...Business Research Tamara Channel RES/351 March 2, 2015 Professor John Rudin Current Events in Business Research Thorough and appropriate research is essential to the success of a business. Business research is defined as an organized effort to plan, acquire, analyze and disseminate information and insights to the people who make the decisions to assemble the organization to perform the proper actions that will result in fully maximizing its performance (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). Some companies choose to outsource some of the call center operations. Companies who use outsourcing tend to route their high level or grandfather customers with the agents of the in-house operations and route the lower level customers to an outsourcing company. Business research process starts with an overview of the industry or market. Opportunities for the business in the market can be assessed during this phase. The research then includes collecting information that will assist in determining customer product and service needs. An analysis can be run to govern the course the company should take. The testing phase includes, directing numerous tests that can deliver pertinent information to forecast customer behavior. The final step includes the decision or implementation of the actual idea (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). This paper will discuss the research study on call center outsourcing. Identify the Research Problem and the Research Method Used The research method used...
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...IRE2002Y 2006-2006 Radhakrishnan Rationale for Your Research Project (15%) This assignment encourages you to develop your skills in inquiry. That is, it gives you an opportunity to learn and demonstrate your skills in describing a phenomenon of interest, defining concepts to study that phenomenon, and in making arguments for and against expecting the phenomenon to occur. Follow the steps provided and answer the questions below as best as you can in the assignment to demonstrate these skills. Unlike other courses’ written assignments, this assignment does not have any page limit nor stylistic requirements. Instead, it requires you to devote your attention to developing content. I will assess you on how well you can convey your descriptive, definitional and argumentative skills via writing Steps to follow I. To demonstrate good writing, you will need to read good writing. The first step for you to take before you attempt completing this assignment is to gather good articles. This class provides you with a session and assignment on library research skills that will enable you to gather good research articles. II. Once you have gathered good research articles, the second step is to select parts that you will write about in your paper. The first thing you will have to select is your hypothesis. Again, this class provides you with an assignment to help you generate a good hypothesis, namely one that is not too broad or not too narrow. III. After selecting the...
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...|Empirical Research Report Format |[pic] | |1. Title | | | | | |2. Authors |Affiliations | | | | |3. Abstract |Synopsis of study | | |Literature review, statement of goals, research questions, and hypotheses | |4. Introduction | | | |Participants, measures, equipment, statistical techniques, etc. | |5. Methods and Materials | | | |Summaries and analyses of the measures obtained | |6. Results | | | |Interpretations...
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...Discuss the ways in which coaching psychology research might advance the practise of executive coaching Coaching psychology as a practise is a relatively new phenomenon which encourages an individual to realise and ultimately develop their personal strengths and attributes. Although it is a new practice, psychologists as a whole are yet to determine an exact definition of the meaning coaching psychology. However one of the most applicable definitions to this subject matter is “Coaching maybe defined as a goal - directed multifaceted process for enhancing people, work and life and, as an industry, it has and still is experiencing rapid growth” (Brock, 2006). This essay will examine coaching psychology and how its research will benefit the development of executive coaching and how previous research can enhance this particular sector in psychology. Some of the main areas that will be explored are how positive psychological research has informed this particular area as a whole, the relationship between a coach and client, what qualities make for a good coach and how future research can improve our knowledge and the practice of executive coaching. Positive psychology despite, being considered an applied science it is an empirical science by virtue of scientific method and research. Positive psychology is imperative to the practice of executive coaching as it concentrates on utilising an executives/managers ability to improve an “individuals traits which manifest themselves as...
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...work procedures and increase computer knowledge among the employees. IT can help in controlling and reporting each single activity done by the employees and help the management to take an appropriate strategic decision. Also IT does create value that is reflected in the market value of firms and in their future profitability although it is hard to address empirically because of difficulties in obtaining data about IT investment that can be linked to firm performance (Anderson, 2006). After globalization, the world became a small country so the IT applications became mandatory to any industry for online communication as anyone nowadays can search for whatever, whenever and wherever he is through online internet connection. The aim of this research is to address the effect of investment in IT sector and the tourism firm profitability and how does it affect the growth and cost reduction in tourism sector by questionnaire and collecting finical data from a firms working that field. Abstract Information Technology (IT) has become mandatory in the businesses, till now many of the developing countries consider the IT as a very costly sector to invest in, unlike the civilized nations whom invest much more in IT although it is still expensive but they recognize how much it important to their business. The objective of this study is to find the relation and its direction between investing in the IT sector and the effectiveness on company profitability. Keywords: Information Technology...
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...The time where Henderson and Pierson (1978)left us in the 1970’s was a time where there was an emergence of new research directions around the organizational and social aspects of accounting. During this time the accountancy profession was rapidly growing and moving into many new areas, there was a new standard-setting process, greater use of accounting controls in both private and public-sector enterprises, new forms of social accounting, intervention by government in the inflation accounting debate and calls on accounting to change in diverse directions. All of these rapid changes were forcing accounting academics to analysis the changing world of accounting more closely. (p454 30 years of historical accounting research) One of the changes in accounting analysis was a move towards accounting history. Hopwood (1976)called for historical studies in terms that would later be labelled as “traditional”, despite the label it would receive in the future, it still represented an awareness that historical studies would soon be an important source of understanding of the roles of accounting in organizations and society (reference 30 years of historical accounting research). Historical research was slow to emerge, as was highlighted in the Accounting, Organizations and Society journal where between 1976 and 1985 only 13 historical papers were published. Historical research came to the fore during the period from 1986 and 1990 where 22 historical papers were published in the journal Accounting...
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...Journal of Banking & Finance 34 (2010) 1958–1969 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Banking & Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbf Underpricing of IPOs: Firm-, issue- and country-specific characteristics Peter-Jan Engelen a,*, Marc van Essen b a b Utrecht University, School of Economics, Utrecht, The Netherlands Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Using a large firm-level dataset of 2920 IPOs from 21 countries we examine the impact of country-level institutional characteristics on the underpricing of IPOs. Through hierarchical linear modeling we are able to control for firm-specific and issue-specific characteristics and test whether country-specific institutional characteristics add explanatory power to explain the level of underpricing. Our results show that about 10% of the variation in the level of underpricing is between countries. The quality of a country’s legal framework, as measured by its level of investor protection, the overall quality of its legal system and its level of legal enforcement, reduces the level of underpricing significantly. Ó 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 4 July 2009 Accepted 6 January 2010 Available online 11 January 2010 JEL classification: G30 G32 G38 K22 Keywords: IPO Underpricing Legal framework Investor protection Multi-level modeling 1. Introduction When companies go public...
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...studies have tried to show the positive impacts of internal integration and external integration on explorative innovations, due to the fact that internal integration and external integration together improve product innovations and exploitative innovations have a positive effect on explorative innovations, there are no comprehensive empirical evidence or theoretical explanation to show or support this argument (Lau et al., 2010). The research presented on this presentation will critically evaluate and explain how internal integration and external integration both individually and together affect product innovation. When separated, the individual effects of internal integration and external integration can be explained by information processing theory and relational view theory. However, for the combined effects of internal integration and external integration, we have to refer to the ambidexterity theory from the field of organizational studies as ambidextrous firms are found to benefit both the exploitation of existing resources as well as the exploration of new resources and they are additionally known to be more relatively innovative. This research will offer three main contributions, the first contribution is to provide new theoretical explanations to both the combined and individual effects of internal integration and external integration on product innovation. The second contribution comes from the novel approach we used to conceptualize the combined effects of internal...
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...Critically evaluate the research evidence that suggests HRM can (and does) contribute to improvements in organisational performance The distinctive feature of HRM is its assumption that improved performance is achieved through the people in the organization.’ (Guest, 1997) important therefore for performance improvement is that the organisation makes policies that would facilitate Human Resources at work, it could be assumed that Human Resource would have a substantial impact on the business performance. When the Human Resource Management journal was launched in 1990, Guest (2007) claims “it was able to capture a rising wave of interest in human resource management and in particular the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and performance”. Throughout the decade many authors provided sound evidence about a positive link between HRM and performance, including Huselid (1995) and Arthur (1994). Almost a decade later two major reviews of the topic were carried out by Boselie et al (2005) and Combs et al (2006) who both confirmed many of the journals signified an association, but also concluded that evidence of the link between performance and HRM was of an “association rather than a causation” Guest (2007). Both reviews also claimed there was insufficient evidence to explain why there was an association. The major problem as Guest (1997) states we need “a theory about HRM, theory about performance and a theory about how they are linked”. The aim of this...
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...to contribute to the body of knowledge about to what extent IT affects the ability to solve accounting tasks. The relationship between IT and accounting practices was investigated qualitatively using six case studies and we will measure the impact of IT on accountants’ tasks. The findings suggest a tendency for change and the decentralization of accounting tasks. Index Terms—Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Financial Documents, Information Technology, Management Information System. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays the business world is changing at a faster and faster pace. The reasons given for this is globalization, highs IT investments and the rapid pace of technological change in combination with escalating costs of research and development (Frishamar, 2002). The role of information technology (IT) has shifted over the last decades (Teng & Calhoun, 1996) to become an important part of how companies manage and control their resources. Organizations are responding in different ways and at different rates to the wide range of IT based opportunities and pressures (Johnson et al., 1986). Decisions regarding the building of technical IT architecture should be closely linked...
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...the scholarship and practice of SHRM. They focus on a clearer articulation of the “black box” between HR and firm performance, emphasizing the integration of strategy implementation as the central mediating variable in this relationship. There are direct implications for the nature of fit and contingencies in SHRM. They also highlight the significance of a differentiated HR architecture not just across firms but also within firms. Keywords: strategy; human resources; black box; implementation; differentiation The field of strategic human resources management (SHRM) has enjoyed a remarkable ascendancy during the past two decades, as both an academic literature and focus of management practice. The parallel growth in both the research literature and interest among practicing managers is a notable departure from the more common experience, where managers are either unaware or simply uninterested in scholarly developments in our field. As the field of HR strategy begins to mature, we believe that it is time to take stock of where it stands as both a field of inquiry and management practice. Although drawing on nearly two decades of † We are grateful to Steve Frenkel, Dave Lepak, and seminar participants at Monash University for comments on an earlier version of this article. *Corresponding author. Tel.: 716 645-3235. E-mail address: bbecker@buffalo.edu Journal of Management, Vol. 32 No. 6, December 2006 898-925 DOI:...
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...The International Journal of Digital Accounting Research Vol. 11, 2011 pp. 25 - 43 ISSN: 1577-8517 The impact of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) on performance measures: empirical evidence in Spanish SMEs1 Elena Urquía Grande. Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. eurquiag@ccee.ucm.es Raquel Pérez Estébanez. Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. raquel.perez@ccee.ucm.es Clara Muñoz Colomina. Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. cimunnoz@ccee.ucm.es Abstract. This research study is aimed, based on empirical evidence, at measuring the relationship between the use of the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) by the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Spain, and firms’ improved performance indicators and productivity. This empirical study is based on a survey carried out among small and medium-sized firms to ascertain the extent to which development and implementation of accounting information systems had taken place, and subsequently an analysis was made as to how much this introduction may impact on improvement in outcome indicators and productivity. As interesting results we have found that there is a positive relationship among the SMEs that use AIS for fiscal and bank management and better performance measures. This research provides value added in accounting literature given the scarcity of works dealing with the relationship between the application and use of AIS and performance and productivity indicators in SMEs in Spain. Keywords:...
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...in standard setting. We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting ‘‘reliability’’ and ‘‘relevance’’ of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial services are more likely to propose standards that decrease ‘‘reliability’’ and increase ‘‘relevance,’’ partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when excluding financialservices background as an independent variable. Jackknife procedures show that results are robust to omitting any individual standard setter. & 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D72 D78 G18 K22 L51 M41 Keywords: Accounting FASB Politics Relevance Reliability Standard setting 1. Introduction As the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) closes in on four decades, the role of its standards in shaping U.S. and international corporate reporting is widely acknowledged. An empirical literature on the political economy of FASB standard setting has emerged over that period to explore the origins of accounting standards largely through an analysis of constituent comment-letter lobbying (e.g., Watts and Zimmerman, 1978). But such...
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...Formal Research vs Business Proposal Latasha Jenkins MGT 600-1102A-06 Dr. Hal Graff May 1, 2011 Abstract In this paper, I will compare formal research and business proposals and maintain that formal research is academic in nature while a business proposal has a more practical orientation to it. I will also discuss the most important difference between formal research and business proposals is that formal research has no financial implications while financial implications are the most important characteristics of business proposals. I will also point out that the main objective of a business proposal is to identify a need which must be addressed in order to generate either financial savings or greater revenue, while such financial implications are not relevant in formal research. Formal research is not concerned with generating findings that are practicable. I have concluded that formal research generates a wide variety of findings that may be made applicable in a wide variety of contexts. Further, I also noted that the advantage of business proposals is that they contextualize the findings from formal research in an existing organizational structure. Business Proposal vs Formal Research 1. Introduction Formal research basically is a systematic and organized effort to investigate a specific problem or test a hypothesis. The goal here is to find answers to the issues that concern managers at work which is done in a controlled environment...
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...Header correct on all remaining pages? (TITLE IN CAPS and Left Justified?) | X | | Page numbers present? (upper right-hand corner) | X | | Entire paper in 12 pt Times New Roman font with double-spaced lines? | X | | Minimum of 3-5 reference articles present on Reference Page? | | X | Reference page in APA format? | | X | References properly cited in body of paper where information was used? | | X | Student’s research data collection approved? | | X | Additional Comments: * The title in your header on the first page is missing “Running head:” before the title. * No reference page included * Your student contact page is missing * You need to take a look at the template information below, the student example and I’ve also attached another student example from this class…your paper is nowhere near the quality that it needs to be for a passing grade. You have not identified any particular project site in your paper, your paper is written as if you were talking to someone and lacks professional tone. You have no research plan in place and haven’t finished your other paper sections…this is an unacceptable submission of your draft. Background This section describes any information which is needed to provide the audience/reader with an understanding of the background for the analysis, e.g., who, what, when, and where and what...
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