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Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Business Administration program, College of Business, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Dissertation: Two Essays on Industry Tournament Incentives , Sarah Almisher

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment , Amin Amoulashkarian

Dissertation: Two Essays on Retail Trading , Qiqi Liang

Dissertation: Two Essays in Real Estate Dynamics , Navid Safari

Dissertation: Firm Capabilities, Great Power Competition, and the Structural Reshaping of Globalization , Samuel Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Dissertation: Three Essays on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Momentum, and Firm Investment Efficiency , Chen Chen

Dissertation: Exploring Blockchain-Based Digital Transformation In Organizations , Weiru Chen

Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Award-Winning CEOS , Veronika Ciarleglio

Dissertation: Two’s a Crowd? Implications of Economic Geography for Corporate Governance , Matthew Farrell

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of CEO Social Activism , Habib Islam

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Role of Empathy in Consumer Response to User-Generated Content , Mohammadali Koorank Beheshti

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior , Saeed Zal

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value , Rongyao Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity , Fatemeh Askarzadeh

Dissertation: Application of Optimization Techniques in Corporate Cash Management , Venkateswara Reddy Dondeti

Dissertation: Two Essays on Corruption, FDI, and Digitalization , Mahdi Forghani Bajestani

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Information Embedded in Flow of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) , Hamed Yousefi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Dissertation: The Influence of Mating Motives on Reliance on Form Versus Function in Product Choice , Seyed Hamid Abbassi Hosseini

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy , Rajib Chowdhury

Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation , Son T. Dang

Dissertation: Essay 1: How We Feel: The Role of Macro-Economic Sentiment in Advertising Spending-Sales Relationship; Essay 2: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Effect of Emotional Uncertainty and Arousal on Healthy Food Choices , Leila Khoshghadam

Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance , Jin Ho Kim

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Roles of Review Valence and Conflict in Online Relationships , Ran Liu

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias , Zhaohui Li

Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt , Xiang Long

Dissertation: Pricing the Cloud: An Auction Approach , Yang Lu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Envy , Murong Miao

Dissertation: Two Essays on Negotiations Between Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors , Aydin Selim Oksoy

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume , Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing , Qiuye Cai

Dissertation: Success Factors Impacting Artificial Intelligence Adoption --- Perspective From the Telecom Industry in China , Hong Chen

Dissertation: Early Information Access to Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion , Anjee Gorkhali

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Consumer Acculturation Process – A Need for and Development of a Consumer Acculturation Measure , Kristina Marie Harrison

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions , Trung Nguyen

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior , Andrew Root

Dissertation: Underlying Factors Behind Generation of Different Types of User-Generated Content - Impact of Individual and Brand/Product Level Factors in Generation of Brand-Oriented Content and Community-Oriented Content , Kemal Cem Soylemez

Dissertation: Customers’ Goal-Related Behavior in Loyalty Programs , Junzhou Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Dissertation: Security Risk Tolerance in Mobile Payment: A Trade-off Framework , Yong Chen

Dissertation: Numerical Framing and Emotional Arousal as Moderators of Review Valence and Consumer Choices , Anh Dang

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment , Sonik Mandal

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Creation and Success of New Ventures , Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh

Dissertation: Effectiveness of Social Media Analytics on Detecting Service Quality Metrics in the U.S. Airline Industry , Xin Tian

Dissertation: Two Essays on Value Co-Creation , Hangjun Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends , Bader Almuhtadi

Dissertation: The Role of Consumer Ethnocentrism on the Effects of Domestic vs Foreign Product Failure on Post Consumption Emotions and Complaint Behaviors , Kittinand Bandhumasuta

Dissertation: The Impact of Help-Self and Help-Others Appeals Upon Participation in Clinical Research Trials , Susan Lewis Casey

Dissertation: Is Every Tweet Created Equal? A Framework to Identify Relevant Tweets for Business Research , Thad Chee

Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment , Feng Dong

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Impact of Institutional Structures on Entrepreneurship: Country Level Analysis , Mehdi Sharifi Khobdeh

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Antecedents and Effects of Internationalizing Out of Emerging and Developed Economies , Mark Robert Mallon

Dissertation: From Placebo to Panacea: Exploring the Influence of Price, Suspicion, and Persuasion Knowledge on Consumers’ Perception of Quality , Vahid Rahmani

Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability , Zhijun Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Dissertation: The Effect of XBRL and Social Media on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts , Dazhi Chong

Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting , Asligul Erkan

Dissertation: Two Essays on The Internationalization Speed of New Ventures , Orhun Guldiken

Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value , Yi Jian

Dissertation: Valence or Volume? Maximizing Online Review Influence Across Consumers, Products, and Marketing , Elika Kordrostami

Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium , Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui

Dissertation: A Study of the Impact of Information Blackouts on the Bullwhip Effect of a Supply Chain Using Discrete-Event Simulations , Elizabeth Rasnick

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets , Jiancheng Shen

Dissertation: Two Studies on The Use of Information Technology in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) , David McCaw Simmonds

Dissertation: Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context , Christina Helen Tupper

Dissertation: Ambidexterity: The Interplay of Supply Chain Management Competencies and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Organizational Performance , Serdar Turedi

Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling , Zhaobo Zhu

Dissertation: Buying Love Through Social Media: How Different Types Of Incentives Impact Consumers’ Online Sharing Behavior , Yueming Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy , Mehmet Deren Caliskan

Dissertation: "The Magic Formula: Scent and Brand"- The Influence of Olfactory Sensory Co-Branding on Consumer Evaluations and Experiences , Ceren Ekebas

Dissertation: The Value of Integrated Information Systems for U.S. General Hospitals , Liuliu Fu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management , Sanjib Guha

Dissertation: Three Essays on Opportunistic Claiming Behavior in a Services Setting: Customers and Front Line Employees Perspectives , Denis Khantimirov

Dissertation: Spillover Effects of Brand Alliance and Service Experience on Host Brands in Loyalty Program Partnerships , Gulfem Cigdem Kutlu

Dissertation: Measuring Consumer Expectations of Salesperson Unethicality: A Scale Development , Amiee Mellon

Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations , Liang Meng

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing , Nadia Asmaa Nafar

Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective , Amir Pezeshkan

Dissertation: Three Essays on Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Development , Adam Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Earnings Management in Emerging Markets , Shuji Rosey Bao

Dissertation: Dynamic Capabilities and Resilient Organizations Amid Environmental Jolts , Stav Fainshmidt

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of Direct Versus Indirect Comparative Advertising , Chun-Kai Hsu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective , Ryan Lawrence Mason

Dissertation: The Effect of Online Reviews on Attitude and Purchase Intention: How Consumers Respond to Mixed Reviews , Chatdanai Pongpatipat

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Enterprise Strategy for Multinational Firms , Veselina Plamenova Vracheva

Dissertation: The Antecedents and Effects of Strategic Caring: A Cross-National Empirical Study , Thomas Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages? , James Edward Benton

Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate , Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg

Dissertation: Three Essays on Immigrant Entrepreneurship , Kaveh Moghaddam

Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli , Denise Williams Streeter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Dissertation: An Examination of Middle Manager Innovation Behaviors and Institutional Factors Impact on Organizational Innovation in the USA and Mexico , J. Lee Brown III

Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing , Charles William Duval

Dissertation: Three Essays on Strategic Risk Taking , Krista Burrill Lewellyn

Dissertation: Two Essays on Executive Pay and Firm Performance , Thuong Quang Nguyen

Dissertation: A Study of Risk-Taking Behavior in Investment Banking , Elzotbek Rustambekov

Dissertation: A Study of Failures in the US Banking Industry , Joseph Trendowski

Dissertation: Two Essays on Behavioral Finance , Quang Viet Vu

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Dissertation: Three Essays on Individual Currency Traders , Boris Sebastian Abbey

Dissertation: Cross-listing Premium or Market Timing , Moustafa M. Abu El Fadl

Dissertation: Warranty and Price as Quality Signals: The effect of Signal Consistency and Unexpectedness on Product Perception , Sultan Alaswad Alenazi

Dissertation: The Behavior and Choices of Serial Bidders in M&A Transactions: A Prospect Theory Approach , Ahmed Essam El-Din El-Bakry

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market , Ajay Kongera

Dissertation: Intercultural Accommodation of Ethnic Minority Consumers: An Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects in Service Encounters , Sarah Mady

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

For Love or Money: Investor Motivations in Equity-Based Crowdfunding , Jason C. Cherubini

The Great Resignation: An Exploration of Strategies to Combat School Bus Driver Shortages in the Post-COVID-19 Era , James E. Cole Jr.

An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment and Confidence Regarding Interest Rates in Disclosures of Public Firms in the U.S. Fintech Sector , James J. Farley

Motivations for Planning: Uncovering the Inhibitors to the Adoption of Comprehensive Financial Planning for Business Owners , Daniel R. Gilham

An Examination of Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance and Success , Matthew Alan Grace

All Quiet on The Digital Front: The Unseen Psychological Impacts on Cybersecurity First Responders , Tammie R. Hollis

Commitment to Change Dimensions: The Influence of Innovative Work Behavior and Organizational Environments , Michael Holmes

Turmoil in the Workforce: Introduction of the Nomadic Employee , Catrina Hopkins

Attention-Grabbing Tactics on Social Media , Arjun Kadian

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Building a Mentor-Mentee Maturity Model , Leroy A. Alexander

Do Auditors Respond to Changes in Clients’ Analyst Coverage? Evidence from a Natural Experiment , Mohammad Alkhamees

Designing a Messaging Strategy to Improve Information Security Policy Compliance , Federico Giovannetti

Are all pictures worth 1,000 words? An Investigation of Fit Between Graph Type and Performance on Accounting Data Analytics Tasks , Shawn Paul Granitto

An Enterprise Risk Management Framework to Design Pro-Ethical AI Solutions , Quintin P. McGrath

Deceptive Appeals and Cognitive Influences Used in Fraudulent Scheme Sales Pitches , Rafael J. Toledo

Using Online Reviews to Identify How Hotels Can Satisfy Travelers With Pets While Making Money , Sonia Weinhaus

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The IS Social Continuance Model: Using Conversational Agents to Support Co-creation , Naif Alawi

The Use of Data Analytic Visualizations to Inform the Audit Risk Assessment: The Impact of Initial Visualization Form and Documentation Focus , Rebecca N. Baaske (Becca)

Identification of Entrepreneurial Competencies in I-Corps Site Teams at the University of South Florida , Mark A. Giddarie

Understanding Nonprofit Boards: An Exploratory Study of the Governance Practices of Regional Nonprofits , Susan Ryan Goodman

Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Support Community , Andrew J. Hafer

Who to Choose? Rating Broker Best Practices in the Medicare Advantage Industry , Darwin R. Hale

Bridging the Innovatino Gap at SOCOM , Gregory J. Ingram

Improving Environmental Protection: One Imagined Touch at a Time , Luke Ingalls Liska

Residential Curbside Recycle Context Analysis , Ntchanang Mpafe

Fighting Mass Diffusion of Fake News on Social Media , Abdallah Musmar

Managing Incomplete Data in the Patient Discharge Summary to Support Correct Hospital Reimbursements , Fadi Naser Eddin

GAO Bid Protests by Small Business: Analysis of Perceived and Reported Outcomes in Federal Contracting , David M. Snyder

Engagement and Meaningfulness as Determinants of Employee Retention: A Longitudinal Case Study , Calvin Williams

Public Budgeting as Moral Dilemma , Ben Wroblewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Improving Engagement: The Moderating Effect of Leadership Style on the Relationship Between Psychological Capital and Employee Engagement , Scott Beatrice

Physician Self-Efficacy and Risk-Taking Attitudes as Determinants of Upcoding and Downcoding Errors: An Empirical Investigation , Samantha J. Champagnie

Digital Identity: A Human-Centered Risk Awareness Study , Toufic N. Chebib

Clarifying the Relationship of Design Thinking to the Military Decision-Making Process , Thomas S. Fisher

Essays on the Disposition Effect , Matthew Henriksson

Analysis of Malicious Behavior on Social Media Platforms Using Agent-Based Modeling , Agnieszka Anna Onuchowska

Who Rises to the Top: An Investigation of the Essential Skills Necessary for Partners of Non-Big 4 Public Accounting Firms , Amanda K. Thompson-Abbott

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

The Financial and Nonfinancial Performance Measures That Drive Utility Abandonments and Transfers in the State of Florida , Daniel Acheampong

Locating a New Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a Framework for a University Campus , Douglas H. Carter

Understanding Employee Engagement: An Examination of Millennial Employees and Perceived Human Resource Management Practices , Danielle J. Clark

The Potential Impact Radius of a Natural Gas Transmission Line and Real Estate Valuations: A Behavioral Analysis , Charles M. Hilterbrand Jr.

Introducing a Mobile Health Care Platform in an Underserved Rural Population: Reducing Assimilations Gaps on Adoption and Use via Nudges , Joseph Hodges

Controlling Turnover in an Inside Sales Organization: What are the Contributing Factors , Dennis H. Kimerer

An Emergent Theory of Executive Leadership Selection: Leveraging Grounded Theory to Study the U.S. Military's Special Forces Assessment and Selection Process , Darryl J. Lavender

Essays on Migration Flows and Finance , Suin Lee

The Underutilized Tool of Project Management - Emotional Intelligence , Gerald C. Lowe

Increasing the Supply of the Missing Middle Housing Types in Walkable Urban Core Neighborhoods: Risk, Risk Reduction and Capital , Shrimatee Ojah Maharaj

Playing Darts in the Dark: How are Chamber of Commerce Leaders Aligned for Greater Effectiveness? , Robert J. Rohrlack Jr.

Are Transfer Pricing Disclosures Related to Tax Reporting Transparency? The Impact of Auditor-Provided Transfer Pricing Services , Stephanie Y. Walton

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Price Transparency in the United States Healthcare System , Gurlivleen (Minnie) Ahuja

How to Build a Climate of Quality in a Small to Medium Enterprise: An Action Research Project , Desmond M. Bishop III

Banking on Blockchain: A Grounded Theory Study of the Innovation Evaluation Process , Priya D. Dozier

Enhancing the Design of a Cybersecurity Risk Management Solution for Communities of Trust , James E. Fulford Jr.

An Examination of the Progressive and Regressive Factors that Business Owners Consider When Choosing Whether or Not to Implement an Exit Strategy , David C. Pickard

The Relationship between Ambient Lighting Color and Hotel Bar Customer Purchase Behavior and Satisfaction , Kunal Shah

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) Industry and the Business Impacts of the Evolution of the Federal Regulatory Environment , Darren W. Spencer

Intercultural Communication Between International Military Organizations; How Do You Turn a ‘No’ Into a ‘Yes’? , Douglas A. Straka

Essential Leadership Skills for Frontline Managers in a Multicultural Organization , Janelle Ward

Moffitt Cancer Center: Leadership, Culture and Transformation , W. James Wilson

Two Essays on String of Earnings Benchmarks , Yiyang Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Multi-Step Tokenization of Automated Clearing House Payment Transactions , Privin Alexander

The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Investment and Disclosure on Cooperation in Business Collaborations , Sukari Farrington

What Factors during the Genesis of a Startup are Causal to Survival? , Gilbert T. Gonzalez

The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? , Mohamad Ali Hasbini

The Effect of Expanded Audit Report Disclosures on Users’ Confidence in the Audit and the Financial Statements , Peter Kipp

An Examination of Innovation Idea Selection Factors in Large Organizations , Troy A. Montgomery

Essays on Sales Coaching , Carlin A. Nguyen

Vital Signs of U.S. Osteopathic Medical Residency Programs Pivoting to Single Accreditation Standards , Timothy S. Novak

Leaders Who Learn: The Intersection of Behavioral Science, Adult Learning and Leadership , Natalya I. Sabga

Toward a Systemic Model for Governance and Strategic Management: Evaluating Stakeholder Theory Versus Shareholder Theory Approaches , James A. Stikeleather

A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Cognitive Awareness Training on Transaction Processing Accuracy: An Introduction to the ACE Theoretical Construct , John Townsend

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Effect of Presentation Format on Investor Judgments and Decisions: Does the Effect Differ for Varying Task Demands? , Kevin Agnew

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Multi-Task Setting Involving Simple and Complex Tasks: An Exploratory Study of Employee Motivation , Maia Jivkova Farkas

Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions , Marcin Krolikowski

Do Social Biases Impede Auditor Reliance on Specialists? Toward a Theory of Social Similarity , Rina Maxine Limor

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Psychological Distance: The Relation Between Construals, Mindsets, and Professional Skepticism , Jason Rasso

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Combining Natural Language Processing and Statistical Text Mining: A Study of Specialized Versus Common Languages , Jay Jarman

An Empirical Investigation of Decision Aids to Improve Auditor Effectiveness in Analytical Review , Robert N. Marley

The Effects of Item Complexity and the Method Used to Present a Complex Item on the Face of a Financial Statement on Nonprofessional Investors` Judgments , Linda Gale Ragland

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Two Essays on Information Ambiguity and Informed Traders’ Trade-Size Choice , Ziwei Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Two Essays on the Conflict of Interests within the Financial Services Industry-- Financial Industry Consolidation: The Motivations and Consequences of the Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA) and “Down but Not Out” Mutual Fund Manager Turnover within Fund Families , Lonnie Lashawn Bryant

Two Essays on Multiple Directorships , Chia-wei Chen

Two Essays on Financial Condition of Firms , Sanjay Kudrimoti

A Study of Cross-Border Takeovers: Examining the Impact of National Culture on Internalization Benefits, and the Implications of Early Versus Late-Mover Status for Bidders and Their Rivals , Tanja Steigner

Two Essays on Corporate Governance⎯Are Local Directors Better Monitors, and Directors Incentives and Earnings Management , Hong Wan

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

The Role of Ethnic Compatibility in Attitude Formation: Marketing to America’s Diverse Consumers , Cynthia Rodriguez Cano

Two Essays on Venture Capital: What Drives the Underpricing of Venture CapitalBacked IPOs and Do Venture Capitalists Provide Anything More than Money? , Donald Flagg

Two essays on market efficiency: Tests of idiosyncratic risk: informed trading versus noise and arbitrage risk, and agency costs and the underlying causes of mispricing: information asymmetry versus conflict of interests , Jung Chul Park

The impact of management's tone on the perception of management's credibility in forecasting , Robert D. Slater

Uncertainty in the information supply chain: Integrating multiple health care data sources , Monica Chiarini Tremblay

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Adolescent alcohol use and educational outcomes , Wesley A. Austin

Certificate of need regulation in the nursing home industry: Has it outlived its usefulness? , Barbara J. Caldwell

The impacts of the handoffs on software development: A cost estimation model , Michael Jay Douglas

Using emergent outcome controls to manage dynamic software development , Michael Loyd Harris

The information technology professional's psychological contract viewed through their employment arrangement and the relationship to organizational behaviors , Sandra Kay Newton

The causal effect of alcohol consumption on employment status , Chanvuth Sangchai

The effect of transportation subsidies on urban sprawl , Qing Su

The effects of in-group bias and decision aids on auditors' evidence evaluation , Eileen Zalkin Taylor

The single market and pharmaceutical industry in the European Union: Is there any evidence of price convergence? , Aysegul Timur

A structural approach to the study of intra-organizational coalitions , Dean T. Walsh

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This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana College of Business. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Independent external audits of foreign banking organizations (FBOs) operating in the U.S. , Bernard V. Khomenko

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

E-textbooks : will there be a role for the college bookstore in their distribution? , Anne E. Iverson

How the top five automobile manufacturers reacted to the events of September 11, 2001 in their print advertisements , Jessica Walrath

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

American Indian culture as a potential intervening factor in Internet acceptance , Trina L. Finley

Recruitment and retention strategies to combat nationwide nursing shortages , James R. Gillhouse

Evaluation of accounting software tailored for farming operations , Chad Peder Lee

Role of traditional business principles in today's economy , Joseph D. McCaffery

Making sense| Brand management in the new economy , Ken Quinn

Implementing an EPR program in the United States , Samantha Ann Sproson

Cultural impact of NAFTA on Mexico , Maitane Zuloaga

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Empathic negotiation: Addressing the need for putting feeling into the negotiation process , Garth W. Ferro

Japan goes web crazy : e-commerce and online shopping trend [sic] and future in Japan , Masahisa Hanamura

Generating online sales for small businesses through search engines , Dallas Neil

An examination of the potential of microenterprise development as a tool for social welfare reform , Henry Jay Wagner

Using permission-based E-mail as a medium for customer communications , Birgit Weischedel

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Distance education , Brent Booth

Challenge of a new standard for the governmental reporting format , Jennifer J. Cote

The core competency model in acquisition strategy development of the small and midsize environmental technology company , Leslie Ann Jensen

Investigation of the long-term viability of Major League Soccer, and soccer as a sport in the USA , Stian Jordalen

Industry-specific set of e-business solutions : An introduction to vertical communities , Brumby McLeod

The state of intellectual property rights in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative (APEC) , Jeffrey P. Radighieri

Proposal for a small business development center on the Fort Belknap Reservation , Eleanor Yellowrobe

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Private enterprise in Bulgaria: A strategic assessment of opportunities in an emerging democracy , David G. Conklin

Operating plan for the Montana Business Plan Competition , Patrick J. Dailey

Amending the Single Audit Act| Expected impacts within the state of Alaska , Kristin K. Dzinich

Total quality management : involvement of craft-level workers on capital investment projects , Matthew Hamlin

An overview of ideas and principles on equity valuation that emerge from Warren Buffet's [i.e. Buffett's] letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. , Cameron Lawrence

Potential effects of electric utility industry deregulation on Montana Power Company , Heidi A. Wright

Montana's Profession Monitoring Program , Kimberley Vinso Wyatt

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

How nonprofit organizations can build brand equity using the World Wide Web; trends and developments , Christa Keivan

Overview and evaluation of APEC members' current stage of investment liberalization , Carl-Christian Nitzsche

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

EduSoft Inc. : three year business plan 1996-1998 , Joel A. Block

Pikuni Lodge , Raymond Montoya

Business plan and accounting system for Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch , Timothy G. Olson

Estate planning in situations where the surviving spouse may not be a U.S. citizen , Harry Clinton Owen

Poly Advertising and Engineering| A business plan , Thom M. Tingley

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Assessing worldmindedness among college students in western Montana , Heidi L. Connole

China's changing shape: From socialism to capitalism , Robert R. Edmonson

Developing a sound business strategy for the continued operation of Interstate Brands Bakery thriftshops in Montana and Wyoming , Mark L. Heide

Evolution of the American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL) program , Michelle D. Henderson

Textbook Management System survey , Neil A. Rixe

ODBMS capabilities report , Nathan Anthony Singer

Consumer rumors and corporate communications , Susan M. Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

American labor unions' impact on the success or failure of Total Quality Management systems , Robert J. Blumhagen

Doing business in China , Youhua Chen

Uses of Montana lumber products , Paul J. Davis

Investing in China: Tackle the uncertainties , Xiao Feng

Impact of energy conservation on the marketing practices of the electric utility industry , Gabriele Golissa

A Feasibility study for a credit analysis consulting business for small independently owned banks , Kenneth L. Jansa

The use of performance appraisal and compensation systems in total quality management , Patricia Martin

Family business succession , Judith G. Preston

Health care in Montana : A survey of Montana experience and opinion , Susan Selig Wallwork

Product line management for hospitals : literature research and feasibility study for St. Patrick Hospital Missoula Montana , Thomas A. Wozniak

Has computer technology brought economies of scope to service oriented businesses?| An analysis of architectural and engineering firms , Carol A. Wulfekuhle

Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993

Structure of the general merchandise retail market , Heiko Ebens

Competitive strategies in the U.S. long-distance telephone market , Bodo L. Grunenberg

Hong Kong: A gateway between the People's Republic of China & the United States of America , Xiaochun Guo

China's economic interactions with Asian countries , Chia-heng Kuan

Analysis of the recent economic and managerial reforms in China , Dingwei Lin

Expanded role of human resource management in joint-venture enterprises in the People's Republic of China , Wei Shao

Edge Specialty Sports , Randall Scott Spaulding

Selected examinations of business social responsibility: Theory to practice , Paul Svrcek

Accounting for the environment , Barbara J. Yahvah

Theses/Dissertations from 1992 1992

The State of day care in Missoula Montana , Scott Bixler

Changing environment of the Canadian retail trade sector , Mark Elwin Derbyshire

How to start a business: Coping with business regulations , Timothy Richard Engelhardt

Potential electronic information markets for the "Billings Gazette" , Dennis William Gaub

Developing carcass beef for the Japanese premium market: A Montana enterprise , Scott G. Hibbard

Airline fare pricing , Zeljko Ivic

Comparative study of equity accounting in the United States and the United Kingdom from a generally accepted accounting practices viewpoint , James Paul Luther

Market segmentation of downhill and cross-country snow skiers based on interpersonal orientation , Scott Marsh

Computers in small business accounting software problems , Eric J. Newman

An Acquisition Model to Emulate: An evaluation of the 1988 Packard Commission report , John M. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991

Taiwanese investment in selected cities in the People's Republic of China , Su-Wei Hu

Productivity in a multispecialty medical clinic , Stephen Fraser Johnson

Overview of selected aspects of the United States-Japan business relationship: improving the most important bilateral relationship in the world , Yoshiaki Matsuda

Franchise agreement : an analysis of the contractual elements of franchising , Renwick W. Richardson

Influence of shareholder concentration on Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation| Empirical evidence , M. Gulam Samahon-Oumar

A child of China's economic reform special economic zones , Amanda Xu

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Montana-Wyoming Foundation for Medical Care : a workflow study , Ray Fuller

Assigned risk plan : what will it mean for the State of Montana? , Deslie Gianchetta

Montana's business climate: How bad is it really? , Gary D. Moseman

What is the prevalent ethical managerial style of MBA students: Immoral amoral or moral? , William T. Rupp

Cultural synergistic innovation , Michihiro Yamaguchi

Reform in China's foreign trade : decentralization and diversification , Jianli Zhang

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Development of a pay for performance reward system in a health care organization , Jan Ammerman

Energy efficiency : the impact of energy costs on business concerns , Charles E. Beard

A preliminary investigation into the operation of a Montana vacation fitness resort , Roberta Dixon

Study of methodologies to estimate the number of chronically mentally ill adults in Montana , Sandra A. Harris

Interrelationship between Taiwanese and American currencies| Present accounting practices and future suggestions , Shufen Hu

Evaluation of methods of planned giving , Joseph H. Lawson

Assessment of need for a city/county jail in Great Falls Cascade County Montana , Mark L. Macek

Pesticide regulation and the turfgrass industry| A proposed program to meet present regulatory requirements , David M. Matzer

Need for, and the legal impact on, employee drug testing in Montana's acute care hospitals , Michael L. McPherson

Human resource profile| Theoretical approach toward developing an integrated process for pre-employment interviewing and post-hire job performance appraisal , Victor Moretto

Heavy equipment maintenance software for the mining industries | A market feasibility analysis , Diane Marie Nalty

Marketing of trusts: Distinguishing trusts from other financial services , Gregory E. Olson

Pilot study designed to provide preliminary data for developing a feasibility study of building a golf course in Bozeman, Montana , Mary N. Olson

The Neversweat & Washoe Tourist Railroad: An analysis of its development and a plan for growth , John Carl Podobnik

Software cost estimation of the Advanced Training System project using three computer-based models , Douglas Poteat

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50+ Management Research Topic Ideas To Fast-Track Your Project

Finding and choosing a strong research topic is the critical first step when it comes to crafting a high-quality dissertation, thesis or research project. If you’ve landed on this post, chances are you’re looking for a business/management-related research topic , but aren’t sure where to start. Here, we’ll explore a variety of  research ideas and topic thought-starters for management-related research degrees (MBAs/DBAs, etc.). These research topics span management strategy, HR, finance, operations, international business and leadership.

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The topic ideation and evaluation process has multiple steps . In this post, we’ll kickstart the process by sharing some research topic ideas within the management domain. This is the starting point, but to develop a well-defined research topic, you’ll need to identify a clear and convincing research gap , along with a well-justified plan of action to fill that gap.

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Overview: Business Research Topics

• Business /management strategy
• Human resources (HR) and industrial psychology
• Finance and accounting
• Operations management
• International business
• Actual business dissertations & theses

Strategy-Related Research Topics

• An analysis of the impact of digital transformation on business strategy in consulting firms
• The role of innovation in transportation practices for creating a competitive advantage within the agricultural sector
• Exploring the effect of globalisation on strategic decision-making practices for multinational Fashion brands.
• An evaluation of corporate social responsibility in shaping business strategy, a case study of power utilities in Nigeria
• Analysing the relationship between corporate culture and business strategy in the new digital era, exploring the role of remote working.
• Assessing the impact of sustainability practices on business strategy and performance in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry
• An analysis of the effect of social media on strategic partnerships and alliances development in the insurance industry
• Exploring the role of data-driven decision-making in business strategy developments following supply-chain disruptions in the agricultural sector
• Developing a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of market orientation on business strategy and performance in the video game publishing industry
• A review of strategic cost management best practices in the healthcare sector of Indonesia
• Identification of key strategic considerations required for the effective implementation of Industry 4.0 to develop a circular economy
• Reviewing how Globalisation has affected business model innovation strategies in the education sector
• A comparison of merger and acquisition strategies’ effects on novel product development in the Pharmaceutical industry
• An analysis of market strategy performance during recessions, a retrospective review of the luxury goods market in the US
• Comparing the performance of digital stakeholder engagement strategies and their contribution towards meeting SDGs in the mining sector

Topics & Ideas: Human Resources (HR)

• Exploring the impact of digital employee engagement practices on organizational performance in SMEs
• The role of diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• An evaluation of remote employee training and development programs efficacy in the e-commerce sector
• Comparing the effect of flexible work arrangements on employee satisfaction and productivity across generational divides
• Assessing the relationship between gender-focused employee empowerment programs and job satisfaction in the UAE
• A review of the impact of technology and digitisation on human resource management practices in the construction industry
• An analysis of the role of human resource management in talent acquisition and retention in response to globalisation and crisis, a case study of the South African power utility
• The influence of leadership style on remote working employee motivation and performance in the education sector.
• A comparison of performance appraisal systems for managing employee performance in the luxury retail fashion industry
• An examination of the relationship between work-life balance and job satisfaction in blue-collar workplaces, A systematic review
• Exploring HR personnel’s experiences managing digital workplace bullying in multinational corporations
• Assessing the success of HR team integration following merger and acquisition on employee engagement and performance
• Exploring HR green practices and their effects on retention of millennial talent in the fintech industry
• Assessing the impact of human resources analytics in successfully navigating digital transformation within the healthcare sector
• Exploring the role of HR staff in the development and maintenance of ethical business practices in fintech SMEs
• An analysis of employee perceptions of current HRM practices in a fully remote IT workspace

Topics & Ideas: Finance & Accounting

• An analysis of the effect of employee financial literacy on decision-making in manufacturing start-ups in Ghana
• Assessing the impact of corporate green innovation on financial performance in listed companies in Estonia
• Assessing the effect of corporate governance on financial performance in the mining industry in Papua New Guinea
• An evaluation of financial risk management practices in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia
• Exploring the role of leadership financial literacy in the transition from start-up to scale-up in the retail e-commerce industry.
• A review of influential macroeconomic factors on the adoption of cryptocurrencies as legal tender
• An examination of the use of financial derivatives in risk management
• Exploring the impact of the cryptocurrency disruption on stock trading practices in the EU
• An analysis of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in academic publishing houses
• A comparison of financial ratios performance in evaluating E-commerce startups in South Korea.
• An evaluation of the role of government policies in facilitating manufacturing companies’ successful transitioning from start-up to scale-ups in Denmark
• Assessing the financial value associated with industry 4.0 transitions in the Indian pharmaceutical industry
• Exploring the role of effective e-leadership on financial performance in the Nigerian fintech industry
• A review of digital disruptions in CRM practices and their associated financial impact on listed companies during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Exploring the importance of Sharia-based business practices on SME financial performance in multicultural countries

Ideas: Operations Management

• An assessment of the impact of blockchain technology on operations management practices in the transport industry of Estonia
• An evaluation of supply chain disruption management strategies and their impact on business performance in Lithuania
• Exploring the role of lean manufacturing in the automotive industry of Malaysia and its effects on improving operational efficiency
• A critical review of optimal operations management strategies in luxury goods manufacturing for ensuring supply chain resilience
• Exploring the role of globalization on Supply chain diversification, a pre/post analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic
• An analysis of the relationship between quality management and customer satisfaction in subscription-based business models
• Assessing the cost of sustainable sourcing practices on operations management and supply chain resilience in the Cocao industry.
• An examination of the adoption of behavioural predictive analytics in operations management practices, a case study of the
• Italian automotive industry
• Exploring the effect of operational complexity on business performance following digital transformation
• An evaluation of barriers to the implementation of agile methods in project management within governmental institutions
• Assessing how the relationship between operational processes and business strategy change as companies transition from start-ups to scale-ups
• Exploring the relationship between operational management and innovative business models, lessons from the fintech industry
• A review of best practices for operations management facilitating the transition towards a circular economy in the fast food industry
• Exploring the viability of lean manufacturing practices in Vietnam’s plastics industry
• Assessing engagement in cybersecurity considerations associated with operations management practices in industry 4.0 manufacturing

Topics & Ideas: International Business

• The impact of cultural differences in communication on international business relationships
• An evaluation of the role of government import and export policies in shaping international business practices
• The effect of global shipping conditions on international business strategies
• An analysis of the challenges of managing multinational corporations: branch management
• The influence of social media marketing on international business operations
• The role of international trade agreements on business activities in developing countries
• An examination of the impact of currency fluctuations on international business and cost competitiveness
• The relationship between international business and sustainable development: perspectives and benefits
• An evaluation of the challenges and opportunities of doing business in emerging markets such as the renewable energy industry
• An analysis of the role of internationalisation via strategic alliances in international business
• The impact of cross-cultural management on international business performance
• The effect of political instability on international business operations: A case study of Russia
• An analysis of the role of intellectual property rights in an international technology company’s business strategies
• The relationship between corporate social responsibility and international business strategy: a comparative study of different industries
• The impact of technology on international business in the fashion industry

Topics & Ideas: Leadership

• A comparative study of the impact of different leadership styles on organizational performance
• An evaluation of transformational leadership in today’s non-profit organizations
• The role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership and productivity
• An analysis of the relationship between leadership style and employee motivation
• The influence of diversity and inclusion on leadership practices in South Africa
• The impact of Artificial Intelligence technology on leadership in the digital age
• An examination of the challenges of leadership in a rapidly changing business environment: examples from the finance industry
• The relationship between leadership and corporate culture and job satisfaction
• An evaluation of the role of transformational leadership in strategic decision-making
• The use of leadership development programs in enhancing leadership effectiveness in multinational organisations
• The impact of ethical leadership on organizational trust and reputation: an empirical study
• An analysis of the relationship between various leadership styles and employee well-being in healthcare organizations
• The role of leadership in promoting good work-life balance and job satisfaction in the age of remote work
• The influence of leadership on knowledge sharing and innovation in the technology industry
• An investigation of the impact of cultural intelligence on cross-cultural leadership effectiveness in global organizations

Business/Management Dissertation & Theses

While the ideas we’ve presented above are a decent starting point for finding a business-related research topic, they are fairly generic and non-specific. So, it helps to look at actual dissertations and theses to see how this all comes together.

Below, we’ve included a selection of research projects from various management-related degree programs (e.g., MBAs, DBAs, etc.) to help refine your thinking. These are actual dissertations and theses, written as part of Master’s and PhD-level programs, so they can provide some useful insight as to what a research topic looks like in practice.

• Sustaining Microbreweries Beyond 5 Years (Yanez, 2022)
• Perceived Stakeholder and Stockholder Views: A Comparison Among Accounting Students, Non-Accounting Business Students And Non-Business Students (Shajan, 2020)
• Attitudes Toward Corporate Social Responsibility and the New Ecological Paradigm among Business Students in Southern California (Barullas, 2020)
• Entrepreneurial opportunity alertness in small business: a narrative research study exploring established small business founders’ experience with opportunity alertness in an evolving economic landscape in the Southeastern United States (Hughes, 2019)
• Work-Integrated Learning in Closing Skills Gap in Public Procurement: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study (Culver, 2021)
• Analyzing the Drivers and Barriers to Green Business Practices for Small and Medium Enterprises in Ohio (Purwandani, 2020)
• The Role of Executive Business Travel in a Virtual World (Gale, 2022)
• Outsourcing Security and International Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of Private Military Companies (PMCs) and Human Rights Violations (Hawkins, 2022)
• Lean-excellence business management for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Kurdistan region of Iraq (Mohammad, 2021)
• Science Data Sharing: Applying a Disruptive Technology Platform Business Model (Edwards, 2022)
• Impact of Hurricanes on Small Construction Business and Their Recovery (Sahu, 2022)

Looking at these titles, you can probably pick up that the research topics here are quite specific and narrowly-focused , compared to the generic ones presented earlier. This is an important thing to keep in mind as you develop your own research topic. That is to say, to create a top-notch research topic, you must be precise and target a specific context with specific variables of interest . In other words, you need to identify a clear, well-justified research gap.

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SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS − A UNIFYING DEFINITION, COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK, AND ASSESSMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR IDENTIFYING INFLUENCERS IN SOCIAL MEDIA , Shih-Hui Hsiao

WHY SUPPLIER INTEGRATION FAILS: A SALESPERSON’S PERSPECTIVE , Jae-Young Oh

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

WHY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT WORKS? A KNOWLEDGE-MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE , Liang Chen

MODELING LARGE-SCALE CROSS EFFECT IN CO-PURCHASE INCIDENCE: COMPARING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES AND MULTIVARIATE PROBIT MODELING , Zhiguo Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, AND NONPROFIT PERFORMANCE , Brandon Ofem

HOW DO CONSUMERS USE SOCIAL SHOPPING WEBSITES? THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL ENDORSEMENTS , Pei Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

AN INVESTIGATION INTO LONG-RUN ABNORMAL RETURNS USING PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING , Sunayan Acharya

USE OF VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL FINANCIAL REPORTING: THE EFFECT OF SPARKLINE , Priyanka Meharia

Dissertations from 2011 2011

NETWORK DRIVERS OF INTERCUSTOMER SOCIAL SUPPORT , Hulda G. Black

Dissertations from 2010 2010

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REPUTATION EFFECTS AND NETWORK CENTRALITY IN A MULTI-AGENCY CONTEXT , Emily Jane Plant

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF DOWNSTREAM CHANNEL ALLOWANCES , William Jason Rowe

Dissertations from 2009 2009

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, ALLIANCE NETWORKS, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE , Goce Andrevski

LINKING SERVICE ENCOUNTERS TO FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: AN EXTENDED APPROACH TO VALUATION , Carla Yvonne Childers

Dissertations from 2008 2008

INVESTORS REACTIONS TO COMPETITIVE ACTIONS AMONG RIVALS: A STEP TOWARD STRATEGIC ASSET PRICING THEORY , Margaret Vardell Hughes

THE INTERACTION OF HAPTIC IMAGERY WITH HAPTIC PERCEPTION FOR SIGHTED AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CONSUMERS , Shannon Bridgmon Rinaldo

Dissertations from 2007 2007

TWO ESSAYS ON BORROWING FROM BANKS AND LENDING SYNDICATES , Pankaj Kumar Maskara

THE DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF AN EXCHANGE-BASED MODEL OF INTERPERSONAL WORKPLACE EXCLUSION , Kristin Damato Scott

Dissertations from 2006 2006

INFORMATION SYSTEM CONTEXTUAL DATA QUALITY: A CASE STUDY , Daniel Lee Davenport

INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF ALTERNATE LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES , David Alexander Gaines

THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT TAXPAYERS WANT AND WHAT TAX PROFESSIONALS THINK THEY WANT: A REEXAMINATION OF CLIENT EXPECTATIONS AND TAX PROFESSIONAL AGGRESSIVENESS , Teresa Stephenson

Dissertations from 2005 2005

COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS IN ELECTRONIC NETWORKS - ACHIEVING COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH INTERORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS , Lei Chi

Dissertations from 2002 2002

SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A CROSSDOCKING OPERATION IN A JUST-IN-TIME ENVIRONMENT , Karina Hauser

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A thesis statement is a sentence that sums up the central point of your paper or essay . It usually comes near the end of your introduction .

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A thesis statement is a sentence that sums up the central point of your paper or essay . Everything else you write should relate to this key idea.

The thesis statement is essential in any academic essay or research paper for two main reasons:

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Sustainability challenges call for changes at different levels and scales, and actions by all sectors of society, including business. Prior research has identified the central role corporate strategies, innovations, and business models play in the move towards sustainability. In recent years, the focus of corporate sustainability literature has extended from minimising the negative impacts to a more strategic view of how companies can create a positive impact on the environment and societies. However, the adoption of truly sustainable business practices and the evidence of the progress made towards sustainable development remain limited. This study integrates the views from the literature fields of the traditional business model, corporate sustainability, and system transition, and focuses on advancing system-level sustainability through sustainable business models.

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Think of yourself as a member of a jury, listening to a lawyer who is presenting an opening argument. You'll want to know very soon whether the lawyer believes the accused to be guilty or not guilty, and how the lawyer plans to convince you. Readers of academic essays are like jury members: before they have read too far, they want to know what the essay argues as well as how the writer plans to make the argument. After reading your thesis statement, the reader should think, "This essay is going to try to convince me of something. I'm not convinced yet, but I'm interested to see how I might be."

An effective thesis cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no." A thesis is not a topic; nor is it a fact; nor is it an opinion. "Reasons for the fall of communism" is a topic. "Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe" is a fact known by educated people. "The fall of communism is the best thing that ever happened in Europe" is an opinion. (Superlatives like "the best" almost always lead to trouble. It's impossible to weigh every "thing" that ever happened in Europe. And what about the fall of Hitler? Couldn't that be "the best thing"?)

A good thesis has two parts. It should tell what you plan to argue, and it should "telegraph" how you plan to argue—that is, what particular support for your claim is going where in your essay.

Steps in Constructing a Thesis

First, analyze your primary sources.  Look for tension, interest, ambiguity, controversy, and/or complication. Does the author contradict himself or herself? Is a point made and later reversed? What are the deeper implications of the author's argument? Figuring out the why to one or more of these questions, or to related questions, will put you on the path to developing a working thesis. (Without the why, you probably have only come up with an observation—that there are, for instance, many different metaphors in such-and-such a poem—which is not a thesis.)

Once you have a working thesis, write it down.  There is nothing as frustrating as hitting on a great idea for a thesis, then forgetting it when you lose concentration. And by writing down your thesis you will be forced to think of it clearly, logically, and concisely. You probably will not be able to write out a final-draft version of your thesis the first time you try, but you'll get yourself on the right track by writing down what you have.

Keep your thesis prominent in your introduction.  A good, standard place for your thesis statement is at the end of an introductory paragraph, especially in shorter (5-15 page) essays. Readers are used to finding theses there, so they automatically pay more attention when they read the last sentence of your introduction. Although this is not required in all academic essays, it is a good rule of thumb.

Anticipate the counterarguments.  Once you have a working thesis, you should think about what might be said against it. This will help you to refine your thesis, and it will also make you think of the arguments that you'll need to refute later on in your essay. (Every argument has a counterargument. If yours doesn't, then it's not an argument—it may be a fact, or an opinion, but it is not an argument.)

This statement is on its way to being a thesis. However, it is too easy to imagine possible counterarguments. For example, a political observer might believe that Dukakis lost because he suffered from a "soft-on-crime" image. If you complicate your thesis by anticipating the counterargument, you'll strengthen your argument, as shown in the sentence below.

Some Caveats and Some Examples

A thesis is never a question.  Readers of academic essays expect to have questions discussed, explored, or even answered. A question ("Why did communism collapse in Eastern Europe?") is not an argument, and without an argument, a thesis is dead in the water.

A thesis is never a list.  "For political, economic, social and cultural reasons, communism collapsed in Eastern Europe" does a good job of "telegraphing" the reader what to expect in the essay—a section about political reasons, a section about economic reasons, a section about social reasons, and a section about cultural reasons. However, political, economic, social and cultural reasons are pretty much the only possible reasons why communism could collapse. This sentence lacks tension and doesn't advance an argument. Everyone knows that politics, economics, and culture are important.

A thesis should never be vague, combative or confrontational.  An ineffective thesis would be, "Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe because communism is evil." This is hard to argue (evil from whose perspective? what does evil mean?) and it is likely to mark you as moralistic and judgmental rather than rational and thorough. It also may spark a defensive reaction from readers sympathetic to communism. If readers strongly disagree with you right off the bat, they may stop reading.

An effective thesis has a definable, arguable claim.  "While cultural forces contributed to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the disintegration of economies played the key role in driving its decline" is an effective thesis sentence that "telegraphs," so that the reader expects the essay to have a section about cultural forces and another about the disintegration of economies. This thesis makes a definite, arguable claim: that the disintegration of economies played a more important role than cultural forces in defeating communism in Eastern Europe. The reader would react to this statement by thinking, "Perhaps what the author says is true, but I am not convinced. I want to read further to see how the author argues this claim."

A thesis should be as clear and specific as possible.  Avoid overused, general terms and abstractions. For example, "Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe because of the ruling elite's inability to address the economic concerns of the people" is more powerful than "Communism collapsed due to societal discontent."

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IDENTIFYING EFFECTIVE ATTRIBUTES AND TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE IN HEALTHCARE , Brian Gaul

A STUDY OF VARIOUS DATA SIZES USING MACHINE LEARNING , Sochaeta Koeum

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2022 2022

SOCIOECONOMIC LANDSCAPE RESTRUCTURING CAUSED BY PROPERTY APPRECIATION RATES , Abner Garcia

Vehicles and Emissions , Stephanie Martinez

A STUDY OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING CONCEPTS WITHIN A DECEPTIVE DEFENSE , Jacob Glenn Oedekerk

Analysis of Automated Vehicle Accidents Across the U.S. , Anissa Rocio Quintero

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2021 2021

An Overview on Amazon Rekognition Technology , Raghavendra Kumar Indla

A Study of Penetration Testing Processes and Tools , Sushmitha Reddy Mamilla

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2016 2016

CAN REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMS REDUCE THE RECIDIVISM OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS? , Tyneshia Renee Thompson MS.

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2014 2014

ELECTRONIC STUDENT-FORM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM , Donia I. Alsayed

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Developing focused auditing tools: A practical framework for creating formalized multi-level security policy specifications , Barbara Ann Brough

The influence of perceived corporate social responsibility on job satisfaction: The moderating role of organizational commitment , Xi Cheng

Mapping the intersection of teamwork and leadership: An analysis in the fields of public administration, leadership and management , Roger James Chin

Queuepay.com: Building a system for cardholders' transaction security , Jose Ramon Gonzalez

Analyzing the demand and supply of e-government service: A case of bilingual service by California cities and counties , Shan-Ju Ho

The implementation of a thin client in the Department of Defense network system , Sung Ju In

Discounted health insurance premium systems , Krupa Pravin Patel

Cyber law and digital asset inheritance: A new concept, digital assets, and what will happens to digital assets after death? , Alp Toygar

Exploring the effects of entrepreneurial training on high-level business executives' attitudes and behaviors , Rachel Ann Wolfinbarger

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Online privacy policy of the thirty Dow Jones corporations: Compliance with FTC Fair Information Practice Principles and readability assessment , Yuanxiang Li

Risk management: Bankruptcy prediction models for banks , Ponkala Anand Vaseekhar Manuel

The relationship between attitudes toward women as managers and sex-typing of toxic leader behaviors , Lacee Marie Vega-Cartwright

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Metrics framework for computer security incident response: A practical guide for the federal government , Vincent Nithi Sritapan

Psychological correlates of investor risk , John Laurin Vaughn

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Financial crisis, bank acquisitions, and value creation: The case of bank mergers for the past five years , Sarina Ar-Loc Ng

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Trends and effects of third-party logisitics in global logistics operations , Kai-Yu Ho

A cross -cultural research about advertising practices for self-image projective products between the United States and Thailand , Pasinee Kaewmesri

Ethical and faith-based investments: An assessment of performance , Hisar Joel Munte

Is public education preparing learning disabled to succeed at the college level? , John Fermin Ramirez

Intertemporal relations between stock indices-correlation analysis for the stock markets of the United States, England, and Singapore , Michael Nabil Razzouk

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Test for the existence of casualty relationships between the market indices of the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries , Yusef Abdullah Yusef Alyusef

Offline searchable database , James Howard Klein

Behaviors of the stock indexes-correlation analyses for the stock markets of Japan, the United States, and China , Kazuma Koseki

Improving the quality and quantity of commercial loans for today's lenders , Jeffrey Scott Kowallis

Long and short-term effects of regime change on emerging and established markets , Joseph Edward Mayne

Decision making theory with geographic information systems support , Sean Alan McFarland

Analysis of the benefits for implementing an employees stock option plan (ESOP) , Ashraf Selim Mekhael

Awareness of global warming and car purchasing behavior in Singapore , Chika Nakayama

Factors affecting the level of trust and commitment in Tops Supermarket supply chain management, Bangkok , Kamolchanok Saisomboon

The development of a framework for enterprise security architecture and its application in organizations , Yi-Ting Shen

Content dimensions of web advertising: A cross-national comparison between United States and Thailand , Kuntida Traiwanatham

Upgrade tracking system from paper to digital for Brazilian parcel/post delivery company, Sennex express , Keith Walter Witzel

Victoria's Secret gets into Chinese market business plan proposal , Luyan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

A comparative study of product placement in movies in the United States and Thailand , Woraphat Banchuen

Reinforce customer satisfaction through enterprise resource planning and supply chain management integration , Yu-Hsiang Chen

A content analysis of print advertising from the United States and Hong Kong , Ka Man Carman Chu

The different perceptions toward hybrid vehicles between United States and China , Jim Chang Chun-Hsiung

Building inspection fee analysis , John Carl Dohm

Development of a vascular diagnostics center at Downtown Hospital: A feasibility study , Roland Jason Fargo

The impact of corporate stadium sponsorship , Yi-Chun Kuo

Impact of cultural factors on transnational teams: Diversity, adaptation, communication quality, and trust , Shu-Yir Lee

R/3 implementation analysis in various industries , Paul Alan Rascoe

Analysis of trade dependence and correlation of market returns between the United States and Nordic countries , Helen Saar

A feasibility study for establishing a dedicated breast magnetic resonance imaging center in the city of Redlands , Hans Philip Saaty

The potage of Chinese stocks: Strengths and weaknesses for United States investors , Shubhi Srivastava

A study of strategies for successful enterprise resource planning implementation in a merger and acqusition environment , Maricelle Casquejo Thomas

Impact of brand equity on the purchasing of consumer durables , David Michael Wells

The New York Stock Exchange/Euronext merge , Di Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Business case analysis: Learning to think like a physician , Zeda Glass Amaya

Guidelines to managing product liability risk for silica-containing building products , Ricky Lee Chan

Cultural impact on customer perception of service quality in the hotel industry: A comparative study of Eastern and Western respondents , Jing Fen Chiang

Developing a business plan for Media Benefits Corporation: First Entertainment Credit Union's credit union service organization , Anthony Christopher Cuevas

Institutional structures for equitable and sustainable water resource management in the Middle East , Michael Raphael Davidson

Strategic business model for digital home market , Toshiyuki Iwase

Nutrition on wheels business plan: A strategic analysis , Seena Gill Kakar

Golfer celebrity endorsements on consumers' attitude toward the advertisement and the brand , Onvadee Tunsarawiput

A comparative study of attractiveness types in advertisements of women's magazines between United States and Thailand , Pornkamon Unyawong

Alternative minimum tax: A middle class burden , Kelly Ann Williams

Performance measures: Traditional versus new models , Hasan Zafer Yuksel

Analysis of trade dependence and correlation of market returns to hedge portfolio risk , Carl Eric Zeise

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

The affects [sic] of behavior on celebrity image , Christina Marlene Arredondo

Credit union service organization products and services: Implications, decisions, and strategies , Michael Burnett Bare

Impact of media spokeswomen on teen girls' body image , Senem Bahar Cevik

The cross-cultural research of United States and Thailand: The relationship between celebrity endorsers and types of product endorsed , Sudawadee Eamsobhana

Emerging stock markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia , Man Ching Ko

Acquiring an existing business , Teodocio Ramirez

Female sports endorsement and attitudes toward brands and advertisements , Natsuda Saritmuthakul

Managerial reforms within the United States government , Jacqueline Michelle Townsend

Factors influencing purchasing decision process of low-carbohydrate products , Warintra Triyangkulsri

A comparison of cosmetic advertising between the United States and Taiwan: A content analysis , Wenlin Wang

Strategic marketing plan for an online service provider in the property management industry , Ruchika Wijesinghe

Analyzing three quality management systems in relation to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award , Jeremiah Worthington

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

How much should the off-duty employment of police officers be regulated? , Angela Rena Aulis

A comparison of the consumer decision-making behavior of married and cohabiting couples , Karen Prodigalidad Calpo

Minimization of currency risk exposures by developing foreign currency trading strategies for a multinational United States company , Korhan Cam

Future of asynchronous transfer mode networking , Fakhreddine Mohamed Hachfi

The ideal asset/liability model for credit unions (with assets between $100 - $500 million) , David Alan Kennedy

China and the USA: An analysis of intercultural training methods in the corporate environment , Paula Kay Krueger

Intranet concept for small business , Allen Gregg Lenaburg

Customer relationship management: A financial perspective , Dwain Eldred Lowther

Reducing exchange rate risk and exposure: The value of foreign exchange currency hedging strategies , Sean McCarron

Electronic government: Reforming Thai government for ministry of interior of Thailand , Kritchakorn Nontanakorn

Comparing marketing policies in Nippon Professional Baseball and the National Fooball League: Lessons for Japanese sports teams , Noboru Oshima

Implications of a national immunization registry an alliance to win the race for the future care and accuracy of pediatric immunization , Shoaib Chotoo Patail

Restaurant industry and marketing plan for Studio Thai restaurant , Yingluck Pitisom

Delivery of services to welfare-to-work clients: A marketing perspective , Joan Dardanelle Rudder

An analysis of the Federal and California False Claims Acts and the implications for the California Department of Transportation , Henry Eugene Stultz

Business-to-consumer electronic commerce in Japan , Haruyoshi Takaoka

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The College of Business Administration Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's College of Business Administration doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

The Structure, Behavior, and Performance of the Automobile Industry , Tom J. Miller

Demand for Education at De Paul Diocesan High School , Sister Lionella Tierney S.C.

Theses/Dissertations from 1970 1970

A simplified model to measure returns from industrial research and development expenditures (with application to the pharmeceutical drug industry) , Jonathan Furdek

The Brewing Industry in the United States with Emphasis on the Shift in Concentration and Pricing Analysis , Norman L. Paul

Theses/Dissertations from 1966 1966

The Problems of Economic Development in India: Why 'Take-Off' Has Been Delayed in India , Joshua Thottikkara

Theses/Dissertations from 1965 1965

Examination of several productivity factors in the United States steel industry , William A. Fena

Theses/Dissertations from 1964 1964

Wisconsin minimum-wage legislation and its effects upon employment in the Wisconsin restaurant industry , Ronald J. Vogel

Theses/Dissertations from 1962 1962

Discussion of Natural Monopolies: A New Approach , M. Aaron Kalinowski

Increasing top management efficiency through budgeting , Arthur P. Witt

Theses/Dissertations from 1959 1959

The Impact of Small Foreign Cars on the Domestic Market , Francis J. McGavock

Theses/Dissertations from 1958 1958

Transformation of agricultural South Korea into a net food deficit country and future prospects for food self-sufficiency , Joseph S. Chung

A prediction of the number of new private non-farm permanent residential housing starts for the year 1965 , Gilbert R. Gadzikowski

The concept of forced savings , Donald F. Krier

An approach to management development in India with particular reference to the public sector , S. Benjamin Prasad

An analysis of land tenure and agricultural reform in Egypt , John K. Wilhelm

Theses/Dissertations from 1956 1956

Development and present status of plans for the regularizing of workers employment and income , Eldred K. Hansen

Theses/Dissertations from 1955 1955

Economic development in Venezuela: a comparative analysis , Charles J. Dussey

Theses/Dissertations from 1954 1954

An Analysis of Factors and Conditions Affecting Stock Market Prices , Bert J. Beihoff

The economics of hospital personnel administration , Francis D. Murphy

Recent developments in American Catholic thought on the vocational order , Mary Pius Puetz

Theses/Dissertations from 1950 1950

The devaluation of the pound: an evaluation , Guy E. Coriden

The British coal industry : economic factors leading to its nationalization with a review of the first years of the nationalized industry , Robert E. Leahy

Open Market Operations of the Federal Reserve System , Francis W. Norris

Theses/Dissertations from 1943 1943

Recent changes in the Federal Reserve System (1933-1939) , Louis J. Swichkow

Theses/Dissertations from 1938 1938

Solidarism , Mary Jane Kuck

Theses/Dissertations from 1935 1935

Certain controlling ideas of the medieval trade guild as especially exemplified in England , Cyril N. McKinnon

The history of public utility legislation in Wisconsin , Charles J. McNally

Theses/Dissertations from 1934 1934

Banking and monetary theories and policies in the writings of Francis Amasa Walker , Alexander John Gregory

Theses/Dissertations from 1932 1932

Present Status and Modern Trend in the Teaching of the Social Sciences in the Elementary and Secondary Schools , Joseph Marie Viau

Theses/Dissertations from 1930 1930

The Federal Government and Public Health , Marguerite McNicholas

Theses/Dissertations from 1924 1924

A Summary of Elementary Economics: A Survey of the Principles of an Elementary Course in Economics , Sister Mary Irene Collins

Theses/Dissertations from 1923 1923

Common Law trusts as substitutes for private corporations , Emory L. Grady

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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Business Management Essay

Introduction.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of business management in various industries. Human resource departments have adopted AI for recruiting, job assigning, paying, among other processes. The marketing departments have adopted AI in managing social media activities and networks (Graesch, Hensel-Börner, and Henseler, 2021). Furthermore, with the emergence of unprecedented pandemics such as the novel coronavirus, business management activities have been automated through AI (Alam et al., 2021, p.3797). AI remains a crucial tool in managing business activities through automation of the activities. Integration of AI among companies has various impacts on the firm’s operations and the employees. This study will seek to answer the following research questions:

• What is the impact of AI integration among businesses on business management structure?
• What is the impact of AI integration among businesses on the employees’ motivation and activities?
• What is the impact of AI integration among businesses on product output quality?
• How can businesses effectively integrate AI in management activities during the emergence of unprecedented pandemics?

Research Aim

Although AI integration is common among businesses, its impact on product output and employee motivation has not been widely reported. The primary aim of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of AI integration among various firms’ departments on the employees’ motivation and output and the product output (Priyono, Moin, and Putri, 2020, p.104). AI has made work easier and more efficient by automating activities such as salary dissemination and managing social media activities (Wihlborg and Gustafsson, 2021, p.246). With the invention of AI, many managers have been motivated to carry out managerial activities which only require analysis of automated outputs (Kazak et al., 2019). Consequently, AI has eased companies’ management activities, leading to quality output. The managers involved in quality inspection use automated machines with high proficiency in quality control (Louw and Droomer, 2019). Therefore, AI integration is beneficial to companies since it allows for quality output.

Many companies have been affected by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, among other unprecedented disasters. While companies adopt AI applications, many employees have lost their jobs (Cubric, 2020). Furthermore, the companies integrating AI have found themselves at financial dead ends (Puntoni et al., 2021, p.142). Therefore, this research also aims to understand how businesses can effectively integrate AI during the emergence of unprecedented pandemics. This research will discuss the various steps companies can take during AI for the mutual benefit and their employees.

Research Objectives

AI has insurmountable advantages to various businesses that have integrated the technology. Integrating AI improved output and eased employees’ working activities, especially business managers and leaders (Priyono, Moin, and Putri, 2020, p.104). However, AI integration can also lead to job loss among employees (Tschang and Almirall, 2021). Many businesses integrating AI pay little attention to the impact of AI on their managerial activities within the various departments (Ernst, Merola, and Samaan, 2019). AI leads to improved product quality management and the final product output (Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Barrales-Molina, and Kaynak, 2018). Furthermore, AI allows companies to efficiently conduct marketing activities (Kumar et al., 2019). To get an in-depth understanding of the impact of AI integration on business management, this research will be guided by the following objectives:

• To establish the positive impact of AI integration on product quality output
• To establish the impact of AI integration on the employees’ motivation
• To identify the various advantages of AI integration among the various firms’ department
• To establish an effective technique that various businesses can adopt to effectively implement AI integration during the emergence of unprecedented pandemics such as Covid-19
• To identify the negative impact of AI integration on employees

Reasoned Justification for the Study

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the importance of AI integration among business activities. AI is beneficial in companies’ communication and management systems since it enhances expeditious communication and management processes (Li et al., 2017, p.177). The study will use data collected from the selected samples to determine the impact of AI on business operations and management. The study results are essential among the existing businesses that have not yet integrated AI into their activities (Kumar et al., 2019). Furthermore, the research is beneficial among various companies utilizing AI. The study will allow the departments to identify effective AI integration processes. Through the study, the various departments adopt AI by ensuring that their activities mutually benefit the employees and the company (Lee et al., 2018, p.21). Therefore, this research is significant among the companies and the employees of the companies.

Many businesses have shifted their activities to online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Many companies with a well-laid technological infrastructure easily shift their activities online (Ghoshal, 2020, p.250). However, some companies, especially small-medium enterprises, found it difficult to shift their activities online (Gashi, Sopa, and Havolli, 2021). The shifted activities include adopting e-commerce and virtual conferences for companies’ meetings (Costa and Castro, 2021, pp.3051-3057). This study dissects the impact of AI integration during unprecedented pandemics. Furthermore, the research aims to design an effective AI integration technique that companies can adopt during unprecedented pandemics. The study will help companies prepare for future pandemics and effectively integrate technology.

With the increasing AI integration among companies, the employees’ activities are greatly affected. The business managers’ activities have been eased through activities’ automation (Tang et al., 2020). Through AI, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been automated to minimize manual labor among companies (Gashi, Sopa, and Havolli, 2021). Consequently, the managers and other employees have found their work easy to execute. The simple and easy work execution has motivated employees to increase their output quality Tschang and Almirall, 2021). This study will investigate and give further suggestions on how AI can improve employees’ output. Therefore, the research topic and scope are relevant in business management.

Study Limitations

This study will involve data collection from the selected samples. The sample represents a smaller population of the large business community utilizing AI. The limited number of respondents could lead to the recording of partial data, which is not backed up by the majority. The partial data could affect the study’s outcome and conclusions. Furthermore, this study involves a wide scope that needs much time researching and data analysis. Time limitations greatly affect the significance of this study. With a very limited budget, study expenses such as travel expenses will not be covered. The availability of enough resources promotes research effectiveness and quality output. Few scholars have contributed to the research topic limiting the resources available for further research.

Relevant Themes and Disciplines

Various business management theories and thematic areas will be discussed in this study. The relevant theories to this study include the systems, the administrative management principles, human relations, and bureaucratic management theories. AI involves improving the available communication and working systems to make work easier (Yarlagadda, 2018). The system theory holds that any business is composed of various systems or departments working together in realization the company’s goals and objectives (Ünal, Urbinati, and Chiaroni , 2019). Every business operating system is subject to system entropy and synergy. System entropy involves the systems that are susceptible to running down with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic that allows physical interactions among the employees failed due to governmental social distance policies. Therefore, many companies integrated AI to avoid physical interactions among the employees (Ünal et al., 2019). System synergy involves the effective working together of the various departments with companies for effective work output.

Business management involves various activities that should be in tandem with administrative management principles. The principles include organization, coordination, planning, forecasting, and controlling business activities (Prasad, 2020, p.92). Forecasting and planning can be tedious, and AI helps avoid such detriments. The AI tools help business managers collect and analyze the data (Nocker and Sena, 2019, p.273). The analyzed data is then used to predict the future outcomes of various business activities. The outcomes analyzed include employee performance and product sales (Nocker and Sena, 2019, p.273). AI has made the management’s organization, coordination, and control of business activities easier. Furthermore, AI is crucial in determining the companies’ human relations.

The employees’ attitude towards the business operations and management is crucial for effective work. The human relations theory posits that social factors highly motivate employees in a working environment (Çetin and Aşkun, 2018). AI makes the employees’ works easier, motivating them to work effectively. For instance, AI has eased the accounting and marketing activists among the employees working in the finance and marketing departments. The employees working in the departments with automated services develop a positive attitude towards work and spread the same to other employees (Çetin and Aşkun, 2018). Therefore, AI plays a crucial role in motivating and positively influencing employees. Employees with a positive attitude effectively provide substantial product output, increasing a company’s output.

Max Weber’s bureaucratic theory involves the importance of structuring businesses in hierarchical manners with a clear set of rules (Valeri, 2021, p.90). Businesses are structured into different departments each executing various distinct roles. The managers are involved in dividing labor among the existing employees for effective output. AI helps the human resource department predict an employee’s capabilities and the kind of labour they can proficiently execute. Furthermore, AI helps the various departments to accurately keep records for future references (Cubric, 2020). AI has enabled the hiring process to be based on qualifications, which agrees with Weber’s bureaucratic theory. The human relations, administrative management, systems management, and bureaucratic theories are relevant for this study.

Initial Theoretical Research

De Bruyn, A., Viswanathan, V., Beh, Y.S., Brock, J.K.U. and von Wangenheim, F., 2020. Artificial intelligence and marketing: Pitfalls and opportunities. Journal of Interactive Marketing , 51 , pp.91-105.

AI presents insurmountable opportunities to various businesses despite its financial strain on companies. The article helps understand the various opportunities available to businesses intending to automate their activities. The article will help develop hypotheses and study motivating factors for AI integration.

Gillath, O., Ai, T., Branicky, M.S., Keshmiri, S., Davison, R.B. and Spaulding, R., 2021. Attachment and trust in artificial intelligence. Computers in Human Behavior , 115 , p.106607.

The paper discusses the importance of AI in building human relations at workplaces. The authors identify the association between attachment styles and trust in AI. The attachment styles identified in the paper include the way people feel, think, and behave when among people (Giliath et al., 2020, p.106607). The article is relevant to the study since it helps understand the role of AI in human relations as a management theory.

Han, R., Lam, H.K., Zhan, Y., Wang, Y., Dwivedi, YK and Tan, K.H., 2021. Artificial intelligence in business-to-business marketing: a bibliometric analysis of current research status, development and future directions. Industrial Management & Data Systems .

Marketing is one of the activities transformed by Artificial Intelligence. This paper discusses how businesses can integrate AI in the wake of pandemics and new technology. The article focuses on businesses’ approaches in business-to-business marketing (B2B). The study investigates the impact of AI in B2B marketing and how companies can improve their marketing activities. The article is relevant to the study since it helps understand the systems theory and gives recommendations to companies that have not adopted AI.

Sipior, J.C., 2020. Considerations for development and use of AI in response to COVID-19. International Journal of Information Management , 55 , p.102170.

The author discusses the rationale for integrating AI among companies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The article discusses the importance of aligning business strategies with information technology in virtual conferences due to Covid-19. The article is crucial for this study since it helps design a strategy business can adopt during AI integration in response to unprecedented pandemics.

Tschang, F.T. and Almirall, E., 2021. Artificial intelligence as augmenting automation: Implications for employment. Academy of Management Perspectives , 35 (4), pp.642-659.

The article discusses the implications of AI on employment among companies. The authors examine the impact of automation on companies and how AI integration brings work balance. According to the authors, AI increases unemployment but creates new job opportunities (Tschang and Almirall, 2021, p.642). The article helps in understanding the AI impact on employment and work organization.

Velikorossov, V.V., Maksimov, M.I., Orekhov, S.A., Huseynov, S.E.O., Filin, S.A. and Tserenchimed, S., 2020. Artificial Intelligence as an Innovative Tool of the Support System for Making Management Decisions. DEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science .

This research article discusses the application of AI in making decisions among companies. The authors discuss how various organizations could improve their bureaucracy through AI integration. According to the article, AI integration has eased management processes and procedures (Velikorossov et al., 2020).The article is relevant to the study since it helps understand AI and business administration principles.

Types of Data Employed

This study will involve quantitative data collected from companies in China. The companies involved must have integrated AI within their activities. The companies involved will be three processing factories, three service industries including banks, and three manufacturing factories. The data will be collected from various companies that have integrated AI. The study will also involve at least six SMEs that have utilized automated activities. The data collected from the large corporations include the estimated number of clients among the corporations before and after the emergence of Covid-19.

Furthermore, the study will involve investigating the number of employees who have been affected by the integration of AI among companies. The data collected from the SME include the estimated increase or decrease number of consumers due to AI integration. The data collected will also include data related to the impact of Covid-19 among SMEs and large corporations. The financial data, profits and losses, of the large corporations will also be collected to determine the performance of the corporations.

Data Collection Method

Given the research’s wide scope, this study will involve the use of online questionnaires distributed among SMEs and large corporations. The study will use Google forms for data collection. The forms will be designed and distributed among the managers in the selected large corporations and entrepreneurs. The advantages of online questionnaires include flexibility, affordability, ease of analysis, and improved accuracy (SmartSurvey, 2019). Furthermore, the study will involve content analysis of the large corporations’ financial reports available to the public for the past four years. The employment rate data will also be collected from the companies’ reports available to the public.

Preliminary Hypotheses

This study’s primary hypothesis is three-fold based on the past researches conducted by various scholars. Firstly, AI integration helps companies improve their product quality since the machines tend to be more accurate than human beings (Davenport and Ronanki, 2018, p.113). Complex programs have been set up to automate companies’ systems, such as payroll systems. Manufacturing companies using specific raw materials proportions employ AI by use of robots to increase the accuracy of the mixture. Secondly, AI integration relieves the employees from complex tasks that would otherwise demotivate their performance (Kretschmer and Khashabi, 2020). AI has taken over the risky and complex tasks such as complex financial calculations that are head knocking for human beings.

Consequently, the work has been made easier, increasing employee effectiveness. With the use of AI, many employees do not worry about their quality output but focus on improving their effectiveness at work. Managing routine business activities has been eased since the managers and supervisors involved the AI in tracking employee performance and generating employee reports. The reports generated are essential in managerial decision-making among the companies. Therefore, technology integration is a motivating factor among employees.

Lastly, the emergence of unprecedented pandemics such as Covid-19 has led to financial strain among the companies and small-medium enterprises that have had to digitize their systems (Bai, Quayson, and Sarkis, 2021). During the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses were directed to comply with governmental measures such as keeping social distance and enhancing sanitization within the organization. The companies were forced to end physical activities and encourage virtual conduction of business activities. The digitization of the activities required the companies to acquire expensive communication and management systems. Managing the digitized system is very expensive since it requires expert system developers and managers and complex AI systems that automate communications within the organizations. Therefore, many unprepared companies had financial difficulty in shifting their activities. Consequently, most companies recorded losses, and others were altogether shut down. AI integration helps companies improve product quality, motivates the employees, and presents financial strain among the companies.

Data Analysis

This study will involve quantitative data collected from the selected large corporation and SMEs. The data include the employment rate before and after AI integration and the profitability of the businesses before and after AI integration as reported by the companies through their annual financial reports. Furthermore, the study will involve the companies’ sales data and the number of clients since the onset of the Coronavirus. Data analysis will take place in data validation, data editing, and data coding phases. The collected data will be screened during the data validation to ensure that it meets the pre-set standards. Data that seems biased will strike out, and any incomplete questionnaires will be eliminated. The second phase, data editing, will involve the removal of errors from the collected data. The errors include transcription and transposition errors made during data collection. The phase will help improve the accuracy of the data collected.

Data coding will involve assigning values to survey responses and data collected. During this stage, charts will be used to present the data collected. Using linear bar graphs will help identify the trend in profitability and employability among the companies. The use of charts will also help identify the most effective technique in adopting AI among companies. The data collected will also be represented using various statistical methods such as tabulation, statistical averages, among other methods.

Directions for Further Research

The impact of AI integration among companies on the various business activities is a wide area requiring intensive research. This study is limited to sample, time, and economic resources. However, with enough time and economic resources, further research can be carried out on the topic. Furthermore, further research can involve studying specific types of companies, for instance, banks. Studying the impact of AI integration among specific industries helps understand how the industries can take specific steps in mitigating the negatives of AI. The research could also be conducted on the impact of AI on specific departments among the companies. Since this study will only involve companies in China, a further study should be conducted on companies outside China to understand the impact of AI at the global level. Furthermore, this study was limited to complex financial data analysis tools that could help predict future financial advantages of AI integration. Further research might involve the use of complex financial data analysis tools. Therefore, further research on the topic might involve other countries, sufficient time and financial resources, and the use of the complex financial data analysis tools.

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Under 1990-talet kom Kaplan och Norton fram med styrningsfilosofin balanserat styrkort som innebär att managers uppmanas att inte enbart ta hänsyn till finansiella mått utan bör använda sig av både finansiella och icke-finansiella mått för att kunna styra företag. Det här konceptet med balanserat styrkort har sedan det togs fram utvecklas och i början av 2000-talet finns den tredje versionen av balanserat styrkort som tillsammans med avancerad teknologi bildar konceptet business performance management. Det innebär att den information som ligger till grund för de rapporter som består av finansiella och icke-finansiella mått hämtas från en central databas i det verksamhetsöverskridande business performance management systemet. En anledning till det är att business performance management knyter samman balanserat styrkort med avancerad teknologi som möjliggör att managers därmed har möjlighet att få tillgång till en gemensam version av verkligheten, det vill säga en gemensam mental bild hur företaget presterar. Dessutom möjliggör den avancerade teknologin att managers oavsett om beslut tas som är strategiska, taktiska eller operativa att de har tillgång till den information som beslutsunderlagen baseras på i rätt tid.

Den information som beslutsunderlagen baseras på måste bestå av en tillfredställande god kvalitet för att möjliggöra att managers tar korrekta och optimala beslut. Det är därför av väsentlig betydelse att kvaliteten hos beslutsunderlagen håller en tillfredställande god kvalitet för att undanröja risken att managers inte tar otillfredsställande beslut som sedan innebär onödiga kostnader för företaget. Dessutom möjliggör en tillfredställande god kvalitet hos informationen som beslutsunderlagen baseras på att företagets managers kan ta beslut som leder till att de kan agera mot förändringar som sker i den omgivande företagskontexten. Att förbättra kvaliteten hos den information som ligger till grund för beslutsunderlagen behöver därmed vara något som företag prioriterar så att informationen håller en tillfredställande god kvalitet. Kvalitetsledningsfilosofin total quality management (TQM) har i denna studie används för att ta reda på hur informationskvaliteten hos beslutsunderlagen som tas fram via business performance management kan förbättras. Total quality management tar ett verksamhetsövergripande grepp om hur kvaliteten kan förbättras inom företag.

Företag prioriterar ofta inte att förbättra kvaliteten hos den information som de har till sitt förfogande för att ta beslut utan utgår ofta från att informationen är korrekt och om den inte är det så har något fundamentalt fel inträffat. Det leder till att företag ofta i de projekt som de utför förbiser vilken kvalitet informationen har utan använder sina resurser till andra arbetsuppgifter. För att kunna förbättra informationskvaliteten hos beslutsunderlagen behöver kvalitetsförbättringar bli ett prioriterat område inom företag. Företag har större möjlighet att uppnå en tillfredställande god kvalitet hos beslutsunderlagen om företagsledningen tillsätter en kvalitetsansvarig. Den person som blir kvalitetsansvarig tar tag i de stridigheter som behövs för att få tillgång till de nödvändiga resurserna. Denna person stödjer även de projektgrupper som arbetar med att förbättra informationskvaliteten. Det förutsätter att den kvalitetsansvarige har mandat att ta de nödvändiga besluten för att kunna förbättra kvaliteten hos beslutsunderlagen.

During the century of 1990 come Kaplan and Norton with the balance scorecard philosophy. The purpose of this philosophy is to encourage managers to not only take consideration in financial measurements, but also to use both financial and non-financial measurement to manage companies. This concept with balanced scorecard have developed since it's beginning and in the beginning of the 21st century the third version of balanced scorecard developed with advanced technology which established the concept business performance management. This means that the information that the reports builds on have both financial and non-financial measurement which are collected from a central database in the company´s overall business performance management system. One reason to why business performance management ties balanced scorecard with advanced technology is to give managers possibilities to get a common version of reality, this means a common mental picture of how the company performs. Besides the advanced technology render possibilities that give managers, regardless if the decision has been taken at strategic, tactic or operative level, access to information that basic data for decision-making is based on in right time.

The information that basic data for decision-making is based on must have a satisfied good quality to enable managers to take correct and optimal decision. It is therefore important that the quality of basic data for decision-making holds a satisfied good quality to remove the risk that managers is taking non-satisfactory decisions that means unnecessary costs for the company. Besides enable a satisfied good quality of the information, which basic data for decision-making is based on, so that managers at companies can take decision that leads them to take action against changes around the company's context. To improve the information quality that basic data for decision-making is based on should be something that companies prioritize so that information holds a satisfied good quality. The quality management philosophy total quality management (TQM) has in this study been used to investigate how information quality in basic data for decision-making can be improved. Total quality management gives a company an overall view of how the quality can be improved in the company.

The companies not often prioritize improvement of the information quality that they have to their disposal for taking decision, instead they often assume that information is correct and if it is not there it has occurred a fundamental mistake. This leads to that the companies often in their projects overlook witch quality the information has and use their resources to others working tasks.  Too improve the information quality at basic data for decision-making needs quality improvement be a prioritized area within the companies. Companies have more possibilities to reach a satisfied good quality at the basic data for decision-making if the company management adds a person that is responsible for the quality. The person that will be responsible for the quality takes the necessary fights to get access to the necessary resources. This person even supports the project groups that work with improvement of information quality. To have responsibility for the quality this person has mandate to take the necessary decisions to improve the quality of the basic data for decision-making.

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Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review

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The implementation of sustainability and circular economy (CE) models in agri-food production can promote resource efficiency, reduce environmental burdens, and ensure improved and socially responsible systems. In this context, indicators for the measurement of sustainability play a crucial role. Indicators can measure CE strategies aimed to preserve functions, products, components, materials, or embodied energy. Although there is broad literature describing sustainability and CE indicators, no study offers such a comprehensive framework of indicators for measuring sustainability and CE in the agri-food sector.

Starting from this central research gap, a systematic literature review has been developed to measure the sustainability in the agri-food sector and, based on these findings, to understand how indicators are used and for which specific purposes.

The analysis of the results allowed us to classify the sample of articles in three main clusters (“Assessment-LCA,” “Best practice,” and “Decision-making”) and has shown increasing attention to the three pillars of sustainability (triple bottom line). In this context, an integrated approach of indicators (environmental, social, and economic) offers the best solution to ensure an easier transition to sustainability.

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The sample analysis facilitated the identification of new categories of impact that deserve attention, such as the cooperation among stakeholders in the supply chain and eco-innovation.

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