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 …
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…
Demand forecasting, the process of predicting future demand for a firm’s products, is a crucial element of business success. A key challenge in demand forecasting is the tendency of predictions to become less accurate over longer time horizons, limiting their usefulness for medi…
Stock prediction is critical in quantitative trading for creating an efficient trading strategy that yields a high return. The ability to predict outcomes is also needed for successful portfolio construction and optimization. Stock prediction, on the other hand, is a difficult t…
The problem addressed by this study was the high millennial voluntary turnover rate that creates increased organizational cost due to rehiring and retraining replacements from the voluntary turnover. The dissertation research utilized a qualitative case study to explore how the …
La presente tesis es una aplicación de un modelo de valorización de acciones sobre una empresa líder en el mercado cervecero en el Perú en el contexto del COVID 19. Para determinar la capitalización bursátil de esta empresa, esta tesis utiliza a modo de consultoría la metodologí…
This dissertation contains three connected essays that feature financial market innovation and product market innovation. Two essays feature return predictability in commodity futures, which have been financialized during the past two decades. One essay studies the relation betw…
家族传承,在当下的中国是个热门的话题。一个家族为什么要传承,不传承会怎么样?如果要传承,应该传递什么,后代怎样去承接?家族财富作为家族智慧及社会价值创造的物质体现,更需提前规划,防患于未然。尤其是在目前中国传统经济面临转型,创一代面临退休的特殊历史时期,在恰当的时候,对辛苦积累的财富做出合适的制度安排,即可缓解忧虑,又是对财富发挥最好价值的预先设计,更是前辈通过对后辈的积极引领支持,促使家族核心价值薪火相传的保证。本论文按照理论-实证的研究路线,通过对中国207家家族企业一代及二代的问卷调查,通过建立Probit模型,分析家族企业不同变量对传承计划和传…
The purpose of the study is to identify how terrorism affected the investment decisions made by U.S.-based for-profit organizations in Morocco and the Philippines. This is a comparative case study with two participating case subjects. One has an operation in Morocco and the othe…
This thesis is originally set out to document and critically assess employee performance appraisal practices in Bahraini companies. However, preliminary research findings suggest an additional research endeavour—namely, the role of gender bias (if any) in the performance apprais…
Occupational stressors account for as much as 60% of lost work time and productivity. Guided by the demand-control-support theory, this phenomenological study explored occupational stressors relevant to workers' safety and productivity. This exploration took place in the United …
The U.S. Virgin Islands is experiencing an economic recession, manifested through social disorders such as abandoned and vandalized houses. Research points to social disorders and lack of community engagement as key factors inhibiting community development efforts. In order to s…