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Rethinking bank business models: the role of intangibles
<p>Purpose:
This paper provides a new way of rethinking banking models by using qualitative research on intangibles.
This is required because the banking sector has been transformed significantly by the changing environment over the past two decades. The 2007-2009 financial crisis also added to concerns about existing bank business models.</p>
<p>Design/Methodology approach:
Using qualitative data collected from interviews with bank managers and analysts in the UK, this paper develops a grounded theory of bank intangibles.</p>
<p>Findings:
The model reveals how intangibles and tangible/financial resources interact in the bank value creation process, how they actively respond to environmental changes, how bank intangibles are understood by external observers such as analysts, and how bankers and analysts differ in their views.</p>
<p>Research implications:
Grounded theory provides the means to further develop bank models as business models and theoretical models. This provides the means to think beyond conventional finance constructs and to relate bank models to a wider theoretical literature concerning intellectual capital, organisational and social systems theory, and âperformativityâ.</p>
<p>Practical implications:
Such development of bank models and of a systems perspective is critical to the understanding of banks by bankers, by observers and for their âcritical and reflexive performativityâ. It also has implications for systemic risk and bank regulation.</p>
<p>Social implications:
Improvement in bank models and their use in open and transparent processes are key means to improve public accountability of banks.</p>
<p>Originality:
The paper reveals the core role of intellectual capital (IC) in banks, in markets, and in developing theory and research at firm and system levels. </p>
Learning Style Diversity in Post âSecondary Distance Education
During the fall semester of 2005, 153 university graduate studentsâ preferred learning styles were measured with the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, online version 3.1. The primary findings of the study indicated all of the learning styles and processes described by Kolb were represented in the distance learning population and suggested distance and residential learners uniquely engage the learning process. Biblical references were discussed with respect to the uniqueness displayed by study participants
The neuropsychological assessment of age related cognitive deficits in adults with Down's syndrome
Thermodynamics of Multi-Component Fermi Vapors
We study the thermodynamical properties of Fermi vapors confined in a
harmonic external potential. In the case of the ideal Fermi gas, we compare
exact density profiles with their semiclassical approximation in the conditions
of recent experiments. Then, we consider the phase-separation of a
multi-component Fermi vapor. In particular, we analyze the phase-separation as
a function of temperature, number of particles and scattering length. Finally,
we discuss the effect of rotation on the stability and thermodynamics of the
trapped vapors.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, to be published in J. Phys. B (Atom. Mol.) as a
Special Issue Articl
Analysis of SPAR 8 single-axis levitation experiment
The melting and resolidification of SPAR 8 payload melting and resolidification of a glass specimen from the in a containerless condition and the retrieval and examination of the specimen from the. The absence of container contact was assured by use of a single-axis acoustic levitation system. However, the sample contacted a wire cage after being held without container contact by the acoustic field for only approximately 87 seconds. At this time, the sample was still molten and, therefore, flowed aroung the wire and continued to adhere to it. An analysis of why the sample did not remain levitated free of container contact is presented. The experiment is described, and experimental observations are discussed and analyzed
Genetic algorithms: a pragmatic, non-parametric approach to exploratory analysis of questionnaires in educational research
Data from a survey to determine student attitudes to their courses are used as an example to show how genetic algorithms can be used in the analysis of questionnaire data. Genetic algorithms provide a means of generating logical rules which predict one variable in a data set by relating it to others. This paper explains the principle underlying genetic algorithms and gives a non-mathematical description of the means by which rules are generated. A commercially available computer program is used to apply genetic algorithms to the survey data. The results are discussed
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Rotating Lattices
Strongly interacting bosons in 2D in a rotating square lattice are
investigated via a modified Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. Such a system corresponds
to a rotating lattice potential imprinted on a trapped Bose-Einstein
condensate. Second-order quantum phase transitions between states of different
symmetries are observed at discrete rotation rates. For the square lattice we
study, there are four possible ground-state symmetries.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in PRL v2: Replaced
phase winding labels with symmetry eigenstate indices, replaced Gaussian
Ansatz with more general treatment and other minor change
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