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- Title
- Abusive Supervision and Subordinate Characteristics: A Relative Importance Analysis
- Author
- Durham, Brooks
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Abusive supervision is defined as the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors, excluding physical contact by a supervisor or leader. Abusive supervision is pervasive in the workplace and has many pernicious consequences, rangin...
- Title
- Can You See It Coming? How Disclosure And Corporate Social Responsibility Activity Predict Cybersecurity Breach
- Author
- Binkley, Marcy
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Information technology, Accounting
- Description
- This dissertation explores the cybersecurity risk disclosure and the information an organization signals via disclosure contents. Extant literature acknowledges the ability of the cybersecurity risk disclosure to predict subsequent related outcome...
- Title
- Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
- Author
- Shah, Dhara
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Economics
- Description
- I contribute to the literature by formally modeling the indirect bankruptcy costs for a firm that sells durable goods. Consumers concerned about warranties or future product services penalize the distressed firm by putting off purchases or leaving...
- Title
- Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
- Author
- EGHAN, EMMANUEL
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
- Description
- Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...
- Title
- Exploring The Effect of Mentoring Programs for Both Private and Public Sectors: Formal and Informal Relationships
- Author
- McCrowre, Rodney
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- Studies on mentoring projects have highlighted the polarization of subjects, unique to the role of mentoring relationships, the role of that mentor, and the influences of those groups through an individual's journey toward career development. This...
- Title
- Factors Influencing Veteran Entrepreneurial Intention
- Author
- Bryant, Tamara
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- Veteran business owners are essential contributors to American society and the U. S. economy. Statistics showed a looming drawdown of military personnel and comparatively higher unemployment rates than the civilian population, which led to a growi...
- Title
- Foreign Cash Holdings and the Investment and Payout Response of U.S. Multinational Corporations to Provisions of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Of 2017
- Author
- Sofsky, William
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Accounting
- Description
- The passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) provides a unique context in which to examine the effects of U.S. taxation of foreign earnings on the behavior of multi-national corporations (MNCs). Prior to the TCJA, the U.S. levied corpor...
- Title
- Founder Social Identity As A Predictor Of Customer And Competitor Orientation In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Author
- Rutherford, Austin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Marketing
- Description
- This dissertation explores the association between Founder Social Identity and the twoleading component measures of market orientation: customer and competitor orientation. Using the typology of entrepreneurial identities developed by Fauchart and...
- Title
- How Does Family Firm Status Moderate the Relationship Between Organizational Readiness for Change and Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis?
- Author
- Castillo, Nubia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Statistics, Industrial management
- Description
- ABSTRACTNUBIA A. CASTILLO DE VALLE. How does family firm status moderate the relationship between organizational readiness for change and organizational resilience in times of crisis? (Under the direction of DR.TORSTEN M. PIEPER)The literature on ...
- Title
- Job Entrenched, Placeholders, or Job Detached: A Person-Centered Approach to Job Embeddedness
- Author
- Nau, Geoffrey
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- With the introduction of job embeddedness theory, research focus shifted away from the precursors of why people leave and turned attention toward why people stay. Distinct from similar constructs, such as job satisfaction and organizational commit...
- Title
- Moderating Effect of Political Affiliation, Kinship Ties, Environmental Munificence and Environment Uncertainty in the Relationship Between Institutional Trust and Entrepreneurial Orientation.
- Author
- Henriques, Tchijica
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
- Description
- Micro-entrepreneurship constitutes undeniably an important development strategy in developing countries. Earlier empirical studies have shown it generates 20 to 45% of full-time employment and 30% to 50% of rural household income in Africa. Howeve...
- Title
- Optimism and Crowdfunding Success: The Moderating Effect of Pitch Changes on Funding Success After Initial Failures.
- Author
- Carrothers, James
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- AbstractJAMES L. CARROTHERS. Optimism and Crowdfunding Success: The Moderating Effect of Pitch Changes on Funding Success After Initial Failures. (Under the direction of DR. JUSTIN W. WEBB)Entrepreneurs fail. Statistics on new venture failure rate...
- Title
- Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Pursue Digital Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Evaluation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Author
- Chapman, Ophelia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Information technology, Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
- Description
- Over the past several years the connection between entrepreneurship and digital technologies has transformed the way business is conducted. This, coupled with reactions to the coronavirus outbreak that have caused interruptions to significant econ...
- Title
- The Impact of Organizational Environment on Reporting Sexual Harassment: A Meta-Analytic Review
- Author
- Best, Emma
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- This meta-analytic review integrates a micro-perspective theory of coping responses with the macro-perspective institutional theory of moral collapse to understand the likelihood of an employee reporting sexual harassment. I build on previous stud...
- Title
- The Influence of Low-Income Households: Social Cohesion Entrepreneurship Formalization Moderated by Family Support, Risk Propensity, and Locus of Control
- Author
- Wise, Janice
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Social sciences, Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Poverty is a global problem dating back to the early nineteen hundred. Issues, such as income inequalities, food insecurities, poor education, lack of good health care, and housing challenges have often been highlighted in the research. The plight...
- Title
- The Influences of Brand Personality, Culture, and Social Media on Iconic Brand Preferences
- Author
- Whelan, Brian
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Marketing
- Description
- Despite the strong appeal of iconic brands, research on how consumers form attachments and loyalty to them has been limited. To fill this knowledge gap, this research is aimed at identifying factors that may determine consumers’ emotional attachme...
- Title
- The Interactive Effect of Psychological Capital and Gender on Employee Turnover and Promotion Within Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Author
- Tuders, John
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Psychology, Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Entrepreneurship is drives economic growth and innovation. While research largely focuses on the role of the individual entrepreneur, new venture success also depends on the ability for the entrepreneur to attract and retain employees. The purpose...
- Title
- Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
- Author
- Villatoro Godoy, Karla
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance
- Description
- KARLA NATALIA VILLATORO GODOY. Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID C. MAUER) In the first chapter ("Brand Equity and Corporate Debt Structure"), we develop measures of brand equity based on firms’ portfo...
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- Through the Lens of Social Movement Impact Theory in Latin America. Measuring Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Utilizing Socio-Political Activism and Entrepreneurial Passion as Moderated by Opportunity Recognition and Gender
- Author
- Darden, Bryan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Social sciences--Research, Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Many studies have used the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain social entrepreneurial intention; however, limited empirical research has focused on the effects that socio-political activism, theory of social movements, and social movement impact...