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Striking A Balance: Market Shock & Responses In Automotive Components Manufacturing, Emma Lane Mcgahey

All Theses

This thesis examines the effects of extreme market shocks on supply chain dynamics within the automotive industry. Through an analysis of demand data from an automotive manufacturer to its component suppliers (January 2018 to May 2024), the study investigates the relationship between market shocks and supply chain responses, providing insights into how auto components inventory management handles downstream responses to market shocks. With supporting public data—from FRED, BLS, and the U.S. Census Bureau resources—we explore two primary relationships: the impact of market shocks on the Average Standard Deviation of Demand (SDO) and the effect of demand variability on expedited pricing …

Unlocking Lean Construction: Decoding The Root Causes Of Initial Implementation Failures, Adam Hoots

All Theses

In recent years, the construction industry has increasingly adopted lean construction methodologies, with the aim of enhancing project efficiencies, eliminating waste, and delivering projects that exceed all project owner expectations. With this as the industry’s focus, many projects struggle with the initial implementation of lean principles, leading to disrespect of people and resources, cost overruns, schedule delays, stakeholder misalignment, and compromised quality. This research investigates the reasons behind initial failures and how they influence the broader industry's perception of lean construction.

Drawing from a comprehensive case study of a higher education dormitory and dining facility project, this research study explores …

Juegos De Rol En El Desarrollo De Projectpipe: Una Inmersión En El Uso De Metodologías De Diseño, Julieth A. Gómez Hernández, Cristian C. Orozco Ospina, Nicolas Restrepo Henao

Journal of Roleplaying Studies and STEAM

En el entorno digital actual, la evolución del concepto de juegos de rol ha llevado al desarrollo de aplicaciones web interactivas y educativas. En sintonía con este planteamiento, se presenta la siguiente propuesta, que adopta una metodología integrada para aprovechar la versatilidad del método de Bruno Munari y el Diseño Centrado en el Usuario (DCU). La metodología de Munari descompone la gestión macro del proyecto en pasos manejables; mientras que el DCU se enfoca en la creación de una interfaz intuitiva y funcional mediante prototipos iterativos y pruebas continuas de usabilidad. Como complemento a estas estrategias se integra la metodología …

Beyond The Waterfall: A Review Of Project Management Methodologies In Stem, Yessenia Henriquez

Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters

Project management has been exercised from history's early stages to concurrent practices today. It has evolved from the early stages of the Gantt chart and five primary principles to well-renowned project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile. This literature review focuses on comprehending four project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Kanban, and Scrum), learning their criteria and frameworks, and their application in a specific STEM environment when applicable. This work reviews the recent research literature about these four methods. An overview of project management certificates and guidelines is covered as well. Waterfall is known to be a traditional method, having …

Navigating The Landscape: Perceptions, Motivations, And The Journey Of Data Professionals In Implementing Data Processes And Procedures, Willie Rivers

Dissertations

This explanatory study investigates the motivations behind data professionals' willingness or resistance to implementing data policies and procedures, utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior and Psychological Ownership as frameworks. Through interviews with 21 data professionals, the research explains how factors such as perceived control, ownership, and attitudes towards data processes influence their motivation. The study tests key propositions, including the impact of perceived time burdens, bureaucratic procedures, and organizational expectations on data governance engagement. The findings underscore the critical role of control and access to information in motivating the adoption of data policies, providing insights for organizations aiming to enhance …

Factors Affecting Csr Practices In Entrepreneurship: Case Of Female Entrepreneurs In Pakistan, Muhammad Nawaz Tunio, Iffat Sabir, Aamir Rashid, Faheem Gul Gilald

Publications and Research

Purpose: The aim of this chapter is to find out the factors affecting female entrepreneurship in the case of the Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in entrepreneurship.

Methodology: In this chapter, semi-structured interviews are conducted to reach the final findings of the study.

Findings: Findings entail different six factors that severely affect CSR activities in entrepreneurship in Pakistan. These six factors are the educational system and skills gap, Cultural Mindset and Risk Aversion, Limited Access to Finance, Regulatory and Bureaucratic Hurdles, Political Instability and Security Concerns, and Inadequate Infrastructure. Every factor has its intensity and influence on the entrepreneurial process.

Originality/value: …

Unveiling The Paradox: How Abusive Supervision Can Stimulate Employee Creativity, Tahmineh Borhani, Sina Eslamdoust, Zahra Yamin, Minoo Karandish

Business Analytics Faculty Publications

In today's dynamic organizational landscape, understanding the interplay between leadership behavior and employee creativity is essential for fostering innovation and maintaining competitive advantages. While extensive research has examined various leadership styles and their impact on employee performance, there is a notable gap regarding the effects of abusive supervision on employee creativity and perceived competence. Drawing on the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this paper investigates how abusive supervision influences employee creativity and perceived competence. We propose a framework that integrates the negative impact of fear of abusive supervisors as a key factor influencing creativity and employees' perceived competence. By examining …

Understanding The Resistance To Use Metaverse Shopping Platforms In Sarawak, Malaysia: An Investigation By Using Innovation Resistance Theory, Chee Hua Chin Dr, Evelyn Cai-Ni Chiew, Karment Tiong

The South East Asian Journal of Management

Research Aims: This study explores the factors affecting the resistance to use metaverse shopping platforms in Sarawak, Malaysia. It focuses on four main barriers: psychological (experience and image), usage (complexity), value (economic), and risk (privacy and security). The purpose is to understand how these barriers influence users' unwillingness to adopt these platforms.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The study used a quantitative approach and analysed 205 datasets from Sarawak, Malaysia, obtained from questionnaires. Preliminary analysis was done with SPSS, followed by a detailed analysis using PLS-SEM with WarpPLS 8.

Research Findings: The study found that complexity, privacy and security, experience, and image barriers positively …

Building Brand Awareness Through Cultural Sensitivity: Factors Influencing Customer Loyalty In Indonesian Restaurants In Taiwan, Syahruddin Syahruddin, Sitti Mujahida, Muhammad Azizurrohman, Eka Kadharpa Utama Dewayani

The South East Asian Journal of Management

Research Aims: With cultural sensitivity acting as a moderating factor, this study investigates the effects of pricing strategy, cleanliness, meal quality, and service quality on customer loyalty and brand recognition of Indonesian restaurants in Taiwan.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Four hundred overseas respondents participated in a structured survey; partial least squares (PLS) and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to analyse the results.

Research Findings: The findings indicated that while service quality and cleanliness had no discernible impact, food quality and pricing strategy greatly enhanced consumer loyalty. Cultural sensitivity bolstered the favourable correlation between loyalty and food quality.

Theoretical Contribution/Originality: The study adds …

The (Mis)Alignment Between Customer Evaluations Of Specific Service Dimensions And Their Overall Experience Ratings, Linlin Chai, Jin Li, Shan Awasthi, Somnath Banerjee

Mountain Plains Business Conference

In the highly competitive airline industry, customer satisfaction and loyalty are significantly influenced by the nuances of flight experiences. A crucial issue, largely overlooked by the literature, is the alignment—or misalignment—between customer evaluations of specific service dimensions and their overall experience ratings. This misalignment is commonly observed in consumer reviews, where high ratings for individual aspects (e.g., seat comfort or in-flight entertainment) may not always translate into equally high overall satisfaction scores, and vice versa. Understanding this alignment or misalignment is critical because it offers insights into the complex nature of customer satisfaction, revealing that it cannot be fully captured …

Brawny Brackets: Connecting The Dots From Layout Design To Pull Flow, Rick Hardcopf, Vijay Kannan, Jonathan Ebbeler

Management Faculty Publications

Lean production (“Lean”) is a topic frequently taught in undergraduate and graduate operations/supply chain management courses. Lean's “pull system” is a common component of the instruction, and several useful simulations have been developed that allow students to experience a pull system firsthand. While existing simulations focus on the mechanics of a pull system, the Brawny Brackets simulation focuses on improving “flow”—that is, framing a pull system in the context of layout design and batch sizing, and the waste associated with jumbled flow patterns. The robust and flexible simulation allows instructors to expand or contract the topics taught to match the …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Bus 9430 (Business Analytics Projects Management), David Messineo

Open Educational Resources

This course delves deep into the pivotal roles, multifaceted opportunities, and inherent challenges faced by organizations aiming to harness business analytics as a competitive edge.

• Business Analytics Frameworks: We'll tap into various frameworks such as Lean, Six Sigma, Benchmarking, Kaizen, Value Chain, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategy Maps. While prior knowledge of these is not mandatory, a little research will prove invaluable when tackling class assignments.

• Project Lifecycle Management: The course draws upon CRISP-DM, Design Thinking, Story-Telling, Systems Thinking, TQM, and Agile/Kanban Methods to instill and enhance a culture of data-driven, evidence-based decision-making in an enterprise.

Prior exposure to these methodologies …

Breaking Into The Black Box Of Customer Perception Towards Robot Service: Empirical Evidence From Service Sector, Samar Rahi, Mazuri Abd Ghani, Manaf Al-Okaily, Aamir Rashid, Mahmoud Alghizzawi, Fadi Shehab Shiyyab

Publications and Research

The advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning has enabled robots to serve in consumer market for a better customer experience. Nevertheless, acceptance of robotic technology among consumers is still lacking. Therefore, this study has developed an integrated model with robot appearance, expectation confirmation model, diffusion of innovation and theory of planned behavior and empirically investigates customer intention to use service robot. The research model is empirically tested with 349 responses retrieved from customers visiting retail stores. Statistical results have revealed that customer innovativeness, compatibility, behavioral control, expectation confirmation, service robot appearance and subjective norms explained R2 80.1 % variance …

Extending Behavioral Theory Of The Firm To New Ventures: Dispositional Optimism As A Moderating Influence On New Product Introductions In High Tech Ventures, R. Isil Yavuz, Dev K. Dutta, Mehmet A. Soytas

Management Department Faculty Journal Articles

Extant literature has typically drawn from the behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) to examine new product introductions in the context of well-established companies. This paper extends the behavioral theory of the firm to entrepreneurial firms and argues that jointly considering founders' dispositional optimism together with the performance feedback promises to yield a better understanding of new product introductions in new ventures. We analyze a longitudinal dataset on the activities of 344 newly founded high technology ventures in the United States. The key insight of our study is that when BTOF is applied to the context of nascent, entrepreneurial ventures, …

تحديد مستوى تطبيق مبادئ الحوكمة في المجالس البلدية الأردنية: دراسة تحليلية, Alaa Kamal Almomani

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى تحديد مستوى تطبيق مبادئ الحوكمة في المجالس البلدية الأردنية، والتعرف إلى وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية في مستوى تطبيق مبادئ الحوكمة بين المجالس البلدية تعزى للمتغيرات الديمغرافية لعينة الدراسة. وتكوّن مجتمع الدراسة من العاملين في المجالس البلدية ضمن المستويات الإدارية في محافظات الزرقاء، إربد، جرش وعجلون، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم تطوير استبانة لغرض جمع البيانات، وقد تم توزيع الاستبانة على عينة مكونة من (350) عاملاً في المجالس البلدية ضمن المستويات الإدارية، ﻭتم استرداد (307) اﺴﺘﺒﺎﻨﺔ مستكملة، وتم استخدام الأساليب الإحصائية المناسبة لتحليل بيانات الدراسة واختبار فرضياتها وذلك بالإستعانة بالرزمة الإحصائية (SPSS). وأظهرت الدراسة مجموعة من النتائج …

Who Owns The Knowledge? The Commodification Of Academic Research, Maria Petrescu, Anjala S. Krishen

Publications

The increasing commodification of academic research and the reliance on flawed impact metrics have started to show the need to reassess how research is conducted, evaluated, and disseminated. In contemporary marketing (analytics) research, the search for relevance and rigor is becoming essential, with the goal being that studies not only meet high standards of academic rigor but also remain ethically sound, relevant to societal needs, and impactful. These key criteria all drive research quality far before the academy considers profitability.

An Analysis Of Drivers Of The Federal Funds Rate, Stephen Johnson, Neha Dixit, Martin Selzer Ph.D.

SMU Data Science Review

The Federal Funds Rate (FFR) is a tool used by the Federal Reserve to set monetary policy on borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. The Fed’s primary motivation with the FFR is to control macroeconomic factors such as inflation and unemployment. Over time, policy stances for the Fed have varied in response to events such as the Great Recession, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the Fed’s actions following these events, there is intensified debate over which macroeconomic factors should be prioritized, and what magnitude of change is sufficient to warrant action. Additionally, when action is taken …

Not All “Small Business” Is The Same, And I-O Has Shoulders To Stand On, Alice M. Brawley Newlin

Management Faculty Publications

In this commentary, Dr. Brawley Newlin highlights the wide-ranging definitions of "small business" and the challenges - but necessity - of doing interdisciplinary research to better understand small business operations.

Advancing Sustainable Investing: A Deep Learning Model For Multi-Source Stock Prediction, Hongxuan Yu, Tingting Zhang, Murat Kizildag

Journal of Global Business Insights

The burgeoning role of the stock market within the national economy elevates the importance of precise stock price analysis and prediction, a field that has garnered substantial interest in academic research. Stock price fluctuations, influenced by many factors, including company fundamentals, market sentiment, capital flows, industry news, and macroeconomic policies, present a highly dynamic and complex challenge for predictive modeling. Addressing this challenge, our study introduces an innovative method that capitalizes on the synthesis of news text and stock price data for forecasting market movements. We employ GloVe embeddings to capture semantic nuances from news text and integrate them with …

How Cultural Intelligence Facilitates Employee Creativity: The Roles Of Intercultural Citizenship Behavior And Perceived Disharmony, Yang Yang, Qin Yang, Crystal Jiang

Management Department Faculty Journal Articles

Employee creativity is widely recognized as a pivotal factor for organizational innovation. Despite the known benefits of cultural intelligence (CQ) in enhancing task performance in intercultural environments, little research has examined the relationship between individual CQ and creativity. Drawing from the interactionist perspective, where creativity arises from the dynamic interaction between individuals and their environments, this research explores how individual CQ dimensions (metacognitive and motivational) enhance creativity through social interactions and cultural environments in multinational corporations (MNCs). Using a sample of 116 employees from three multinational companies, this study examines the relationship among individual CQ, intercultural citizenship behavior (intercultural OCB), …

Importance Of Mentoring Programs For Successful Remote Work Project Completion, Karlo Lozic

Harrisburg University Dissertations and Theses

Covid-19 has upended the work environment tremendously. Around 50% of employees now work remotely at least some days of the week. And while researchers have studied extensively the impact of remote work on productivity and project performance, the importance of mentoring programs for successful remote work project execution has been neglected. One of the main bottlenecks remote projects face is the need for knowledge sharing which would otherwise occur naturally in the office. A potential solution to solve the bottleneck and encourage the process of knowledge sharing is by establishing formal mentoring programs which can guide remote workers and not …

Corporate Crisis Management: A Contemporary Best Practices Template, Vivek Narayan

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper seeks to re-envision the crisis management framework used by organizations in their day-to-day activities. In the modern world, with exponential technological advancements, the social media age, and the 24/7 news cycle, crises have worsened in severity. Despite this, most literature on the subject is more than a decade old.

Incorporating past literature, this thesis demonstrates that society is in an “era of crises,” then defines and discusses the types and origins of these crises. It compares the topics of issues and crisis management before commentating on corporate and academic literature and ultimately previous 3-stage models for crisis management. …

The Moderating Role Of Cost And Convenience On The Relationship In The Utaut Model To Adopt E- Payment Services, Essia Ries Ahmed, Brahim Zirari, Imane Tabet Derraz

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Many emerging economies are on the brink of a major digital revolution as a result of the disruptive and game-changing wave of digitization that aims to create a financial ecosystem that will make the transition from a cash-based economy to a cashless (digital) economy the easiest way by making reliable and secure networks, Seamless payment solutions, ensuring large transactions at lightning speeds are a reality. Most studies using UTAUT are cross-sectional, capturing data at a single point in time. Longitudinal studies are needed to observe changes in behavioural intention and actual adoption of e-payment services over time, particularly in response …

Empirical Studies On Flexible And Renewable Investment Interaction In The Modernizing Electricity Grid, Seyed Amin Seyed Haeri

All Dissertations

The U.S. electricity generation portfolio is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables like solar and wind, posing challenges due to renewable intermittency. The first chapter examines the relationship between renewable and conventional generation technologies, focusing on operational flexibility. Using panel data from 2002 to 2019, our empirical strategy reveals that flexible generation investments stimulate future wind and solar capacity and respond to current renewable penetration, especially wind energy. This dynamic highlights flexible generation's role in ensuring grid reliability. We also analyze the influence of renewable portfolio standards, market competition, and natural gas infrastructure on investment dynamics.The second chapter explores the …

Maximizing Generative Ai Benefits With Task Creativity And Human Validation, Charu Sinha, Veselina P. Vracheva, Cristina Nistor

Business Faculty Articles and Research

Much of the existing literature on generative AI applications is conflicting, with findings suggesting that investing in AI will lead to better organizational outcomes but also pointing out that incorporating AI may be a wasteful even counterproductive initiative. We develop a conceptual frame-work to characterize generative AI benefits based on the types of tasks that generative AI may be used for in management. Our work suggests that task creativity plays a key role in successful generative AI outcomes, but human validation - the extent to which a human engages in a supervisory role - is required to reap the benefits. …

Remote Work: How Leaders Impact Employee Wellbeing, Russ Carfagno, Jonas Strömbäck, Cheryl Joyner, Gilbert Franco

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Leaders face many challenges in motivating team members including maintaining remote workers' sense of organizational inclusion. Remote work and flexible working arrangements (FWA) have increased the complexity. Flexible working arrangements (FWA) provide value to employees and may help with work-life balance yet FWA can create employee loneliness and contribute to higher turnover. This quantitative study looked at whether leadership behavior affected remote workers’ loneliness, and the intention to quit. An online survey was conducted through LinkedIn sampling 92 adults who worked remotely at least 20 hours per week in the United States. The study found that the leader-member relationship does …

Supervisor Gender, Employee Creativity, And The Mediating Role Of Interaction Frequency, Holly Chadwick, R. Isil Yavuz, Crystal Xiangwen Jiang, Elzotbek Rustambekov

Management Department Faculty Journal Articles

While it is well established that leader characteristics influence employee outcomes, little is known about whether and how leader gender influences employee creativity. Traditionally, female leaders are considered a mismatch for prototypical leadership roles, resulting in less optimal employee outcomes compared to male leaders. In this paper, by drawing on social role and leader-member exchange (LMX) theories, we argue that female supervisors may have advantages over male supervisors and may serve as a catalyst to encourage employee creativity. In the empirical analyses, we test our hypotheses using data from German, Japanese, and South Korean foreign subsidiaries located in China. Results …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Cis 3920 (Intro To Data Mining), Lawrence Cohen

Open Educational Resources

To successfully compete in today’s global business environment an organization must constantly monitor, recognize, and understand every aspect and every issue of its operations, its industry, and the overall business environment. This course focuses on data mining and understanding the steps of a data mining project from both a business and technical perspective.

Students will actively participate in this course through class discussions, project preparation and presentation, and hands-on labs. We cover both supervised and unsupervised data mining techniques for tasks like targeted mailing campaigns, customer segmentation, customer churn, fraud-detection, and market basket analysis.

In this course, I encourage students …

Construction And Empirical Study Of Competitive Identification Framework Based On Patent Information, Daobin Gao, Hong Wu, Zhijie Li

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]To enrich the identification methods of competitors in competitive intelligence strategies under the new situation, and provide decision support for enterprises to formulate technology competition strategies in complex and ever-changing market competition environments. [Method/process]This article using patents as data sources, construct a framework for identifying competitors and conduct empirical research.Firstly, based on the LDA model, identify the main technological research and development directions of the target enterprise and determine the set of candidate competitor enterprises; Secondly, construct a two-dimensional strategic coordinate based on technology and market similarity, and divide the candidate competitor combination of the target enterprise into direct, indirect, …

Peran Kemudahan, Keamanan, Inovasi, Dan Kecepatan Layanan Terhadap Pengalaman Dan Loyalitas Pelanggan Pada Aplikasi Fintech Investasi, Ahmad Ghazy Lilhaq, Imam Salehudin

Jurnal Manajemen dan Usahawan Indonesia

The Role of Ease of Use, Security, Innovation, and Service Speed in Shaping Customer Experience and Loyalty in Investment Fintech Apps

This study examines the influence of customer experience on user loyalty toward investment fintech applications in Indonesia. The rapid growth of fintech has revolutionized the financial sector by providing easier and more efficient access to financial services. This research investigates factors influencing customer experience, including ease of use, perceived value, customer support, perceived risk, service speed, and perceived innovativeness, as well as their impact on customer loyalty. Data were collected from 301 users of investment fintech applications in Indonesia …