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How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market: Black Swans, Animal Spirits and Scapegoats
Nicholas Mangee, Georgia Southern University
2021
Georgia Southern faculty member Nicholas Mangee authored How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market: Black Swans, Animal Spirits and Scapegoats.
'Animal spirits' is a term that describes the instincts and emotions driving human behaviour in economic settings. In recent years, this concept has been discussed in relation to the emerging field of narrative economics. When unscheduled events hit the stock market, from corporate scandals and technological breakthroughs to recessions and pandemics, relationships driving returns change in unforeseeable ways. To deal with uncertainty, investors engage in narratives which simplify the complexity of real-time, non-routine change. This book assesses the novelty-narrative ... Read more
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Strategic Management: From Theory to Practice
Allen C. Amason, Georgia Southern University and Andrew Ward, Lehigh University
8-11-2020
A focus on creating and sustaining a flow of profitable transactions, in other words, the creation of sustainable competitive advantage is the seemingly simple, yet complex goal of strategic leaders and managers. Allen Amason and Andrew Ward approach the topic of strategic management with this focus in mind. Rather than simply teaching theory and research, Amason and Ward seek to convey the fundamental keys to how strategy works.
This book is designed to help students think critically and understand fully how to strategically manage their future firms. In so doing, it will enable them to adapt and learn, even as ... Read more
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Information and Enterprise Systems in Today’s Business
Thomas L. Case, Georgia Southern University and Michael J. Cuellar, Georgia Southern University
2018
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Key Determinants of National Development: Historical Perspectives and Implications for Developing Economies
Kwaku Appiah-Adu, Central University Business School; Charles Blankson, University of North Texas; and Kwabena G. Boakye, Georgia Southern University
8-28-2015
Book Summary: For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audience ought to be well acquainted with. The Editors provide instructive findings regarding national development, economic growth and their determinants, but they also offer historical perspectives on the subject and the implications for developing countries. The book addresses a suite of critical themes regarded by development experts to be germane in considering the pertinence of policies and their effective execution. These seven general thematic areas are explored: ¢ Leadership, governance, policy and strategy ¢ Public sector and public ... Read more
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Business Data Communications- Infrastructure, Networking and Security
William Stallings and Thomas Louis Case, Georgia Southern University
2013
Business Data Communications: Infrastructure, Networking and Security covers the fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. These concepts are presented in a way that relates specifically to the business environment and the concerns of business management and staff. While making liberal use of real-world case studies and charts and graphs to provide a business perspective, the book also provides the student with a solid grasp of the technical foundation of business data communications.
The diverse set of projects and student exercises enables the instructor to use the book as a component in a rich and ... Read more -
Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition)
Zvi Lerman
2008
Georgia Southern University faculty member Gregory J. Brock co-authored “Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture” in the publication Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition).
Chapter Summary: For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input/output relationship in Russian agriculture (e.g., Clayton, 1980, 1984; Gray, 1981; Johnson and Brooks, 1983), which generally followed ... Read more
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Integrated Operations Management: A Supply Chain Perspective
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2007
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Solutions Manual to Accompany Integrated Operations Management: A Supply Chain Perspective
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2007
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Expert Witnessing in Forensic Accounting
Walter J. Pagano, Eisner LLP and Thomas A. Buckoff, Georgia Southern University
5-10-2005
Georgia Southern University faculty member Thomas A. Buckhoff co-edited Expert Witnessing in Forensic Accounting alongside non-faculty member Walter J. Pagano.
Book Summary: This book has been developed for the benefit of consulting and expertizing accountants, and the attorneys that may engage their services. Topics are wide ranging - from tips for courtroom attire to legal theories underlying Daubert - and include: testifying do's and don't's; first-hand advice for case preparation, management, and success; roles of the expert as consultant and witness; anticipation of various Daubert challenges and cross-examination techniques; independence, methodology, and advocacy considerations; admonitions to counsel about timing and ... Read more
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Business Data Communications, 6th ed
David A. Stamper and Thomas Louis Case, Georgia Southern University
2004
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Managing Operations to Achieve Customer Satisfaction
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2003
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Operations Management
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2003
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Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2001
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Solutions Manual to Accompany Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2001
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Attracting High-Technology Firms to Georgia
David McDonald; Thomas L. Case, Georgia Southern University; Ephraim McLean; and Ronald Klein
10-2000
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E-Commerce and the State of Georgia
Ephraim McLean; David McDonald; and Thomas Louis Case, Georgia Southern University
10-1999
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Instructor's Manual to Accompany Management: Challenges in the 21st Century
Pamela S. Lewis; Stephen H. Goodman; Patricia M. Fandt; and Constance R. Campbell, Georgia Southern University
1995
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Payroll Accounting, 1994 Edition
Paula Y. Mooney, Georgia Southern University and J. Lowell Mooney, Georgia Southern University
1-1-1994
Georgia Southern University faculty members Paula Y. Mooney and J. Lowell Mooney co-authored Payroll Accounting, 1994 Edition.
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Management Information Systems: Strategy and Action, 2nd ed.
Charles Parker and Thomas L. Case, Georgia Southern University
1993
