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Announcing The 2018 Induction Of Members Into The Accounting Hall Of Fame, American Accounting Association

Accounting Hall of Fame Brochures

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Timing Of Market Entry For New Products: An Exploratory Case Study Of The Success Factors For Pioneering And Following, Eunsang Yoon, Hyeonjin Rim

AMTP Proceedings 2018

Launching a new product at the optimal time is imperative for the successful entry and penetration in the competitive market. Expectations of customers, responses of competitors, challenges of emerging start-ups, shortening of product life cycles, and global alliance of corporations are some of the evolving factors that are relevant to the timing decisions for a new product. This paper re-examines the timing-related strategic issues, reports an exploratory case study of the ninety-two pioneering or following market entries, and discusses the managerial implications for a firm’s market-entry decisions for a new product or service.

Sustainability Strategies For Immigrant Small Business Owners, Hope Obika Waobikeze

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In 2017, the Texas economy grew faster than the U.S. economy; however, the rate of failed immigrant-owned small businesses is an economic problem for the southwestern United States. The objective of this multiple case study was to explore strategies immigrant small business owners practiced in sustaining their businesses for longer than 5 years. The population of the study was 3 immigrant small business owners in the southwestern United States. The conceptual framework for this study was transformational leadership theory. Thematic analysis of interviews, member checking, participant observations, and field notes identified 5 emergent themes: acquired leadership skills (with transformational leadership …

Association Integrated Report 2018; Go Beyond; Aicpa Annual Report, 2018, Association Of International Professional Accountants

AICPA Annual Reports

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Do Investors Still Gravitate To Preferred Habitats On The Us Treasury Yield Curve?, Kenneth S. Dreifus, Angelo Decandia, Elliott Goldberg, Mohammed Chowdhury

New York School for Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Publications and Research

The purpose of this study is to test the preferred habitat theory non-econometrically using interviews with the help of a questionnaire for self-guidance on a group of focused investors. Frequencies and simple percentages were used to analyze data. Though many generations of post-World War II economics and finance students were taught that the nature of the liabilities on the balance sheet and the desire to avoid mismatches against assets caused particular classes of investors to gravitate to a preferred habitat on the yield curve, our study based on the responses to questionnaires by a group of U.S. based bond traders …

Chinese Outbound Travel: Understanding The Socioeconomic Drivers, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Xiang Wei

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study used a national sample (N = 36,490) of Chinese urban residents to examine the relationship between outbound travel intention and some key demographic, economic, and geographic variables. Findings indicate that education, income, and paid vacation days significantly predicted outbound travel intention. Compared to residents in Tier-4 cities in China, those in Tier-1, -2, and -3 cities had higher probability of choosing outbound travel by 13.1%, 30.9%, and 15.3%, respectively. This study draws meaningful connections between Chinese outbound tourism and the social and economic realities in China and offers an alternative approach to understanding Chinese outbound tourism.

The Impact Of The Cost Of Car Ownership On House Price Gradient In Singapore, Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Amanda Ross

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper examines the extent to which a change in the cost of car ownership affects the house price gradient with respect to distance from the central business district (CBD). Theory suggests that if the cost of car ownership increases, then people will shift towards other modes of transportation, thus reducing house prices farther away from the CBD. However, the cost of car ownership is likely to be endogenous and correlated with various unobserved factors that also contribute to a change in the house price gradient. To obtain causal effects, we exploit a unique feature of Singapore’s car registration process. …

Saving Behaviour In The Australian Dream: Its Relationship With Aspiration And Motivation, Financial Literacy, And Materialism, Ming D’Iapico-Bien

Theses : Honours

In Australia, most people aspire to achieve the “Australian dream” of owning their homes. Australian house prices have risen dramatically in comparison to people’s incomes, but despite this, many Australians still strive to enter the property market. The aim of this correlational study was to investigate the relationships between saving behaviour (with the ultimate goal of spending accumulated savings on a house deposit) and various psychological variables over and above sex, age, education, employment status, and income. The investigated predictor variables were motivation, extrinsic aspiration, financial literacy, and materialism. Previous research grounded in self-determination theory (SDT) has shown that intrinsic …

Opowiadania Zebrane. Księga Z Okazji Jubileuszu 70. Urodzin Profesora Andrzeja Sopoćko, Renata Karkowska, Katarzyna Niewińska

Monografie/Monographs

Księga z okazji Jubileuszu 70. urodzin Profesora Andrzeja Sopoćko.

Ochrona Zdrowia I Gospodarka. Pacjenci, Świadczeniodawcy, Turystyka Medyczna, Józef Haczyński, Kazimierz Ryć, Zofia Skrzypczak

Monografie/Monographs

Na zmiany zachodzące w systemie ochrony zdrowia wywierają wpływ różne procesy wiążące się z demografią, zwłaszcza starzenie się społeczeństw, oraz wzrost zamożności społeczeństwa. Ochrona zdrowia ma więc za zadanie zarówno udzielenie pomocy, niezbędnej potrzebującym opieki medycznej – bez względu na ich sytuację materialną, lecz także – w coraz szerszym stopniu – powinna reagować na potrzeby pacjentów, którzy są znacznie bardziej wymagającymi klientami systemu opieki zdrowotnej, gotowymi finansować czy współfinansować zaspokojenie swoich potrzeb zdrowotnych. Niniejsza monografia podejmuje problemy w czterech grupach tematycznych. Na początku są omawiane konsekwencje starzenia się społeczeństw, następnie – wybrane problemy zabezpieczenia zdrowotnego pacjentów, w dalszej kolejności – …

Rynek Kapitałowy- Regulacje I Fundamenty, Teresa Czerwińska, Alojzy Z. Nowak

Monografie/Monographs

Mamy nadzieję, że jak w przypadku poprzednich czterech monografii z serii Rynek Kapitałowy, także piąta stanie się inspiracją do pogłębionej refleksji naukowej w tematyce polskiego rynku kapitałowego. Od kilku lat pojawia się również szansa, że oceny i wnioski wynikające z analiz zwartych w artykułach mogą również służyć praktykom podejmującym różnego rodzaju decyzje inwestycyjne. Polski rynek kapitałowy oparty na trafnych regulacjach i zdrowych fundamentach ekonomicznych jest bardzo ważnym składnikiem rozwoju polskiej gospodarki.

The Global Economy As A Living System, Victor N. Bartenev

Monografie/Monographs

No abstract provided.

Nowa Polityka Strukturalna W Warunkach Otwartej Gospodarki Rynkowej, Justin Yifu Lin, Alojzy Z. Nowak

Monografie/Monographs

Niniejsza, druga już dwujęzyczna publikacja pt. New Structural Policy in an Open Market Economy (Nowa Polityka Strukturalna a ekonomia globalnego rynku) pod redakcją Justina Yifu Lina i Alojzego Z. Nowaka jest kontynuacją tematyki zaprezentowanej w książce wydanej w roku 2017 przez Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego pt. New Structural Economics For Less Advanced Countries (Nowa Ekonomia Strukturalna wobec krajów mniej zaawansowanych). Rozważania i badania wokół koncepcji Nowej Ekonomii Strukturalnej na Wydziale Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego zawdzięczamy w dużej mierze obecności w Polsce i na Wydziale jednego z jej teoretyków i twórców, Profesora Justina Yifu Lina, doradcy rządu chińskiego w zakresie …

System Finansowy W Multiperspektywie, Jakub Górka

Monografie/Monographs

Księga jubileuszowa z okazji siedemdziesiątych urodzin Profesora Mariana Górskiego.

New Structural Policy In An Open Market Economy, Justin Yifu Lin, Alojzy Z. Nowak

Monografie/Monographs

The second publication we present to our Readers – Polish as well as foreign – is intended to stimulate discussion about the subjects it considers. Many views and arguments put forth in it deserve just this – taking up and discussing to contribute deepened and diversified perspectives. The topic of the present condition and prospects for globalizations are the perfect example of this. It is absolutely worthwhile to analyze the assumptions and define potential benefits from the New Structural Economics, along with the possibilities of applying its guidelines in countries wishing to make better progress in catching up with the …

A Broad Stroke Or Different Strokes For Different Folks? Examining The Subtleties In Crisis Management Approaches Between State-Owned Enterprises And Privately-Owned Enterprises In China, Augustine Pang, Yang Hu, Eugene Woon

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Several previous studies have been conducted to examine China’s management of internal crises, but few have investigated the approaches to crisis management used by domestic Chinese organizations. It is critical to study these organizations because their approaches exemplify the intricacies of crisis management at the local level. In China, there are two main types of organizations: state-owned enterprises (SOE) and privately owned enterprises (POE). This study aimed to determine how their business orientations led to different styles of crisis management in terms of media relations, government relations, and crisis responses. The findings showed that SOEs sought shelter from the government, …

Workplace Contextual Supports For Lgbt Employees: A Review, Meta‐Analysis, And Agenda For Future Research, Jennica R. Webster, Gary A. Adams, Cheryl Maranto, Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood

Management Faculty Research and Publications

The past decade has witnessed a rise in the visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. This has resulted in some organizational researchers focusing their attention on workplace issues facing LGBT employees. While empirical research has been appropriately focused on examining the impact of workplace factors on the work lives of LGBT individuals, no research has examined these empirical relationships cumulatively. The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive review and meta‐analysis of the outcomes associated with three workplace contextual supports (formal LGBT policies and practices, LGBT‐supportive climate, and supportive workplace relationships) and to compare …

Does “Evaluating Journal Quality And The Association For Information Systems Senior Scholars Journal Basket…” Support The Basket With Bibliometric Measures?, Alex Stewart, John L. Cotton

Management Faculty Research and Publications

We re-examine “Evaluating Journal Quality and the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars Journal Basket…” by Lowry et al. (2013). They sought to use bibliometric methods to validate the Basket as the eight top quality journals that are “strictly speaking, IS journals” (Lowry et al., 2013, pp. 995, 997). They examined 21 journals out of 140 journals considered as possible IS journals. We also expand the sample to 73 of the 140 journals. Our sample includes a wider range of approaches to IS, although all were suggested by IS scholars in a survey by Lowry and colleagues. We also …

Trust And Experience In Online Auctions, Terence T. Ow, Brian I. Spaid, Charles A. Wood, Sulin Ba

Management Faculty Research and Publications

This paper aims to shed light on the complexities and difficulties in predicting the effects of trust and the experience of online auction participants on bid levels in online auctions. To provide some insights into learning by bidders, a field study was conducted first to examine auction and bidder characteristics from eBay auctions of rare coins. We proposed that such learning is partly because of institutional-based trust. Data were then gathered from 453 participants in an online experiment and survey, and a structural equation model was used to analyze the results. This paper reveals that experience has a nonmonotonic effect …

When The Tables Are Turned: The Effects Of The 2016 Us Presidential Election On In-Group Favoritism And Out-Group Hostility, Burak Oc, Celia Moore, Michael R. Bashshur

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election was a big surprise to many, as the majority of polls had predicted the opposite outcome. In this two-stage cross-sectional study, we focus on how Democrats and Republicans reacted to this electoral surprise and how these reactions might have influenced the way they allocated resources to each other in small groups. We find that, before the election, Republicans showed greater in-group favoritism than Democrats, who treated others equally, regardless of their political affiliation. We then show that Democrats experienced the election outcome as an ego shock and, in the week following the …

Real-Time Inbound Marketing: A Use Case For Digital Banking, Alan Megargel, Venky Shankararaman, Srinivas K. Reddy

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Over the years banks have been strategically using digital technologies to help transform various aspects of their business. In recent times, this strategy has evolved into one of digital augmentation of the bank’s processes, products and channels. This allows for reaching out to customers and partners through digital platforms, for example; the addition of mobile apps for customers to access and perform service transactions. Marketing continues to play a major role in supporting the expansion of business and increasing revenue for the bank. Marketing has evolved from mass direct targeting to more personalised, face-to-face and real-time targeting. In the digital …

A Refined Framework Of Information Sharing In Perishable Product Supply Chains, Luluk Lusiantoro, Nicky Yates, Carlos Mena, Liz Varga

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose – This study contributes to our understanding of the relationship between information sharing and performance of perishable product supply chains (PPSC). Building on transaction cost economics (TCE), organisational information processing theory (OIPT), and contingency theory (CT) this study proposes a theoretical framework to guide future research into information sharing in perishable product supply chains (IS-PPSC).

Design/methodology/approach – Using the systematic literature review methodology, 48 peer-reviewed articles are carefully selected, mapped, and assessed. Template analysis is performed to unravel the relationship mechanisms between information sharing and PPSC performance.

Findings – We find that the relationship between information sharing and PPSC …

Why Can't We Be Friends? Examining The Benefits And Challenges Of Maintaining Your Friends Of The Library, Maureen Rust, Julia Stringfellow

Library Scholarship

One of the most fruitful collaborative relationships a library can have is with its Friends of the Library organization, providing that group is vibrant and progressive. This article provides insight into the history of the Friends of the Library group at a regional comprehensive university since its founding in 1962 to nearly becoming defunct in 2015. The steps taken in the transformation of the Friends of the Library since then from an inactive group with no clear direction, to a robust organization with an active board who have identified goals and strategies for successful library advocacy are described. The work …

Us Equity Crowdfunding: A Review Of Current Legislation And A Conceptual Model Of The Implications For Equity Funding, Lynda Y. De La Viña, Stephanie L. Black

Management Faculty Publications (Archived)

Recently developed SEC guidelines provide the regulatory framework for Title II of the Jump Start our Business (JOBS) Act of 2012, which legalizes interstate equity crowdfunding in the United States. Concurrently, eighteen states have passed legislation or promulgated regulations that allow intrastate equity crowdfunding. At present, the literature has not addressed what this nascent funding mechanism will offer to investors, as well as, those seeking funding for entrepreneurial projects within the U.S. Therefore, this paper provides a review of current U.S. legislation, discusses the anticipated implications of equity crowdfunding, and develops a conceptual model that demonstrates potential outcomes.

Internal Services Brand Orientation: Comparing The Perspectives Of Managers, Employees, And Customers, Ceren Ekebas-Turedi, Musa Pinar, Paul Trapp, Tulay Girard

AMTP Proceedings 2018

Brand orientation plays an important role in creating competitive advantage. The success of a brand depends on the extent of the harmony between managerially advocated brand orientation, effective implementation of the brand orientation by staff, and appreciation of the brand orientation by customers. This requires brand orientation to be implemented during each touch point of the service delivery process, as the delivery of the brand is experienced by consumers in a process of co-creation with the service provider.

To have a successful brand orientation, it is necessary to examine the perceptions of management, contact personnel, and consumers to discover if …

The Use Of Epistemology, Transactional Cost Analysis And Herding Behavior Theories To Explain Ethical Leadership, Mohammed Y.A. Rawwas

AMTP Proceedings 2018

This study examines the relationship between ethical leadership and employee creativity with mediating role of trust in leader and moderating role of openness to experience. Data were collected from 205 supervisor–subordinate dyads in cellular mobile operator companies across Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the distinctiveness of variables used in our study. The results also confirmed that ethical leadership promotes creativity at workplace, while trust in leader mediates the effect of ethical leadership on creativity. Furthermore, the results also confirmed the moderation of openness to experience on the relationship between trust in leader and employee creativity. As expected, the relationship was …

Travel Motivation Influence Attitudes Toward Cultural Souvenirs And Travel Intentions, Wei Wang, Gallayanee Yaoyuneyong, Pauline Sullivan, Brigitte Burgess

AMTP Proceedings 2018

This study identifies structural relationships between tourists’ travel motivations and attitudes toward cultural souvenirs and travel intentions. An online survey fielded through Amazon Turk yielded a purposeful sample of 893 respondents who were representative of the population of interest. Results reveal respondents prefer to travel during summer rather than during spring, winter, and fall seasons. Additionally, they desire to purchase souvenirs on family trips. Also, data analysis indicates travel motivations positively influence tourists’ attitudes towards cultural souvenir and travel intentions. Physical, relaxation, and pleasure motives influence travel motivations.

Understanding Differences In The Dimensions Of Brand Loyalty Among Generational Cohorts In The Carbonated Beverage Category, Neleen Leslie, Petula Senior

AMTP Proceedings 2018

This study explores generational differences in the antecedents of brand loyalty in the carbonated beverage category. Eight loyalty dimensions were examined across three generational cohorts: Millennials, Generation X and Baby Boomers. Results indicate partial support for the study hypothesis. Significant generational differences were only observed for some loyalty dimensions and in most of those cases, Baby Boomers recorded significantly higher scores than Millennials but were not significantly different than other groups. There were also very few differences between Millennials and Generation X.

Understanding A Mechanism To Enhance Perceived Quality And Brand Loyalty In Social Media: The Role Of Personalizatio, Tyler Shanahan, Trang P. Tran

AMTP Proceedings 2018

A growing number of researchers have examined the effects of personalized advertising in traditional media, but little has been developed to examine the effects of a personalized ad of a brand on social media (i.e., Facebook). The primary objectives of this research are (1) to develop a comprehensive model detailing the role personalization plays in the development of consumer perception about a specific brand; (2) test the hypothesized relationships via online survey and (3) understand the effects of personalized messages as it relates to consumer purchasing behaviours related to a particular brand. The model is tested using data collected from …

There’S Never Enough: A Taxonomy Of Online Retail Scarcity Cues, Tyler Hancock, Jennifer L. Stevens, Stacie F. Waites

AMTP Proceedings 2018

E-commerce continues to change the landscape of modern retail. Consider for instance that the majority of consumers (81%) now begin the decision making process with online searches (Morrison, 2014). Not only are more people researching products online, but consumers are increasingly purchasing those products online as well. This past November, the United States experienced its biggest online shopping day in history (Peterson, 2017). A record $6.59 billion was spent shopping online during Cyber Monday, a figure that is up 17% from 2016 (Rubin, 2017). Of course, perceived scarcity fuels the thrill of the hunt contributing to these enormous expenditures. A …