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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: Antecedents in Building Resilience: Extending Conservation of Resources Theory
Author: Werntz Coatman, Lindamarie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
Description: Stress in the workplace is a pertinent factor influencing people’s lives and performance at work. Stress creates a cost to employees through their psychological and physical well-being, and it has financial consequences for organizations. One pers...

Title: COMMITMENT, TRUST, KINSHIP – BUILDING A LEGACY THROUGH SUCCESSION PLANNING
Author: Rolan, Lisa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: This dissertation deals with the incumbent's commitment to the family firm and the degree of formalization of a succession plan and how trust and kinship strengthen or weaken the relationship. This dissertation argues that the incumbent's commitme...

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: Customer Success and the Transformation of Customer Relationships
Author: Raines, MiKayla
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: The construct of "customer satisfaction" has been used for several decades in marketing to achieve outcomes such as customer loyalty, word-of-mouth communication, resistance to competition, and customer equity. Recent research, however, has indica...

Title: Does Fit Matter? An Investigation of Employee-Supervisor Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation Fit on Innovative Work Behavior Within Established Organizations
Author: Piwowar, Theresa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management
Description: Within established organizations, employee innovative behavior is vital for the long-term survival of firms. Employee individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) represents tendencies by an individual toward innovativeness, proactiveness, and ris...

Title: Does Gender Matter? A Moderated Model for Family Climate and Psychological Ownership of the Family Firm as Experienced by Next-Generation Family Members.
Author: Shike, Sarah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: While most family business leaders want their offspring to take over the family business, most next-generation family members choose to pursue opportunities outside their families’ businesses. This research aims to understand how internal family d...

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: Employee Referrals: A Competitive Advantage or Operational Inefficiency
Author: Reeves, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Effective and efficient recruiting is required for firms as they seek to maintain a competitive advantage in the race to hire top talent. At the time of this study, United States unemployment rates had reached historical lows of less than 4% as of...

Title: Ethics Continuing Professional Education and the Potential Effect on CPAs’ Ethical Behavior and Accountability
Author: CARTER, DOREEN
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Accounting, Ethics
Description: Based on Aristotle’s philosophy that ethics can be taught, this study examines whether the behavior of licensed accounting professionals is influenced by increased ethics Continuing Professional Education (CPE) required by state licensing boards. ...

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: Green or greenwashed? Organizational strain as an antecedent to decoupling in corporate environmental sustainability reporting
Author: Knight, Barbara
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: ABSTRACT Scholarly attention continues to focus on how organizations are responding to stakeholder demands for meaningful corporate social responsibility (CSR) impact. CSR empirical studies offer evidence of decoupling in corporate policies, imple...

Title: How Information Frictions Impacted the Paycheck Protection Program Loan Disbursements in Mitigating the Economic Constraints Faced by Small Businesses from Covid-19
Author: Kim, Min-Seung
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: This study examines the impact of information frictions from demographic bias, financial institution access, and digital literacy on PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan disbursement and finds statistically significant positive relationships bet...

Title: I AM AN OWNER NOW, SO WHAT? THE INFLUENCE OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION
Author: Wilhelm, Benjamin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) are a form of employee share ownership, where employees participate in the financial results of the company in an indirect way through allocation of ownership shares as a benefit plan. While employee ownership...

Title: Identity-Salient Language: Conceptualizing the Content Influence of Entrepreneurs
Author: Harris, Kimberly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of identity-salient language on rapper performance. Social identity theory literature acknowledges that there is an in-group favoritism effect when entrepreneurs form a connective identity with th...

Title: Perceived Overqualification of Work Among State Employees: A Replication And Extension
Author: Varney, Sandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: As trends of employment continue to rapidly shift and evolve during the post-COVID-19 era, it is important for organizations to consider rates of underemployment as much as it is to regard unemployment. Recently, a new scale measurement of employe...

Title: Resilience and Venture Performance: The Moderating Role of Culture within Entrepreneurship
Author: Barzuna Hidalgo, Oscar
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Sociology
Description: Resilience research within the field of entrepreneurship has increasingly received attention from academia. However, most studies have considered this construct under extreme circumstances such as war, the aftermath of natural disasters, and econo...

Title: SOCIAL DIALOGIC LISTENING: CONNECTING MARKETING ACTIVITY TO STRATEGY
Author: Collins, Suzanne
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: This research advances knowledge related to the potential role, antecedents, and benefitsof social media in relationship marketing. With rapidly changing consumer expectations,technology, and media, the marketplace is quickly evolving and firms ar...

Title: THE ROLE OF COMPLEXITY WITHIN INTELLIGENT DECISION AIDS ON USER RELIANCE: AN EXTENSION OF THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY DOMINANCE
Author: Williams, Bradley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information science
Description: A decision aid only works if used within the decision-making process. As computational power and data storage become more accessible across industries, reliance on intelligent decision aids, those with embedded decision-making technologies, will b...