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Mutual Shaping of Telehealthcare in Northern Saskatchewan Community Experiences of the Socio-Technical and Spatial Dimensions of Care
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-06-29): Telehealth is offered as a technological solution for challenges with accessing care across Canada’s more remote communities. Telehealth technologies can bridge healthcare access gaps by connecting patients and providers; ... -
The Impact of Discount Airlines on Fares in Canada
(Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 1999-06)Analysis of airfares for domestic flights in Canada shows that the presence of low fare carriers has no impact on the fares of major carriers serving a given city pair. WestJet, the sole exception, did have a downward ... -
Discount Carriers vs. Air Canada: The Impact on Domestic Airfares, Revisited
(Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 2003-06)An analysis of airfares among major Canadian cities indicates that WestJet, alone among the discount carriers, exerts competitive pressure on the fares offered by Air Canada. The role of other discount carriers and the ... -
Determinants of Occupational Earnings in the United States: A Causal Modeling Approach
(International Journal of Management, 1989-06)The "comparable worth" controversy has raised the issue of the fairness of labor markets: Are predominantly female occupations paid less than predominantly male occupations because they are less demanding, or because they ... -
International Loose-Coupling Linkages in the Airline Industry
(International Journal of Management, 1992-06)Many airlines have recently been forming equity interlocks with airlines in different countries. In other cases, these linkages are non-equity in nature and emphasise joint-marketing programs. This study indicates that ... -
The Payment of Gratuities by Customers in the United States: An Historical Analysis
(International Journal of Management, 2013-09)Contrary to some travel guidebooks which state that the payment of gratuities (tips) in the US is due to low wage levels or the quirks of minimum wage laws, the roots of US tipping are comprised of a number of historical ... -
Implementing responsibility centre management in a higher educational institution
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-01-12)The purpose of this study is to examine the design, development, and implementation of responsibility centre management at a mid-sized Canadian university, within the context of decentralized decision making. More ... -
Continuous process improvement implementation framework using multi-objective genetic algorithms and discrete event simulation
(Business Process Management Journal, 2018)Purpose Continuous process improvement is a hard problem, especially in high variety/low volume environments due to the complex interrelationships between processes. The purpose of this paper is to address the process ... -
Studying the impact of merged and divided storage policies on the profitability of a remanufacturing system with deteriorating revenues
(International Journal of Production Economics, 2017-11)Merging capacity for a remanufacturing system is studied in this paper. In the system under study, there are two streams for returns and each stream has its dedicated processing line. However, the storage space is merged ... -
A particle swarm optimisation for the no-wait flow shop problem with due date constraints.
(International Journal of Production Research, 2016)This paper considers the no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with due date constraints. In the no-wait flow shop problem, waiting time is not allowed between successive operations of jobs. Moreover, a due date is associated ... -
On the exact solution of the no-wait flow shop problem with due date constraints
(Computers & Operations Research, 2017-05)This paper deals with the no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with due date constraints. In the no-wait flow shop problem, waiting time is not allowed between successive operations of jobs. Moreover, the jobs should be ... -
Studying the effect of server side constraints on the makespan of the no-wait flow shop problem with sequence dependent setup times.
(International Journal of Production Research, 2015)This paper deals with the problem of scheduling the no-wait flow-shop system with sequence-dependent set-up times and server side-constraints. No-wait constraints state that there should be no waiting time between consecutive ... -
Studying the Reasons for Delay and Cost Overrun in Construction Projects: The Case of Iran.
(Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 2016-07-31)Undesirable delays in construction projects impose excessive costs and precipitate exacerbated durations. Investigating Iran, a developing Middle Eastern country, this paper focuses on the reasons for construction project ... -
Did online publishers “get it right”? Using a naturalistic search strategy to review cognitive health promotion content on internet webpages
(BMC Geriatrics, 2017-06-15)Background One of the most common uses of the Internet is to search for health-related information. Although scientific evidence pertaining to cognitive health promotion has expanded rapidly in recent years, it is unclear ... -
Human Resource Management Practices and Voluntary Turnover: A Study of Internal Workforce and External Labor Market Contingencies
(The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016-03-30)We tested relationships between employee quit rates and two bundles of human resource (HR) practices that reflect the different interests of the two parties involved in the employment relationship. To understand the boundary ... -
The Effects of Strategic HR System Differentiation on Firm Performance and Employee Outcomes
(Human Resource Management, 2018-09-04)The purpose of this research was to understand the extent to which firms apply different human resource management systems to different occupations within the same organization (HR differentiation), and how this influences ... -
Do Trends Matter? The Effects of Dynamic Performance Trends and Personality Traits on Performance Appraisals
(Academy of Management, 2017-11-02)Two studies were conducted to understand how people make overall performance judgments based on dynamic performance trend information and the personality characteristics of ratees. University athletes were sampled in Study ... -
Making Stronger Causal Inferences: Accounting for Selection Bias in Associations Between High Performance Work Systems, Leadership, and Employee and Customer Satisfaction
(Journal of Applied Psychology, 2018)We develop competing hypotheses about the relationship between high performance work systems (HPWS) with employee and customer satisfaction. Drawing on 8 years of employee and customer survey data from a financial services ...
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