Faculty of Business: Recent submissions
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Designing new electoral districts for the city of Edmonton
(Informs, 2011-12-11)Every few years, the city of Edmonton, Canada must review and evaluate changes to its electoral district boundaries. The review process that was completed in 2009 resulted in modifying the district plan from a six-ward ... -
Transaction cost economics in international marketing: a review and suggestions for the future
(American Marketing Association, 2012-06)Transaction cost economics (TCE) has received much attention in the international marketing literature over the past 25 years. Many key issues in international marketing have been examined through the lens of TCE, including ... -
Recovery decisions of a producer in a legislative disposal fee environment
(Elsevier, 2012-01-16)The main objectives of the environmental legislation originating from extended producer responsibility (EPR) principle are to lead producers to undertake recovery initiatives for their end-of-use products and to promote ... -
Action research contextualizes DEA in a multi-organizational decision-making process
(Elsevier, 2012-06-01)The theory of participatory action research (PAR) grew out of the practice of problem-solving in groups and organization by involving the participation of all pertinent stakeholders in decision-making process through ... -
Examining proactive strategic decision-making flexibility in new product development
(Wiley, 2012-07)While strategic flexibility is widely accepted as a prerequisite for a firm's success, its application in strategic decision making to a firm's new product development (NPD) activities is limited to only a few studies. ... -
Testing for convergence in bank efficiency: a cross-country analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This paper empirically investigates a possible convergence among the operational efficiency of financial institutions across countries. We explore (i) the relative performance of banking industries in two samples (European ... -
Consumer effort in promotional incentives
(Decision Sciences Institute, 2010-11)Consumers need to exert effort to use the incentives provided in a promotion campaign. This effort is critical in the consumers’ decision process and for the success of the campaign. We develop a model of consumer redemption ... -
Group identity in markets
(Elsevier, 2011-01)We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of group identity—one's perceived membership in social groups—on market transactions in an oligopoly market with a few sellers and buyers. We artificially induce ... -
Does online information drive offline revenues? Only for specific products and consumer segments!
(Elsevier, 2011-03)While many offline retailers have developed informational websites that offer information on products and prices, the key question for such informational websites is whether they can increase revenues via web-to-store ... -
Telecommunications network design with multiple technologies
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2011-02)In this paper we consider a telecommunications network design problem allowing for multiple technologies. The problem arises in wide-area network and metro-area network design for which a combination of Technologies may ... -
Investigation of stochastic pairs trading strategies under different volatility regimes
(Blackwell, 2010-09)We investigate several market-neutral trading strategies and find empirical evidence that market-neutral equity trading outperforms in 2008, the first full year of the global financial meltdown. In our experiments we use ... -
Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2008-09)We describe an ambulance location optimization model that minimizes the number of ambulances needed tonprovide a specified service level. The model measures service level as the fraction of calls reached within a given ... -
Who should practice price discrimination using rebates in an asymmetric duopoly?
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2010-03)Price discrimination is generally thought to improve firm profits by allowing firms to extract more consumer surplus. In competition, however, price discrimination may also be costly to the firm because restrictive incentive ... -
Do hedge funds’ exposures to risk factors predict their future returns?
(Elsevier, 2011-07)This paper investigates hedge funds’ exposures to various financial and macroeconomic risk factors through alternative measures of factor betas and examines their performance in predicting the crosssectional variation in ... -
Mind-set metrics in market response models: an integrative approach
(American Marketing Association, 2010-08)Demonstrations of marketing effectiveness currently proceed along two parallel tracks: Quantitative researchers model the direct sales effects of the marketing mix, and advertising and branding experts trace customer ... -
An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative
(2009)There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers ... -
Premium e-grocery: exploring value in logistics integrated service solutions
(12.02.2009)E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarketsare seen as providers of low value “staple” and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, ... -
A review of timetabling and resource allocation models for light-rail transportation systems
(2009)This paper surveys the relevant operations research literature on timetabling and resource allocationproblems with a special attention paid to the transportation systems. The purpose of this review is to define the critical ... -
Social e-atmospherics in practice (or not): a French and Turkish web designers’ perspectives
(2009)Little is known about the development of social e- atmospherics. And yet, e-atmospherics havemotivated an emerging body of research which reports that both better layouts and‘recognized’ atmospherics encourage consumers ... -
Online social capital : understanding e-impulse buying in practice
(Elsevier, 2009-07)Socially constructed marketing imageries (e.g. e-atmospherics) help consumers while making choices and decisions. Still, human and retailing technology interactions are rarely evaluated from a social practice perspective. ...
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