Browsing Asper School of Business by Title
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Consumer Microflow Experiences
(Psychology and Marketing, 2019-11)This research explores relatively short, low intensity flow states, called microflow, and demonstrates that they differ from their longer, more complex deepflow variants with regards to antecedents. As an advancement to ... -
Correlates of physician burnout across regions and specialties: a meta-analysis
(2013-09-28)Abstract Background Health care organizations globally realize the need to address physician burnout due to its close linkages with quality of care, retention and migration. The many functions ... -
The Effect of Control Priming on Irresponsible Financial Behavior
(Springer Link, 2018-06)Debt has reached staggering levels among North Americans. Unfortunately, there is deficiency of research that investigates effective means of helping consumers control their debt. We examine how control priming changes ... -
ETHNIC MINORITY CONSUMERS REACTIONS TO ADVERTISEMENTS FEATURING MEMBERS OF OTHER MINORITY GROUPS
(International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2017-07-06)This research investigates how members of ethnic minority groups react to advertisements featuring members of other ethnic minority groups. The results of five experiments show that ethnic minority consumers feel more ... -
Genius or folly? It depends on whether performance ratings survive the “psychological immune system”
(2016)At the heart of the debate between Colquitt’s and Adler’s (Adler et al., 2016) camps is a disagreement about the degree to which employees can be expected to respond favorably to challenging, negative, or critical feedback. ... -
Mehar Methods for Fuzzy Optimal Solution and Sensitivity Analysis of Fuzzy Linear Programming with Symmetric Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers
(2014-4-22)The drawbacks of the existing methods to obtain the fuzzy optimal solution of such linear programming problems, in which coefficients of the constraints are represented by real numbers and all the other parameters as well ... -
Mellin’s Transform and Application to Some Time Series Models
(2014-2-18)This paper uses the Mellin transform to establish the means, variances, skewness, and kurtosis of fuzzy numbers and applied them to the random coefficient autoregressive (RCA) time series models. We also give a close form ... -
Nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Bangladesh: an augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach
(2020-02-06)Abstract The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and economic growth in host countries is a heavily debated issue. Although some studies have found evidence of the positive impact of ... -
Possibilistic Fuzzy Net Present Value Model and Application
(2014-8-4)The cash flow values and the interest rate in the net present value (NPV) model are usually specified by either crisp numbers or random variables. In this paper, we first discuss some of the recent developments in possibility ... -
Preferences of physicians for public and private sector work
(2020-08-10)Abstract Background The public-private mix of healthcare remains controversial. This paper examines physicians’ preferences for public sector work in the context of dual practice, whilst accounting for other differences ... -
The primary importance of corporate social responsibility and ethicality in corporation reputation: an empirical study
(Business and Society Review, 2014-03-03)We examine three assumptions commonly held in the corporate reputation literature: i) reputation ratings of owners and investors are generally representative of all stakeholders; ii) stakeholders will generally provide a ... -
Rationality versus reality: the challenges of evidence-based decision making for health policy makers
(2010-05-26)Abstract Background Current healthcare systems have extended the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to health policy and delivery ... -
Sensitivity to Ulterior Motives in Retail Settings: The Moderating Role of Dual-Identity versus Sole-Identity Consumers
(Journal of Retailing, 2019)The current research compares sole-identity versus dual-identity consumers in their responses to different retail persuasion attempts that occur in situations with low versus high ulterior motives. We examine different ... -
Short sea shipping: a statistical analysis of influencing factors on SSS in European countries
(2018-05-14)Abstract Short sea shipping (SSS) is the maritime transport of goods over relatively short distances, as opposed to the intercontinental cross-ocean deep sea shipping. The goal of the current paper is to ... -
The tyranny of the head office? Revisiting corporate headquarters’ (CHQs) role in MNE subsidiary initiatives
(2020-01-28)Abstract What roles should corporate headquarters (CHQs) of multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in foreign subsidiary initiatives? Rather than viewing the MNE’s CHQ as a single, internally homogenous unit, we call for ... -
Value investing or investing in illiquidity? The profitability of contrarian investment strategies, revisited
(2017-12-09)Abstract Background We investigate whether the success of contrarian investment strategies can be attributed to differences in the relative illiquidity of stocks categorized ... -
Witnessing wrongdoing: The effects of observer power on incivility intervention in the workplace
(Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2017-09)Research often paints a dark portrait of power. Previous work underscores the links between power and self-interested, antisocial behavior. In this paper, we identify a potential bright side to power—namely, that the ...