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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: 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: Project Termination Quality and its Influence on Organizational Learning and Project Management Success
Author: Cardella, Craig
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Project Management activities have become an integral part of almost every organization. Most of the effort on a project tends to occur in the middle of a project with a substantial focus on the planning and execution phases, but with limited emph...

Title: Three Essays on Household Finance, Climate Change, and Corporate Finance
Author: Shen, Chen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: Police departments located in states allowing payday lending report 14.34% more property crimes than the police departments located in states not allowing payday lending. I also find that the police departments located in counties bordering with s...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...