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Analytics For Novel Consumer Insights (A Three Essay Dissertation), Utkarsh Shrivastava

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Both literature and practice have investigated how the vast amount of ever increasing customer information can inform marketing strategy and decision making. However, the customer data is often susceptible to modeling bias and misleading findings due to various factors including sample selection and unobservable variables. The available analytics toolkit has continued to develop but in the age of nearly perfect information, the customer decision making has also evolved. The dissertation addresses some of the challenges in deriving valid and useful consumer insights from customer data in the digital age. The first study addresses the limitations of traditional customer purchase measures …

Dental Practice Success Vol. 5 No. 2, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

Dental Practice Success

No abstract provided.

Exploring Brand Symbolism Amongst 10 Year-Old Urban Pakistani Children, Saima Hussain, Amber Gul Rashid

Business Review

This research uses consumer culture theory and thematic analysis to study the phenomenon of brand symbolism and self-image in 10 year old Pakistani boys from the high socioeconomic class. Results reveal that 10-year-old Pakistani boys want to be seen as intelligent and mature. They start benchmarking themselves against an ideal self-image and also develop an understanding of symbolic consumption. Their sense of how different brands correlate with different age groups is well developed and their own consumption is moving in favor of brands and product categories that are patronized by adults.

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 …

Supervision In The Workplace (Clayton), Sheryne Southard, Christie Burton, Bryan Labrecque, Xueyu Cheng, Elnora Farmer

Computer Science and Information Technology Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Supervision in the Workplace was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Project Management And The Temporary Relocation Of The Decoupling Point: Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study, Christopher Hicks

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study investigates, understands, and describes the value of engaging a project manager to support a customer-driven project that creates a random supply chain demand event. Specifically such an event would require the temporary re-positioning of the decoupling point between the supply push and demand pull within the supply chain. In response to the challenges of this type of event, this study will focus on two specific project manager roles. First, the project manager would act as an extension of a customer-driven project and serve as a conduit for the voice of the customer (VOC) into the supply chain. Secondly, …

Essays On American Depositary Receipts: New Fears, Investor Attention And Financial Bubbles, Juan P. Gutierrez

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of four chapters, focusing on American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and how they are affected by new measures of investor sentiment, new proxies of investor attention, and financial bubble detection. ADRs are negotiable certificates of ownership in foreign companies that are traded in the U.S. financial markets.

In Chapter I, I make a brief introduction of ADRs. The types of programs there are, the market capitalization and volume in general and to some specific countries.

In Chapter II, I show that negative investor sentiment measures, derived from internet aggregate search indices, have a contemporaneous negative effect on ADR …

Three Essays On Economic And Financial Development In Latin America: Evidence From The 2000s Commodity Boom, Andre Coelho Vianna

Theses and Dissertations

The dynamic forces of commodity prices have become a subject of large interest due to the uprise of a commodity supercycle in the beginning of the 21st century. The main purpose of this dissertation is to assess the role of commodity shocks and international trade in Latin American financial and economic development in the last two decades. The first essay examines how commodity market structural shocks explain the variations in commodity prices. Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) results from 1997 to 2015 show that aggregate demand shocks are more evident during the recent commodity boom period and are robust to different …

Systemic Behaviour Change: Irish Farm Deaths And Injuries, Maurice Murphy, Kieran O'Connell

Dept. of Management & Enterprise Conference Material

While the Irish agricultural sector accounts for just 6% of the working population of Ireland, it consistently has the highest proportion of fatal incidents of any sector - generally ranging from between 35% and 45% of all workplace fatalities in any given year. This was again evident in 2014 where 55% (30 of the 56) of the fatal workplace incidents were in the agricultural sector. Agriculture has an ageing workforce with the average age of an Irish farmer now standing at fifty-seven and farmers are eight times more likely to be fatally injured in a farm accident than the general …

Essays On Financial Markets And Investments, Shahil Sharma

Theses and Dissertations

Essay I examine regime-switching in the response of U.S. stock price to oil price shocks. We find statistically significant, time-varying, and dynamic state dependent response that resembles to high and low response regimes. Furthermore, we examine whether the timing of the regime shifts are consistent with three (direction, magnitude, and business cycle) manifestations of asymmetry by modeling the transition probabilities governing the switching process as functions of state variables. We observe strong and statistically significant support that stock price responds more aggressively to oil specific shocks during recessions than during expansions, while findings suggest weaker evidence of asymmetry pertaining to …

Understanding Crude Oil Spot And Futures Prices Dynamics During Major Crises, Miroslava Zavadska

Doctoral

This thesis examines crude oil, the dominant energy resource worldwide, its historical behaviour and the resulting implications for world economies. It analyses the role of spot and futures oil prices and their dynamics during periods of market uncertainty. The focus of attention is the understanding of the lead-lag relationship of crude oil spot and futures prices during major crises periods (the first Gulf War in 1990/91, the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98, the US terrorist attack in 2001 and the global financial crisis in 2008/9), and its implications for investors and policy-makers. The mix of applied econometric models gives strength …

Award Winners: 2018 Atrs Global Airport Performance Benchmarking, Tae Oum, Chunyan Yu

Publications

The ATRS Global Airport Benchmarking Project measures and compares the performance of several important aspects of airport operations: Productivity and efficiency, unit costs and cost competitiveness, financial results and airport charges. The report also examines the relationships between various performance measures and airport characteristics as well as management strategies in order to provide a better understanding of observed differences in airport performance. The 2018 report includes 204 airports and 24 airport groups of various sizes and ownership forms in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. This presentation highlights the top efficiency award winners.

Security Risk Tolerance In Mobile Payment: A Trade-Off Framework, Yong Chen

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Security is identified as a major barrier for consumers in adopting mobile payment. Although existing literature has incorporated security into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Unified Theory of Acceptance, and the Use of Technology (UTAUT) and it has investigated the way in which security affects consumers’ acceptance of mobile payment, security is a factor only in diverse research models. Studies of mobile payment that focus on security are not available. Additionally, previous studies of mobile payment are based on Direct Carrier Billing- (DCB)-based mobile payment or Near Field Communication- (NFC)-based mobile payment. The results regarding security might not be …

The Impact Of Emotional Intelligence On Effective Leadership In The Military Production Factories (Mpf) In Egypt, Safaa Sshaaban

Business Administration

Emotional intelligence is one of the most important personal trait linking to leadership in a way of assisting and developing the desired skills needed for those leaders applying effective leadership. There is a lack in the research literature related to leadership style in the Military Production Factories (MPFs) sector in Egypt. There is great attention and initiative to the reform in governmental sector in Egypt. This study considered as a baseline study for identifying the dominant leadership style in MPF. Military production industry sector includes 20 factories and companies lead by the Ministry of Military production (MOMP). The factories produced …

Two Essays On The Creation And Success Of New Ventures, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh

Management Theses & Dissertations

New venture creation is a complicated, idiosyncratic process that starts with an individual's ambition to exploit an opportunity and involves putting together resources to create value from the opportunity. During this journey, some entrepreneurs can initiate a new venture while others never exploit the discovered opportunity. Additionally, while many new ventures deploy the same resources, some entrepreneurial ventures are successful whereas others barely break even. Although extant literature acknowledges the importance of new venture creation, nonetheless, various drivers of innovative new ventures and factors facilitating the success of such ventures remain understudied.

Given this gap in the literature, the first …

Execution: A Catalytic Capability In Firm Performance, Robert Frank Keimer

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explores the nature of business execution. Specifically, it seeks to understand the nature of a firm’s capability to execute, how and why some firms execute better than others, and the impact that this capability may have on firm performance and outcomes. A review of the organizational routine, organizational capability, and dynamic capabilities literature reveals a gap where no theory, model, or framework of analysis can be found for the concept of execution. The author proposes a novel definition of execution as a “catalytic capability”; that is, a stored behavioral capability comprised of repetitive, recurrent actions, shaping principles, …

An Analysis Of Fraud Prevention And Detection In Not-For-Profit Organizations In The State Of South Carolina, Mary Gibson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study analyzed fraud detection and prevention techniques and analyzed if there was a relationship between the techniques and the detection of fraud. The combined techniques were fraud risk assessment, fraud risk register, code of conduct, fraud assessment training, whistle-blower policy, fraud control plan, fraud control policy, and internal control review. Nonprofits are vulnerable to fraud and costly for the organizations that rely heavily on donations to provide needed services or goods to a community. Through analyzing 109 nonprofits surveyed in South Carolina, the researcher found 59 reported fraud occurrences and 86 percent were using fraud detection and prevention techniques. …

Exploring Qualia In Service Experience – A Case Study Of The Cultural Creative Hotels In Taiwan, Chun-Liang Chen

Communications of the IIMA

The objective of this research is to construct a qualia service experience design model for new-style cultural creative hotels and to explore how new-style cultural creative hotels can establish the qualia service experience. It further analyzes the key factors of creating qualia experience for new-style cultural creative hotels, offering it as a reference for enterprises which expect to enhance their competitiveness using the qualia experience. This research has chosen the HOTELDAY+ Group – the biggest cultural creative design hotel chain store brand in Taiwan to conduct the qualitative case study. The outcomes of the research show that cultural creative hotels …

Improving The Assessment (Assurance Of Learning) Processes, Chittibabu Govindarajulu, Jim Murphy

Communications of the IIMA

Strategically located in downtown Denver, this state university is a popular destination for working adults and traditional students alike to get a quality education. The university’s College of Business was first accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) in spring 2016. Five undergraduate programs and one graduate program in Accounting were accredited; an undergraduate program in Economics was excluded from AACSB review. Since the initial accreditation, the college added three undergraduate degree programs and a second graduate program (MBA). AACSB standards stipulate assessing general knowledge & skills and subject-specific knowledge & skills for each program. …

Penatalaksanaan Okupasi Terapi Dalamaktivitas Menggunakan Beha Dengan Konsep Bobath Pada Pasien Stroke Hemiparesis Sinistra Di Klinik Sasana Husada, Hidayati, E. R. N, Arum Pratiwi, Rita Aliya

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

Stroke is brain attack due to vascular injury that can damage the brain permanently because of neurologist disorder. The purpose of this intervention is to improve patient's ability to wear bras according to Occupation Therapy's view. The method that will be used to improve the patient ability who suffer from function disorder, movement, and control due to the lesion in the central nerve system is Bobath Concept. By giving eight times intervention, it can be seen that there is improvement postural control and less pain in the shoulder area when it moved. The result of this shows that there is …

فحص وتقويم نظام الرقابة الداخلية على وفق اطار(Coso ) في التعليم الجامعي الاهلي بحث تطبيقي في كلية شط العرب الجامعة الاهلية, اشرف عبد ربة احمد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف هذه الدراسة الى مدى امكانية فحص وتقييم نظام الرقابة الداخلية على وفق اطارcoso في التعليم الجامعي الاهلي / كلية شط العرب الجامعة الاهلية , الذي هو جزء لا يتجزأ من كل نظام تستخدمه الكلية لتنظيم وتوجيه عملياتها , وليس نظاماً مستقلاً بحد ذاته، وهو مجموعة من الأعمال والأنشطة التي تحدث بشكل مستمر داخلها، بحيث يضع أساسه وينفذه ويراقبه ويطوره الأفراد على كافة المستويات بالكلية، كما يجب أن يراعى في تصميمة عنصري العائد والتكلفة . لا يشمل نظام الرقابة الداخلية على الأمور والإجراءات المتعلقة بوظائف النظام المحاسبي والتقارير المالية فقط ، بل يمتد ليشمل الجوانب الإدارية والتنظيمية ، بداية من …

توظيف مؤشرات تمويل النمو المستدام في الحد من الهشاشة المالية دراسة مقارنة بين شركات التامين العراقية والاماراتية, مهند حميد ياسر العطوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى التعرف على دور مؤشرات تمويل النمو المستدام (معدل النمو الفعلي ومعدل النمو المستدام) في التقليل من الهشاشة المالية في شركات التامين العراقية والاماراتية, حددت مشكلة البحث في عدد من التساؤلات تمحورت حول التعرف على مدى تأثير معدل النمو الفعلي والمستدام في الهشاشة المالية, وتم وضع مخطط فرضي يوضح علاقات التأثير بين مؤشرات البحث وعبر عنها بفرضيتين تأثير وثلاث فرضيات تبحث عن الفروق بين الشركات المبحوثة, وتم جمع المعلومات من خلال المواقع الإلكترونية الرسمية لسوق العراق ودبي للأوراق المالية, وتم استخدام اسلوب الانحدار البسيط في ايجاد علاقة التأثير بين متغيرات البحث والتحليل التميزي للتعرف على معنوية الفروق, باستخدام …

نظم المعلومات المحاسبية الالكترونية ودورها في تحسين النجاح المنضمي دراسة تطبيقية في معمل سمنت الكوفة, فرج غني عبود

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يتركز موضوع البحث في دراسة دور نظم المعلومات المحاسبية الالكترونية بأبعاده (الملائمة , الموثوقية , القابلية للمقارنة, الثبات) في تحسين النجاح المنضمي بأبعادها( الرؤية، الاستراتيجية, النشاط العملياتي, اختيار الافراد, ثقافة الشركة, القيادة والادارة, التطوير الشخصي, تطوير الشركة, التقييم والمراجعة), في معمل سمنت الكوفة, وتضمن البحث فرضيتين رئيسيتين, الاولى لعلاقات الارتباط والثانية لعلاقات التأثير بين متغيرات البحث, تم اختيار عينة من السادة العاملين في الشركة عينة البحث والبالغ عددهم (175) فرداً, باعتماد الاستبانة التي اشتملت (59) فقرة, وتم استخراج النتائج باستخدام البرنامج الاحصائي (SPSS), تم التوصل الى النتائج التي كان أهمها وجود علاقة بين نظم المعلومات المحاسبية الالكترونية و النجاح المنضمي, …

العلاقة بين قنوات رأس المال الاجتماعي وفاعلية جماعات العمل : الدور الوسيط للصراع دراسة تحليلية لآراء عينة من اعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كليات جامعه القادسية, عامر علي حسين العطوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث إلى اختبار العلاقة بين قنوات رأس المال الاجتماعي وفاعلية جماعات العمل من خلال الدور الوسيط للصراع لعينة من أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كليات جامعة القادسية البالغ عددهم (642)فرد موزعين على (75) قسم علمي . يضم متغير قنوات رأس المال الاجتماعي للجماعات نوعين من القنوات هما قنوات الاغلاق وقنوات التجسير اما متغير فاعلية جماعات العمل فقد تناول بعدين هما أداء الجماعة واستمرار الجماعة وبالنسبة للصراع فقد تبوء مكانته كمتغير وسيط من خلال نوعيه: صراع العلاقات وصراع المهمة. وتدور ابرز فرضيات الدراسة حول فكرة أساسية مفادها ان الجماعة التي تمتلك تشكيله متوازنة من قنوات رأس المال الاجتماعي (التجسير والاغلاق) سينخفض …

أثر بعض مؤشرات سوق العراق للأوراق المالية في تشجيع الاستثمار الأجنبي المباشر (رؤية تحليلية), حيدر جواد كاظم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة إلى قياس مدى تأثيرا مؤشرات سوق العراق للأوراق المالية في الاستثمار الاجنبي المباشر , بناءً على الفرضية التي تفيد بوجود علاقة ارتباط وتأثير إيجابية ومعنوية بين مؤشرات سوق العراق للأوراق المالية والاستثمار الأجنبي المباشر, وقد بيّنت هذه الدراسة أثر العلاقة باستخدام الأسلوب الوصفي لعرض مفاهيم المتغيرات, بالإضافة إلى الأسلوب القياسي باستخدام معادلة الانحدار الخطي حيث تم تقديرها بطريقة المربعات الصغرى العادية, وتوصلت نتائج الاختبار القياسي إلى وجود علاقة طردية معنوية بين الاستثمار الاجنبي وبعض مؤشرات سوق العراق الأوراق المالية وهي مؤشرات (عدد الأسهم المتداولة، حجم التداول، القيمة السوقية ,مؤشر الأسعار، عدد الشركات المتداولة)، مقابل عدم معنوية النماذج المتبقية.

دراسة تحليلية للميزانية المالية للمصرف الزراعي التعاوني في العراق للفترة من 2003-2016, رزاق ذياب شعيبث

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة الى بيان تحليل الميزانية المالية العامة للمصرف الزراعي ومعرفة مدى إمكانية تأثير المصروفات الكلية والإيرادات الكلية على الميزانية للمدة من 2010 الى 2016 بالاعتماد على الميزانية المالية العامة وقد حدّدت هذه المتغيرات بيان الأهمية النسبية من وجهة النظر المصرفية ، وتم استخدام البرنامج الاحصائي spss لبيان علاقة أثر المصروفات الكلية والإيرادات الكلية على الميزانية المالية لغرض تقدير أنموذج الانحدار المتعدد ، ومن خلال ما أظهره التحليل تبين وجود اثر معنوي من خلال النتائج ، وتوصي الدراسة ضرورة التأكيد على ان تكون هناك نسبة فوائد معينة على القروض الممنوحة لتغطية جزء من الإيرادات الخاصة بالميزانية المالية العامة ، ومتابعة …

الموجودات غير العاملة ودورها في عدم الاستقرار المصرفي دراسة تحليلية لعينة من المصارف العراقية الخاصة, حيدر جاسم عبيد الجبوري

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تعاملت الدراسة مع الموجودات غير العاملة كمتغير تفسيري , ومع الاستقرار المصرفي كمتغير استجابي من خلال مؤشرين هما (العائد على الموجودات , تغطية السيولة) . وقد هدفت الدراسة اختبار علاقات التأثير بين الموجودات غير العاملة والاستقرار المصرفي, وتكون مجتمع الدراسة من القطاع المصرفي التجاري الخاص في العراق, إما عينة الدراسة فقد كانت عينة عمديه , إذ تم اختيار عينة من ( 8 ) مصارف, لسلسلة زمنية امتدت ما بين(2007- 2015) وتضمنت الدراسة فرضيتين للاختبار علاقات التأثير بين متغيراتها. تم تحليل بيانات الدراسة باستخدام المعادلات المالية وبعض الأساليب الإحصائية بالاعتماد على مجموعة من البرامجيات الجاهزة كبرنامج (SPSS.V.20) وقد أظهرت النتائج تطابق …

مدى استخدام بطاقة الأداء المتوازن في تحسين جودة المعلومات المحاسبية دراسة تطبيقية في معمل اسمن الكوفة, شيماء نهرو جبل

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث الى بيان امكانية استخدام بطاقة الاداء المتوازن كأداة تساعد الشركة بتوفير معلومات محاسبية ذات جودة ودقة عالية للأطراف ذات العلاقة , وتضمن البحث فرضيتين رئيسيتين, الاولى لعلاقات الارتباط والثانية لعلاقات التأثير بين متغيرات البحث, تم اختيار عينة من السادة أفراد الادارة العليا ورؤساء الاقسام والشعب في معمل اسمنت الكوفة والبالغ عددهم (150) فرد, باعتماد الاستبانة التي اشتملت (36) فقرة, وتم استخراج النتائج باستخدام البرنامج الاحصائي (SPSS), وقد أشارت النتائج الى وجود علاقة واثر ايجابي لأبعاد بطاقة الاداء المتوازن في جودة المعلومات المحاسبية , وقدمت مجموعة من التوصيات كان أهمها التركيز على بعد التعلم والنمو عن طريق تشجيع …

Lincoln Area Skills Gap Report: Final Report, Eric Thompson

Bureau of Business Research Publications

In recent months, the Nebraska Departments of Labor and Economic Development have led efforts to conduct two surveys regarding the skills of workers and skill needs of employers in the Lincoln area. The surveys were conducted during late 2017 and early 2018. The Lincoln area includes the two counties of the Lincoln Metropolitan Area (Lancaster and Seward), all or most of five surrounding southeast Nebraska counties (Gage, Jefferson, Saline, Saunders, and York) and a portions of 4 other adjacent counties (Butler, Cass, Fillmore, and Otoe). The two surveys are the Lincoln Area Labor Availability Survey and the Lincoln Area Survey …

Making Matters Worse By Trying To Make Them Better? Exploring Vicious Circles Of Decision In Hybrid Partnerships, Paula Ungureanu, Fabiola Bertolotti, Elisa Mattarelli, Francesca Bellesia

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Our research is concerned with how and why vicious circles of decision occur in hybrid partnerships. The literature reports three types of decision dysfunctions that can alter the trajectory of multi-stakeholder collaborations: escalation of commitment, procrastination and indecision. While previous studies focused on one dysfunction at a time, we inquire about cases in which dysfunctions coexist and interact in the same partnership. Employing multiple sources of qualitative data, we conducted a longitudinal field study in a cross-sector partnership that co-created and managed a science park. We offer an in-depth account of ‘vicious circles of decision’ in which partners’ attempts to …