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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
- Analyzing the impact of corporate expansion driven job creation, wages paid, and level of financial investment on small business creations and failures: A county-level analysis.
- Author
- Smith, Kenya
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate expansions and entrepreneurial startup activity and failures, the number of jobs created, wages paid, and level of investment received by the corporate relocate. Using data sourced from...
- 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
- Brand Wonder
- Author
- Lee, Michael
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Marketing, Industrial management
- Description
- Affect is a critical construct in marketing, particularly within the area of branding. Despite the extensive body of research on affect in marketing, there appears to be a substantial and surprising gap in the literature as it relates to one type ...
- 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
- Comparative Study of Inpatient Hospitalization Lengths of Stay and Discharge Dispositions Across Healthcare Payer Types
- Author
- Lovett, Chad
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- Considering the progressive growth of healthcare expenses in the national economy, many of those impacts are directly seen in the cost to our publicly and privately funded healthcare insurance programs. This research will utilize a version of the ...
- 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 INCREASED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY INCREASE THE BUSINESS VALUE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?
- Author
- Turovlin, Alan
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Information technology, Industrial management, Accounting
- Description
- Firms believe their investments (of time and money) in IT increase their IT capabilities that, in turn, improve their competitive position in the marketplace. But to invest, firms need to understand how IT capability impacts business value. This d...
- Title
- DOES ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODERATE JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS?
- Author
- Lewis, Sharon
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Information technology, Industrial management
- Description
- Often, we become so comfortable with the presence of technology in our daily lives that we do not fully consider how much technology impacts turnover intentions and job satisfaction in the workplace. Much has been researched in the way of job sati...
- Title
- Disruptions in Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Model Simulation To Measure Resiliency and Performance During Disasters
- Author
- Brewer, Laura
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management, Operations research
- Description
- Supply chain disruptions have been a major concern in businesses and society. Our goal is to study these disruptions and analyze ways to mitigate their effects. To do so, we propose an agent-based model simulation. In our model, we consider the fo...
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- 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...
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- 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
- Dynamic Capabilities of Research Universities and the Innovation Performance Through Technology Transfer
- Author
- Bibi, Ghazala
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- ABSTRACTDYNAMIC CAPABILITIES OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AND THE INNOVATION PERFORMANCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Under the direction of DR. KELLERMANNS This research paper explores the relationship between dynamic capabilities and innovation perfo...
- Title
- Economic and Political Uncertainty and The Effects of Organizational Integration, Volume Flexibility, And Redundancy on Reliability and Delivery for Water Utilities
- Author
- Fraher, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Industrial management
- Description
- Every hour of everyday water utilities across the United States labor tirelessly to supply clean, safe, and affordable drinking water to residential and industrial consumers. Wastewater from these homes and businesses is captured and moved to trea...
- 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
- Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Persistence within Small-size Companies
- Author
- He, Xiaowen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- This dissertation explores the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial persistence within small-size companies. Although prior literature has acknowledged that entrepreneurial passion enhances entrepreneurial persistence, ...
- 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
- 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...