Browsing Management Sciences by Subject "Management Sciences"
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Collective Intelligence in Collaborative Tagging System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Recently, a new form of organizing, sharing and finding information, named tagging, has gained importance because its results are the product of the combined efforts of the actual users’ opinions of the information. In ... -
Competitive Project Portfolio Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)Although project portfolio management (PPM) has been an active research area over the past 50 years, budget allocation models that consider competition are sparse. Firms faced with the project portfolio management problem ... -
Contextual Effects of Goals, Stimuli, Performance, and Complexity on Cognitive Decision Biases
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)Existing research investigating human judgment and decision making describes patterns of systematic biases in the way people process information and make decisions. Framing effects, for example, demonstrate that logically ... -
The Continuous Time Service Network Design Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)The service network design problem (SNDP) addresses the planning of operations for freight transportation carriers. Given a set of requests to transport commodities from specific origins to specific destinations, SNDP ... -
Coordinating the Optimal Discount Schedules of Supplier and Carrier
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Transportation is important in making supply chain decisions. With the careful consideration of transportation expenses, the performance of each supply chain member, as well as the entire supply chain, could be improved ... -
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Analyzing the Social Capital of Corporate Insiders
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-15)This dissertation is concerned with how the social capital of corporate insiders is associated with the governance and performance of publicly listed small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) in Canada. The premise of ... -
Cutting-Plane Separation Strategies for Semidefinite Programming Models to Solve Single-Row Facility Layout Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)The single-row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is concerned with finding the optimal linear placement of n departments with different lengths in a straight line. It is typically achieved by minimizing the cost associated ... -
Decomposition of Variational Inequalities with Applications to Nash-Cournot Models in Time of Use Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)This thesis proposes equilibrium models to link the wholesale and retail electricity markets which allow for reconciliation of the differing time scales of responses of producers (e.g., hourly) and consumers (e.g., monthly) ... -
Deducing Requirements From Agile Software Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)In classical engineering practice, the elicitation of requirements is an important early project phase. Requirements help to define the project goals and scope, they serve as a basis for cost estimation, and in validated ... -
Designing Better Allocation Policies for Influenza Vaccine
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Influenza has been one of the most infectious diseases for roughly 2400 years. The most effective way to prevent influenza outbreaks and eliminate their seasonal effects is vaccination. The distribution of influenza vaccine ... -
Designing Privacy-Enhanced Interfaces on Digital Tabletops for Public Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Protection of personal information has become a critical issue in the digital world. Many companies and service provider websites have adopted privacy policies and practices to protect users’ personal information to some ... -
Detecting Weak Signals by Internet-Based Environmental Scanning
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Firms in highly dynamic environments focusing on innovation in their products and services, often encounter elevated amounts of uncertainty regarding the future direction of technological change. Finding reliable and ... -
Determinants of Profitability and Recovery from Shocks: the case of the U.S. domestic Airline Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)This paper examines the determinants of profitability using operations strategy, productivity, and service measures in the context of the U.S. domestic airline industry. Data on ten carriers was collected on a quarterly ... -
Dispatching Work: Finding the best dispatching method for real job-shops
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-11)Motivated by a situation observed by our industry partner, we test if changing dispatch methods within a job-shop can reduce the percentage of late jobs while not reducing the maximum lateness across all jobs, the two ... -
Dynamic Pricing in The Presence of Strategic Consumer with Product and Intertemporal Substitution
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-24)This study develops a dynamic pricing model with a quality substitutable product, taking into account strategic and myopic consumers. In each of the two periods, the firm can choose between offering a high quality product, ... -
Dynamic pricing under demand uncertainty in the presence of strategic consumers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)We study the effect of strategic consumer behavior on pricing, inventory decisions, and inventory release policies of a monopoly retailer selling a single product over two periods facing uncertain demand. We consider ... -
E-commerce Growth and Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)As with ordinary in-store shopping, product characteristics affect an individual’s online purchase decisions. The variety of devices used to access the Internet also affects the probability of engaging in e-commerce. The ... -
The Effect of Organizational Structure on the Adoption of Agile Methodologies_A Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)This exploratory case study used observations and interviews to investigate how the structure of an organization impacts its ability to adopt agile software development methodologies. It also aimed to identify the agile ... -
The effect of P2P marketplaces on retailing in the presence of mismatch risk
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-10)Consumers frequently face mismatch risk as goods they purchase may be deemed inappropriate or below expectations. Due to this risk, consumers may avoid purchasing such goods and consequently hurt retailers. Can the emergence ... -
The Effect of Prior Commitment on Group Conflict in Judgemental Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-30)Previous research has identified commitment as one of the major contributing factors in group conflict and this study extends this line of research by considering group conflict as a result of varying members’ prior ...