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The Effect of Prior Commitment on Group Conflict in Judgemental Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-30)Previous research has identified commitment as one of the major contributing factors in group conflict and this study extends this line of research by considering group conflict as a result of varying members’ prior ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Batch Ordering and Batch Replenishment Policies for MTS-MTO Manufacturing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Hybrid Make-To-Stock (MTS)-Make-To-Order (MTO) manufacturing is a well known policy that captures the benefits of both MTS and MTO policies. This manufacturing policy is adopted by many manufacturing firms because it allows ... -
Network of Affiliates and Canada-U.S. Border Effect
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the influence that the pattern of affiliate linkages- establishments associated with companies as affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions- between U.S. states and Canadian provinces ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Real Options and Asset Valuation in Competitive Energy Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-07)The deregulation of energy markets around the world, including power markets has changed the way operating assets in these markets are managed. Independent power asset owners and even utilities operating in these markets ... -
A Knowledge Perspective of Strategic Alliances and Management of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evolving Research Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-08)Information from the Human Genome Project is being integrated into the drug discovery and development process to permit novel drug targets to be identified, clinical trial testing to be made more efficient, and efficacious ... -
A Lagrangean Relaxation and A Heuristic for the Pooling Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The pooling problem is one of the fundamental optimization problems encountered in the petroleum industry. In the pooling problem, final products are produced using two stages of blending operations. In the first stage, ... -
Auctions for Targeted Television Advertising
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)Television advertising is a billion-dollar industry in the United States. Currently, advertisers place their messages in television programs that are estimated to have a high proportion of their target demographic viewers. ... -
The Role of Affect in Commercializing New Ideas
(University of Waterloo, 2008-07-22)Psychological attachment to an entrepreneurial opportunity may motivate the entrepreneur to persevere but can also bias decisions made in the entrepreneurial process, especially on market entry. This thesis investigates ... -
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of NAFTA Supply Chains
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-01)Supply chain management is the set of tasks through which businesses acquire, process, and move raw materials and final products from suppliers through factories and distribution points to customers. The mathematical ... -
A Queueing Model to Study Ambulance Offload Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The ambulance offload delay problem is a well-known result of overcrowding and congestion in emergency departments. Offload delay refers to the situation where area hospitals are unable to accept patients from regional ... -
Trade-off between Innovation and Sustainability: Perceptions from Students from Developed and Developing Countries
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)This study investigated the human perception of certain social values to improve national well-being. It focused on the relative importance of two values, innovation and sustainability. Finally, it examined the possibility ... -
Make or Buy? Professional Designations, Human Capital and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-30)Over the last two decades, the use of professional designations as selection criteria has increased. In order to develop selection criteria, recruiters assess candidates from both job and organizational perspectives ... -
The Use Of Kullback-Leibler Divergence In Opinion Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-01)With the huge amount of subjective contents in on-line documents, there is a clear need for an information retrieval system that supports retrieval of documents containing opinions about the topic expressed in a user’s ... -
Collaborative Logistics in Vehicle Routing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-06)Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) carriers generally serve geographical regions that are more localized than the inter-city routes served by truckload carriers. That localization can lead to urban freight transportation routes ...