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Contributor(s): Braun, Sandra L.; Ben Moussa, Mohamed; Dafri, Wided; Stranjančević, Ana
Date issued: 2018; 2018
Type: videorecording
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

Contributor(s): Advancing Scholarly Reputation Working Group; David J. Finch; Joe Pavelka; Marlena Cross; Tyler Massie; Richard Hayman; Alanda McLean; Margy MacMillan; Madelaine Vanderwerff; Design4Change
Date issued: 2015
Description: This tool kit is intended to help scholars plan, conduct, and evaluate efforts to mobilize knowledge to different audiences. We hope that this framework will promote a systematic approach to knowledge mobilization and exchange among scholars, students, practitioners and the communities we support. At Mount Royal, we are committed to scholarship with a difference…
Type: technical report
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

Contributor(s): David B. Coulibaly
Date issued: 2017
Description: In the context of oil price fluctuations inducing boom and bust cycles, this empirical study is a survival analysis of the Canadian oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. The population includes 540 public Canadian E&P firms that have their headquarters and production activity in Canada, and the data covers the periods of Q1-2002 to Q1-2016 representing over 15,850 firm-quarter observations. The method is an extended Cox model with repeating events, allowing for the use of time-varying predictor variables and the analysis is executed in R, a free statistical software. The study introduces a new definition of financial distress as two consecutive quarters of negative...
Type: thesis
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

Contributor(s): Sandra L. Braun; Mohamed Ben Moussa; Wided Dafri; Ana Stranjančević
Date issued: 2019
Description: In the United Arab Emirates, economic and cultural forces are affecting the development of public relations. A high imbalance of expatriates to locals (Emiratis) in the population has left the field of public relations lacking in local representation. Without adequate representation across the major sectors of the society, Emirati can lose influence and control over their own homeland where they are a significant minority. A contributing factor to success in any field is the development of professional socialization and construction of a professional identity in the post-secondary environment. This is an exploratory study examining Emirati public relations students and their professional...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

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