Browsing Management Sciences by Subject "Management Sciences"
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Gender Differences in Engineering Education: An Exploratory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)Despite significant efforts to boost female enrollment levels and retention rates in engineering programs, females continue to make up only a small portion of the Canadian undergraduate engineering student population. ... -
Green Supply Chain Design: A Lagrangian Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The expansion of supply chains into global networks has drastically increased the distance travelled along shipping lanes in a logistics system. Inherently, the increase in travel distances produces increased carbon emissions ... -
Impact of a Safety Valve in an Emission Trading System: A Real Options Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)For more than 20 years, cap-and-trade system has served as an efficient market-based mechanism to reduce emission of air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and greenhouse gas. In this system, a limited amount of emission ... -
The Impact of Information Quality of Job Descriptions on an Applicant's Decision to Pursue a Job
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)Job descriptions are one of the major mechanisms that organizations use to convey job and company information to job applicants. Consequently, job descriptions play a major role in the recruitment process to attract job ... -
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 ... -
An Improved Convex Optimization Model for Two-Dimensional Facility Layout
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)The facility layout design problem is a fundamental optimization problem encountered in many manufacturing and service organizations that was originally formulated in 1963 by Armour & Buffa. This thesis derives a convex ... -
Including Ramping Constraints in the Electric Capacity Expansion Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)In the long term electricity capacity expansion problem, operators attempt to make decisions years ahead of time on what generator types to invest in in order to meet future electricity needs. In such a model an approximate ... -
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 ... -
Information and Knowledge: A Duality in the Communication Process
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Communication is very common in human life. In fact, we take communication for granted and do not think about the challenges involved except when miscommunication happens. When two people communicate, information is ... -
An information technology adoption model for the rural socio-cultural context in developing countries
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)This exploratory research focuses on impacts of the rural socio-cultural context on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption for business information needs using the Maldives as the study context, and attempts ... -
Innovation and Competition in Standard-Based Industries: An Analysis of the High Definition U.S. Home Video Market
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-27)This paper examines the competitive dynamics in a standard-based industry through a historical examination of the U.S. home video industry. It analyzes how the Blu-ray technology wins the battle of the high definition DVD ... -
Innovation in e-Business Models: a Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) Theory Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-10)Despite potentially increased sales and operational efficiencies, a surprising number of firms have not adopted e-business. Annual surveys of e-business use in Canada and other Organization for Economic Co-operation and ... -
Innovation Intermediaries: Practice and Use of Evidence
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)Governments of the G7 have relied primarily on two strategies to develop their respective economies, the commercialization of research using licensing models and new venture creation. Yet, they have acknowledged no specific ... -
Innovation-Performance relationship: the moderating role of the Degree of Internationalization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Moderator variables are typically introduced when there is an unexpectedly weak or inconsistent relationship between a predictor and a criterion variable (Baron and Kenny, 1986). Holak, Parry and Song (1991) and Zhang, Li, ... -
The Intensity of the Insight Experience in Problem Solving: Structural and Dynamic Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)Field theory of Lewin was used to analyze the experience of insight problem solving. It was proposed that insight is characterized by the intensity of the experience at the moment of solution. It was argued that the intensity ... -
Interior Point Cutting Plane Methods in Integer Programming
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-22)This thesis presents novel approaches that use interior point concepts in solving mixed integer programs. Particularly, we use the analytic center cutting plane method to improve three of the main components of the ... -
Intuitive judgment and building initial trust in online vendors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)The importance of trust in Electronic Commerce (EC) has been addressed for about two decades and various theories have been applied to investigate the issue. In spite of a consensus among researchers of trust in a website ... -
Inventory Decisions for the Price Setting Retailer: Extensions to the EOQ Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Practical inventory settings often include multiple generations of the same product on hand. New products often arrive before old stock is exhausted, but most inventory models do not account for this. Such a setting gives ... -
An Inventory Routing Problem with Cross-Docking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)This thesis concerns inventory-transportation tradeoffs in which a number of suppliers serve multiple customers, each ordering several product types. The goal is to design optimal routes to satisfy the customers’ demands. ...