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2018-July-01-Faculty Tenure/Promotion, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2018-July-01-Reid Insight Grant, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2018-July-Bfa Alum Matthew Brown Exhibit Photographs At Reece Museum.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

New Developments, a photography exhibit by alum Matthew J. Brown will be on display at the Reece Museum through July 20, 2018. A reception and panel discussion will be held, Thursday, July 12 from 5-7pm.

Brown's photographs attempt to document a region in transition, one whose relationship with the landscape has greatly shifted, becoming less reliant on agriculture in favor of real estate and commerce. He graduated from ETSU with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 2015 and was an artist-in-residence in the Department of Art & Design from 2015-17. His New Developments exhibit has been shown in …

Biztech Summer 2018, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter (Retired)

The Summer 2018 edition of BizTech features information about summer camps, student achievement, the European business study tour, and the new departmental dean, Dr. Stephanie Sheehan.

Kreditë – Institucione Financiare Bankare Dhe Jobankare, Ardita Haxhimurati

Theses and Dissertations

Dita ditës nevoja për marrjen e kredive është duke u rritur për arsye të rritjes së luksit shoqëror. Kreditë kanë rol në rritjen e aktiviteteve monetare, me ç’rast duhet të ceket se përbën 80% të të ardhurave të bankave.

Për t’a kuptuar më së miri kreditimin dhe procesin duhet të kalojmë në disa faza që do shpjegohen në këtë punim. Së pari, çka do të thotë konkretisht kreditimi dhe norma të interesit, intitucione financiare bankare dhe jobankare, llojet e kredisë, procesi për aplikim të kredisë, sa janë përqindjet e normave të kredisë.

Për të kuptuar më së miri se sa …

Roli Dhe Ndikimi I Faktorëve Të Përformancës Në Rritjen E Një Kompanie ( Grem Logistic Trading "Gremlog" ), Arbenita Shefkiu

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim do të trajtoj rendësin dhe rolin e faktorëve të përformancës, si një ndër komponentët kryesor që kanë ndikim në rritjen e kompanisë. Ku do të ofrohet njohuri se sa kanë ndikim këta faktorë dhe cili është roli I tyre në përgjithësi. Në veçanti do të trajtohet si rast studimi kompania Grem Logistic Trading "Gremlog" – Dubai.

Faktorët e përformancës si: menaxhimi i burimeve njerëzore, marketingu, menaxhimi përformancës dhe sistemi I menaxhimit të përformancës, shpërblimi, motivimi, dhe vlerësimi do të paraqiten hollësisht gjatë hulumtimit tek shqyrtimi i literaturës. Pasi që hulumtime dhe studime të mëhershme theksojnë se faktorët …

E-Banking Dhe Sfidat E Ofrimit Të Shërbimeve, Dafina Baholli

Theses and Dissertations

Një ndër objektivat parësore të BQK-se është edhe mirëmbajtja e një sistemi efikas, të sigurt dhe të qëndrueshëm të pagesave në vend, si shtylla kyqe e infrastrukturës financiare dhe ekonomisë së vendit. Në funksion të përmbushjes së këtij objektivi BANKA QENDRORE E KOSOVES është e angazhuar në vazhdimësi në avancimin e infrastrukturës financiare, për të zhvilluar transaksionet elektronike në mënyrë që të reduktohen transaksionet në para të gatshme.

Në Kosovë viteve të fundit vërehet një rritje e përdorimit të instrumenteve elektronike për kryerjen e pagesave. Nga të dhënat e fundit statistikore, vërehet rritje në numër dhe vlerë të kredit transfereve …

Dallimi Në Mes Bankës Qendrore Evropiane (Bce) Dhe Sistemit Të Reservës Federale (Fed), Blerina Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

Ky studim shqyrton dhe krahason strategjitë e komunikimit të Federatës Rezerë dhe Banka Qendrore Evropiane, si dhe efektiviteti i tyre.

Së pari, do ti gjej komponentët e papritur të veprimeve dhe deklaratave të politikës monetare të cilat kanë efekte të rëndësishme por të ndryshme në çmimet e aseteve, me komunikim të papritur duke patur një ndikim shumë më të madh në normat afatgjata të interesit.

Së dyti, të dyja BQE dhe Fed kanë provuar të jenë njësoj të suksesshme në lëvizjen e pasurisë së tyre të brendshme çmime duke përdorur ose politikën monetare ose goditjet e lajmeve. Megjithatë, përgjigja e …

Ndikimi I Investimeve Në Produktin E Brendshëm Bruto – Gdp Në Kosovë, Habibe Osmani

Theses and Dissertations

Punimi ka për qëllim dhënien e një informacioni në lidhje me investimet dhe ndikimin e investimeve në GDP si dhe të sqarojë çështje të errëta ose të plotësojë boshllëqe, lidhur me këtë çështje. Investimet janë një fenomen relativisht i ri, që ka pasur një zhvillim mjaft të hovshëm dhe vazhdon akoma te zhvillohet ne vitet ne vazhdim. Nxitur nga ndryshimi teknologjik, konkurrenca globale por edhe liberalizimi i tregjeve, investimet luajnë një rol kyq në procesin e integrimit global ekonomik.

Investimet janë bazë shumë e fortë per zhvillimin ekonomik të cdo shteti, e sidomos shteteve në tranzicion. Investimet e huaja direkte …

Investimet Kapitale Dhe Letrat Me Vlerë, Jehona Rizani

Theses and Dissertations

Për temen në vazhdim Investimet Kapitale dhe letrat me vlerë, do të mundohem që të jap një pasqyrë dhe analizë studimore bazuar edhe në hulumtim dhe studim empirik. Duke u bazuar në të arriturat gjatë studimeve por edhe duke e vlersuar të nevojshme për një studim të tille, si një temë që ka nevoj për shtjellim, kam arritur që të bëjë një koncept shumë dimensional dhe që të ofroj një punim duke i përfshirë në të teorinë, funksionimin në praktikë, institucionet relevante etj. Kam bërë analizë për letrat me vlerë, si: Qka janë letrat me vlerë, funksionimin e tyre, ruajtjen …

Strategjitë E Marketingut Në Nvm, Mirsije Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim është, analiza e gjendjes ekzistuese e njohjes dhe e zbatimit në praktikë të strategjive të marketingut nga ana e NVM-ve, dhe dhënia e rekomandimeve për përmirësime në hartim dhe zbatimin e strategjive të marketingut. Ky hulumtim ka për synim të rritë vetëdijen dhe të siguroj teknikat e ndryshme për marketingun, instrumentet e marketingut, indetifikimin e mangësive dhe pikave të dobëta, eliminimin e dobësive dhe fokusimin për arritjen e rezultateve të larta. Në këtë kontekst, si qëllim paqësor kemi problemet ekonomike me të cilat ballafaqohen NVM-të në vendin tonë, eliminimin e tyre dhe barrierat me të cilat përballen këto …

Impakti I Digjitalizimit Të Operacioneve Të Avancuara Në Rrjetin E Biznesit, Genc Bajraktari

Theses and Dissertations

Fillimi i procesit të digjitalizimit të bizneseve në mbarë botën konsiderohet njëra nga sfidat më të mëdha për ekonominë e vendeve, pasi një proces i tillë është mjaftë i kushtueshëm dhe i rëndon në buxhet vet bizneset dhe shtetet. Mirëpo, si proces konsiderohet si i domosdoshëm, pasi komunikimet, bashkëpunimet dhe bashkëveprimet e bizneseve vendore me ato ndërkombëtare janë në rritje dhe gjithnjë e më shumë në përdorim të teknologjive të reja. Nuk është e vështirë që të konkludohet se digjitalizimi i tyre në masa të ndryshme është i pashmangshëm. Edhe bizneset kosovare janë në situatë të shumë bizneseve të sfiduar …

I See What You Say: Influential Nonverbal Signals Of Frontline Employees On Customer Outcomes, Shuang Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

This research aims to investigate the influential nonverbal signals of frontline employees on customer outcomes. Frontline employees play a vital role in initiating and maintaining customer relationships. The interactions between customers and employees influence not only the immediate reactions, including both affective and cognitive responses, but also customer outcomes, like purchase intention, satisfaction, perceived service quality, and positive word-of-mouth. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are employed in this dissertation.

Previous studies examined the effects of employee nonverbal signals on customers’ cognitive responses, but limited research has been done on the affective responses of customers. Affect-based trust, positive affect, negative affect, …

The Effect Of Horizontal Inequity, Capacity For Budget Slack, And Severity Of Peer Overstatement On Managerial Reporting Behavior, Yiwen Li

Doctoral Dissertations

An ongoing stream of accounting research indicates that non-pecuniary factors significantly affect employees’ reporting behavior. This study investigates the behavioral effects of three non-pecuniary factors - horizontal pay inequity, capacity for budget slack, and severity of peer overstatement. The behaviors of interest are the employees’ level of honesty and whether or not they report a peer that is overstating.

In the experiment, participants acted as division managers who request funding from the owner of a fictitious company to produce certain parts. In each period, participants were paired with a different fictitious peer and were required to make two decisions under …

An Event Study Analysis Of Too-Big-To-Fail After The Dodd-Frank Act: Who Is Too Big To Fail?, Kyle D. Allen, Ken B. Cyree, Matthew D. Whitledge, Drew B. Winters

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

One feature of the Dodd-Frank Act is the elimination of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks. TBTF is a government guarantee of large banks that has been shown to increase the value of these banks, so removing the guarantee should result in a price decline of TBTF bank stock. Using event study methods, we find very limited reaction to the process of eliminating TBTF. Specifically, there is limited reaction among the largest banks and banks receiving special attention, such as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFI) banks. Instead, smaller banks not receiving special attention show some evidence of negative returns with the elimination of …

Investigating Consumer Optimum Stimulation Level And Exploratory Online Buying Behavior, Claro G. Gañac

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Technology and the Internet have changed every facet of human life on the planet. It has spawned online marketplaces where consumers anywhere around the world can shop 24/7 throughout the year. This empirical study aimed to explain the meteoric rise of Internet shopping not just because of the leaps-and-bounds advances in technology but also by intrinsic predisposition of consumers to engage in exploratory buying and consumption. The Internet has brought about a shopping environment with high inherent avenues for exploratory behavior. It is the proposition of this study that online shopping has encouraged exploratory information acquisition, heightened evaluation involvement, and …

Socio-Economic Sourcing: Benefits Of Small Business Set-Asides In Public Procurement, Timothy G. Hawkins, Michael J. Gravier, Wesley S. Randall

Marketing Department Faculty Journal Articles

Purpose

Small businesses are critical to economic health and encouraged in government spending by set-asides – annual small business sourcing goals that often are not attained. Little research has explored the negative and risky stigmas associated with small business sourcing.

Design/methodology/approach

This research explores reduced transaction costs of small business sourcing to government buyers. A survey of 350 government source selections reveals lower transaction costs derived from lower perceived risk of receiving a bid protest and via more efficient source selection processes.

Findings

Contrary to common bias, the performance level of small businesses is no less than that of large …

Mine-Craft: Can Technology Take Us Towards A Mine-Free World?, Roshni Kapur

Social Space

Social enterprises are gradually changing the world with game-changing innovations that address global problems. But when it comes to the safe removal of unexploded ordnance—also known as landmines—will technology be the lasting solution?

Center For Real Estate Quarterly, Volume 12, Number 3, Portland State University. Center For Real Estate

Center for Real Estate Quarterly

Table of Contents:
-- Unreinforced Masonry Buildings and the City of Portland: Update by Deniz Arac
-- The State of the Economy by Spencer Weills
-- Residential Market Analysis by Jennifer Volbeda
-- Multifamily Market Analysis by Jason Karam
-- Office Market Analysis by Melissa Meagher
-- Industrial Market Analysis by Spencer Weills
-- Retail Market Analysis by Melissa Meagher

Breaking The Cycle: The Effects Of Role Model Performance And Ideal Leadership Self-Concepts On Abusive Supervision Spillover, Min-Hsuan Tu, Joyce E. Bono, Cass Shum, Liva Lamontagne

Hospitality Faculty Research

Building on identity theories and social learning theory, we test the notion that new leaders will model the abusive behaviors of their superiors only under certain conditions. Specifically, we hypothesize that new leaders will model abusive supervisory behaviors when (a) abusive superiors are perceived to be competent, based on the performance of their teams and (b) new leaders' ideal leadership self-concepts are high on tyranny or low on sensitivity. Results of an experiment in which we manipulated abusive supervisory behaviors using a professional actor, and created a role change where 93 individuals moved from team member to team leader role, …

Christianity And Gambling: An Introduction, Massimo Leone

Occasional Papers

Religions hold complex relations with games and, in particular, with gambling. The article focuses on Christianity. On the one hand, the history of this religion shows a tendency to condemn games as source of distraction from spiritual rectitude and to stigmatize gambling, above all, as opening to metaphysical randomness and, as a consequence, as challenge to the idea of divine omniscience. On the other hand, Christianity has also sought to reinterpret games, and even gambling, as possible occasion for moral improvement and as useful distraction from the hardship of monastic life. A theological perspective that reaches its peak in Thomas …

Precluding Discovery Of Preventability Determinations In Trucking Accidents, Patrick E. Foppe

Journal of Transportation Management

The discoverability and admissibility of post-accident “preventability” determinations by trucking companies is often much disputed in truck accident cases. It is well known that Plaintiff’s attorneys will try to construe a trucking company’s classification of an accident as “preventable” as an admission of fault during the course of a lawsuit. However, statements made by the FMCSA provide significant support to a trucking company’s efforts to preclude discovery or admission of preventability determinations in a lawsuit. This articles explores these issues.

The Predictive Power Of People's Intraindividual Variability Across Situations: Implementing Whole Trait Theory In Assessment, Filip Lievens, Jonas W. B. Lang, Filip De Fruyt, Myrjam Van De Vijver, Ronald Bledow

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In the last decade, there has been increased recognition that traits refer not only to between-person differences but also to meaningful within-person variability across situations (i.e., whole trait theory). So far, this broader more contemporary trait conceptualization has made few inroads into assessment practices. Therefore, this study focuses on the assessment and predictive power of people’s intraindividual variability across situations. In three studies (either in student or employee samples), both test-takers’ mean trait scores and the variability of their responses across multiple written job-related situations of a situational judgment test (SJT) were assessed. Results revealed that people’s intraindividual variability (a) …

Economic Development In Nonmetropolitan Nebraska: Internet Use, Nature-Based Tourism, Federal Tax Policy And Workforce Development: 2018 Nebraska Rural Poll Results, Rebecca J. Vogt, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Randolph L. Cantrell, Bradley Lubben, L. J. Mcelravy, Timothy Meyer

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

Conclusion

The proportion of rural Nebraskans accessing the Internet using their cell phone has increased compared to two years ago. But, the proportion subscribing to high-speed Internet service at home remained stable during the past two years. Persons living in or near the smallest communities are less likely than persons living in or near larger communities to have high-speed Internet service at home.

Not many rural Nebraskans report significant limitations from their home Internet service on their ability to do most tasks. At least one in ten report being limited significantly or not being able to play real time video …

Executive Compensation And Cash Contributions To Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Qiang Cheng, Laura Swenson

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Pension contribution has a significant impact on firm valuation, employee benefit, and the financial situation of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Using a comprehensive dataset of defined benefit pension (DB) plan contributions, we investigate economic and accounting determinants of pension contributions. We argue that a firm’s pension contribution decision reflects the trade-off between the benefit – reducing the pension liability, and the cost – reducing cash flows from operations and cash available for other purposes. With respect to economic determinants, we find that firms contribute more when funding status is low and when profitability, cash flows from operations and …

Allocation Of Decision Rights Between The Parent Company And Its Subsidiaries, Yuanyuan Liu, Ting Luo, Heng Yue

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This article examines the determinants of allocation of decision rights between the parent company and its subsidiaries, and the economic consequence of suboptimal power structure. Based on China’s unique double disclosure for the parent company and the whole group, we construct a decentralization index to measure how decision rights are allocated within the group companies. We find a more decentralized (centralized) power structure for the groups with more uncertain (certain) external environment and with poorer (better) internal information quality. We also show that the groups with suboptimal power structure have weaker future performance.

Do Independent Directors Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth When They Resign?, Keren Bar-Hava, Sterling Huang, Benjamin Segal, Dan Segal

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

We examine the informativeness and credibility of independent directors’ stated resignation reasons. We posit that having access to private information, directors may resign in anticipation of weak future underperformance to limit damage to their reputation and further have an incentive to mask the reason for the resignation. Results show likelihood of resignation increases with director’s reputation and weak future firm performance. In addition, the evidence is consistent with directors obfuscating the reason for departure by providing benign and unverifiable resignation reasons. Investors seem aware of the disclosure incentives of departing directors and react negatively to such resignations. However, investors, by …

Early Career Job Choice In Logistics: Comparing Shifts In Attribute Importance Between Internship And Full-Time Roles, Michael Scott Garver, Sean P. Goffnett, Richard Divine, Zachary Williams, Connor F. Davis

Journal of Transportation Management

Maximum difference scaling was used to analyze the importance logistics students attach to 17 job attributes for internships as well as for full-time, entry-level positions. Significant differences in importance were found on nine of the 17 attributes tested. Room for advancement was the most important criterion for full-time positions while atmosphere/work environment was most important for internships. Implications for practitioners, academics and students are discussed. It is believed the results of the current study will provide useful insight to logistics employers to assist them in developing more attractive, entry-level job and internship opportunities and help them communicate more effective recruiting …

The New E-Commerce/Home Delivery Retail Distribution Paradigm, Henry E. Seaton Esq.

Journal of Transportation Management

The purpose of this article is to set forth a basic outline of the new e-commerce home delivery retail distribution paradigm. Special attention will be placed on how it is being implemented and the as yet unresolved contracting, regulatory and risk transfer issues involving selection, retention, and use of motor carriers, particularly for the rapidly developing final delivery of consumer goods.

Safety Fitness Determinations: What Is Fmcsa Measuring?, Mark J. Andrews, Henry E. Seaton

Journal of Transportation Management

Big Data and regulatory "Improv" are drowning due process