Robert Morrison

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Houston - Victoria

This study of four individuals managing technology transfer, implementation, and support in the Central American manufacturing facilities of US multinational corporations provides empirical support for five of six daily technology management activities (Acquisition, Exploitation, Identification, Learning, Protection, and Selection) suggested by Cet...

This study compares 5,286 community banks operating in rural and metropolitan counties from 2000 through the end of 2013 on the variables attributing to bank profitability using pooled OLS, pooled time-series OLS, and dynamic panels methodologies. Following the SCP and competition-fragility literature, one would expect a difference in the variables...

This study summarizes piecework incentive systems and examines two apparel manufacturing factories that used daily incentive calculations at one time and weekly incentive calculations at another. In addition, one factory implemented a multiple base-rate incentive system, often called jump-base. The data shows that, when not controlled, daily incent...

Entrepreneurship and the cognitive processes of entrepreneurs have drawn the attention of researchers in recent years and resulted in the tremendous growth of the segment in the academic literature. To date, researchers have not clearly identify that entrepreneurial element that makes entrepreneurs different from others. This study reviews the lite...

Since the end of fixed exchange rates under the gold standard in the 1970s, researchers and practitioners have pointed out that the translation of foreign subsidiary financial statements and the subsequent consolidation of those foreign statements into the US parent's financial statement in accordance with FASB 52 provides little useful information...

Software piracy is a pervasive phenomenon that began to be noticed in the 80s. Statistics from the Business Software alliance (BSA) indicate that the software piracy rate is approximately 42% worldwide and represents potential losses in sales revenue of up to US$60 billion. Earlier studies addressed software piracy utilizing economic wealth and cul...