This study examines how consumers’ interest in a new movie develops around paid and earned media in pre-launch periods, how this interest impacts opening-week revenue, and how postlaunch revenue of a movie is influenced by advertising and various earned media. The prelaunch, opening-week and post-launch worlds are structurally different and we therefore develop three separate models, two multip...

Quality requirements of a software system cannot be optimally met, especially when it is running in an uncertain and changing environment. In principle, a controller at runtime can monitor the change impact on quality requirements of the system, update the expectations and priorities from the environment, and take reasonable actions to improve the overall satisfaction. In practice, however, exi...

Planning and controlling costs time is part of the overall construction project management. In addition to assessment in terms quality, achievement a can also be assessed cost time. The that have been incurred spent completing job must measured continuously for deviations from plan. presence significant indicates poor With existence performance indicators this allows preventive actions so imple...

For more than five decades, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) have been applied by organizations to manage their projects in different industries. However, many still struggle apply (EVM) techniques assess and reliably control project outcomes. This work investigated the state of practice EVMS. paper identifies challenges facing practitioners, critical EVMS subprocesses, key environment fa...

Women’s reluctance to negotiate aggressively on their own behalf has long been thought to account for the striking disparities between the salaries earned by men versus women. Extensive research has documented women occupying a low-wage “sticky floor,” encountering mid-level career bottlenecks, or being confined by a glass ceiling. In numerous studies, women have undervalued themselves, respond...

A project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. Major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. One such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (EVM). EVM uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past can be g...

We conducted this study to determine the perceived value of certification in perioperative nursing. Following development and pilot-testing, we mailed the 18-item Likert-type instrument, the Perceived Value of Certification Tool (PVCT), to a sample of 2750 perioperative nurses who had earned the CNOR or CRNFA credential or both. A total of 1398 surveys were returned (50.8% response rate). Facto...