Faculty of Management: Recent submissions
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University life has gone digital: influences of institutional mobile social network use during the COVID-19 emergency
(Emerald, 2022-09-08)Purpose Many universities implemented institutional social networking apps as an alternative to in-person social experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to explore previously identified factors ... -
Individual Perspectives on Data Sharing: Human Factors Impacting the Digital Economy
(2021-08-15)Digital economies rely on the exchange and sharing of data, but this type of sharing is relatively new. Any digital transformation will include a shift from data as a protected asset to data as a tool for collaboration and ... -
Physician leaders’ cross-boundary use of social media: what are the implications in the current COVID-19 environment?
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-06-14)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand social media (SM) factors that physician leaders need to consider, as they adapt their cross-boundary practices to engage with colleagues and patients. Firstly, ... -
The Ability to Create Household Wealth: An Alternative Perspective and Conceptual Framework
(2022-07-20)This thesis reviews the theories and evidence on households’ financial decision-making. It further relates these to a household’s ability to create wealth against the background of changing retirement systems. The work’s ... -
Towards Mind Wandering Adaptive Online Learning and Virtual Work Experiences
(2022-06-14)NeuroIS researchers have become increasingly interested in the design of new types of information systems that leverage neurophysiological data. In this paper we describe the results of machine learning analysis which ... -
Is Our Ability to Detect Errors an Indicator of Mind Wandering? An Experiment Proposal
(2022-06-14)Mind wandering could have a variety of impacts on information systems phenomena, not least long monotonous tasks. Unfortunately, mind wandering states are difficult to measure objectively. In this paper, we describe ... -
Asymmetric Systematic Risk and Risk Premiums Under a Regime-Switching Model
(2022-04-14)The purpose of this thesis is to identify asymmetry in stocks’ systematic risk and market risk premiums under different financial market regimes. It is assumed that there are two unobserved regimes, bull and bear markets, ... -
Visualizing Keyword Co-occurrence from Two Queries to Aid Exploratory Search
(2022-04-12)This study presents a method of keyword co-occurrences network visualization comparing two separate queries of a commercial database as a visual aid to mitigate an information seeker’s uncertainty during the exploratory ... -
FIRM-LEVEL PRESIDENTIAL PREMIUM
(2021-12-17)This thesis investigates the relationship between the presidential administrations in the United States (U.S.) and equity performance at the firm level, using a large sample of about 8,700 U.S. firms for periods covering ... -
The Herding Behavior in Chinese Stock Markets: Evidence from A-Share Markets during COVID-19
(2021-12-14)This paper studies the presence of herding behavior in Chinese A-share markets using both individual firm and industry-level data before and after the pandemic. Using a sample of all firms listed over the period 10/08/2018 ... -
Beyond Statistical Literacy: Open Data For Teaching, Collaboration, And Profit
(2021-06-10)Researchers, governments, and businesses grapple with the abundance of relevant data because consultants claim its effective use will lead to untold wealth and prosperity. To access this pot of gold, a modern university ... -
Toward Best Practices for Unstructured Descriptions of Research Data
(ASIS&T, 2021-10)Achieving the potential of widespread sharing of open research data requires that sharing data is straightforward, supported, and well-understood; and that data is discoverable by researchers. Our literature review and ... -
An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents
(University of North Texas Digital Library, 2020-12-05)Goal: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and ... -
Which Factors? International Evidence
(2021-04-13)This thesis investigates five major asset-pricing models recently proposed in the literature. Those models are Fama and French’s (2015) five-factor model and its six-factor extension adding a momentum factor (Carhart, ... -
Retail apocalypse: The case of Sears Canada Inc.
(2018)In an increasingly digital world, retailers have never faced such a competitive environment. Many large chains have been forced to either radically transform their business models or cease operations. Such radical changes ... -
Measuring Mind Wandering during Online Lectures Assessed with EEG
(2021)Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ... -
OPACs, users, and readers’ advisory: Exploring the implication of user-generated content for readers’ advisory in Canadian public librarie
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This article examines the contribution of social discovery platforms and user-generated content (UGC) on readers’ advisory (RA) services in Canadian public libraries. Grounded Theory was used to conduct a content analysis ... -
Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms
(Emerald, 2016)Most studies pertaining to social tagging focus on one platform or platform type, thus limiting the scope of their findings. The purpose of this paper is to explore social tagging practices across four platforms in relation ... -
Expanding the scope of affect: Taxonomy construction for emotions, tones, and associations
(Emerald, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to provide an examination of emotional experiences, particularly how they are situated in the readers’ advisory (RA) literature and the literatures from a variety of outside disciplines in order ... -
In the readers’ own words: How user content in the catalog can enhance readers’ advisory services
(American Library Association, 2016)