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Ceci est la collection de documents de travail de l'Ecole de gestion Telfer. La plupart des entrées ne contient que des métadonnées. Pour plus d'informations concernant l'accès des documents, veuillez vous référer à la description de chaque notice. // This is a collection of working papers from the Telfer School of Management. Most entries contain metadata only. For more information about access to the papers, please refer to the description within each record.

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The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace across the Employment Cycle: Employer Questions and Evidence-Based Answers
(2017-09-29) Bonaccio, Silvia; E. Connelly, Catherine; R. Gellatly, Ian; Jetha, Arif; A. Martin Ginis, Kathleen
Towards Holonomic Emergency Management Networks: A Nonparametric Systems Approach
(2016-04-05) Caro, Denis H. J.
In this 21st century of diverse regional, national and international threats, this study explores the leadership challenges unique to emergency management systems. These adaptive and complex systems respond to a range of critical emergency events, including mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. Effective emergency leadership with high-order capabilities is the lodestar of emergency management systems. This qualitative study explores the phenomenology of emergency leadership of emergency management systems through a holonic paradigm. The methodology deploys a grounded theory approach and thematic analysis. Through this key informant study, the perspectives of 103 emergency leaders of diverse professional backgrounds on systemic challenges are presented. The response rate was 83.5 percent from 81 organizations across Canada. Using the nonparametric statistical technique, the Kendall coefficient of concordance, what emerges from this study are ten ranked-ordered holonic properties of emergency leadership. These properties form the basis of a holonic paradigm that integrates and underscores the vital role of innovative technologies within the context of emergency management systems. A theory of holonic emergency leadership is also proposed. This study concludes with the potential implications of emergency leadership and this holonic framework for future healthcare research internationally.
Towards Transformational Leadership: The Nexus of Emergency Management Systems in Canada
(2016-04-05) Caro, Denis H. J.
This qualitative research study explores the leadership challenges in emergency management systems in Canada. Complex adaptive systems theory forms the theoretical paradigmatic perspective of emergency events, such as mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. Thematic analysis of a key informant study of emergency leaders identified twelve key leadership capabilities. From the grounded theory methodological approach, a theory of transformational emergency systems leadership emerged and is posited. The findings and implications are discussed in light of theoretical implications for humanistic and technologically driven leadership; inter-sectorial collaborative networks; adaptive learning and training of future emergency leaders; and future international emergency management research.
The Nexus of Transformational Leadership of Emergency Services Systems: Extending the Wu-Shi-Ren (WSR)-Li Paradigms
(2015-11-12) Caro, Denis H. J.
Purpose: In the face of diverse national and international threats, this study explores the leadership challenges in emergency services systems in Canada. These adaptive complex systems respond to critical events that range from small scale to mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. This leadership study examines the requisite competencies and skill sets of emergency services systems. Design/Methodology: This qualitative research study uses grounded theory to examine the phenomenology of emergency services leadership. Through triangulation, the theoretical paradigm of the Wu-Shi-Ren (WSR)-Li model, authentic transformational leadership emerged as relevant to this domain. This key informant study of 103 professionals from 81 organizations focused on the leadership challenges of emergency services systems. The response rate was 83.5 percent, using a semi-structured and open-ended questionnaire. Findings: This study underscores the competencies and skills essential for authentic transformational leadership in emergency services systems. With the WSR-Li model as a base, it explores a dimension that is unique to emergency leadership in nations with strong public governance values. It extends the model to include a transgenic dimension, which is important in nations with cogent public governance values. Practical implications: This study underscores the importance of relational capital and transformational leadership of emergency services systems nationally and internationally. Social implications: This study stresses the importance of transformational leadership of emergency services as instrumental in saving lives, minimizing injuries and assuring complete health and social recovery nationally and globally. Originality: Qualitative studies of the perspectives of emergency leadership has not hitherto been done in Canada, nor internationally. This study underscores the relevance of the WSR-Li model in discerning specific authentic transformational leadership attributes that are unique in emergency services systems.
Medical Leadership of Emergency Management Systems in Canada: Key Attributes and Competencies
(2015-08-29) Caro, Denis H. J.
Background: In this 21st century of diverse regional, national and international threats and emergency events, this study explores the unique authentic transformational leadership challenges unique to emergency medical systems. These complex systems respond to a range of critical emergency events, including mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes and call for medical leadership competencies. Methods: A qualitative research study based on grounded theory examines the phenomenology of emergency medical systems by deploying triangulation to isolate the particular theoretical underpinnings of authentic transformational leadership models relevant to this domain. Using a key informant approach and a semi-structured confidential questionnaire, the perspectives of 103 emergency leaders of diverse professional backgrounds on the challenges of emergency management systems are presented. The response rate was 83.5 percent from 81 organizations across Canada. Results: This study underscores the need for authentic transformational leadership and identifies leadership competencies in the domain of emergency medical systems. This qualitative study of diverse emergency system leaders is original in that it has not hitherto been done across Canada nor internationally. Conclusions: This study underscores the relevance of leadership principles in the extant literature and highlights those that are critical and unique to leaders of emergency medical systems. In so doing, underscores the need for authentic transformation leadership of an order and caliber yet to be fully potentiated to manage future emergency and crisis events in Canada and internationally.
Towards a Framework for Social Media Applications in Consumer Health
(2013-09) Sajjad, Jawad; Ruhi, Umar
As social media applications have now become a part of daily life for many individuals, there is no doubt that it is changing the way patients communicate in the modern age. This paper will try to examine the key concepts, tools, frameworks, preliminary work and trends for the future of Social Media in healthcare. Additionally, it will also analyze recent case studies related to the actual implementation of social media in healthcare and the results achieved through its use. Finally, this paper will provide a conceptual framework that integrates various forms of social media with Health 2.0 use-cases in consumer health.
Towards a Socio-Technical Theoretical Framework for Enterprise Gamification: A Research-in-Progress Paper
(2015-06-15) Ruhi, Umar
Gamification initiatives are currently top-of-mind for many organizations seeking to engage their employees in creative ways, improve their productivity, and drive positive behavioral outcomes in their workforce – ultimately leading to positive business outcomes on the whole. Despite its touted benefits, little empirical research has been done to date to investigate sociological and technological factors that affect the acceptance and success of gamification technologies in an organizational context. This article proposes a theoretical framework for investigating key individual, organizational and technological factors that are posited to be important determinants of effectiveness of gamification initiative. At the technology level, game mechanics and user experience are posited to be essential elements that drive end-user attitude towards gamification technologies. At the individual level, employee engagement is positioned to be the central construct that mediates the relationship between technological and organizational factors, and impacts organizational commitment. Finally, at the organizational level, psychological climate is proposed as an important antecedent of employee engagement and organizational commitment at the individual level, as well as a determinant of end-user acceptance of enterprise gamification technologies. This article outlines the conceptual underpinnings of the proposed theoretical framework, and provides a summary of the planned research methodology that will be used to empirically validate the framework. The expected contributions of this research are highlighted at the end of the paper.
Towards Authentic Transformational Leadership of Emergency Management Systems
(2015-07-02) Caro, Denis H. J.
In this 21st century of unprecedented global, national and regional threats and innovative technologies, this study underscores the unique authentic transformational leadership challenges posed in emergency management systems. These open complex systems adapt to a range of critical emergency events, including mass emergencies, disasters and catastrophes. This qualitative research study based on grounded theory examines the phenomenology of emergency management systems by deploying triangulation to isolate the particular theoretical underpinnings of authentic transformational leadership models relevant to this domain. Using a key informant approach and a semi-structured confidential questionnaire, the perspectives of 103 emergency, health care and technological leaders of diverse professional backgrounds on the challenges of emergency management systems are presented. The response rate was 83.5 percent from 81 organizations across Canada. This study underscores the need for authentic transformational leadership and identifies seven critical and specific leadership imperatives for this domain. The implications for hospital and health care administrators are also presented. This qualitative study of diverse emergency system leaders is original in that it has not hitherto been done across Canada nor internationally. This study underscores the relevance of leadership theory and principles in the extant literature, but extends this to highlight those that are critical and unique to leaders of emergency management systems. In so doing, calls on the need for authentic transformation leadership of an order and caliber yet to be fully potentiated to manage future emergency events in Canada.
Code Red: Towards Transformational Leadership of Emergency Management Systems
(2015-04-27) Caro, Denis H. J.
The 21st century events will undoubtedly require attention to the leadership challenges of emergency management systems. Based on a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study reports on key informant analysis of the perspectives of leading professionals in emergency management across Canada. The emerging model points to the importance of eight specific attributes of transformational leadership in the context of emergency management and suggests that contextualization of health leadership is of particular import.
The q-factor Model and the Redundancy of the Value Factor: An Application to Hedge Funds
(2015-04-20) Racicot, François-Éric; Théoret, Raymond
We test the new Fama and French five-factor model on a sample of hedge fund strategies. This model embeds the q-factor asset pricing model which lies on the CMA and RMW factors. We find that the HML factor is not redundant for many strategies, as conjectured by Fama and French (2015) in their setting. HML seems to embed risk dimensions which are not included in the Fama and French new factors. In contrast to Fama and French (2015), the alpha puzzle is robust to the addition of CMA and RMW. Furthermore, hedge funds seem to prefer, on the one hand, firms which invest a lot to firms which invest less, and, on the other hand, weak firms over robust ones. Finally, our results are not sensitive to the addition of the Fung and Hsieh (1997, 2001, 2004) seven-factor model. However, the explanatory power of the eleven-factor model is much higher for some hedge fund strategies involved in arbitrage.
Implementing Robust Estimation Instruments for Panel Data Regression Models with Errors-in-Variables
(2015-03-27) Racicot, François-Éric
Keywords: EViews code; fixed effects; GMM; panel data; random effects; robust instruments.
Code Orange: Towards the Future of Strategic Leadership of Emergency Management Systems
(2015-03-26) Caro, Denis H. J.
Emergency management systems reflect require strategic leadership of an order not yet fully potentiated in Canada. When we ponder on past tragic events across Canada, what is the future role of strategic leaders in emergency management? A key informant study examines the perspectives of emergency, health care and IT leaders on the challenges of emergency management systems across Canada. The study underscores the eight unique strategic leadership challenges in this important specialization.
eParticipation in Saudi Arabia: A User-centric Model
(2015-01-27) Alrashedi, Raja; Persaud, Ajax
This research project provides insights into the readiness of users to participate in eGovernment activities in Saudi Arabia. The level of eParticipation in Saudi Arabia could be increased by policymakers who understand and implement the influences found in this research. A user-centric model of eParticipation is developed and is empirically tested drawing on a review of the literature. The findings are based on an online survey of a sample of 240 citizens and residents living in Saudi Arabia. The study found that there are positive and negative influences on eParticipation. Awareness, social influence and identity, and benefits of eGovernment have a positive influence on eParticipation. Social media and trust are not significantly related to eParticipation. This project contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence of users’ willingness to eParticipate in government policy- and decision-making activities, as well as in other political and democratic processes in Saudi Arabia. Keywords: eGovernment, eParticipation, Social Identity and Influence, Awareness, Trust, and Social Media
Monitoring Function of the Board and Audit Fees: Contingent upon Ownership Concentration
(2014-11-24) Bozec, Richard; Dia, Mohamed
Board independence is considered as a key corporate governance mechanism to help preserve the necessary checks and balances between the board and executive management. Request for external audit services falls into the realm of board strategic decisions. To test the monitoring function of the board, the objective of this paper is to revisit the board independence-audit fees relationship while taking into account the ownership structure of the firm. Two effects are unfolding along the ownership concentration spectrum: separation of ownership and control (Principal-Agent problems) and separation of voting and cash flow rights (Principal-Principal problems). The study is conducted over a seven-year period (2002-2008) using panel regressions on a sample of Canadian publicly traded companies. The results show a positive and significant relationship between board independence (BI) and audit fees (AF) when ownership is concentrated in the hands of a dominant/controlling shareholder. The highest level of separation between voting and cash flow rights is also found in controlled entities. The higher the gap between voting and cash flow rights of the ultimate owner, the stronger the relationship between BI and AF. Overall, evidence supports both the Demand Based Perspective on audit fees and the Expropriation Effect argument.
Strategic HR Alliances among INGOs Engaged in Sustainable Development Projects
(2014-11-24) O'Sullivan, Sharon L.
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The Pástor-Stambaugh Empirical Model Revisited: Evidence from Robust Instruments
(2014-10-17) Racicot, François-Éric; Rentz, William F.
This paper uses a new parsimonious and robust instrumental variables technique to minimize the specification errors in the Pástor-Stambaugh (PS) empirical model. In particular, we use an improvement of Hansen’s generalized method of moments (GMM) that uses higher moments that are robust instruments. Results with these instruments indicate that the liquidity measure used in the PS empirical model is improperly measured and/or is ill-conceived. Although this article applies a new GMM framework to a financial application, this technique is applicable to estimation problems in the presence of specification errors in all areas of quantitative finance. Keywords: GMM; specification errors; robust instrumental variables; higher moments; Pástor-Stambaugh; liquidity risk.
Macroeconomic Shocks, Forward-Looking Dynamics, and the Behaviour of Hedge Funds
(2014-09-22) Racicot, François-Éric; Théoret, Raymond
We investigate how hedge funds’ strategies react, as a group, to macroeconomic risk and uncertainty. Adopting the methodology of Beaudry et al. (2001), we track the behaviour of the cross-sectional dispersions of hedge fund strategies’ returns, betas and alphas over the business cycle. The pattern of strategies’ betas supports Beaudry et al.’s conjecture: hedge funds reduce their risk-taking (betas) during economic slowdowns, which makes their strategies more homogeneous and thus contributes to increase systemic risk in the financial system. However, the cyclical behaviour of the cross-sectional dispersions of strategies’ returns and strategies’ alphas is not in line with Beaudry et al.’s conjecture. These dispersions increase during times of rising macroeconomic uncertainty, which suggests the prevalence of the Black’s (1976) leverage effect during times of financial turmoil and the fact that the exposure of hedge fund strategies to risk factors is quite different. Finally, although remaining important, procyclicality seems to recede in the hedge fund industry, which suggests that a learning process is at play.
Monitoring Role of the Board and Ownership Concentration: From Interests Misalignment to Expropriation
(2014-08-20) Bozec, Richard; Dia, Mohamed
Board independence is considered as a key corporate governance mechanism to help preserve the necessary checks and balances between the board and executive management. Despite all the value placed on the independent director by financial market participants and regulators, empirical evidence on the relation between board independence and firm performance is largely inconclusive. The objective of this paper is to revisit the board independence-performance relationship while taking into account the ownership structure of the firm. Two effects are unfolding along the ownership concentration spectrum: separation of ownership and control (Principal-Agent problems) and separation of voting and cash flow rights (Principal-Principal problems). The study is conducted over a four-year period (2002-2005) using panel regressions on a sample of Canadian publicly traded companies (502 firm-year observations). The results show a positive and significant relationship between board independence and Tobin’s Q only when ownership is concentrated in the hands of a controlling shareholder (legal control). The highest level of separation between voting and cash flow rights is also found in controlled entities. The higher the gap between voting and cash flow rights, the stronger the relationship between board independence and performance. Overall, evidence supports the expropriation effect argument. The findings underline the importance of putting in place independent directors in countries like Canada characterized by high ownership concentration and high levels of private benefits of control.
Engineering Robust Instruments for GMM Estimation of Panel Data Regression Models with Errors in Variables: A Note
(2014-06-17) Racicot, François-Éric
Le texte intégral de ce document de travail n'est pas disponible en ligne. Pour plus de renseignements sur ce document, veuillez communiquer avec la Direction de la recherche de l'École de gestion Telfer à l'adresse recherche@telfer.uottawa.ca. // The full text of this working paper is not available online. For more information regarding this working paper, please contact the Telfer School of Management Research Office at research@telfer.uottawa.ca.
Perceptions of Characteristics of Potential Adopters of Online Shopping in Saudi Arabia
(2014-05-23) Ahmed, Sadrudin A.; Shawli, Nidaa
This article reports on a research dealing with relationship between Saudi Arabian respondents’ acceptance of an online grocery store(OGS)-an innovation in Saudi Arabia, their reaction to the features and characteristics of an OGS, their of online behavior, their demographic and value profile, achievement motivation, attitude toward online grocery shopping, computer orientation, innovativeness and search proneness. Results of the study showed that there was a fair acceptance of an OGS. The store described by us met the five conditions laid out by literature for successful adoption of new innovation, namely, relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and results demonstrability. In terms of the features of a grocery store, home delivery and security of website were found to be the most valuable features. Service oriented features were valued more highly than price and discount oriented ones. As one would expect, it was also found that positive attitude towards OGS and frequency of the present online shopping were strong predictors of acceptance of OGS. Lastly it was found that future adopters of an OGS are likely to be oriented towards both humans and computers, have an account on You Tube, are innovative, tend to search extensively before purchasing, are competitive and search for excellence. They emphasize security of website and store services above price and promotions. Therefore, it appears there is a demand for OGS in Saudi Arabia. An OGS should provide excellent web security and service, and target present online shoppers who are oriented towards both computer and humans and are innovators. OGS design should provide a shopper facility for easy comparison of prices, brands, product expiry dates and other relevant information for ideal choice decision. (...)

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