Rillenkarren on Gypsum in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia University of Windsor

Commonly recognized as one of the most significant innovations in the information systems (IS) area, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been widely adopted by organizations in both public and private sectors worldwide. Their widespread adoption marks a paradigm shift in the organizational approach to IS, as the adopting organizations in most cases have moved from a proprietary made...

ASAC 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia

The upper echelon theory (Hambrick and Mason 1984) posits that the firm is a reflection and extension of the entrepreneurs that manage it. As such, the firm’s strategic choices, behaviours, and performance are, to a large extend, influenced by the demographic characteristics of the entreprenurs (Smith et al. 1996), their social connections (Geletkanycz and Hambrick 1997), their perceptions of t...

Fast food and deprivation in Nova Scotia.

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between density of fast food restaurants and measures of social and material deprivation at the community level in Nova Scotia, Canada. METHODS Census information on population and key variables required for the calculation of deprivation indices were obtained for 266 communities in Nova Scotia. The density of fast food restaurants per 1000 individuals fo...

WHO IS DEFENDING NOVA SCOTIA'S COASTLINE? A Paper by the Royal United Services Institute of Nova Scotia Halifax Nova Scotia

Smoking finally on the wane in Nova Scotia?

A mainstay vice of the teenage years — smoking — is becoming markedly less popular in Nova Scotia, the province’s fourth annual drug use survey indicates. The 2002 survey found that 23% of teenage students smoke cigarettes, a 13% drop from 1998, and the proportion of regular teen smokers — those who have more than 10 cigarettes a day — dipped to 4% from 7%. Overall, the percentage of students w...