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Making an Effective Business Case for AI
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More Bills than Thrills? Comparing Predicted and Actual Levels of Essential and Nonessential Spending
(Drake Management Review, 2021-10)In terms of the expense, spending $50 a week on both commuting and on a recreational happy hour should be perceived equally. Yet, it is proposed that consumers tend to overestimate their level of spending on necessities, ... -
Netnography: A Pocket Guide to Conducting Research in Closed Virtual Communities
(Drake Management Review, 2020-04)This paper defines closed virtual communities and outlines a brief guide for researchers (academics and students) who wish to engage in ethnographic studies of online communities, commonly known as a netnography. Although ... -
Organizational Stigma: Sources and Outcomes
(Drake Management Review, 2019-04)Organizational stigma is a useful adaptation of the concept of social stigma, which can be used to understand why some organizations are saddled with the image of being socially unsavory or undesirable. In this paper, ... -
Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Tax for Chinese Firms
(Drake Management Review, 2018)For all companies, profitability is a key objective. Minimization of taxes paid is a critical step in achieving that objective. However, most Chinese companies are in an unusual situation and pay more taxes than they ... -
Perceptions of Competency Norms in the Workplace: A Scale Development
(Drake Management Review, 2020-04)This study developed and tested a theory-based measure of an individual’s perceptions of social norms of showing competency at work (i.e., perceptions of competency norms) with 644 working professionals in two samples. ... -
Perceptions of Truthfulness and Communication Anxiety in Online Employment Interviews
(Drake Management Review, 2013-10)In organizations, the past decade has seen an increase in the popularity of Skype as a firstround employment interview tool. Due to Skype’s speed, quality, and transmittal of sound and video, it is sometimes thought of ... -
Perceptions of Truthfulness and Communication Anxiety in Online Employment Interviews
(Drake University, 2013-10)In organizations, the past decade has seen an increase in the popularity of Skype as a firstround employment interview tool. Due to Skype’s speed, quality, and transmittal of sound and video, it is sometimes thought of ... -
Plan, Inform, Act: Practical Solutions for Sexual Harassment Policy for Iowa Small Businesses
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Portfolio Management: The Holistic Data Lifecycle
(Drake Management Review, 2022-10)Machine learning provides many benefits to Portfolio Managers in analysing data and has the potential to provide much more. A concern with the approach to Machine Learning in Portfolio Management is that is caught between ... -
Recent Volatility in U.S. Equity Markets: A Review of Key Contributing Factors and Relationships
(Drake Management Review, 2013-04)This paper is a review of volatility trends, factors, and relationships in U.S. equity markets, with emphasis on the period of time from 1980 to the present, when volatility has been at higher levels than what had been ... -
Relevant Business Research: A Viewpoint to Help Bridge the Gap between Academia and Practice
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Russia and the United States: A Comparison of Governance Practices, Compensation, and Sustainability
(Drake Management Review, 2014-04)The first part of this paper will examine executive compensation in both the United States and Russia. We will discuss the fact that in the United States, CEOs’ salaries are exponentially greater than the salaries of ... -
Saudi Arabia: An Overview of Executive Compensation, Board Structure, and Sustainability
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The Scored Plant Tour: Improve Performance and Lower Turnover
(Drake Management Review, 2011-10)Many job applicants, especially those applying for factory level jobs, take a tour of the facility. I characterize this commonly used recruiting device as an opportunity to gain useful selection information on the applicants. ... -
Short Term Pain - Long Term Gain? Doing Business in Egypt After the Arab Spring
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This Isn’t Your Parent’s TV Show…Oh Wait, It Is
(Drake Management Review, 2020-10)Popular conception holds that Millennials and Gen Z’ers do not like old stuff. Whether it be old games, books, technology, movies, or TV shows, the prevailing thought is that the younger generation prefers newer things. ... -
Time is of the Essence? Investigating How Culturally-Based Perceptions of Time Affect Hindsight Bias for Task Completion
(Drake Management Review, 2014-04)Hindsight bias, known as the “Monday Morning Quarterback” syndrome, occurs when individuals feel they would have been able to predict the outcome to past events. This research examined if hindsight effects for ... -
Uncertainty Avoidance and Consumer Perceptions of Global e-Commerce Sites: A Multi-Level Model
(Drake University, 2013-10)Online purchasing is a decision-making process that involves inherent uncertainty. Yet consumer tolerance for uncertainty differs across cultures, requiring e-vendors to decide whether to adapt websites to different ... -
Uncertainty Avoidance and Consumer Perceptions of Global e-Commerce Sites: A Multi-Level Model
(Drake Management Review, 2013-10)Online purchasing is a decision-making process that involves inherent uncertainty. Yet consumer tolerance for uncertainty differs across cultures, requiring e-vendors to decide whether to adapt websites to different ...
