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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: An Examination of the Credit Rating Industry
Author: Schorno, Patrick
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

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: CHANGES IN VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING AND THE PROCESS OF CREATING NASCENT FIRM VALUE
Author: Martin, Stephen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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 ...

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: Capital Structure Issues in Real Estate Corporate Finance
Author: Blazevich, Brett
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

Title: Corporate bonds: Theoretical and Empirical Study
Author: Park, Min
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

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: 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: Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Nie, Ziye
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: The dissertation is composed of three essays that address the cross-sectional relation between firm characteristics and expected stock returns. Chapter 1, "Regime-switching and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns", incorporates regime swit...

Title: Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Mo, Xi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

Title: Essays in investments and asset allocation
Author: Chen, Xianzhe
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation consists of three topics in investments and asset allocation. The first chapter studies the dynamics of macro factors and their application in asset allocation. Five meaningful economic factors are extracted from hundreds of econ...

Title: Essays on quantitative modeling financial
Author: Zhang, Hao
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation explores the application of quantitative modeling to analyze the features of different financial assets. This study investigates the dynamics of financial assets using advanced mathematical, statistical approaches, and Machine Le...

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: Financial Market Innovation and Product Innovation: Evidence from Commodity Futures Markets and Stock Markets
Author: Kong, Lingfei
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation contains three connected essays that feature financial market innovation and product market innovation. Two essays feature return predictability in commodity futures, which have been financialized during the past two decades. One...

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...