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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Title
- Do ethics matter? A moderated model for effects of ethical climates on unethical behavior in organizations
- Author
- McCorvey, Kellie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- This research empirically examined the impact of psychological ethical climates on unethical behavior within organizations via a survey-based quantitative study of working adults in U.S. firms. Ethical climate types within an organization were hyp...
- 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
- 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
- EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
- Author
- Abankwa, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Industrial management, Economics
- Description
- 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...
- 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...