Browsing Management Sciences by Subject "Management Sciences"
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Access to Government Micro-data for SME Internationalization Research
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-10)International entrepreneurship (IE) is “a combination of innovative, proactive and risk-seeking behaviour that crosses national borders and is intended to create value in organizations”. The IE literature has been concerned ... -
Accuracies of Optimal Transmission Switching Heuristics Based on Exact and Approximate Power Flow Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Optimal transmission switching (OTS) enables us to remove selected transmission lines from service as a cost reduction method. A mixed integer programming (MIP) model has been proposed to solve the OTS problem based on the ... -
ANALYSIS OF SHIPMENT CONSOLIDATION IN THE LOGISTICS SUPPLY CHAIN
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-19)Shipment Consolidation (SCL) is a logistics strategy that combines two or more orders or shipments so that a larger quantity can be dispatched on the same vehicle to the same market region. This dissertation aims to emphasize ... -
An Analysis of Workplace Training in Canada: Evidence from WES
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)With fast development of technology and globalization competition, firms today are in a changing environment. Skills obsolete quickly. To prevent the skill shortage, training has been given more and more attention. However, ... -
Antecedents of High-growth and Gazelle Enterprises: An Empirical Study
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-14)This research explores a problem important to both management strategists and policy-makers: what makes some companies grow rapidly? This topic is important as high-growth companies create a disproportionally high percentage ... -
Ascertaining the effects of malevolent acts in a developing market on the stock returns of firms operating in those markets
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)Experiencing malevolent acts is a common feature when conducting business in parts of the developing world, but the effects that these acts have on a firm’s stock price have not received sufficient attention by the literature. ... -
Asymmetric dependence and its effect on helping behaviour in work groups
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)A case study of two software teams in a large American software company revealed evidence of a power imbalance and intergroup conflict. The case study was used to generate questions about the effects of task-dependence ... -
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. ... -
Bankers' Perceptions of the Role of Technology in Addressing Financial Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-20)Financial inclusion is a measure of the ability of a population to make use of financial services. High rates of financial inclusion in a country are empirically correlated with high levels of economic development in that ... -
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 ... -
Benefits and Costs of Restriction: A Comparison of Unrestricted, Restricted Gift Card Spending and Cash Spending
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Archival data of unrestricted and restricted gift card transactions was compared with national level consumer spending data from both the U.S. and Canada to investigate the similarities and differences in purchase pattern. ... -
The Bin Packing Problem with Fragile Objects: Models and Solution Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-25)The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is an important optimization problem with many applications. Given a set of items with a certain weight and a set of bins with fixed capacity, the classical BPP seeks to pack the items into ... -
A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm based on Semidefinite Programming for the Minimum k-Partition Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-20)The minimum k-partition (MkP) problem is a well-known optimization problem encountered in various applications most notably in telecommunication and physics. Formulated in the early 1990s by Chopra and Rao, the MkP ... -
Business Angel Decision Making
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)Business Angels (BAs) are wealthy individuals whose investments in entrepreneurial ventures enable them to increase the likelihood of both attracting subsequent Venture Capital (VC) and achieving long-term venture success. ... -
Capabilities Enabling Product Orientation and Service Orientation: A Study of Canadian Software Firms
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis identifies the unique capabilities that characterise product-oriented vs. service-oriented firms in the software industry. Firms in the software industry have very different business models from other industries. ... -
Capacity Pricing in Electric Generation Expansion
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)The focus of this thesis is to explore a new mechanism to give added incentive to invest in new capacities in deregulated electricity markets. There is a lot of concern in energy markets, regarding lack of sufficient private ... -
Carbon Tax Based on the Emission Factor
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)In response to growing concerns about the negative impact of GHG emissions, several countries such as the European Union have adopted a cap-and-trade policy to limit the overall emissions levels. Alternatively, other ... -
Carrier Managed Transportation in Supply Chain Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Logistics Transportation is an indispensable step that connects production, storage, and the final customers. Plenty of previous research has been done to achieve the goals such as low cost, high accuracy in timing, good ... -
Cognitive repairs in decision-making by venture capitalists
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This paper examines cognitive repairs as they apply to the decision-making process used by venture capitalists, asking the question of “how could, or how do, cognitive repairs play a role in the decision-making process ... -
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 ...