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Title
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Abusive Supervision and Subordinate Characteristics: A Relative Importance Analysis
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Author
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Durham, Brooks
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
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Description
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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...
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An Examination of the Credit Rating Industry
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Author
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Schorno, Patrick
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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Starting in the early 2000s, after the accounting scandals involving Enron and WorldCom and continuing throughout the subsequent structured finance debacle of 2008, credit rating agencies have been criticized for the inaccuracy of their ratings. A...
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Antecedents in Building Resilience: Extending Conservation of Resources Theory
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Author
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Werntz Coatman, Lindamarie
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
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Description
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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...
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CHANGES IN VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING AND THE PROCESS OF CREATING NASCENT FIRM VALUE
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Author
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Martin, Stephen
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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The financing of nascent firms, and how they evolve into public companies, has undergone tremendous transformation over the past decade. The methods in which financing is structured, the process of growing financial value, and the exit strategies ...
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COMMITMENT, TRUST, KINSHIP – BUILDING A LEGACY THROUGH SUCCESSION PLANNING
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Author
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Rolan, Lisa
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship
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Description
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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...
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Capital Structure Issues in Real Estate Corporate Finance
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Author
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Blazevich, Brett
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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Capital structure issues are of great importance within the corporate finance literature. Exploration of these issues within the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry provides the opportunity to examine these issues within a unique and homo...
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Title
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Corporate bonds: Theoretical and Empirical Study
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Author
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Park, Min
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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This dissertation consists of three parts. The first chapter presents an analysis of the structural difference between a make-whole callable and a traditional callable bond. Based on the analysis, we construct a reduced-form model for the make-who...
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Customer Success and the Transformation of Customer Relationships
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Author
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Raines, MiKayla
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Marketing
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Description
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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...
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DOES ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODERATE JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS?
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Author
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Lewis, Sharon
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Information technology, Industrial management
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Description
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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...
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EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
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Author
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Abankwa, Samuel
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance, Industrial management, Economics
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Description
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The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...
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Employee Referrals: A Competitive Advantage or Operational Inefficiency
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Author
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Reeves, Samantha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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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...
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Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Persistence within Small-size Companies
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Author
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He, Xiaowen
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial management
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Description
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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, ...
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Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
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Author
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Mo, Xi
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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This dissertation contains two essays on empirical asset pricing. The first essay tests a two-beta currency pricing model that features betas with risk-premium news and real-rate news of the currency market. I find that the beta associated with ri...
