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Elliott, Carole. "Critical theory and management education." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423984.
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Hall, Leslie Devine. "Embezzlement : a management control theory perspective." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2002. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/280.
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Aoyama, Hisao. "Applications of catastrophe theory in management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15151.
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Fish, Joshua Stephen Andrus. "Terror Management Theory and Body Image." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103315/.
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Research has not explicitly examined the link between key components of terror management theory (TMT) and body image without the use of mortality salience. This project explored the link between cultural worldview, self-esteem, body image, and death anxiety. Multiple measures were used to create a structural equation model examining relationships between body image and death anxiety as mediated by body image in the context of TMT. The proposed model did not fit the data. Minor modifications were made to the model keeping within the proposed theoretical perspective. In the modified model the relationships between cultural worldview and death anxiety as mediated by body image were either non-existent or weak. Hierarchical regression analyses did suggest that some aspects of body image indeed did predict some, but not all dimension of death anxiety in this sample of young adults.
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Petit, Michael. "A new theory for organizational management." Swinburne Research Bank, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/48563.
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Thesis (PhD) - Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009.[A thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology - 2009]. Typescript. Bibliography: p. 284-294.
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Kheibari, Athena. "SUICIDE ATTITUDES AND TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/csw_etds/26.
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Virtually every mental health problem carries stigma, but suicide appears to run so counter to our accumulative, achievement-oriented society, that it poses even greater threat of stigma. While suicide is inherently troubling in that it opposes the fundamental human instinct for self-preservation, the tendency to stigmatize and reject individuals affected by suicide appears to be counterproductive and excessive. Hence, the purpose of this three-manuscript dissertation is to gain a more nuanced understanding of suicide attitudes from an exploratory and terror management theory perspective. More specifically, this dissertation attempts to answer three general questions: (1) how do suicide attitudes differ from other stigmatized deaths – namely, unintentional opioid overdose, (2) does death anxiety and baseline self-esteem impact attitudes toward suicide, and (3) can the effects of death anxiety on suicide attitudes be reversed by temporarily boosting self-esteem? To address the first question, Study 1 compares suicide attitudes to attitudes toward opioid overdose death – another type of stigmatized death that has emerged as a major public health issue in the U.S. in recent years. Study 2 addresses the second question by examining the effect of mortality salience on attitudes toward suicide and by investigating whether participants’ baseline self-esteem will moderate this effect, in keeping with the theory’s claim that self-esteem buffers against death anxiety. Building on the theoretical assumptions of the second study, Study 3 tests whether the effects of death anxiety on suicide attitudes can be reversed by temporarily bolstering the participant’s self-esteem using experimental manipulation. In other words, can cultural worldview validation and self-esteem enhancement inhibit the awareness of personal death and promote prosocial attitudes and behavior? All three proposed studies used quantitative research strategies to examine the research questions detailed above. Study 1 used a traditional questionnaire method to explore and compare attitudes toward suicide and drug overdose death; whereas Study 2 and 3 employed an experimental design to test the MS hypothesis on suicide attitudes. Participants were recruited online using an inexpensive crowdsourcing service called Amazon MTurk. Findings from these studies could have important implications for how we understand the psychological underpinnings of suicide stigma and contribute to the growing body of evidence of the role of existential mortality concerns in hostile attitudes and discriminatory behavior. Not only are we confronted with death reminders in our everyday lives, the topic of suicide is inherently a reminder of death – making the problem of death anxiety even more relevant and unavoidable. These findings could expand our understanding of how cultural worldview and self-esteem are relevant to mitigating death anxiety, and the relationship between death anxiety and suicide.
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Centrén, Philip, Mustafa Mehmed, and Martin Werner. "Knowledge Management The presence of Knowledge Management theory in companies." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4731.
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Knowledge is regarded as key resource in today’s business environment. Many researchers argue that it is the key resource to create a competitive advantage. Still, it differs itself from ordinary resources. Knowledge cannot be quantified or specified numerically to recognize the quantity of knowledge a company possesses. Furthermore, companies may lack the ability to achieve an absolute control over the supply of knowledge that will occur when trying to extract it from employees. Knowledge Management is the field which presents an approach to manage the valuable resource of accumulated knowledge. By implementing processes and actions in a company, it will obtain a control over the knowledge in the organization. This dissertation also presents diverse definitions of Knowledge Management. By investigating the components of these definitions, we see that various academic researchers recognize different notions upon Knowledge Management as theory. When reviewing theory, one could question the validity of the word management in Knowledge Management. The theory declares management as an enhancement of practices in organizational context.
The purpose of our dissertation was to investigate if theoretical Knowledge Management is a coexisted factor in companies. By looking at the elements extracted from theory, this notion became apparent. When implementing Knowledge Management, an individual company creates opportunities for people to learn and share their knowledge.
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Parodi, Pascale. "The knowledge management convergence : from theory to practice in knowledge management." Aix-Marseille 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004AIX30019.
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Le Management du Savoir (KM), n'est pas une nouvelle philosophie impossible à propos de la gestion des organisations, mais plutôt la somme de petites actions qui contribuent à la réussite du tout. Dans le contexte de la nouvelle économie, le KM est devenu incontournable. L'auteur le définit comme "le processus nourricier pour la survie des organisations". L'originalité de ce travail est de démontrer que le KM n'est pas forcement une thématique nouvelle qu'il faut caser à touts prix dans nos organisations. Il s'agit de prêter attention à la "Convergence liée au Savoir" ("Knowledge Convergence" KC) qui a déjà eu lieu, la plupart du temps, dans nos organisations; et non pas de créer une bulle séparée, isolante. Identifier et prendre en compte la "Convergence liée au Savoir" est une façon de commencer à pratiquer le KM. C'est identifier dans les structures établies de nos organisations, les germes de celle-ci. C'est considérer le développement organique qui a déjà eu lieu, et regrouper les efforts existants sous le parasol virtuel du KM. L'objectif est double. Il s'agit d'une part, d'enraciner ces pratiques dans la culture de l'organisation, afin d'entretenir la motivation du personnel. D'autre part, cela permet de réduire les barrières fonctionnelles entre les différents départements dans le but d'atteindre des objectifs communs, et de réaliser des tâches de plus en plus complexes. Les méthodes et pratiques du KM déployées, tiennent lieu de tactiques. Si ces pratiques convergent sous l'œil bienveillant d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire qui les coordonne, alors un nouveau savoir porteur d'avenir pourra émerger ("Knowledge Emergence"), et nous conduire à l' "Avantage Créatif"Knowledge Management (KM) is not a new impossible philosophy about business, but more the sum of all the small actions that are contributing to the success of the whole picture. In the context of the new economy, KM becomes inevitable. The author defines it as "the process of nurturing for surviving in organizations. " The original contribution of this work is to demonstrate that KM is not a new topic that we must fit into our organizations. We rather have to pay attention to the "Knowledge Convergence" (KC), that already most of the time happens in our organizations and not to create a separate isolating bubble. Identify and take in account the KC is a way to start doing KM. This is about identifying in our established structures in organizations, its seeds. This is about the consideration of the organic development that already happened in companies and their linkage under the virtual umbrella of the already existing KM efforts. The goal is double. In one hand this is about enrooting those practices in the company culture sustaining the employees' motivation. On the other hand, it allows reducing the functional barriers between the different departments, in order to achieve common goals and perform more and more complex tasks. KM methods and practices used are tactical. If those converge (KC) under the coordination of a cross-functional team, then a new kind of knowledge could emerge (Knowledge Emergence). This then leads to the "Creative Advantage"
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Yun, Zeng. "Earnings management in China : theory and evidences." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1637045.
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Jesser, Peter Stewart. "SYSTEM THEORY: APPLICATIONS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291981.
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Simpson, Mark Aloysius. "Complexity Theory of Leadership and Management Information." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6121.
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Implementing effective leadership strategies in management of information systems (MIS) can positively influence overall organizational performance. This study was an exploration of the general problem of failure to lead effectively in the current knowledge-based economy and the resulting deleterious effects on organizational performance and threats to continuing organizational viability. The specific problem was the lack of understanding regarding the interaction of leadership processes with MIS functions and the impact on organizational success. Managers' and employees' lived experiences of leadership in small- to medium-sized enterprises were explored, as well as how those experiences influenced the organization's adaptive responses regarding technology and performance in the knowledge-based economy. The complexity theory of leadership was applied as the theoretical foundation for this study. A phenomenological methodology was used. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed through open coding to identify emergent themes from the data. The themes were leaders motivate employees' positive work-related behaviors, effective communication skills ensure accessibility and efficiency of the organizational information system, and leadership practices influence business productivity. This study contributes to social change by providing insights for managers and employees regarding effective strategies for working as teams and networks via the use of nontraditional leadership theory, which promotes company sustainability by demonstrating the benefits of responding to the changing economy.
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Ferretti, Nicola <1998>. "Extreme Value Theory for Portfolio Risk Management." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21806.
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This paper provides an overview of the role of extreme value theory in risk management as a method for modelling and measuring extreme risks. In particular, it is shown the peaks-over-threshold (POT) model and how this method provides a tool for estimating measures of tail risk like Value-at-Risk (VaR) and expected shortfall. Further topics of interest, including State-Space model, Block Maxima, Markowitz model and a real data application, are also discussed.
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Ellis, Robert Keith. "Toward a systemic theory of organisational change." Thesis, City University London, 2002. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7601/.
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Change is the subject matter for this thesis which reports on a research programme that has investigated the issue of effective and sustainable organisational change. Organisational change possesses an almost obsessive interest for many organisational and behavioural scholars. Nevertheless, it has been observed that a majority of organisational change initiatives fail, or fail to realise the promise intended by the managers who institute such programmes. This research programme, and the associated thesis, has recognised that organisational change is both enigmatic and paradoxical as it is a 'constant' feature of organisational life. The research has been directed towards understanding the paradoxical and enigmatic nature of organisational change by developing a Systemic Theory of Organisational Change (STOC) that is, itself, grounded in Critical Systems Thinking (CST). This STOC will provide a sound theoretical underpinning as a necessary feature of organisational learning that, in turn, will create the sufficient conditions for effective and sustainable organisational change. The research work has created an ontological and epistemological framework through which to understand the complex nature of organisational change. Additionally, the programme has attempted to explicitly incorporate the dynamic of time associated with change initiatives. Traditional approaches to managing organisational change have treated change in single event mode. This research has deliberately shown that change is a continuous process and must be dealt with as such if the output of a change programme is to be effective and sustainable. The thesis has explored the phenomena of change in some depth. It has been shown that change is complex in terms of the'ordee of change. Indeed, it has been argued, and demonstrated during the research, that, as a phenomena it comprises first, second, and third order change. First order change is associated with internal system change; second order change is associated with radical total system change; and third order change is destructive in nature. Having developed a systemic understanding of change, the thesis shows how this can be understood in terms of forms and paths of change using critical pluralist approaches. This led to the development of a Critical Pluralist Intervention Methodology (CPIM), grounded in the STOC, as meta-methodology designed to bring about first or second order change in organisational situations. Both the STOC and the CPIM were developed and tested in action research mode in five interventions in complex organisational change situations over a period of several years. This thesis claims to make contribution to the subject fields of organisational analysis and systems thinking.
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Cattell, David William. "Component unit pricing theory." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5072.
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Building contractors are often commissioned using unit price based contracts. They, nevertheless, often compete on the basis of their overall project bids and yet are paid on the basis of these projectsâ constituent item prices. If a contractor decides these prices by way of applying an uneven mark-up to their estimates of their costs, this is known as unbalanced bidding. This research provides proof and explanation that different item pricing scenarios produce different levels of reward for a contractor, whilst exposing them to different degrees of risk. The theory describes the three identified sources of these rewards as well as provides the first explanation of the risks. It has identified the three types of risk involved and provides a model by which both the rewards as well as these risks can now be measured given any item pricing scenario. The research has included a study of the mainstream microeconomic techniques of Modern Portfolio Theory, Value-at-Risk, as well as Cumulative Prospect Theory that are all suited to making decisions that involve trading-off prospective rewards against risk. These techniques are then incorporated into a model that serves to identify the one item pricing combination that will produce the optimum value of utility as will be best suited to a contractorâs risk profile. The research has included the development of software written especially for this purpose in Java so that this theory could be tested on a hypothetical project. A test produced an improvement of more than 150% on the present-value worth of the contractorâs profit from this project, if they apply this model compared to if they instead price the project in a balanced manner.
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Erguner, Abdulkerim. "A novel project management theory and its applicability." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FErguner.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Osmundson, John ; Demir, Kadir Alpaslan. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94). Also available in print.
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Zhang, Yanling. "From theory to practice : environmental management in China /." Berlin : wvb, 2005. http://www.wvberlin.de/data/inhalt/zhang.htm.
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Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos. "Applications of game theory to optimal fishery management." Master's thesis, University of Manchester, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4593.
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Dissertação de mestrado, M.A. (Econ), Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies,University of Manchester, 1995.This dissertation analyses the optimal management of fisheries in the framework of dynamic game theory. The analysis rests upon a blend of the economic model of the fishery confined to the waters of a single state, with the theory of dynamic games. In order to accomplish this objective, this dissertation has been organised as follows. Chapter 1 presents some background material concerning noncooperative and cooperative game theory as well as a general formulation of continuous-time infinite dynamic games, also known as differential games. In Chapter 2 we provide some material concerning the dynamics of the fishery by summarising the Gordon-Schaefer bioeconomic model, which provides the foundation for our analysis. Finally, in Chapter 3, and by combining the subject presented in the preceding chapters, we examine the insights which dynamic game theory can provide in analysing fisheries management.
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Koumou, Nettey Boevi Gilles. "Rao's Quadratic Entropy, Risk Management and Portfolio Theory." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28292.
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Cette thèse porte sur le concept de la diversification et sa mesure en théorie des choix de portefeuille. La diversification est un concept clé en finance et en économique, et est au coeur de la théorie des choix de portefeuille. Elle représente l’un des plus importants outils de gestion du risque. Ainsi, plusieurs mesures de diversification de portefeuille ont été proposées, mais aucune ne s’est révélée totalement satisfaisante et la discipline recherche toujours une approche unifiée et cohérente de mesure et gestion de la diversification. Cette thèse répond à ce besoin et développe une nouvelle classe de mesures de diversification de portefeuille en adaptant à l’économie financière l’entropie quadratique de Rao, une mesure de diversité proposée par Rao et utilisée en statistique, en biodiversité, en écologie et dans plusieurs autres domaines. La thèse démontre que si l’entropie quadratique de Rao est bien calibrée, elle devient une classe valide de mesures de diversification de portefeuille résumant, de manière simple, les caractéristiques complexes de la diversification de portefeuille, et offrant en même temps une théorie unifiée qui englobe de nombreuses contributions antérieures. Ensuite, la thèse présente deux applications de la classe de mesures proposée. La première application s’est intéressée à la stratégie de diversification de portefeuille maximum diversification (MD) développée par Choueifaty and Coignard (2008). Elle propose de nouvelles formulations de cette dernière en se basant sur la classe de mesures proposée. Ces nouvelles formulations permettent de donner un fondement théorique à la stratégie MD et d’améliorer ses performances. La deuxième application s’est intéressée au modèle moyenne-variance de Markowitz (1952). Elle propose une nouvelle formulation de ce dernier en se basant sur la classe de mesures proposée. Cette nouvelle formulation améliore significativement la compréhension du modèle, en particulier le processus de rémunération des actifs. Elle offre également de nouvelles possibilités d’amélioration des performances de ce dernier sans coûts d’implementation supplémentaires.This thesis is about the concept of diversification and its measurement in portfolio theory. Diversification is one of the major components of portfolio theory. It helps to reduce or ultimately to eliminate portfolio risk. Thus, its measurement and management is of fundamental importance in finance and insurance domains as risk measurement and management. Consequently, several measures of portfolio diversification were proposed, each based on a different criterion . Unfortunately, none of them has proven totally satisfactory. All have drawbacks and limited applications. Developing a coherent measure of portfolio diversification is therefore an active research area in investment management. In this thesis, a novel, coherent, general and rigorous theoretical framework to manage and quantify portfolio diversification inspiring from Rao (1982a)’s Quadratic Entropy (RQE), a general approach to measuring diversity, is proposed. More precisely, this thesis demonstrates that when RQE is judiciously calibrated it becomes a valid class of portfolio diversification measures summarizing complex features of portfolio diversification in a simple manner and provides at the same time a unified theory that includes many previous contributions. Next, this thesis presents two applications of the proposed class of portfolio diversification measures. In the first application, new formulations of maximum diversification strategy of Choueifaty and Coignard (2008) is provided based on the proposed class of measures. These new formalizations clarify the investment problem behind the MD strategy, help identify the source of its strong out-of-sample performance relative to other diversified portfolios, and suggest new directions along which its out-of-sample performance can be improved. In the second application, a novel and useful formulation of the mean-variance utility function is provided based on the proposed class of measures. This new formulation significantly improves the mean-variance model understanding, in particular in terms of asset pricing. It also offers new directions along which the mean-variance model can be improved without additional computational costs.
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Smith, John D. "Towards a Theory of Services Supply Chain Management." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1378934675.
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Azizi, Neda. "A Process Theory of IT Risk Management Implementation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396515.
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The study develops a process model of the implementation of IT risk management frameworks involving IT department individuals. The literature on IT risk management and specifically participation with IT risk management frameworks, is reviewed. The review indicates a need for process research to improve existing knowledge and practices in the domain of IT risk management. Specifically, the thesis addresses four research questions: (i) What IT culture could be identified during the implementation of ITRM for the first time? (ii) What factors and contextual conditions influence the implementation of ITRM? (iii) What are the processes IT managers go through when implementing ITRM within IT departments? (iv) How can these ITRM processes be depicted in a model?
This qualitative study adopts a subjectivist epistemology, complemented with an interpretive paradigm and inductive reasoning. A series of nine case studies were designed around forty-two semi-structured in-depth interviews and were conducted to investigate how and why IT managers and their IT teams implemented risk management for the first time. The study focused on contextual and processual elements as well as the action of key players associated with implementation.
The use of a Grounded theory− like qualitative analysis was particularly appropriate, generating a set of insights, issues, and propositions that addressed the critical individual and organisational elements involved in implementing IT risk management, elements to date largely overlooked in the risk management literature. The theory generated from the empirical findings suggests that the intentions and actions of IT department’s members (head of IT, senior IT management and operational IT groups), the processes they enact, as well as the organisational context into which they are implemented, critically influence IT risk management implementation.
The findings provide new insights in relation to IT risk management implementation by considering IT individual culture. The thesis conceptualises IT risk management implementation as a cultural process through which IT managers socially construct the meanings and purposes of their work activities. These findings suggest a dynamic approach to implementing IT risk management framework — one that considers the interaction over time of intentions, context, process, and action around risk management frameworks.
The research develops a substantive theory (Gregor, 2006) involving a schematic model involving five sub-process and a set of theoretical propositions. The thesis discusses the propositions by way of reference to the literature thereby enhancing the credibility and generalisability of theory building from case research. The last section presents an evaluation of the resulting theory by following the guidelines introduced by Sjøberg et al. (2008) for building behavioural theories in software engineering.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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ALMEIDA, Marcos Antonio Martins de. "Risk management in complex projects using decision theory." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2012. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/5986.
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Previous issue date: 2012O gerenciamento de projetos complexos em um mundo altamente competitivo, tornouse um desafio para os decisores e executivos mundiais. O surgimento de inovações tecnológicas cada vez mais rápidas, juntamente com a velocidade das mudanças do mercado e restrições das mais diversas ordens, requerem cada vez mais do gestor, ações de conhecimento e maturidade para lidar com essas situações. O uso de técnicas de gestão e ferramentas adequadas, são requisitos necessários nos dias de hoje para vencer as dificuldades frente aos cenários que muitas vezes surgem diante da administração desses projetos, onde o objetivo principal é atingir e satisfazer os fatores de sucesso do projeto, condicionados e observados os atributos mínimos como: escopo, prazo, qualidade e custo. Este trabalho propõe políticas e estratégias que se enquadram nas técnicas executivas de gestão, na identificação, monitoramento e medição dos riscos ao longo da implantação dos projetos em decisões sequenciais. Parâmetros são utilizados para o efetivo gerenciamento dos riscos com a incerteza sempre presente nos cenários considerados. As principais fontes de riscos serão analisadas. São utilizados constructos da Teoria da Decisão, como a edução e a análise da função utilidade de decisores dos projetos, além do cálculo dos riscos inerentes ao gerenciamento de projetos complexos. Métricas são propostas para a avaliação dos riscos na tomada de decisão ótima. Serão consideradas a identificação e minimização dos impactos que possam surgir ao longo da execução dos projetos. Estudos de casos também serão analisados
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De, Bruin Tonia. "Business process management : theory on progression and maturity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46726/1/Tonia_de_Bruin_Thesis.pdf.
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Business Process Management (BPM) is a topic that continues to grow in significance as organisations seek to gain and sustain competitive advantage in an increasingly global environment. Despite anecdotal evidence of organisations improving performance by pursuing a BPM approach, there is little theory that explains and substantiates this relationship. This study provides the first theory on the progression and maturity of BPM Initiatives within organisations and provides a vital starting block upon which future research in this area can build. The Researcher starts by clearly defining three key terms (BPM Initiative, BPM Progression and BPM Maturity), showing the relationship between these three concepts and proposing their relationship with Organisational Performance. The Researcher then combines extant literature and use of the Delphi Technique and the case study method to explore the progression and measurement of the BPM Initiatives within organisations. The study builds upon the principles of general theories including the Punctuated Equilibrium Model and Dynamic Capabilities to present theory on BPM Progression and BPM Maturity. Using the BPM Capability Framework developed through an international Delphi study series, the Researcher shows how the specific organisational context influences which capability areas an organisation chooses to progress. By comparing five separate organisations over an extended time the Researcher is able to show that, despite this disparity, there is some evidence of consistency with regard to the capability areas progressed. This suggests that subsequent identification of progression paths may be possible. The study also shows that the approach and scope taken to BPM within each organisation is a likely predictor of such paths. These outcomes result in the proposal of a formative model for measuring BPM Maturity.
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Rossiter, P. G. "Organisational improvement through learning organisation theory." Thesis, University of Salford, 2007. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2256/.
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A research study was conducted of the management theories and quality philosophies that have been expounded throughout the twentieth century. This study included the modem thinking for quality improvement and business excellence to include the modem concept of Learning Organisations. This research project was undertaken with the aim of producing a framework based on the culture of Learning Organisation Theory and including within it the external influences on such a culture. The framework consisted on a core of human values, divided into five areas that are deemed important to learning organisations. These were surrounded by the basic values of Trust, Honesty and Openness thus protecting the core from outside influence. Elements from traditional management systems theory provided the outer casing for the framework, these elements influencing the core for both good and bad. The contents of the framework were then studied in three organisations of differing background with a view to firmly establishing the elements and areas within the framework for validity in these three organisations. The common theme between all the organisations chosen was that they had all in the recent past been involved in major management and internal change. One study involved the development of a questionnaire and supporting matrices in order to identify the areas and elements of the framework, thus establishing their existence. Active research techniques were used in the other studies in order to establish both 'why' the elements are important and any interrelationship between the areas. As a result of these studies suggestions for modification to the framework were established in order to strengthen the thinking and these were encompassed in to the framework. Probably the most significant of these changes was the inclusion of 'Leadership' as being a major factor in the filtering of undesirable elements. The outcome from the research is that the aim was achieved and a framework was developed that, for the first time, was drawn up in such a way that the elements and areas can easily be recognised and an understanding of what they represent is clearly shown. The reasons as to why these elements are important are also established. This is regarded as an advancement in this field of study.
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Benson, Robert D. "Market models and exposure management in foreign exchange." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8659.
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Lundström, Markus, and Brunsberg Samuel Ögren. "Management Control and Motivation in Management Consulting." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415724.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the interplay between agile and mechanistic management control and the motivation of the employees affected by them, and thereby contribute to the understanding of how management control interplays with motivation. Research question: How does agile and mechanistic management control interplay with employees’ motivation in the management consulting profession? Methodology: Qualitative research with Semi-structured interviews. Seven management consultants from different firms were interviewed. Findings: Agile management control was found to be somewhat more commonly occurring than mechanistic management control among the respondents. Agile management control was seen as more motivating than mechanistic. Personal development was found to be the most prevalent part of intrinsic motivation in this study. Contributions: This paper contributes to the existing literature by offering a perspective of management control’s interplay with motivation specifically for management consultants. This interplay can be seen as being focused on personal development, possibly due to the employees’ motivation to choose this field.
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Chipman, Katie Jane. "Terror Management Theory and the Theory of Shattered Assumptions in the Context of Trauma." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1308328435.
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Williams, Deidre D. "Key management for McEliece public-key cryptosystem." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14864.
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Eigen, Zev J. (Zev Jacob). "The behavioral theory of contract." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53092.
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This work develops a theory of contract grounded in empirical analysis of individuals' experience with and interpretations of form-adhesive contracts. Form-adhesive contracts are unilaterally drafted, typically by organizations, intended for multiple signers. They are offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, with no opportunity afforded to negotiate in the traditional sense during the pre-agreement phase. This type of contract dominates the way in which exchange relationships between organizations and individuals are governed in many areas of contemporary life-including, but not limited to, employment, medical treatment, intellectual property licensure, telecommunications, and social networking. The theory poses the question, "how do individuals experience and interpret these agreements?" and explores the relationship between the answer on one hand, and two other elements on the other: (1) socio-economic exchange between the drafting organizations and signers, and (2) trust in the rule of law. The first part of the dissertation explains the theory. The second part explores the theory's empirical basis in an employment relationship. Employees' interpretations of a mandatory-arbitration agreement they signed as a condition of their employment are compared to MBA students' interpretations of the enforceability of a similar clause. MBA students with considerably greater educational attainment and employment opportunities are found to be significantly more likely to believe that they could escape the contract's terms to which they consented than employees of a large, national electronics retailer with consistently less education and fewer job opportunities. For both MBAs and employees, regarding the signed agreement as unenforceable is correlated with a greater likelihood of viewing the employment relationship as one devoid of trust or loyalty. In the third part, a large-scale web experiment is used to measure the behavior of signers of a form-adhesive contract. Both pre-agreement conditions varying the adhesiveness of the contract and post-agreement prompts (legal, moral, social and instrumental) urging signers to continue to perform as the contract purportedly requires are tested as competing determinants of contract performance. Results suggest that when subjects see and choose the contract term during the pre-agreement consent phase, they are more likely to perform as that term purportedly requires in the postagreement performance phase, and that prompting contractual performance based on an appeal to morality generates the greatest rate of performance. Consistent with the behavioral theory advanced in this research, a legal threat is associated with a level of contractual performance no better than a control condition in which subjects were requested to perform the same task, except without signing any contract requiring performance of that task.
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Kwak, Seung Ki. "Institutional theory of naive money." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120202.
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In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical framework to elucidate how capital from unsophisticated investors (naive money) is associated with fund performance dynamics. In the framework, when naive money invested in a fund exceeds the ideal amount for the manager's skill, it leads funds to under-perform persistently. In contrast, the model predicts that, when the amount of invested naive money is smaller than the ideal size of a fund reflecting the manager's skill, the fund performs the same as the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Empirical results using mutual fund data support this prediction. In the second chapter, I develop a model that characterizes how naive money influences the decisions of active mutual fund managers: in particular, managerial effort, fees, marketing expenses, private benefit-seeking, and risk-taking. My model predicts that managers who receive a surplus of naive money are inclined to reduce their managerial effort, charge higher fees, allocate more resources towards marketing, and pursue their private benefit by sacrificing returns to investors. In addition, it also predicts that a manager is most likely to increase idiosyncratic risk when the amount of invested naive money gets closer to a certain size of the fund that reflects the manager's skill. In the third chapter, I build a model to study how naive money affects funds' survivorship and entry decisions. Sufficient capital provision from unsophisticated investors elongates the survival of unskilled managers. Competition among funds determines the industry equilibrium, and the equilibrium is affected by several key market conditions: the aggregate investment opportunities, the aggregate capital inflows from unsophisticated investors, and the supply of skilled managers. When AM markets are heterogeneous in investor sophistication, the model shows, AM markets with more sophisticated investors (say, hedge fund markets) differentiate from those with less sophisticated investors (say, mutual fund markets). Skilled managers generate more value in hedge fund markets, and choose to enter those markets.
by Seung Ki Kwak.
1. Theory and Evidence: Mutual Fund Performance Dynamics -- 2. IO of Active Mutual Funds -- 3. IO of the Active AM Industry: Entries and Exits.
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Fletcher, Martyn. "An agent-based approach to dynamic network management." Thesis, Keele University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363754.
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Madensen, Tamara D. "Bar management and crime toward a dynamic theory of place management and crime hotspots /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1180461844.
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MADENSEN, TAMARA D. "BAR MANAGEMENT AND CRIME: TOWARD A DYNAMIC THEORY OF PLACE MANAGEMENT AND CRIME HOTSPOTS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1180461844.
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Gustafsson, Daniel, and Tomas Stewén. "Trusted Computing & Digital Rights Management : Theory & Effects." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-26.
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Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), now known as Trusted Computing Group (TCG), is a trusted computing initiative created by IBM, Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Intel and several other smaller companies. Their goal is to create a secure trusted platform with help of new hardware and software. TCG have developed a new chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that is the core of this initiative, which is attached to the motherboard. An analysis is made on the TCG’s specifications and a summary is written of the different parts and functionalities implemented by this group. Microsoft is in the development stage for an operating system that can make use of TCG’s TPM and other new hardware. This initiative of the operating system is called NGSCB (Next Generation Secure Computing Base) former known as Palladium. This implementation makes use of TCG’s main functionalities with a few additions. An analysis is made on Microsoft’s NGSCB specifications and a summary is written of how this operating system will work. NGSCB is expected in Microsoft’s next operating system Longhorn version 2 that will have its release no sooner than 2006. Intel has developed hardware needed for a trusted platform and has come up with a template on how operating system developers should implement their OS to make use of this hardware. TCG’s TPM are also a part of the system. This system is called LaGrande. An analysis is also made on this trusted computing initiative and a sum up of it is written. This initiative is very similar to NGSCB, but Microsoft and Intel are not willing to comment on that. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a technology that protects digital content (audio, video, documents, e-books etc) with rights. A DRM system is a system that manages the rights connected to the content and provides security for those by encryption. First, Microsoft’s RMS (Rights Management System) that controls the rights of documents within a company is considered. Second, a general digital media DRM system is considered that handles e-commerce for digital content. Analysis and discussion are made on what effects TC (Trusted Computing) and DRM could result in for home users, companies and suppliers of TC hardware and software. The different questions stated in the problemformulation is also discussed and considered. There are good and bad effects for every group but if TC will work as stated today, then the pros will outweigh the cons. The same goes for DRM on a TC platform. Since the benefits outweights the drawbacks, we think that TC should be fullfilled and taken into production. TC and DRM provides a good base of security and it is then up to the developers to use this in a good and responsible way.
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Sievers, Annika. "Leadership and Management : Connecting Theory and Real-Life Experience." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19183.
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Idea and Purpose The background of this thesis is the ongoing discussion ofleadership and management and how these terms are connected. Unfortunatelythe discussuion of this topic is very much restricted to books and scientific papers. My idea is to first clarify the terms of management and leadership and then, through dialogues to find out if and how the differences are relevant in daily work-life. My personal aim is to raise the awareness to the importance of leadership because it deals with the human being as a whole. Further I hope that this work might inspire executives to reflect themselves and to improve the relationship between them and their followers. Research Question Do leaders differentiate between leadership and management and how does the difference influence their understanding of the issue andtheir individual leadership style? Methodology The approach used here is a qualitative one, using dialogues to understand the ideas and opinions of todays people in leading positions through interpretation and interaction.
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Zikhali, Whitehead. "Women in organisational management in Zimbabwe: theory and practice." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001185.
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The study was premised on the truism that men have historically served in higher echelons of organizational management structures and women are under-represented. The principal objective was to explore the constraints faced by women in accessing higher leadership and senior management positions in public, private and non-governmental organisations in Zimbabwe. This study adopted the triangulation method, that is, qualitative and quantitative approaches. These mixed research methods, were upgraded by the feminist research methodologies, thereby making a contribution in the field of research. The study found out that the constraints that mostly hinder women from accessing leadership and senior management positions in public, private and NGOs were cultural practices, which represent levels of power and control that in turn hinder reforms; and women's socialisation into feminised roles. The study also found out that in most organisations, most females work under male leadership, and this traditional organisational culture, needs to be deconstructed and reversed in order to achieve gender equality. The study recommended for a human centric and integrated organizational management strategy for public, private and NGOs in Zimbabwe. The adoption of a human centric and integrated management approach should aim at gender equity and reduce women's under-representation. A human centred organizational culture has to be practiced, that would create organisational ethos that guide organizational management. An integrated organizational management approach should integrate all systems and processes into one complete framework, enabling people to work as a single unit, unified by organizational goals, shared vision and common values. The system should depend on a balanced mix of the masculine and feminine attributes. The approach should put its weight towards adoption of measures to attract, advance and empower women so as to benefit from their qualifications, experience and talent in a highly competitive environment.
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Swenson, Patricia Louise. "A theory of program evaluation practices in disability management." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51639.
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This grounded theory study developed a theory of evaluation in disability management programs. Disability management involves managing the interactions between health condition impairments and their environments to overcome functional barriers. A sample of four sites was selected each site representing a different paradigm of disability management practices: biomedical, labour, biopsychosocial or insurance. Data collection included semi-structured interviews with 9 participants, including an administrator and practitioner from each site, the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation Instrument, and documents from each site were analyzed. There were five major findings of the study. 1) Meaningful disability management program evaluation requires insight into how impairment environment interactions are being managed by the program. 2) The presence or absence of collaboration among stakeholders contributes significantly to the variability in disability management and disability management evaluation. 3) Understanding how disability management programs are adapting to contextual influences contributes significantly to an explanation of variability in disability management and disability management evaluation. 4) There are five primary disability management evaluation criteria: return to work, cost savings, timeliness of services, client satisfaction, and client functioning. 5) Disability management evaluation followed a consumer working logic approach, and was predominantly concerned with usefulness of services, and secondarily framed from perspectives of multiple stakeholders. Additionally, disability management programs and their funding organizations are increasingly using technology to develop new data management systems for future use in evaluation.Education, Faculty of
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Guo, Lan. "Self-determination theory of motivation and performance management systems." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2007/l_guo_080307.pdf.
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Parry, S. J. "Project management theory and practice : : an industrial study case." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488350.
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Griffin, John Douglas. "Dealing with the paradox of culture in management theory." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263056.
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Bougara, O. "The theory and practice of self-management in Algeria." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233150.
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FERREIRA, RICARDO BRANDÃO. "SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: VALUATION BY THEORY OF REAL OPTIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17614@1.
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Os serviços inerentes à Limpeza Pública no Brasil são de responsabilidade municipal. Para tanto, as prefeituras podem licitar a operação destes serviços à iniciativa privada. Essa dissertação propõe a utilização da metodologia das opções reais para valorar um projeto de tratamento de resíduos sólidos para o Município de Niterói, considerando que existem diversas flexibilidades gerenciais e significativas incertezas em relação ao volume de resíduos a serem tratados. Dado que pelas regras do edital número 02/2008, o vencedor seria a empresa que apresentasse o menor preço para os serviços, a estratégia adotada foi valorar o projeto considerando o valor presente líquido do projeto base (aterro sanitário) igual a zero com a possibilidade de adicionar a segregação e comercialização de recicláveis e a implantação de uma usina de geração de energia ao longo da vida útil da concessão. Tal estratégia resultou num valor presente líquido de R$1.642.000.Public waste management services in Brazil are the responsibility of city municipalities, which may contract out the operation of these services to private enterprises. Within this work, the economic feasibility of a solid waste treatment project in the municipality of Niterói is analyzed in accordance with the rules established by the bid document n 02/2008. A real options approach was used for the analysis considering that there are many managerial flexibilities and significant uncertainties about the volume of waste to be treated. The bid rules award the contract to the lowest bidder, so the strategy used was to value the project considering the net present value of the base project (landfill) as equal to zero, and to consider the option of adding recycling facilities and the implementation of a power generation plant throughout the period of the concession. The result of this strategy was a net present value of R$1.642.000.
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Fan, Terence P. "Market-based airport demand management : theory, model and applications." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44611.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Transportation Systems and Policy Analysis)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123).
The ever-increasing demand for access to the world's major commercial airports combined with capacity constraints at many of these airports have led to increasing air traffic congestion. In particular, the scarcity of airside (take-off and landing) capacity at these airports has not been appropriately priced, leading to excessive demand as in the Tragedy of the Commons. Congestion pricing, as a classical economic approach to the efficient allocation of constrained transportation infrastructure capacity, has a long history of theoretical development. However, its application in the airport setting must deal with a set of important differences from the classical urban roadway setting. These differences have eluded the attention of researchers until very recently. They stem from the following set of complications: i) the peak and off-peak periods at congested airports are often less distinguishable than in the urban transport context; ii) airlines are a dominant intermediary between an airport's capacity and passengers as the end-users of that capacity; and iii) airlines operate groups of flights, as distinct from the atomistic behaviour of individual commuters. To address these complications, an analytical model is developed to explore the impact of congestion pricing at airports and understand potential airline responses under a range of assumptions about the market's structure. Through a set of numerical experiments, carried out with the help of a probabilistic queuing model, we compare the economic benefits resulting from adopting fine versus coarse congestion tolls for the cases of markets with symmetric and asymmetric carriers. Given sustained demand for access to an airport and reasonably elastic responses in terms of frequency adjustments,
(cont.) the benefits to carriers of instituting congestion pricing generally exceed the amount of tolls collected. While a system of fine or graduated tolls is suited for all airports, systems of coarse or uniform tolls, which can be implemented more easily, are applicable only at airports with fairly symmetric carriers that hold approximately equal frequency shares. In addition to congestion pricing, slot lease auctions can also be an effective means for promoting an economically efficient use of scarce airport capacity. In practice, the impact of slot lease auctions is similar to that of coarse tolling. Slot auctions are therefore applicable, in pure form, at airports with symmetric carriers. At these airports, a market-based demand management policy can comprise both congestion pricing and slot lease auctions. With respect to implementation, simultaneously ascending auctions recently used in the context of allocating electromagnetic spectra can be appropriately adopted to airports. A lump-sum subsidy can be used to promote specific socially desirable goals in the allocation of scarce airport capacity. Several airport authorities around the world, currently using purely administrative or hybrid forms of demand management, have developed sophisticated techniques for defining and managing their constrained airport capacity. Some of these techniques can be useful in developing market-based demand management policies. As an interesting case study, the experience of New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA) ...
by Terence Ping-Ching Fan.
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Baldwin, Sheena. "Extreme value theory : from a financial risk management perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53743.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Risk managers and regulators are primarily concerned with ensuring that there is sufficient capital to withstand the effects of adverse movements in market prices. The accurate prediction of the maximum amount that a financial institution can expect to Jose over a specified period is essential to guard against catastrophic losses that can threaten the viability of an individual finn or the stability of entire markets. Value-at-risk (VaR) is a quantile-based measure of risk that is widely used for calculating the capital adequacy requirements of banks and other financial institutions. However, the current models for price risk tend to underestimate the risk of catastrophic losses because the entire return distribution is used to calculate the value-at-risk. By contrast, Extreme Value" Theory uses only the largest observations to model the tails of a distribution, which should provide a better fit for estimates of extreme quantiles and probabilities. The semi-parametric Hill (1975) estimator has often been used to fit the tails of financial returns, but its performance is heavily dependent on the number k" of order statistics used in the estimation process and the estimator can be very biased if this choice is suboptimal. Since k" depends on unknown properties of the tail, it has to be estimated from the sample. The first truly data-driven method for choosing an optimal number of order statistics adaptively was introduced by Beirlant, Dierckx. Goegebeur and Matthys (1999) and modified by Beirlanl. Dierckx and Stmca (2000) and Matthys and Beirlanl (2000b). Their methods are based on an exponential regression model developed independently by Beirlant et a/. (1999) and Feuerverger and Hall (1999) to reduce the bias found in the Hill estimator. The reduced bias of these adaptive estimators and the associated estimator for extreme quantiles developed by Matthys and Beirlant (2000b) makes these estimators attractive from a risk management point of view, but more work needs to be done on characterising their finite sample properties before they can be used in practice. In particular, it is crucially important to establish the smallest sample size that will yield reliable estimates of extreme quantiles and probabilities and to determine the widths and coverage probabilities of confidence intervals. This study project reviews the probability and statistical theory of univariate Extreme Value Theory from a financial risk management perspective. It is clear from a survey of the literature that the most worthwhile direction to pursue in terms of practical research will be intimately connected with developments in the fast-moving field of EVT with a future emphasis not only on fully evaluating the existing models, but indeed on creating even less biased and more precise models. Keywords and phrases: Extreme value index, Pareto-type distributions, maximum likelihood estimation, bias reduction, exponential regression model, market risk.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Risikobestuurders en -reguleerders is hoofsaaklik gemoeid met die versekering dat genoegsame kapitaal beskikbaar is om die effek van ongunstige beweging in markpryse die hoof te kan bied. Die akkurate vooruitskatting van die maksimum verlies wat 'n finansiele instelling oor 'n spesifieke tydperk kan ly, is noodsaaklik as beskerming teen katastrofiese verliese wat die voortbestaan van 'n individuele firma, of die stabiliteit van die totale mark, mag bedreig. Waarde-op-Risiko (WoR) is 'n kwantiel gebaseerde maatstaaf van risiko wat algemeen vir die berekening van kapitaaltoereikendheid van banke en ander finansiele instellings benut word. Die huidige prys risikomodelle neig om die risiko van katastrofiese verliese te onderskat, omdat die totale opbrengs verspreiding gebruik word om WoR te bereken. In teenstelling benut die Ekstreme Waarde Teorie (EWT), slegs die grootste waarnemings om die eindverdelings te modelleer en is as sulks meer geskik om ekstreme kwantiele en waarskynlikhede te bepaal. Die semi-parametriese Hill (1975) skatter word gereeld gebruik om die stertgedeeltes van finansiele opbrengste te beraam, maar sy verrigting is swaar afhanklik van die getal k~ van rangstatistieke wat in die skattingsproses gebruik word en die skatting kan baie sydig wees indien die keuse suboptimaal is. Weens die afhanklikheid van kn van onbekende eienskappe van die stertgedeeltes, moet dit geskat word vanuit die steekproefdata. Die eerste data-gedrewe metode vir die keuse van die optimale rangordestatistieke, is deur Beiriant, Dierckx, Goegebeur en Matthys (1999) ontwikkel en aangepas deur Beirlant, Dierckx and Starica (2000), asook Matthys en Beirlant (2000b). Hul metodes is op 'n eksponensiele regressiemodel gebaseer, en is onafhanklik deur Beirlant et at. (1999), en Feuerverger en Hall (1999) ontwikkel met die doel om die sydigheid van die Hill skatter te verminder. Die verminderde sydigheid van hierdie adaptiewe skatters en die verwante skatter vir ekstreme kwantiele, ontwikkel deur Matthys en Beirlant (2000b), maak hierdie skatters aantreklik vanuit 'n risikobestuur oogpunt, maar meer werk word benodig met die karakterisering van hul eindige steekproefeienskappe, alvorens dit in die praktyk benut kan word. In besonder is dit van uiterste belang dat die kleinste steekproefgrootte bepaal sal word wat die betroubare skattings van ekstreme kwantiele en moontlikhede sal verseker, en wat ook benut kan word om betroubaarheidsintervalle op te ste!. Hierdie studie bied 'n oorsig van die moontlikhede en statistiese teorie van die eenveranderlike EWT vanuit 'n finansiele risikobestuur perspektief. Dit is duidelik vanuit die literatuurstudie dat die mees nuttige rigting om voort te gaan met praktiese navorsing, verband hou met die ontwikkeling in die vinnig ontwikkelende veld van EWT met toekomstige fokus, nie slegs op die volle evaluering van die bestaande modelle nie, maar ook op die ontwikkeling van minder sydige en meer akkurate modelle.
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Voorn, Bastiaan. "Improved stakeholder management with the usage of cluster theory." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190054.
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Stakeholders play an important role for firm’s performance and survival. Being able to balance multiple stakeholder’s needs an interest simultaneously and at the same time achieve best value for provided services/products is often referred to "acting as an informed client". Real estate firms should be more involved with core stakeholders (their tenants) in order to improve their corporate social performance and productivity. Cluster theory distinguish how certain industries and firms can be interconnected, developing collaborations through geographical proximity. The effects are asymmetrical, dependent on the type cluster, the type of product/services and the firm’s included in the cluster. By combining stakeholder management and cluster theory, real estate firms are able to improve their knowledge regarding tenant’s interconnection and contribute to the development of already identified clusters within the Stockholm County. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the ongoing research regarding stakeholder management, with the usage of cluster theory. A quantitative- and qualitative analysis is conducted, using a self-administered questionnaire. A total amount of 64 retail tenants (around 80% response rate) and 28 office tenants (around 12% response rate) participated in the study. Results from the quantitative- and qualitative analysis is triangulated with secondary data, aimed to improve the reliability of the results. Both retail- and office tenants were invited to the study and the correlation between the two targets groups was determined, aimed to measure office tenant’s perception regarding cluster externalities. Results from the analysis shows that industries like information and communication, business services and credit and insurance are considered to be clustered. The highest level of science base diversity is achieved by those industries, implying a strong presence of activities sharing a common knowledge base. Retail tenant’s value suitable products (question 3) and proximity to their costumer (question 6), while office tenants value personal contacts (question 24) and proximity to major transportation routes (question 10). In addition, retail tenants have a positive attitude towards cluster externalities, while office tenants have dived perceptions or simply ignores cluster externalities, explained by the insignificant correlation between their answers. The conclusion of the study is that further research is needed, using a more extensive qualitative analysis. A larger share of participants active within industries that are considered to be clustered will provide real estate firms with the knowledge of how to proceed with their stakeholder management. It is therefore considered that certain office tenants are dependent on cluster externalities and that real estate firms should actively engage in their business, acting as a "business in society".Intressenter har en stor påverkan på ett företags utveckling och överlevnad. Att hitta en balans mellan att tillgodose olika intressenters intressen och behov, samtidigt som man utvinner högsta avkastning för genomförda produkter/tjänster, kallas "acting as an informed client". Fastighetsföretag bör vara mer involverade med sina nyckelintressenter, allt för att kunna förbättra sin produktivitet och sitt samhällsansvar. Klusterteori identifierar hur olika sektorer kan vara sammankopplade i form av samarbeten, något som uppkommit genom en geografisk koncentrering av olika företag. Effekterna från klustring är åtskilda och beror oftast på karaktären av klustret, vilken typ av produkter/tjänster som klustret erbjuder, samt vilka typer av företag som är inkluderade i klustret. Genom att kombinera klusterteori med intressenthantering, ges fastighetsföretag möjlighet att utveckla sin kunskap gällande intressenters sammankopplingar, något som kan komma att stärka den pågående utvecklingen av Stockholms olika kluster. Syftet med examensarbetet är att bidra till pågående forskning inom området för intressenthantering, med hjälp av klusterteori. En kvantitativ och kvalitativ studie har genomförts, den kvalitativa studien baseras på en enkät. Totalt deltog 64 butikshyresgäster (80% svarsfrekvens) och 28 kontorshyresgäster (12% svarsfrekvens) i studien. Resultatet från den kvantitativa och kvalitativa studien har triangulerats, med avsikt att öka reliabiliteten av studien. Både butiks-och kontorshyresgäster var inbjudna till att delta i studien och korrelationen mellan de två fokusgrupperna fastställdes, allt för att kunna mäta kontorshyresgästers förhållningssätt gentemot klustringseffekter. Resultatet från studien visar att sektorer så som information- och kommunikation, företagstjänster, kredit- och försäkringar anses vara klustrade. Det högsta värdet gällande grunden för kunskapsdiversifiering uppmättes av dessa sektorer, vilket i sin tur symboliserar att företag inom klusterna delar gemensamma kunskapsområden. Butikshyresgäster värderar faktorer så som, anpassade produkter (fråga 3) och närheten till sina kunder (fråga 6), medan kontorshyresgästerna värderar personliga kontakter (fråga 24) och närheten till snabba transportmöjligheter (fråga 10). Ytterligare så uppvisar butikshyresgäster ett intresse för klustringseffekter, medan kontorshyresgäster uppvisar ringa intresse eller olika intresse gällande klustringseffekter, vilket kan förklaras med den insignifikanta korrelationen mellan de två grupperna. Slutsatsen från examensarbetet är att mer kvalitativ forsning inom området är nödvändigt, för att kunna säkerställa huruvida kontorshyresgäster värderar klustringseffekter. Vidare ska ytterligare forskning fokusera på sektorer som anses vara klustrade inom Stockholmsområdet, allt för att kunna urskilja hur fastighetsföretagen ska kunna utveckla sin intressenthantering. Studien påvisar att det finns företag på Stockholmsmarknaden som använder sig av klustringseffekter och att fastighetsföretagen bör aktivt föra en dialog med dessa företag, för att kunna agera som ett "företag i samhället".
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Javadi, Seyed. "Performance management in higher education : a grounded theory study." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/378174/.
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This study seeks to explore and understand the phenomenon of performance management in a university in Iran from perspectives of the university staff’s participants. In other words, this research attempts to better understand and acquire empirical knowledge of how a state affiliated university measures, manages and reports its performance, and how its main stakeholders as well as other factors affect the University’s overall performance. By conducting a grounded theory methodology within a qualitative and interpretive research paradigm and through a non-probabilistic purposive sampling, a cross section of fourty four key expert informants at different levels with different functions were sampled. The empirical part of this research was carried out over a period of two months. In addition, a second field trip was done to discuss initial findings with key interview participants. Data gathered were analysed and interpreted through using a set of coding procedures in grounded theory suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1990, 1998). Preliminary analysis resulted in an emerging conceptual model entitled “the exigent conformance model” which describes how the stakeholders and regulators triangular relationships constructed their realities and practices which resulted in the university’s overall exigent behaviour. Furthermore, a new theory emerged which uncovers the influencing role of such steering ciphers and drivers that affect the University’s functionality, causing “struggling for performance” throughout its activities which have gradually resulted in a “progression-regression performance”. The emergent theory (progression-regression performance) helps to explain and support the practices so that the ultimate performance of the university is improved. The analyses, resulting categories and conclusions have been approached through utilising the unique theoretical lens of New Institutional Sociology (NIS) theory. This research not only adds to the understanding of a complex phenomenon in a previously untouched context (understanding of what represents performance management practices and stakeholders interactions on the basis of a case university studied in a developing country), but it also contributes to the adoption of new methodology, use of new institutional theory of sociology (NIS), and emergence of the substantive “Progression-Regression Performance” theory.
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Oladejo, Ismaheel Oyeyemi. "Energy management of micro-grid using cooperative game theory." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31197.
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Micro-grid (MG) has been introduced as a low voltage and a very small power system connected to a distribution grid through the point of common coupling. It consists of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar Photovoltaic (PV), wind turbine, fuel cell, etc.), interconnected load and energy storage sources. It can operate in grid-connected (i.e. when connected to the main grid) or islanded (i.e. when not connected to the main grid) mode. It has an advantage of utilizing low carbon sources and the possibility of its use in the remote local environment, which means that the transmission infrastructures and their associated costs may be deferred. Although there has been a proliferation of optimization methods of energy management in the MG, most of these methods consider self-interest of the players in profit distribution. Moreover, only a few of them consider a fair profit distribution using Nash bargaining solution (NBS) (i.e. when utility function is linear) leading to even profit distribution and high degree of dissatisfaction. For the MG to achieve better economic outcomes, a novel method based on weighted fair energy management among the participants (i.e. building of different types, such as residential buildings, schools, and shops) is proposed. The novelty of the proposed method lies in the new profit sharing method to favour certain participant by assigning a weight to each participant with cooperative game theory (CGT) approach using generalized Nash bargaining solution (GNBS). The proposed approach achieves a fair (reasonable or just) profit allocation with negotiating power indicator. In this work, a case study of six different participant sites is proposed using the CGT method of energy management. The proposed method is able to cope with the drawbacks of the existing independent method, which negotiate directly with other participants for selfish profit distribution. It is demonstrated that the independent method results in (1) a reduction in the profit of each participant of MG when compared with CGT approach and (2) the variation of transfer prices in some participants having profit below the specified lower bound profit since the method does not take into consideration the lower profit bounds. The use of CGT method (i.e. when participants form a coalition) to finding multi-partner profit level subject to specified lower bounds is demonstrated. This results in (1) increase in the profit of the MG participants (2) maintaining the profit level of all the participants above status-quo profit (lower specified profit bounds) with variation in transfer prices and (3) allowing certain participant to be favoured by assigning higher negotiating power to such participant. To achieve the optimal solution in the proposed method, a teaching-learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm is presented to efficiently solve the problem. For TLBO algorithm, no specific control parameters are needed except the number of generations and population size. This is in contrast with other heuristic algorithms such as genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) that require other control parameters (i.e. GA requires selection and crossover operation, while PSO makes use of social parameters and cognitive weight). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed TLBO method, the profit allocations are tested in the grid-connected and the islanded mode using both the CGT and the independent method. In this work, the proposed TLBO method is compared with one traditional method, i.e. Lambda iteration method and two heuristic methods, i.e. PSO and GA. Thus, by using TLBO a considerable amount of computation time is saved. Using the same parameter setting for all the heuristic algorithms used, 20 trials are performed to be able to compare the quality of solution and convergence characteristics. The investigation reveals that TLBO gives the highest quality solutions and better convergence characteristics compared to PSO and GA.
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Clark, V. Allen. "Enrollment Management in Higher Education: From Theory to Practice." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2651/.
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This study investigated enrollment management practices found in higher education. The research identified enrollment management and retention practices described in the higher education literature. These suggested practices were incorporated into a sixty-six question survey that was distributed to a random sample of colleges and universities taken from the 1999 US News and World Report of college rankings. The survey data were used to identify which of the suggested enrollment management practices were of greatest utility. First, the sixty-six items were grouped into 14 categories of enrollment management strategies. Second, the institutional responses for each category were averaged and then correlated with each institution's graduation rate. Finally, each institution's "yes" responses for the entire survey were totaled and correlated with each institution's graduation rate. This study developed a list of the 26 most frequently used enrollment management practices in higher education, and as well, identified the 10 least used enrollment management practices. Given the results of this study graduation rate is not a sufficient criterion to assess enrollment management practices at a college or university. Enrollment management strategies contribute to many institutional and student outcomes; thus, multiple indicators are required to accurately evaluate enrollment management practices.
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Manevski, Bojan. "Theory and Practice of Management of Foreign Exchange Exposure." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10837.
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This academic paper gives explanation the main points of the foreign exchange market and the FOREX risk management strategies that companies develop. Reading trough this paper we get a clear overview of the Foreign Exchange market, the main players and their function. Get a detailed picture of the Exchange rate system, its development and current status; Hedging strategies and the central roll they have in the foreign exchange risk management of companies.
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Mashasha, Tamsanqa Munyaradzi. "The critical implications of Ubuntu for contemporary management theory." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013116.
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Since the dissolution of apartheid, corporate governance in South Africa has evolved from being a soft mainly ethical issue to a hard knowledge-based technological issue, recognised as pivotal to the success and revitalisation of the country’s capital markets and, ultimately, the prospects of the corporate economy. These high stakes have produced a succession of measures aimed at transforming corporate governance in the economy. As such, South Africa’s corporate managers are consistently faced with the seemingly unassailable obstacle of discerning and implementing technologically progressive and culturally/racially unbiased management strategies/systems. The focus of this thesis is the latter of these two obstacles. Ubuntu acts as the scope via which the issues embedded within the incumbent management strategies/systems are viewed. Ubuntu philosophy embodies a socio-cultural framework that applies to all individuals and institutions throughout the continent. It embodies collectivism and teamwork, creation of synergies and competitive advantages, humanist leadership styles and maturity, consensus in decision-making systems, effective communication, and community-based corporate social responsibility. Ubuntu is pervasive in almost all parts of Southern African continent – it is integrated into all aspects of day-to-day life throughout the region. This thesis reviews and analyses some of the lessons that can be learned through the inception of African management, more specifically Ubuntu management, within South Africa’s corporate sphere. This thesis aims to prove that there exists a need for a new South African corporate management system, one which is able to harmoniously integrate the incumbent, western-orientated management strategies and systems with one of African origins.
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Cairney, Timothy D. "Credibility of annual management earnings forecasts : theory and evidence /." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-164623/.
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