Business Research Papers

The Promise of Co‐Design for Public Policy

Abstract As a novel method for creatively engaging citizens and stakeholders to find solutions to complex problems, co‐design holds great promise for policy makers. It has been vaunted as a way to generate more innovative ideas, ensure poli...

Public Policy and the Corporation.

Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy

Organizational Theory and Public Policy

Introduction Question - Richard H Hall and Robert E Quinn What is the Connection Between Organizational Theory and Public Policy? PART ONE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC POLICY: PURPOSE, PROCESS, AND REASON Public Policy and Organizational...

Public Policy and the Corporation

Science and Public Policy

Private Management and Public Policy

How should corporate managers respond to social concerns and political pressures? The authors suggest that appropriate guidelines for corporate social performance are to be found within the framework of public policy, and illustrate their a...

A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches for Information Disorder Detection on Social Media: The Context of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-information

Social media platforms have become powerful tools for communication, information exchange, networking, and community building. However, their widespread use has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-inform...

ICT-enabled supply chain integration capabilities and firms’ financial performance: an empirical study of Tanzania’s manufacturing SMEs

The spectacular advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has shaped the way firms conduct their business, interact and communicate with customers and suppliers along their supply chains (SC). Yet, there exists limited k...

MARKETING COMMUNIVATIONS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Based on disciplinary approaches to communications introduced by Professor R. Craig (University of Colorado) as well as taking into consideration different aspects of marketing activities, the authors define the place of marketing in each s...

Giving Sense to Change Leadership: Towards a Narrative-Based Process Model

Introduction: Recent studies on change agency and organizational change failure have significantly broadened the organizational behavior perspective on individual change experiences, however, the underlying mechanism for change leaders’ inf...

Research Methods and Statistics

The Geography of Equity Analysis

ABSTRACT I provide evidence that geographically proximate analysts are more accurate than other analysts. Stock returns immediately surrounding forecast revisions suggest that local analysts impact prices more than other analysts. These eff...

The geography of coordination

Geographically distributed development creates new questions about how to coordinate multi-site work. In this paper, we present four methods product development organizations used to coordinate their work: functional areas of expertise, pro...

Geographic Information Systems

The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located...

Technology, Geography, and Trade

We develop a Ricardian trade model that incorporates realistic geographic features into general equilibrium. It delivers simple structural equations for bilateral trade with parameters relating to absolute advantage, to comparative advantag...

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore divers...

The Geography of Crowdfunding

Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding'' is the broad geographic dispersion of investors. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We exam...

Financing of Entrepreneurial Firms in Canada: Some Patterns

This article analyzes the patterns of financing for entrepreneurial firms in Canada. We compare the predictions of major theories of entrepreneurial finance and some more recent ideas (e.g., crowdfunding-related ideas/theories) with empiric...

Political Science

Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...