Theses and Dissertations-Management
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The role of gender and work experience on expectations of career characteristics and work force diversity
(2005-12)One hundred and eighty-seven graduating business students at a large public university in the southwest participated in a gender diversity study by completing a voluntary questionnaire. The study was designed to gain ... -
The Impact of Packaging Innovations on the Supply Chain
(2002-12)Continuous packaging innovation within companies leads to many activities related to the supply chain that should be optimized. These changes and innovations are the result of strategies and objectives that companies ...
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Outsourcing the Supply Chain: Defining the Optimal Relationship between Customer and Vendor
(2006-12)With the supply chain model and global procurement becoming increasingly popular due to the global demands of today’s economy, companies are committing themselves to multiple business-to-business relationships. Establishing ... -
Outsourcing Software: Supplier/Vendor Perspective of Joint Relationship
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Utilizing Student Perceptions to Facilitate Continuous Improvement for Academic Institutions
(2002-08)Business colleges are faced with funding crises, rising tuition and associated fees, and criticism towards curricula, teaching methods, and academic research. Business colleges could benefit from a continuous improvement ... -
Supply-Chain Management: Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Broadline Foodservice Distributors
(2003-05)No abstract prepared. -
Managing Outsourcing in a Joint Development Environment: Impact on Innovation and New Product Development Process
(2002-05)A current trend growing in popularity among companies involved in high-tech product development is to outsource the development of pieces and parts of a product and then to integrate them into a final product. This ...
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Managerial Issues Involved in the Development of Nanotechnology Products
(2004-12)With the rapid development of and paradigm shift involved in the new field of nanotechnology, this thesis poses the question whether there are any new management approaches, techniques or meta-knowledge that firms working ...
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The Influence Internal and External Customers have on a Successful Demand Driven Supply Network (DDSN)
(2008-12)In an ideal world, the instant a consumer picks up a product from a store shelf, another would immediately replace it, and so on back up the supply chain. The result would be that nothing would ever be grown, manufactured, ... -
Lifting the Corporate Veil: A General Discussion of Executive and Managerial Personal Liability
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An Analysis of Packaging Waste Through a Distributorship Within a Supply Chain
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From Injustice to Justice and Back Again: A Review of Asbestos Litigation 1929-2003
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A Closer Look at CEO Compensation Levels of Public Companies in the United States
(2009-05)I analyze the relationships between CEO compensation and company size and performance, as well as the relationships between CEO compensation and executive attributes, using data on 150 public U.S. companies. This paper ...