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Linking Ethical Leadership and Employees’ In-Role Performance: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Psychological Capital and Follower-Leader Relational Capital
(Brock University, 2013-05-14)
This study investigates the mediating impact of psychological capital and follower-leader relational capital on the relationship between ethical leadership and in-role performance through the lenses of social exchange ...
Dynamic Performance Evaluation of Canadian Fixed-Income Funds using Markov Regime Switching Models
(Brock University, 2013-09-09)
This thesis examines the performance of Canadian fixed-income mutual funds in the context of an unobservable market factor that affects mutual fund returns. We use various selection and timing models augmented with univariate ...
The Impact of a Corporate Name Change on Stock Price and Trading Volume of Canadian Companies
(Brock University, 2013-07-26)
This thesis examines the impact of a corporate name change on stock price and trading volume of Canadian companies around the announcement date, the approval date, and the adoption date over the time period from 1997 to ...
Understanding Continuance Intentions of Physicians with Electronic Medical Records (EMRS): An Expectancy-Confirmation Perspective
(Brock University, 2013-05-06)
This thesis examines physicians’ satisfaction with electronic medical records (EMRs) in the post-adoption phase. More specifically, the study examines how physicians’ satisfaction with EMRs impacts on their intention to ...
Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
(Brock University, 2013-05-14)
This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance ...
The Informational Value of Corporate Credit Ratings
(Brock University, 2013-01-14)
This thesis examines the quality of credit ratings issued by the three major credit
rating agencies - Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and Fitch. If credit ratings are
informative, then prices of underlying credit instruments ...
The Effects of Perceived Product-Association Incongruity on Consumption Experiences
(2013-04-01)
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Towards a better understanding of the relationship between speed of internationalization and performance outcomes among young international ventures
(2013-04-11)
This thesis offers an explanation for the inconsistent relationship between speed of
internationalization and performance outcomes in the context of young international ventures. We argue that the variables of scope of ...
Forecasting the Yield Curve of Government Bonds: A Comparative Study
(Brock University, 2013-11-21)
For the past 20 years, researchers have applied the Kalman filter to the modeling and forecasting the term structure of interest rates. Despite its impressive performance in in-sample fitting yield curves, little research ...