Educators have begun developing courses and curricula to help managers cultivate an evidence-based mindset and acquire relevant knowledge and skills. This chapter describes what three evidence-based management (EBMgt) educators have learned in the process of creating relevant courses and curricula. ...

Halo error, although traditionally viewed as being detrimental to the quality of social cognition, has been purported to have potentially beneficial effects in some situations.

Performance appraisal information is often used for employee feedback and development. Research has found that assessments that are global (i.e., based on broad aspects of performance) and comparative (i.e., explicit interratee comparisons) may be most accurate in terms of Cronbach's (1955) dif...

In the early 1990s, donor countries tied approximately 50% of their foreign aid to exports. The export stimulation of aid may have exceeded the amount that is directly tied. This paper uses the gravity model of trade to statistically test the link between aid and export expansion. The results sugges...

A link between immigration, imports, and exports has been found by a number of papers that have used the gravity equation to analyze bilateral trade patterns. We discuss what this research implies about the mechanisms through which immigrants expand trade and identify strengths and weakness of the v...

This study investigated the relationship between coping styles and police recruits' stress responses and performance during a stressful event and the relationship between coping styles and traumatic symptoms. Recruits participated in a simulated stressful policing situation and were scored by e...

Emergency personnel consistently work under high-stress situations, and thus, the question about whether this stress affects performance is critical to the safety of both themselves and the public. However, considerable controversy exists about the influence of stress on performance. This study inve...

Presented at the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC), Toronto, May 2005.

The choice of housing is one of the major decisions facing households and all must decide whether a home should be owned or rented. In Canada, 64.2% and in the United States 67.8% of households now own their homes and this figure has been gradually increasing after a period of decline during the 198...

Presented at the Atlantic School of Business (ASB) in Halifax, Oct. 2004

Presented at the Sprott School of Business Doctorial Consortium, Ottawa, April, 2005 [Paper co-awarded best paper and awarded one of the best presentation awards].

Tourism has become a development tool for many rural and more isolated areas to supplement traditional industries that are often in decline. In this paper, development of cultural rural tourism is examined in a case study of a French Acadian region on an island in eastern Canada. The roles of cultur...

Regression analysis was used to determine the ability of a number of biological parameters to predict economic efficiency. Detailed feed, financial, and production records were maintained by a random sample of eighteen Prince Edward Island (PEI) swine producers (each producing over 1000 market hogs ...