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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, ... -
Integration of Learning, Situational Power and Goal Constraints Into Time-Dependent Electronic Negotiation Agents
(University of Waterloo, 2002)In the past decade, electronic negotiation has become an important research topic in the field of information systems. A desirable goal of negotiation agents is to understand their owners' requirements, and to learn ... -
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 ... -
The Intentional Base-on-ball Phenomenon in Baseball: A Statistical Analysis and Strategic Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The game of baseball is amenable to a variety of strategies that affect short-term outcomes. This paper employs regression analysis, simulation, and cognitive analysis of mental biases to analyze the strategic scenario ... -
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 ... -
Interorganizational Partner Selection as Negotiation: A Study of Two Distance Education Consortia
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The choice of appropriate collaborative partners has consistently been reported as a key issue for contemporary managers. This study reports findings from a study which explored the process and criteria of partner ... -
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 and Service Optimization for Self-serve Kiosks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-20)In the retail industry, labor costs constitute a big chunk of total operating costs and retailers are advancing towards process automation to minimize their operating costs and to provide reliable services to their customers. ... -
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. ... -
Inventory-Location Problems for Spare Parts with Time-Based Service Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This thesis studies an inventory-location problem faced by a large manufacturer and supplier of small to medium sized aircraft and their spare parts. The sale of after market spare parts is a major source of revenue for ... -
Investigating Game Mechanics that Target Players' Self-Control While Maintaining Engagement
(ACM, 2018-10-23)Whenever someone chooses to study instead of going to a party, or forgo dessert after dinner, that person is exercising self-control. Self-control is essential for achieving long-term goals, but isn't easy. Games present ... -
Investigating the Effect of Pace Mechanic on Player Motivation and Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-30)Games have long been employed to motivate people towards positive behavioral change. Numerous studies, for example, have found people who were previously disinterested in a task can be enticed to spend hours gathering ... -
Investigating the Location Pattern of Information and Communication Technology Firms: Case of Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)Despite the volume of literature examining the role of producer amenities (e.g., highways and airports) in firms’ selection of a location, almost no quantitative studies regard the impact of consumer amenities (e.g., ... -
An Investigation of Basic Probability Operations Using AND and OR Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)The purpose of this thesis was to observe people’s abilities to compute probability problems at a fundamental level. The problems in this study were presented in an abstract format to ensure non-ambiguity in its interpretation. ... -
An Investment Decision under the Clean Development Mechanism: A Real Options Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-08)One of the main challenges that investors in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project face is the management of the volatility of the price of Certified Emission Reduction (CERs). Large scale CDM projects require a ... -
"It felt like I was part of the data": Comparing Mouse, Touch, and Physical Interaction with Visualizations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)With my two exploratory studies I contribute a deeper understanding of the different experiences people have when manipulating data representations using mouse, touch, and physical interaction. To uncover experiences rather ... -
Job description mining to understand undergraduate co-operative placements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Co-operative education has become popular worldwide. In this thesis, we use a text mining methodology to analyze over 17,000 co-op job postings in order to understand the co-op market in a large post-secondary institution. ...