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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Decision sciences"”.
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Real options and multinational investments : an empirical study of risk, performance and organisational awareness
… impact of real options theory in the fields of decision sciences and performance management. Borrowing from the economics, strategy and operations research literature, the research examines the risk and performance implications of real options in firms’ strategic investments and multinational …
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An examination of the determinants of perceived risk and acceptability of hazardous products and activities
… and risk acceptability from the behavioral decision sciences, an integration suggested previously by Jacoby (1981). Emphasis was placed on conceptual and methodological issues that confront researchers from either domain that need to be resolved if risk is to occupy a central place in …
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Information Systems Scholarship: An Examination of the Past, Present, and Future of the Information Systems Academic Discipline
This dissertation investigates the topic of scholarship in the Information Systems (IS) discipline through a series of three papers. The papers, presented in Chapters 2, 3, and 4, each delve into a specific chronological period of IS scholarship which are delineated into the past, present, and …
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Understanding Agile Software Development Assimilation Beyond Acceptance
Agile software development methods represent a departure from the heavily regimented and document-driven procedures of traditional, waterfall approaches. Despite the highly touted benefits of employing agile ISD methods and the growth of agile adoption rates over the past two decades, it is not …
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IT governance in small and medium enterprise post Sarbanes Oxley
… the contingencies that affect IT organizational decisions. Weill and Ross’s (2004) seminal text on IT governance represents a synthesis of these two streams of research and thus establishes a new trajectory in the discourse related to IT governance. Their study included analysis from both survey …
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Users' understandings of the virtual economy in social virtual worlds: consumption and entrepreneurship of virtual goods
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) such as Second Life have gained immense popularity during the last decade. Their popularity is reflected in the explosive growth of the in-world economy, which is mainly supported by users’ consumption of virtual goods and entrepreneurial behavior. Users’ economic …
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An investigation of the factors that influence electronic information sharing between state and local agencies
This study investigates the factors that influence local government participation in electronic information sharing with state agencies. Although electronic information sharing has the potential to help government agencies to increase productivity and performance, improve policy-making and provide …
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The effectiveness of virtual facilitation in supporting GDSS appropriation and structured group decision making
… introduction a quarter of a century ago, group decision support systems (GDSS) have evolved from applications designed primarily to support decision making for groups in face-to-face settings, to their growing use for “web conferencing,” online collaboration, and distributed group …
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Improving healthcare supply chains and decision making in the management of pharmaceuticals
… of healthcare pharmacy systems and in offering decision support tools to managers struggling to make the best use of organizational resources. The purpose of this study is to address the objectives of a local hospital that exhibits typical problems in pharmacy supply chain management. We analyze …
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Estimating stochastic volatility models with student-t distributed errors
This dissertation aims to extend on the idea of Bollerslev (1987), estimating ARCH models with Student-t distributed errors, to estimating Stochastic Volatility (SV) models with Student-t distributed errors. It is unclear whether Gaussian distributed errors sufficiently account for the observed …
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Bi-level optimisation and machine learning in the management of large service-oriented field workforces.
… large problem very quickly, as the number of decisions scale quickly with the number of elements within the plan. In this study, we first update and define the tactical planning problem to fit the process currently undertaken manually in practice. We then identify properties within the problem …