Management Sciences
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Management Sciences .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
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The Implementation Continuous Improvement Program: a Case Study for a Canadian Job Shop Manufacturer
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)The purpose of this thesis is to study and to understand the impact of implementing a Continuous Improvement (CI) program with employees. The study has covered ideas generated by employees, and their impact on the ideas’ ... -
On the Road to Making Science of “Art”: Risk Bias in Market Scoring Rules
(The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2018-06)We study market scoring rule (MSR) prediction markets in the presence of risk-averse or risk-seeking agents that have unknown yet bounded risk preferences. It is well known that if agents can be prescreened, then MSRs can ... -
Mobile commerce and device specific perceived risk
(Springer, 2016)This study examines the role of perceived risk and access device type on consumers’ on-line purchase decisions. We use a two-step hurdle approach to estimate consumer behavior. In the first step, the decision of whether ... -
P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers' Valuation Uncertainty
(Wiley, 2017-03)Can peer‐to‐peer (P2P) marketplaces benefit traditional supply chains when consumers may experience valuation risk? P2P marketplaces can mitigate consumers' risk by allowing them to trade mismatched goods; yet, they also ... -
Incentive compatibility in prediction markets: Costly actions and external incentives
(Elsevier, 2019-01)We consider a multi-round prediction market in which two agents, Alice and Bob, are trading on an event on which each may take action to influence its outcome. The existing literature assumes that there is no net difference ... -
Eco-Innovation with Opportunity of Licensing and Threat of Imitation
(Elsevier, 2017-03-20)We consider the product and process innovation effort decisions a sustainable (eco) manufacturer (innovator/leader) makes in the presence of a traditional manufacturer (imitator/follower) who may procure a license or imitate ... -
Data Envelopment Analysis may Obfuscate Corporate Financial Data: Using Support Vector Machine and Data Envelopment Analysis to Predict Corporate Failure for Nonmanufacturing Firms
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Corporate failure prediction has drawn numerous scholars’ attention because of its usefulness in corporate risk management, as well as in regulating corporate operational status. Most research on this topic focuses on ... -
"It felt like I was part of the data": Comparing Mouse, Touch, and Physical Interaction with Visualizations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)With my two exploratory studies I contribute a deeper understanding of the different experiences people have when manipulating data representations using mouse, touch, and physical interaction. To uncover experiences rather ... -
How many crowdsourced workers should a requester hire?
(Springer, 2016-01)Recent years have seen an increased interest in crowdsourcing as a way of obtaining information from a potentially large group of workers at a reduced cost. The crowdsourcing process, as we consider in this paper, is as ... -
Using a Credibility Classifier to Improve Health-Related Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)In this thesis, we address improving the credibility and correctness of information retrieved by search engines in health-related searches. Health misinformation presented in the search engine results pages (SERPs) is a ... -
Optimizing EV Routing and Charging/Discharging under Time-Variant Electricity Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)The integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and the power system has been becoming an increasingly important field of research, due to the rapid EV penetration and the evolvement in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) techniques in the ... -
Effects of Incentives on Group Problem Solving Processes and Paths
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-17)Incentives have been known to affect group performance when solving complex problems. Groups that are given individual incentives for solving problems are able to solve problems quicker, and with less errors compared to ... -
Capacity and assortment planning under one-way supplier-driven substitution for pharmacy kiosks with low drug demand
(Elsevier, 2020-04-01)MedAvail Technologies Inc. is a healthcare technology company that develops new technologies for self-serve pharmacy solutions. The technology, called MedCenter, is a pharmacy kiosk that provides 24/7, easy, and reliable ... -
Three Essays on Business Analytics: time-series causality, panel data analysis, and design of experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This dissertation includes three empirical studies focusing on the applications of Business Analytics in the context of financial markets and the online advertisement industry. The first essay examines the existence of a ... -
Defining Haptic Experience: Foundations for Understanding, Communicating, and Evaluating HX
(ACM, 2020-04-25)Haptic technology is maturing, with expectations and evidence that it will contribute to user experience (UX). However, we have very little understanding about how haptic technology can influence people’s experience. ... -
Measuring wellbeing performance of carbon emissions using hybrid measure and meta-frontier techniques: Empirical tests for G20 countries and implications for China
(Elsevier, 2019-11-10)A quantitative measure of performance that integrates national-level carbon emission profiles with key parameters of social and economic wellbeing can provide an effective management tool for policy interventions. This ... -
A Comparative Study of Univariate Time-series Methods for Sales Forecasting
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Sales time-series forecasters, data scientists and managers often use timeseries forecasting methods to predict sales. Nonetheless, it is still a question which time-series method a forecaster is best off using, if they ... -
Patterns of Search Result Examination: Query to First Action.
(ACM, 2019-11-03)To determine key factors that affect a user's behavior with search results, we conducted a controlled eye-tracking study of users completing search tasks using both desktop and mobile devices. We focus our investigation ... -
Geometry-based Constraint Generation for Large-scale Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a high precision radiotherapy with many beams that have different intensities to accurately irradiate a tumor/cancerous cells considering minimization of the dose to surrounding ... -
Canada’s Innovation landscape: Technological Diversity, Invention Ownership, and University Intellectual Property Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)This thesis examines Canada’s innovation landscape in three essays: the first identifies the patterns of innovation and technological diversification of Canada during the last three decades, the second identifies the ...
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