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Industry and the public
Title
Industry and the public.
Creator
Grace, Eugene Gifford
Date Issued
1936
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174903
Subject Headings
Industries -- United States., Economic planning -- United States.
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Opportunity for private enterprise or, Benefits for business through cooperative group insurance
Title
Opportunity for private enterprise or, Benefits for business through cooperative group insurance.
Creator
National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service.
Date Issued
1944
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3091377
Subject Headings
Insurance -- economics -- United States., Insurance -- history -- United States., Insurance Benefits -- history -- United States., Insurance, Health -- history -- United States., Insurance, Health -- economics -- United States., Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- economics -- United States., Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- history -- United States., Insurance, Health -- United States.
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Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration
Title
Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration.
Creator
Pressley, Cindy L., Florida Atlantic University, Patterson, Patricia M., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description
The purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian...
Show moreThe purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian viewpoint, by engaging in a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment is developed in this dissertation by bringing together elements from utopian literature and scientific thought experiment literature using a public administration point of view. The research approach used in this dissertation is a three-phase process that involves reviewing and connecting pertinent literatures, using imagination and the process of writing to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment, and illustrating and examining a utopian/dystopian thought experiment in public administration. In this dissertation, I seek to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment as a new strategy of inquiry that is developed specifically for public administration. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide an additional tool to the researcher who is seeking to expand the viewpoints through which the researcher can examine administrative activities.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000610
Subject Headings
Public administration--Philosophy, Place (Philosophy), Policy sciences--Economic aspects, Political planning--United States, Postmodernism--Social aspects
Format
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Does leadership matter? The effects of information technology expertise on the market value and performance of a firm
Title
Does leadership matter? The effects of information technology expertise on the market value and performance of a firm.
Creator
Khallaf, Ashraf A., Florida Atlantic University, Skantz, Terrance R.
Abstract/Description
This dissertation examines the stock market reaction to 474 announcements of hiring chief information officers (CIOs) in the 1987--2002 period, and firm performance for periods up to two years following the CIO appointment. The study reports that the announcements are associated with significantly positive abnormal returns (0.48 percent). The returns are more pronounced when the new CIO is hired from an IT leader firm (1.94 percent). Abnormal returns are significantly positive related with...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the stock market reaction to 474 announcements of hiring chief information officers (CIOs) in the 1987--2002 period, and firm performance for periods up to two years following the CIO appointment. The study reports that the announcements are associated with significantly positive abnormal returns (0.48 percent). The returns are more pronounced when the new CIO is hired from an IT leader firm (1.94 percent). Abnormal returns are significantly positive related with the CIO's level of education and high-technology firms, and negatively related with firm size. In addition, there is no significant difference in market reaction between the announcements that publicize the creation of a new position and those that imply the filling of an existing position with new hires. Further, the study finds an association between the appointment of the new CIO and subsequent improvement in the accounting measures of profitability. Findings reveal that CIO firms outperform their matched firms and their industry counterparts for the two years following the announcements relative to the year prior to the CIO appointment.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12095
Subject Headings
Technological innovations--Economic aspects, Performance standards--United States, Organizational effectiveness, Information resources management, Information technology--Management, Corporations--Valuation, Strategic planning
Format
Document (PDF)