Browsing Management Sciences by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Dynamic Route Planning for Last-Mile Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)There has never been a time with more demand than now for e-retailing and as a consequence last-mile services. The growth in demand is also bringing significant challenges. With the abundance of options, customers are ever ... -
Effects of Category Structures on Learning and Communication of the Learned Categories
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-17)Communication is an essential part of our life, and is tightly connected to our knowledge. We communicate about what we know, and form our knowledge through communication. This research uses the categorical representation ... -
Empirical Analysis of Algorithms for Block-Angular Linear Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)This thesis aims to study the theoretical complexity and empirical performance of decomposition algorithms. We focus on linear programs with a block-angular structure. Decomposition algorithms used to be the only way to ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Internet Privacy: Customer Behaviour, Companies’ Privacy Policy Disclosures, and a Gap
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Privacy emerges as a critical issue in an e-commerce environment because of a fundamental tension among corporate, consumer, and government interests. By reviewing prior Internet-privacy research in the fields of information ... -
Essays in Corporate Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-22)Personal subjective opinions are one of the most important assets in management. Prediction markets are mechanisms that can be deployed to elicit and aggregate a group of people’s opinions regarding the outcome of future ... -
Essays on building and evaluating two-stage DEA models of efficiency and effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-27)Researchers are not consistent in their choice of input and output variables when using two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to measure efficiency and effectiveness. This inconsistency has resulted in the ... -
Essays on International Venture Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-21)Venture Capital firms (VCs), compared with other sources of financing, are known to be a value-adding source of finance for high-growth entrepreneurial firms. Venture capital has transitioned from a local to an international ... -
Exploring How Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Firms Create 'Value' for Organizational Stakeholders
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-09)The understanding of how firms create value for their stakeholders is important for advancing the empirical body of knowledge on stakeholder theory. This is especially relevant for the exploration of technology companies ... -
Factors Affecting Participation in Online Communities of Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-05)Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis (Wenger et al, ... -
A Field Theory of Leadership
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-20)Existing leadership theories tend to explain that leaders induce others to follow as a function of one or more of the following: i) A specific set of traits possessed by the leader (e.g., charisma); ii) Different types ... -
Forging links between innovation and sustainability:An empirical examination of the effects on a firm’s financial performance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the North American energy and energy-intensive materials production sectors account for more than 50 percent of total GHG emissions. Based on the argument that CO2 emissions need to be ... -
Gender Differences in Engineering: A Data-Driven Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is well known. Not only do fewer women apply to and earn engineering degrees, but also more women leave engineering programs and careers. Past ... -
Green Supply Chain Network Design with Emission Sensitive Demand
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Over the last few decades, the argument for a link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has become stronger. In response, there has been a global shift. Politicians are implementing carbon policies while ... -
Help-Seeking Behaviour in Computer-Mediated Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)Often when an individual decides to seek help, several communication media are available to him or her (e.g., email, phone, in-person), which means the help-seeker faces a media selection decision. To make this decision, ... -
Hub Location Problems with Profit Considerations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)This thesis studies profit maximizing hub location problems. These problems seek to find the optimal number and locations of hubs, allocations of demand nodes to these hubs, and routes of flows through the network to serve ... -
The Impact of Internationalization on Post-IPO Performance of Firms
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-23)This study examines the relationship between the degree of internationalization at the time of IPO (initial public offering) and post-IPO market performance of US and Canadian firms. This proposition derives its support ... -
The Impacts of Climate Change via Robust Optimization: Two Applications in Land Investment and Electricity Storage Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-03)Effectively adapting to a changing climate involves making appropriate operational decisions based on long-term climate forecasts. This dissertation presents a comprehensive framework that combines climate data, regression ... -
The Impacts of Gameful and Interactive Technologies on Hindering or Promoting Self-regulation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-14)Self-regulation is the essential component of goal pursuit that allows us to make better decisions and resist temptation of unwanted desires, which ultimately impacts our well-being. It is essential to identify and ... -
The Influence of Inward Technology Transfers and International Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Export Performance of Egyptian SMEs
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)This study examines the influence of inward technology transfers and international entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) on the export performance of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). IEO and innovation are frequently cited ... -
The Influence of Product Design on Switching Decisions for Capital-intensive Technologies: The Case of MRI Purchasing in Research Facilities
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-07)This research investigates the role of product design on technology switching in the context of a capital-intensive product. I focus on switching rather than on new sales because switching is the primary means of changing ...