Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences:
Editorial/Éditorial
Dec 01, 2008; ... This December issue concludes the 25111 volume of CJAS, as well as my first three-year term as Editorin-Chief. It is a commemorative issue, of sorts, in that it contains papers offering historical and critical accounts of the development of Canadian scholarship in the Administrative ...
Keynote address as presented by Stephen Lewis at the 2008 ASAC conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dec 01, 2008; ... That was an inordinately kind, generous, friendly, amiable and gently hyperbolic introduction for which I am profoundly appreciative. I am also appreciative of being back in my home country. I've spent an awful lot of time lately wandering around the United States to improbable places like ...
CJAS: Recollections of its Origins and Challenges
Dec 01, 2008; ... The arrival of CJAS' Volume 25, Number 1 wim the "25th Anniversary" banner jogged my memory of the efforts of so many that made the journal a reality. My purpose in writing this brief account of the journal's origins is to remind everyone of the challenges faced by those who were instrumental at ...
Thirty Years of International Business Scholarship in Canada
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract Upon the invitation of the Hemant Merchant (Editor, Strategic Management and International Business Division) I have reviewed the development of international business (IB) scholarship in Canada and related this to my own research conducted while I was a faculty member at the ...
The State and Evolution of Information Systems Research in Canada: A Scientometric Analysis
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper investigates the state and evolution of information systems (IS) research in Canada as reflected in publications of the proceedings of the annual conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada from 1974 to 2007. We present a scientometric analysis of ...
Constructing a Legitimate History: Crisis, Legitimacy, and the Atlantic Schools of Business Conferences
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) conference is one of the longest running academic business conferences in Canada. It continued without the structure of an organizing committee for 34 years. In its 35th year, however, a formal structure was adopted. The adoption of formal ...
"I'd like to thank the academy": An Analysis of the Awards Discourse at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The awarding of prizes has become embedded in all aspects of our society, including academic conferences. At the same time, the reputation economy, an economy where individual standing is based on the opinions of end users, is growing in strength and validity. We analyzed the ...
Governance and the Decision to Issue a Profit Warning*
Dec 01, 2008; ... Résumé Le concept théorique de coûts d'agence de Jensen et Meckling (1976) et Jensen (2005) sert de fondement à l'étude de la relation présumée entre la qualité de la gouvernance d'une entreprise et sa décision de publier une alerte aux résultats AR, lorsqu'elle est surévaluée. Basés sur ...
Strategic Ambidexterity and Performance in International New Ventures
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract We drew on the literature on ambidextrous organizations to propose that international new ventures (INVs) that concurrently pursue paradoxical pairs of strategies-known as the capability of strategic ambidexterity-can achieve superior performance. These paradoxical strategies ...
Sustainable Resource Management, Reality or Illusion?
Dec 01, 2008; ... Sustainable Resource Management, Reality or Illusion? Edited by Peter N. Nemetz (2007) Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 445 pp. ISBN: 9781845425944 This volume about sustainable development is organized in four parts and 16 chapters, and poses a fundamental question: Is humanity ...
Pleasantly Surprising Clients: A Tactic in Relationship Marketing for Building Competitive Advantage in the Financial Services Sector*
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract The turbulent environment in which financial institutions evolve motivates strategic thinking aimed at competitive advantage. Drawing from the literature on relationship marketing, one potentially successful strategy at the level of front line service is for financial advisors ...
Pop-Management Literature: Popular Business Press and Management Culture in Brazil
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract As in other emerging countries, the 1990s in Brazil were characterized by profound economic changes. The business press reflected and influenced this process. Newspapers and magazines grew and assumed an important role, disseminating values associated with neo-liberalism and ...
A Qualitative Analysis of Factors Associated with User Acceptance and Rejection of a New Workplace Information System in the Public Sector: A Conceptual Model*
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract This study examines the factors that lead employees to endorse or resist the introduction of a new information system (IS). Findings suggest that attitudes toward adopting IS are related to psychological characteristics of the potential adopters, including, open-mindedness, ...
Why do Companies Issue Convertible Bond Loans? An Empirical Analysis for the Canadian Market
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract To identify issuer motives, we study the determinants of announcement effects of convertible debt issues in the Canadian market. Classified into equity- and debt-like, wealth effects are significantly more negative for equity-like convertible bond issuers. Equity-like ...
Fuzzy Evaluation of Risk Management Profiles Disclosed in Corporate Annual Reports*
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract The most common measures of risk have traditionally been based on quantitative financial and accounting information. However, new information on risk management disclosed in companies' annual reports is generally qualitative or linguistic. As such, exploitation by decision ...
Personality and Intelligence at Work
Sep 01, 2008; ... Personality and Intelligence at Work Adrian Furnham (2008). London: Routledge, 416 pp. ISBN 978-1-84169-585-3 In general, this is a well-researched, comprehensive book that one should definitely read to become conversant with the role of individual differences in the workplace. The ...