When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. The paper reports on a series of experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of a particular heuristic in decision-making. Specifically, it demonstrates how information regarding the number of available practice problems influences the...
Now that most big companies have Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software - such as SAP, PeopleSoft or Oracle - in place, sales to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises SME are fuelling new growth. But do SMEs know what they're getting into when they choose to implement an ERP system? Is implementing...
The primary purpose of a mentoring program is to help new faculty to fully develop their professional careers, support professional identity and build competence. Mentoring programs also facilitate professional learning, socialization and adaptation of new faculty into their professions (Kalbfleisch & Bach, 1998). This can be effectively accomplished through the...
Improvements in software processes can improve software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. Supplementing strategic software release planning with fine grain operational planning provides project managers the tools and abilities to make timely decisions affecting the project. Strategic planning of software releases is accomplished by the assignment of requirements to releases...
Many studies measure the value of Information Technology IT by focusing on how much value is added rather than on the mechanisms that drive value addition. We argue that value from IT arises not only directly but also indirectly through its effects on other factor inputs such as non-IT capital...
This paper analyzes empirically the revenues, profitability, and financial returns of mobster-related movies using data from worldwide theatrical exhibition, television syndication, and video rentals and sales. It quantifies the revenues across each window of exhibition in relation to subsequent windows and to the production budget. A regression model is used...
This research aims to investigate how the taxes imposed upon P&C insurers affect the price level and underwriting profit margin, using two alternative approaches: the Capital Asset Pricing Model CAPM and the Option Pricing Model OPM. This research project studies the effects of taxation on premium rates and the underwriting...
Production systems and supply chains are difficult to model at the level of detail required to understand factors affecting the behavior of material flow. This is particularly true when use of centralized planning systems, such as MRP or DRP, is of interest. Therefore a test bed, comprised of a planning...
Strategy 2020, a roadmap to meet operational imperatives for the Canadian Forces CF, outlines the need for CF to nurture and develop its collective knowledge, skills, and talents (Chief of the Defence Staff, nd). To guide and direct the CF's efforts, Strategy 2020 has outlined key strategic objectives for planning...
Power over others is an inevitable part of leadership, but it also carries with it the risks associated with the misuse or abuse of power. The role of leaders as transmitters and upholders of organizational values is essential. Scandals such as the behavior of Canadian troops in Somalia in the...
Leaders in the Canadian Forces CF can use principles of organizational justice in peacetime and other out of theatre contexts to establish trust and commitment to decisions among subordinates and to reduce the likelihood of negative responses to perceived unfairness (i.e., reduced citizenship behaviour, retaliation, withdrawal behaviour). Moreover, the effects...
The study presented in this paper examined how characteristics of the takeover situation and the acquiring firm's integration decisions and actions influence target firm members' trust in the acquiring firm management. A policy-capturing approach was used to model individuals' trust decisions following takeovers in a cross-national sample of German, Canadian...
Growth in construction activities increases the amount of construction waste generated. Recycling of construction waste is an important component of environmentally responsible construction, as it reduces the amount of waste directed to landfills. A model is presented in this paper to predict waste generation rates, as well as to determine...
Project selection is the process of evaluating individual projects, to choose the right project based on an analysis so that the objectives of the company will be achieved. It involves a thorough analysis including the most important financial aspect to determine the most optimum project among all the alternatives. The...
There will be increasing pressure on northern coastal and offshore regions for resource extraction as resources become scarce in more accessible regions. Marine navigation and transportation is likely to increase in response to economic development, and as ice cover reduces and the ice free season extends as a result of...
A large portion of the family business literature is devoted to succession and other issues related to family members. The survey indicates that issues concerning non-family managers are as important as succession planning to family firms. Based on the review of the literature and the results obtained, the paper concludes...
TSX.V Symbol: PTR VANCOUVER, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Petromin Resources Ltd. (TSX.V Symbol: PTR) is pleased to announce that William D. Bill Gunter, PhD will join the company's International Advisory Board to provide advice to the Board of Directors relating to science and technology of carbon dioxide...
Montana 1911 A PROFESSOR AND HIS WIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET Mary Eggermont-Molenaar, Editor University of Calgary Press, Calgary, and University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. Illustrations, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, xxii + 417 pp. $35.00 paper. Missionaries among Miners, Migrants and Blackfoot THE VAN TIGHEM BROTHERS DIARIES, ALBERTA, 1875-1917...
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NSERC, today announced the appointment of Dr. S.C. Chan Wirasinghe to the Council. "With a solid background in engineering, Dr. Wirasinghe is well equipped to assist the Council in its...
Fortress Base Metals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: FBM) is pleased to announce that, under the stock option plan approved in 2003, it has granted incentive stock options to purchase an aggregate of 675,000 common shares of Fortress Base Metals to a number of recipients, including directors, officers, and consultants. The stock...
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