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Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator’s tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(Elsevier, 2022-01)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator's tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
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 ... -
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 Collaboration between Youth and Local Organizations working on Sustainable Development Projects in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)The international community recognizes the importance of partnerships and collaboration across multiple institutions and stakeholders to implement sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a global framework of ... -
An exploratory study of experiences of design at hackathons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Hackathons are popular events where participants “hack” together a project, from ideation through to the final presentation, in 24-48 hours. It is typical for hackathons to be tech-centric; therefore, the attendees tend ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Factors Influencing Impulse Buying During an Online Purchase Transaction
(University of Waterloo, 2004)An important element in retailing is the use of impulse purchases; generally small items that are bought by consumers on the spur of the moment. By some estimates, impulse purchases make up approximately 50 percent of ... -
Factors of Haptic Experience across Multiple Haptic Modalities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-08)Haptic Experience (HX) is a proposed set of quality criteria useful to haptics, with prior evidence for a 5-factor model with vibrotactile feedback. We report on an ongoing process of scale development to measure HX, and ... -
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 ... -
A Feasible Lagrangian Approach with Application to the Generalized Assignment Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)Lagrangian relaxation is a widely used decomposition approach to solve difficult optimization problems that exhibit special structure. It provides a lower bound on the optimal objective of a minimization problem. On the ... -
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 ... -
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 ...