Stories involving underdogs, individuals or entities that are disadvantaged in some way and expected to fail, are a pervasive theme throughout history and particularly within Western Culture. Famous examples include David’s triumph over Goliath in the Bible and Leicester City Fo…
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İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti Osmanlı’nın son dönemlerine ve Cumhuriyet’in ilk dönemlerine çeşitli alanda etkiler bırakmıştır. Ekonomik alanda bıraktığı etkiler, bunların başında gelmektedir. Balkan Harbi sonrası millî iktisat arayışlarına giren İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti bu fırs…
Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory has been investigated in multiple organizations and fields of study, except in the confines of the local church. The purpose of this research study was to investigate LMX in a local church context to conclude whether LMX theory is practiced in…
I examine how firms address workplace safety issues considering their value implication. In my first essay, I investigate the relation between workplace safety and inside debt held by the CEO in form of pension benefits and deferred compensation. To mitigate the endogeneity of C…
Only one-third of family businesses remain operational into the second generation and approximately one-eighth into the third generation. Succession planning is critical to family-owned businesses, as most businesses will collapse moving to the fourth generation and beyond. Grou…
This qualitative study explored how healthcare administrators and professionals conceive of productive operations and how their management styles and decisions affected the organization during a pandemic. Facility closures were an important issue because South Carolina (since 20…
The problem addressed by this qualitative case study is the perpetual struggle nonprofit organizations face in finding new strategies for donations and building awareness. Celebrity endorsement leveraging A-list celebrities is a well-worn strategy historically utilized by nonpro…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore how business managers describe their lived experiences as a cyberloafer in the Southern United States. The population of interest is all business managers in the Southern United States. The study u…
In the first essay, we extend the research of Grinstein and Michaely (2005) on the relation between institutional ownership and payout policy by focusing on the institutions most likely to vote their shares. We account for heterogeneity among institutional investors as well as f…
Network concepts are increasingly viewed as offering new approaches to the analysis of organizations, and the understanding of policy processes. In general, the literature on network structures and processes within public administration is quite positive. However, this mode of o…
There is a lack of adequate foreign direct investments (FDI) in the emerging markets of West Africa, especially in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that have led to inadequate FDI in Nigeria. Using the political risk model as the theoretical base, th…
This study investigated the relationship between Nigerian undergraduate students' concerns for information privacy (CFIP) and their willingness to provide personal information to transact on the Internet (PPIT). It also examined the mediating effect of internet trust (IT) and pe…
This study investigated the importance of various factors that might inhibit online shopping transactions in the country of Jordan. Focus was placed on the role of privacy and security of information requested for transactions as well as accompanying risks. This focus was modele…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a prosperous country struggling with the threat of cybercrime. Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology offered an enterprise-level solution to the cybercrime problem, enhancing firewalls and threat detection capabilities. Controversy surrounded …
The Royal Canadian Navy employs Logistics Officers at sea, who possess a financial management specialty; financial resources are accounted and managed by Naval Logistics Officers in Her Majesty's Canadian Ships. The annual, deployed, financial expenditures, managed by Naval Logi…
The idea of rent collector is as old as civilization, as collecting rents occurred in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt (Evans, 2008, p. 3). The transformation from rent collector to property manager occurred during the difficult economic conditions brought on by the great depress…
In the 1990s, financial scandals led to the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley 2002 Act (SOX), which requires top management to attest to the accuracy of the financial reporting by publicly held corporations. There is lack of research regarding success of SOX Act in preventing…
Although Kaduna State has consistently remained the largest producer of rice in Nigeria, there has been no appreciable increase in yields from production since 2005. A number of inefficiencies in the production process exist that result in low yields, mainly an ineffective suppl…
Communication is a key component to the success of multicultural teams. Misunderstanding of nonverbal behaviors is a problem that results in communication breakdown, potentially reducing team efficiency and productivity. The conceptual frameworks of culture, communication, and c…