Fifty shades of play: Monopoly[supercript TM] and the spirit of capitalism

While the recent trend towards the ‘gamification’ of business and organization is forging a new intersectionality between play and games with work and organization, play and games as a subject of research within the MOS literature is limited. While games, as a sub-domain of play, have been an area of study it is normatively approached from a narrow and instrumental perspective. This paper takes an historical look at the intersectionality of games and work from a historical and socio-cultural perspective. ANTi-History is first used to re-assemble a history of the board game Monopoly™. A mediological analysis is then used to investigate the material, ideational, and ideological elements of board games in general and to surface the relationship of Monopoly™ and its direct antecedents with work and organization in particular

A novel adaptive boundary search algorithm for solving facility layout problems

An highly effective algorithm is presented to solve open space facilities layout planning problems involving modules with constant aspect ratios. This algorithmm is a novel combination of steepest descent and corner search. Layout solutions produced by the proposed algorithm for well-known test problems were found superior to the published layouts as well as the best layouts produced by commercial layout design software VIPPLANOPT

Ties that bind: an institutional isomorphic comparison of mandatory CSR reporting standards in the Canadian financial services industry

This empirical paper represents a novel study of a mandatory CSR reporting regime. Five Canadian financial institutions are compared in terms of their references to three voluntary reporting standards in their annual and CSR reports. Institutional isomorphism is used as our frame of reference to examine how CSR reporting varies across these firms. Implications arising from this study affect the future development of CSR standards, the practices of CSR managers, and advance theory for CSR researchers

Hop-portunity lost? Spetz Brewery considers a pale future

Small enterprises often struggle with determining the profitability of its product offerings. In some circumstances this may be complicated by the feelings / intuits of the founder of the business. Hop-portunity Lost? is a case study that examines challenges faced by Moncton, NB based Spetz Brewery and sister operation Winexpert, and seeks to provide opportunity to evaluate a business from a managerial accounting perspective to determine whether the business is profitable (and should continue) or unprofitable (and should be shut down)

Damnant quodnon intelligent? Trinity Western University's School of Law

As the 21st Century progresses and Canadian society becomes more diverse, organizational challenges arise when conflicting worldviews collide. The case study Damnant Quodon Intelligent? explores Trinity Western University’s proposal to establish a School of Law and the resistance it faces, principally because of organizational policies that flow from the university’s identity as a private, Christian post-secondary institution. The case seeks to invite discussion regarding organizational / societal ethical behavior, the management of dichotomous worldviews, the balancing of competing rights, and the salience of diverse stakeholder perspectives

Operationalizing Cost-Volume-Profit analysis under uncertainty

Cost-Volume-Profit analysis is a major business planning tool. It is limited by its assumptions about known price and costs. This study uses MAPLE software to operationalize CVP under uncertainty for practical application. Illustrated examples show that the impact of expected selling price and expected variable cost on expected breakeven quantity is more sensitive than the impact of the standard deviations of selling price and variable cost. Specifically, when expected selling price decreases, the expected breakeven quantity increases rapidly. However, as the standard deviations of selling price or variable cost increases, expected breakeven quantity increases at the same rate