Browsing Management Sciences by Subject "Management Sciences"
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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 ... -
Effects of Consumer Preferences on Endogenous Switching Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)The paper provides a model that assesses the set of complementary components of varying compatibility and its effect towards consumer adoption decisions. The smartphone market is a system good which utilizes the device ... -
The Effects of Environmental Innovation on Market Value
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)This paper describes the effects of environmental innovation, or EI, on the market value of a firm. EI involves the creation or enhancement of ‘green’ products or ‘eco-efficient’ production processes which result in improved ... -
Effects of Individual versus Group Incentives on Group Problem Solving
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Organizations today face complex problems requiring individuals to work in groups to develop insightful solutions efficiently through coordination, sharing, and integration of distributed knowledge. However, very little ... -
The Effects of Innovation and Regulation on Financial Crises
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)Although financial innovations and deregulations are often argued to be one of the main causes of the current global financial crises, there are only a few cross-country empirical evidences. Using several proxy variables ... -
Effects of Inventory Policies on Supply Chain Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)This thesis is motivated by an industrial problem faced by Bombardier Inc. in designing a two-echelon supply chain. The upper echelon is a plant that operates under batch ordering inventory policy. The lower echelon is a ... -
Effects of task variation and communication medium on group performance in small groups: a comparison between FTF and CMC groups
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Organizational support for cooperative work has been shifted from using Face-to-Face (FTF) communication in collocated groups to using Communication-Mediated-Communication (CMC) in dispersed groups. This new and growing ... -
Emergence and Influence of Expertise in Group Decision Making: A Judgmental Task
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-06)This thesis investigates the emergence and influence of expertise in group decision making while performing a judgmental task. Previous studies focused on intellective tasks or compared the group performance with the ... -
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 ... -
EMS Response Time Models: A Case Study and Analysis for the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)Ambulance response time is a key measure used to assess EMS system performance. However, the speed with which ambulances respond to emergencies can be highly variable. In some cases, this is due to geography. In dense urban ... -
Entropy-based Demand Splits in a Hospital-Warehouse Profit Center
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-11)Financial pressures on healthcare industry in the United States and elsewhere have forced the industry to address their supply costs, their fastest growing cost sector currently comprising over 40 % of their total spend. ... -
Experimental Investigation of Quasi-Newton Approaches to a Learning Problem in Electronic Negotiation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)The recent growth in electronic commerce has motivated the development of semi-autonomous negotiation systems capable of implementing multiple negotiations simultaneously. Different approaches have recently been presented ... -
An Exploratory Study of Storytelling Using Digital Tabletops
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)Storytelling is a powerful means of communication that has been employed by humankind from the early stages of development. As technology has advanced, the medium through which people tell stories has evolved from verbal, ... -
Facility Location and Transportation in Two Free Trade Zones
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-29)In any supply chain, the location of facilities and the routing of material are important decisions that contribute a significant amount of costs, lowering a corporation's overall profits. These choices become more important ... -
Facility location with economies of scale and congestion
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)Most literature on facility location assumes a fixed set-up cost and a linear variable cost. However, as production volume increases, cost savings are achieved through economies of scale, and then when production exceeds ... -
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, ... -
Failing Fast: How And Why Business Angels Rapidly Reject Most Investment Opportunities
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Seed technology ventures require external sources of debt and equity funding, once they have exhausted founders personal resources, to achieve their potential economic impact. The primary source of equity finance for seed ... -
Firm Size and Characteristics of Innovations in the Markets for Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)This paper investigates how the size of a firm affects its licensing strategy for patented technologies through empirical analysis of the characteristics at the technological, firm, and industry levels. Only firms with ... -
Forecasting seat sales in passenger airlines: introducing the round-trip model
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-13)This thesis aims to improve sales forecasting in the context of passenger airlines. We study two important issues that could potentially improve forecasting accuracy: day-to-day price change rather than price itself, and ... -
Formulating Complex Queries Using Templates
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)While many users have relatively general information needs, users who are familiar with a certain topic may have more specific or complex information needs. Such users already have some knowledge of a subject and its ...