Faculty of Management Graduate Theses: Recent submissions
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The Opioid Crisis and Canadian Public Libraries: Before and During COVID-19
(2022-08-10)This pilot study examines the impact of COVID-19 and the opioid crisis on Canadian public libraries. Views on these issues were gathered using a mixed methods process including a survey of Canadian library workers and ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Seeing our language: The effects of media representation on Scottish Gaelic learners
(2022-04-14)Though it was once the third most-spoken language in Canada, Scottish Gaelic is now recognized as an endangered language. While previous scholarship has analyzed the causes of Gaelic’s decline, little has discussed how ... -
The price of glass slippers: Folklore, intellectual property, and neoliberalism
(2022-04-13)This research presents a theoretical framework to illustrate the way that individualism facilitates the exploitation of communal goods, particularly in connection with the commodification of folklore present in neoliberal ... -
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 ... -
Information Literacy in Nova Scotia: Systematic Mapping of Learning Outcomes
(2021-08-18)Information literacy has never been more important for the functioning of the democratic process, and for autonomy over one’s decisions. The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) created a framework for ... -
CEOL AGUS TEANGA: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRISH LANGUAGE MUSIC AND IRISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2021-07-14)This study examined the relationship between music, language, and cultural knowledge management, through the lens of Knowledge Management. I interviewed both students and educators on-site at St. Mary’s University Halifax, ... -
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, ... -
SCHOLARS’ INTERACTIONS ON TWITTER: A CASE STUDY ON OCEAN RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
(2021-04-01)Twitter is a robust tool with which to analyze conference participation for increasing visibility, measuring public engagement, and other scholarly activities. This paper offers an overview of conference participation by ... -
THE TRANSITION FROM ‘PAID PC/CONSOLE GAMES’ TO ‘FREEMIUM MOBILE GAMES’: FOCUSING ON USERS’ REACTIONS TO AND PRICE TOLERANCE OF IN-APP PURCHASE ITEMS
(2021-01-11)This study examines how customers react to online games that transition from being ‘Paid PC/console Games to ‘Freemium Mobile Games in the context of the game series “Diablo”. In particular, this study focuses on three ... -
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF MOBILE NEWS ARTICLES: FOCUSING ON HEURISTIC AND SYSTEMATIC CUES OF CURATED MOBILE NEWS APPS
(2021-01-11)Online curated news apps, such as Inshorts, have been becoming increasingly popular, largely because they provide users with the highlights of news articles that have been specifically selected for them. Each curated news ... -
Accessibility’s Impact on the Information Literacy of the Deaf Community
(2020-04-30)This Master’s thesis explores access and accessibility and how they impact information literacy in the (d)eaf community. Information literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the information the ...