinate and inspire new ways to study its place in culture. Taking a digital humanities approach, my project encompasses visualizations of metadata from advertisements for foundation garments in Harper’s Bazaar, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Vogue from 1905 through 1929. These visualizations represent the marketing behavior of corset manufacturers, a well-established group of businesses that benefited from the industrial revolution to produce and sell a type of garment that held a constant place in women’s wardrobes.

Economic Impact Study: Downtown Market Grand Rapids, Grand Valley State University, Christian Glupker

Other Faculty Publications

Purpose of study This study focuses on the economic impact of the Market from four perspectives:

1. Visitors who traveled for the express purpose of visiting the Market
2. Visitors who visited the Market while already in Grand Rapids
3. Tenant activity within the Market
4. The Market’s impact on local business revenue and job creation

Try, Try Again: Lessons Learned From Success And Failure In Participatory Modeling, Eleanor J. Sterling, Moira Zellner, Karen E. Jenni, Kirsten Leong, Pierre D. Glynn, Todd K. Bendor, Pierre Bommel, Klaus Hubacek, Antonie J. Jetter, Rebecca Jordan, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Michael Paolisso, Steven Gray

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stakeholders in decision making. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes. These include successful and, perhaps more importantly, not-so-successful trials. Our collective interdisciplinary background has supported the development, testing, and evaluation of a rich range of collaborative modeling approaches. We share here what we have learned as a community of participatory modelers, within three …

Entrepreneurship Activity As A Local Economic Driver In The Tyler (Msa), Manuel Reyes-Loya

Hibbs Brief

In this issue of the Hibbs Brief, we explore entrepreneurship activity and its importance as a local economic driver in the Tyler MSA.

Evazioni Fiskal Në Kosovë Dhe Ndikimi Në Zhvillimin Ekonomik, Argjend Rashiti

Theses and Dissertations

Shmangia tatimore apo evazioni fiskal është një prej problemeve kryesore për secilën ekonomi, e sidomos për Kosovën, ku ky evazion fiskal po ndikon që buxheti të ketë më pak të hyra. Ky është vetëm njëra ndër elementet negative, për shkak se ato biznese qe veprojnë dhe punojnë me këto shmangie tatimore shum lehtë avancohen në treg dhe në një mënyrë po krijojnë një konkurrenc jolojale karshi biznesve të tjera që janë lojale. Evazioni fiskale është një faktë i vërtet në Kosovë. Ky fenomen vërehet në shumë fusha të jetes, fillon nga fshehja e tvsh- së e deri te shitja e …

Taksat, Arbnora Hetemi

Theses and Dissertations

Konceptualizimi apo shtrirja në hapsirë dhe kohë i rregullimit ekonomik të nje vendi përmesë të hyrave qe akumulon ka qenë dhe mbetët sfida me e madhe e demokracisë moderne. Baza e mbledhejs se të hyrave nga nje vend nuk është proces që ka lindur me shtetin modern andaj mbjedhja e tyre është po aq e vjetër sa vetë ekzistenca e shoqerive te para. Andaj leht mund të themi se menagjimi i parasë publike daton shumë herët ne rregullimet e para shoqerore.

Punimi ne fjalë është shtrirje mbi po ketë efekt të të hyrave publike ne rregulimin shoqeror te një vendi. …

Career Education Discourse: Promoting Student Employability In A University Career Center, Rose Helens-Hart Ph.D.

Applied Business Faculty Publications

In 2016, Gallup reported 80 percent of recent U.S. college graduates who had visited career services offices (CSO) rated their engagement to be somewhat to very helpful. Quantitative reports such as this provide student views of CSOs, but neither address CSO staff’s perceptions of the value of their work nor the tools they use to assist students. Staff perceptions provide insight into how they communicate with students and align with emerging career education paradigms. Through in-depth interviews and participant observations, this study illuminates the communicative strategies used by CSO staff at a large U.S. Midwestern public university to support student …

The Role Of Normative Marketing Ethics, Gene R. Laczniak, Patrick E. Murphy

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

This essay highlights the importance of normative thinking in marketing ethics and proposes avenues for future research. It begins with contrasting positive and normative ethics. Then, a brief discussion of the literature in the field is included. Arguments offered by those who tend to avoid normative analysis are examined. Four types of normative ethical theories are presented: consequentialism, duty-based ethics, contract-based morality, and virtue ethics. The essay concludes with seven future research directions for normative marketing ethics and customer-brand relationships.

Taking Flight – February 2019, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Message From the Dean
• Alumni Spotlight: Matt Donaldson
• Retail Students Make Annual Trek to NYC
• Meybohms Host First Eagles After Hours Event
• Georgia Southern Economics Students Take Fourth Place in National Trading Competition
• Eagles Economics Society Attends Premier Economics Conference
• Economics Students Conducting Original Research
• Business Confidence Is Strong, but Headwinds Are Present
• Finance Association Brings Industry Guests to College
• Faculty/Staff News

Medical Marijuana Knowledge And Attitudes: A Survey Of The California Pharmacists Association, Dara Szyliowicz, Peter Hilsenrath

Eberhardt School of Business Faculty Articles

Views on the medical efficacy and acceptability of marijuana have changed over the years. California was the first state permitting individuals to use medical marijuana. Even with a long history of use and widespread agreement around the effectiveness of medical marijuana, the literature is sparse about the role health care providers, including pharmacists, play in this interaction. The purpose of this article is to shed light on knowledge and attitudes of pharmacists regarding medical marijuana. We developed a survey for pharmacists about their level of knowledge and attitudes toward medical marijuana. The survey was distributed using SurveyMonkey. It consisted of …

Risk Pooling, Supply Chain Hierarchy, And Analysts' Forecasts, Nan Hu, Jian-Yu Ke, Ling Liu, Yue Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We investigate whether a firm's risk pooling affects its analysts' forecasts, specifically in terms of forecast accuracy and their use of public vs. private information, and how risk pooling interacts with a firm's position in the supply chain to affect analysts' forecasts. We use a social network analysis method to operationalize risk pooling and supply chain hierarchy, and find that risk pooling significantly reduces analysts' forecast errors and increases (decreases) their use of public (private) information. We also find that the positive (negative) relationships between risk pooling and analyst forecast accuracy and analysts' use of public (private) information are more …

Avoiding The Restart Button: Examining The Critical Factors Of The Onboarding Process That Encourage Team Cohesion, Gregory James Connell

Theses and Dissertations

The process of onboarding new employees critically impacts a firm’s overall success. Previous studies have looked at the relationship between onboarding and outcomes such as employee satisfaction, turnover intention, and performance. One area understudied is the correlation between onboarding processes and team cohesion. The topic is relevant to the business sector because there is an increase in firms that are organizing employees into teams. Using a sample population of resident assistants and reserve officers’ training corps cadets from six different teams, this quantitative study implemented a survey to explore if there was a positive correlation between new team member onboarding …

Stock Market Prediction Analysis By Incorporating Social And News Opinion And Sentiment, Zhaoxia Wang, Seng-Beng Ho, Zhiping Lin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The price of the stocks is an important indicator for a company and many factors can affect their values. Different events may affect public sentiments and emotions differently, which may have an effect on the trend of stock market prices. Because of dependency on various factors, the stock prices are not static, but are instead dynamic, highly noisy and nonlinear time series data. Due to its great learning capability for solving the nonlinear time series prediction problems, machine learning has been applied to this research area. Learning-based methods for stock price prediction are very popular and a lot of enhanced …

From Casino Wars To Casino Capitalism: Sovereignty And Gaming In Macau, Tim Simpson

Occasional Papers

In 1999, after nearly half a millennia of administration, Portugal returned the citystate of Macau to the People’s Republic of China, and it was designated a Special Administrative Region under the PRC’s “one country, two systems” regime. Less than a decade after the handover Macau was transformed into the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming, and today the city is visited by more than 35 million annual tourists, the majority of whom are from mainland China. Macau’s remarkable economic expansion may be in part attributed to the city’s ambiguous sovereignty, an endemic characteristic which dates to the city’s founding …

A One-Size-Fits-All Approach To Corporate Governance Codes And Compliance By Smaller Listed Firms: An Examination Of Companies Listed In Hong Kong And Singapore, Christopher C. H. Chen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article examines the impact of a one-size-fits-all corporate governance code on smaller listed firms, which should have fewer resources to hire more qualified independent directors for their boards and board committees. After examining data from a sample of companies listed in Hong Kong and Singapore, we find some limited support for these resources-based arguments. While smaller firms do not necessarily have a lower proportion of board members who are independent directors, some evidence suggests that smaller firms do pay less to independent directors and that these directors have to serve on multiple board committees. Although many larger firms also …

The Impact Of An Electrical Mini-Grid On The Development Of A Rural Community In Kenya, Abubakr Bahaj, Luke Blunden, Christopher Kanani, Patrick James, Issac Kiva, Zoe Matthews, Heather Price, Hildah Essendi, Jane Ealkingham, Gerard George

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Electrical mini-grids can provide electrification to rural communities far from the national network. However the benefits of such schemes are disputed. We observed changes in two matched trading-centres in Makueni County, Kenya, neither of which were initially electrified. During the study a solar photovoltaic mini-grid scheme (13.5 kWp) was constructed in one of the trading-centres. After electrification there were relative increases in the number of businesses and business income. Comparing the households in the areas around the trading centres, perceived wealth increased more around the electrified trading centre. Qualitative interviews indicated improvements in service provision by the local school and …

Evolution Of Corporate Reputation During An Evolving Controversy, Siyoung Chung, Mark Chong, Jie Sheng Chua, Ji Cheon Na

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of online sentiments toward a company (i.e. Chipotle) during a crisis, and the effects of corporate apology on those sentiments. Design/methodology/approach: Using a very large data set of tweets (i.e. over 2.6m) about Company A’s food poisoning case (2015–2016). This case was selected because it is widely known, drew attention from various stakeholders and had many dynamics (e.g. multiple outbreaks, and across different locations). This study employed a supervised machine learning approach. Its sentiment polarity classification and relevance classification consisted of five steps: sampling, labeling, tokenization, augmentation of semantic …

A Product Affinity Segmentation Framework, Lili Zhang, Jennifer Priestley, Joseph Demaio, Sherry Ni

Published and Grey Literature from PhD Candidates

Product affinity segmentation discovers the linking between customers and products for cross-selling and promotion opportunities to increase sales and profits. However, there are some challenges with conventional approaches. The most straightforward approach is to use the product-level data for customer segmentation, but it results in less meaningful solutions. Moreover, customer segmentation becomes challenging on massive datasets due to computational complexity of traditional clustering methods. As an alternative, market basket analysis may suffer from association rules too general to be relevant for important segments. In this paper, we propose to partition customers and discover associated products simultaneously by detecting communities in …

Knowledge Commons In Ancient Greece, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper reviews a variety of published sources by specialists in ancient history and philosophy written for students of philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, commons and other, related social sciences. It discusses Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, and other philosophical schools as real historically significant organizations, not merely ideas or symbols. It was expanded from one section of Chapter 3 of the author's book, The Commons: New Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizations, Voluntary Action and Philanthropy (1992).

Becoming A Supplier: Leading Practices For Corporate Buy-In, Elissa Gibbs

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

Large companies understand the value of having a diverse supplier base that aligns with their diverse customer base. This creates opportunities for veteran-owned businesses (VOBs) as many larger companies are looking for VOBs to bring on as suppliers. Surprisingly, the biggest challenge that many of these companies face is identifying VOBs that fit a certain geographic or business need and have the ability to perform the work required. This resource is helpful for a general understanding of the veteran entrepreneurship industry.

An Assessment Of The Influence Of Personal Branding On Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures, Suzanna Elmassah, Ian Michael, Reynold James, Ionica Ghimpu

All Works

© 2019 The Authors This research explores the influence of an entrepreneur's personal brand in attracting capital, by examining the validity of the Entrepreneurial Brand Personality Equity (EBPE) model of Balakrishnan and Michael (2011). Its particular concern is whether investors provide funding to an entrepreneur's idea, or, to the entrepreneur behind the idea. Concomitantly, it seeks to identify the variations in the importance accorded by different investors to the several variables of the EBPE model, and whether these variations-and also the stages of business-influence the final investment decisions of investors. The findings of this mixed methods study hold significant implications …

The Missing Shifts, Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Conner, Howard Thomas

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Connor and Howard Thomas argue it is time to change the way we develop leaders – and tap into the power of mindset. The needs the managers speak of fit into two broad categories (“empathy” and “resourcefulness”) and both are fundamental “changes in mindset”. By that, we mean a change in attitude or world view.

Taking Leaps Of Faith: Evaluation Criteria And Resource Commitments For Early-Stage Inventions, Phillip H. Kim, Reddi Kotha, Sebastian P. L. Fourné, Kristof Coussement

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Successfully developed academic inventions have the potential to spawn new technological domains, form the basis of thriving business ventures, and improve the well-being of society. However, evaluating whether an early-stage scientific invention truly has such potential is extremely difficult, and financially backing such inventions is highly risky. And yet, organizations and their evaluators still back some of these inventions with resources for further development. We investigate this puzzle to pinpoint how and why evaluators decide to offer resource commitments at early stages, despite the red flags raised using standard evaluation criteria. Many academic inventions need these initial resources to dispel …