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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"managerial decisions"”.
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… the heart of organisations and, as an essential managerial function, it has been the subject of an immense body of literature. As the majority of research has been undertaken within the disciplines of economics and psychology, studies have tended to emphasise economic rationality as the basis for …
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CEO compensation and managerial decisions: evidence from acquisitions
… a strong pay-performance link: leads to better managerial decisions. Following Jensen and Murphy's (1990b) methodology, pay-performance sensitivities are estimated for the CEOs of 105 NYSE and AMEX firms. The relation between the estimated pay-performance sensitivities and subsequent acquisition …
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The impact of activity based costing on managerial decisions: an empirical analysis
… the impact of ABC product cost data on managerial decisions. Data were gathered by using a mail case scenario and questionnaire. The case scenario presented competitor information, historical information, and product costs data about a fictitious manufacturing firm who manufactured two …
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A mixed methods study of the implications of academic change related managerial decisions on university faculty teaching effectiveness and student success
… of this study is to determine how administrative decisions impact student outcomes and teacher effectiveness. Throughout each step in the methodology, continual synthesis was utilized to determine the connection between, extant data sets such as grade distribution and student progress, and …
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Parameter search in an agent-based model of pedestrian movement in retail environments
… in agents to study effects of architectural and managerial decisions on retail environments. In this thesis, I designed and implemented an agent training module as a part of a software system which simulates and learns patterns of human pedestrian movement in retail environments. This thesis …
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"""Off-Louisville"": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville"
… this twenty-year period is to look at the many managerial decisions of Jon Jory and the Actors Theatre of Louisville staff. Through artistic, economic, and administrative decisions, Jory and his staff directed the Humana Festival of New American Plays through a variety of phases in hopes of …
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The implementation of Chinese quality education in the context of the National College/University entrance examination : a case study of two senior secondary schools in Taiyuani city
… of the impact of the new curriculum on the managerial decisions of the senior secondary school principals, the pedagogic strategies use of the teachers and the learning strategies of the Grade 11 students. The site for this study is Taiyuan City, the capital city of Shanxi province. There …
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Tapping into the pulse of the market : essays on marketing implications of information flows
… to use the information flows to make the correct managerial decisions is still a challenging task for managers and academics alike. My dissertation studies the marketing implications of these information flows. Broad as the research question is, my dissertation focuses on specific market settings. …
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Three Essays on Psychological Distance in Supply Chains
… between supply chain partners. Supply chain decisions and strategies are ultimately crafted and implemented by managers who are influenced by contextual elements of the decision-making environment. This thesis focuses on contextual factors like lead times, supplier locations, social …
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Wall jet model for ceiling fan applications in broiler houses
… in broiler houses and 2) prediction of data for managerial decisions concerning existing ceiling fan applications. Model inputs are the fan radius and the characteristic velocity. The characteristic velocity was defined as the maximum air velocity 30 cm below the blades. The wall jet model was …
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Activity-Based Costing & Warm Fuzzies - Costing, Presentation & Framing Influences on Decision-Making ~ A Business Optimization Simulation ~
… costing system that can be used to make valuable managerial decisions. Accounting journals regularly report the successful implementations and benefits of activity-based costing systems for particular businesses. Little experimental or empirical evidence exists, however, that has demonstrated the …
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Predictive analytics for crude oil tanker markets
… returns, create guidance for their investment decisions, and develop an analytical advantage. In this thesis, we develop analytics models to predict average earnings in the VLCC and Suezmax tanker market segments. Through the use of principal components regression, we forecast market returns …
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For the Fun of It: A Culture Theory Study on How Fun Informs E-scooter Experiences
… It also helps inform the service delivery and managerial decisions in the operation of e-scooter and other businesses which have experiential consumption as part of their value offering, as well as for policymakers and planners concerned with supporting a shift towards more sustainable cities.
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Is specialization the most effective solution to overload? : a system dynamics exploration of a product development organization
… explore the feedback loops, delayed effects of managerial decisions and resulting behavior of the system. Results showed that specialization leads to initially high productivity, but the gains decrease over time as breadth of experience across the organization decays and rework and coordination …
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Developing a quality improvement taxonomy
… with the established quality principles or the managerial decisions and actions. This research focuses on studying three major quality management components: quality philosophies, interventions, and tools. The primary desired outcome of this research is to improve the understanding of TQM …
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The Influnce of Metacognition on Managerial Hiring Decision Making: Implications for Management Development
… Novices are more likely to make inappropriate decisions. Research suggests that training the novice on efficient use of metacognitive strategies can improve decision outcomes. The influence of metacognitive strategies on managerial decisions has received little attention. Two questions …
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What factors influence individual buyers' decisions to adopt electric vehicles (EV) in New Zealand, and to what extent do these factors contribute to the current state of EV uptake?
… the most important factor influencing consumer decisions. It indicates that long-term reliability is one of the biggest factors that can instill confidence in people's minds regarding EVs. The second most important factor is driving range, highlighting the need for EVs that can travel …
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Modeling passenger disutilities in airline revenue management simulation
… air transportation market reactions to the managerial decisions of airlines; therefore, it is important to understand passenger path choice process, and to develop a valid model to represent it. In this thesis, passenger disutilities are used to indicate passengers' sensitivity to …
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A systems approach to patient safety : preventing and predicting medical accidents using systems theory
… between clinicians, and the pressures exerted by managerial decisions all contributing to these medical mishaps. Despite this complexity, accidents are analyzed using simplistic and outdated techniques modeling systems as mere linear chains of events, when the reality lies far from those neat …
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The influence of political risk events on the investment decisions of multinational hotel companies in Caribbean hotel projects
… risk events. Key investment parameters, on which managerial decisions were to be made such as level of investment, mode of investment and risk premium requirements were examined. Methodology for the study was a modified Delphi technique conducted in three rounds of panel considerations. Panelists …
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