Although the development of small businesses is generally considered important for income generation and job creation, there has been relatively little research in developing countries such as Ghana on understanding why some small firms succeed and grow rapidly while others do n…
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This thesis intends to raise awareness on pandemic threats and encourage facility managers and business stakeholders to integrate pandemic preparedness plans to the corporate models in order to be able to quickly respond to the crisis and keep the business continuing under the i…
The purpose of this study is to examine whether art gallerists are replaceable in the current climate in which the plea for removing the middlemen has been growing. The speed and ease of art transactions through digital platforms provide an alternative to the relationship-based …
This research focuses on cross-border acquisitions of emerging market multinationals (EM MNEs). Opposing theoretical perspectives of colonial ties (i.e., country ties between the acquiring and target firm countries, with the former being a colonized country and the latter being …
The scholarly study of forgiveness and leadership is a relatively new frontier. Despite numerous historical examples of leaders who have made significant impacts through forgiveness, the concept has failed to attract attention from leadership scholars, with a few notable excepti…
Artan ihtiyaçlar sonucu kitlesel üretimin artması, insanların hayatlarını bir yandan kolaylaştırırken, diğer taraftan sınırlı kaynaklar üzerinde baskı yaratmaktadır. Bu nedenle oluşacak olumsuz etkilerin azaltılmasında, sürdürülebilir teknolojilerin kullanımı, sürdürülebilir ürü…
The current study was used to examine the possible association of leaders’ (presidents/prime ministers) leadership styles and their countries’ crime rates between 2015 and 2018. The development and implementation of the current research was based on the identification of an ongo…
Much research has been concerned with what constitute necessities and how they are related to pertinent concepts, such as needs, wants, desires, and luxuries (Belk, Ger, and Askegaard 2003; Duncan 2002; Fraser 1998, Hoyer and MacInnis 2004; Kerin, Hartley and Rudelius 2004; Shet…
Project management continues to evolve as types of projects increase, advancement of technologies available, as well as tools for project management grow in sophistication. A successful project is defined as being completed on schedule, on budget, and delivering the requirements…
Chapter 1: I find that firms provide incentives that encourage CEOs towards product differentiation when facing grater foreign competition. Firms respond to competitive shocks by decreasing the similarity between rival-CEOs’ performance goals. Subsequently, firms decrease their …
Organizations increasingly engage in launching new products, but they show heterogeneous decision-making patterns in new product strategies. This dissertation attempts to study the source of organizational heterogeneity in new product introductions (NPIs) by applying behavioral …
Researchers have reported a direct correlation between motivation and extrinsic incentives to increase performance in the workplace. Extrinsic motivators such as compensation, promotion opportunities, and professional development entice employees to exceed their work expectation…
The development of effective leadership succession planning in faith-based nonprofit organizations in Georgia was examined. Leadership succession planning is a process of training, developing, and preparing someone in an organization (for-profit and nonprofit) to replace a leade…
This dissertation examines the regional economic effects of foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is known to have benefits for both national and regional economies. These benefits include an increasing number of higher paying jobs, productivity spillovers for local firms, and el…
Yönetim yaklaşımları; dünya tarihi boyunca ekonomik, siyasi, dini ve sosyal nedenlerle değişmiş, Reform – Rönesans düşünceleri, sanayi devrimi, gelişen teknolojiler gibi önemli faktörler sebebiyle de son yüzyılda değişimi hızlanmıştır. Sanayi Devrimi öncesi yönetim yaklaşımları …
Anti-Black racism in America is not a new phenomenon. In recent years, the rapid evolution and expansion of mobile technology has enabled the proliferation of viral videos showing instances of anti-Black racism, leading to greater public awareness of the issue among White Americ…
Risk management plays an increasingly important role in systems engineering, project management and decision making. Risk assessment and management techniques are increasingly applied in future planning and risk decisions of enterprises. One area very important to the evaluation…
The concept of patient confidentiality is nearly as old as the practice of health professions and has evolved over the years, from one jurisdiction to the other. The duty of patient confidentiality can be a fundamental human right, an ethical duty or a legal duty. Under the Saud…
This research effort presents a systematic review of high-quality, scholarly research applicable to a new type of virtual team, Unanticipated Virtual Teams (UVT), that were triggered by the recent coronavirus pandemic and, as such, have not previously been the focus of scholarly…