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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SMALL - AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES’ CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PROCESSES IMPACT ON FIRM PERFORMANCE MODERATED BY ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION
Author: Branner, Katrice
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Many studies investigate the factors that impact small and medium-sized enterprise performance. In this dissertation, the research model suggests that customer relationship management processes are a multi-dimensional construct that can be a sourc...

Title: SOCIAL DIALOGIC LISTENING: CONNECTING MARKETING ACTIVITY TO STRATEGY
Author: Collins, Suzanne
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: This research advances knowledge related to the potential role, antecedents, and benefitsof social media in relationship marketing. With rapidly changing consumer expectations,technology, and media, the marketplace is quickly evolving and firms ar...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF VETERAN IDENTITY STRAIN, PTSD, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON VETERANS’ JOB SATISFACTION
Author: Gory, John
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: ABSTRACTJOHN ARTHUR GORY. THE EFFECTS OF VETERAN IDENTITY STRAIN, PTSD, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON VETERANS’ JOB SATISFACTION(Under the direction of DR REGINALD A. SILVER) Military veterans transitioning from the Armed Forces to the civilian workforce ...

Title: THE ROLE OF COMPLEXITY WITHIN INTELLIGENT DECISION AIDS ON USER RELIANCE: AN EXTENSION OF THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY DOMINANCE
Author: Williams, Bradley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information science
Description: A decision aid only works if used within the decision-making process. As computational power and data storage become more accessible across industries, reliance on intelligent decision aids, those with embedded decision-making technologies, will b...

Title: THREE ESSAYS ON MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES
Author: Nart, Ahmet
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay examines how a tournament among CEOs to progress within the CEO labor market changes their tendency toward corporate hedging policies. We exploit the textual analysis of 10-Ks to generate ...

Title: TRUST IN CONSUMER ADOPTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN VIRTUAL FINANCE ASSISTANTS: A TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL PERSPECTIVE
Author: Nashold, Blaine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Information technology, Banks and banking
Description: While numerous studies have investigated technology acceptance through the classical technology acceptance model (TAM), little empirical research has touched on the emerging technology trend of financial technology or "fintech". More specifically,...

Title: The Proposal's Forgotten Effect on Project Risk and Performance
Author: Haynes, Lawrence
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: The Request for Proposal (RFP) process is used extensively for the procurement of products and services internationally by government and industry. The United States Government (USG) is the largest customer in the world, and yet, this important pr...

Title: The influence of socialization, family and sex on newcomer outcomes in a dirty work context
Author: Ruiz Munoz, Delia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Dirty work refers to occupations and job activities that are likely to be observed as repulsive or degrading. Dirty work has fueled a substantial body of research. The bulk of the literature focuses on psychological mechanisms used by experienced ...

Title: Three Essays in Housing
Author: Brunson, Sean
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation addresses the potential mismeasurement of home price indices and its implications on mortgage default research during the recession and examines the potential drivers of the housing affordability issue since the recession. The fi...

Title: USE OF GANG MEMBER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS TO DETECT VIOLENT CRIME
Author: Fowler, Sherry
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Criminology
Description: Many large cities in the U.S. have a problem with violent crime, some of which is committed by gang affiliates. Those individuals use social media platforms like Twitter to express messages of loss and aggression, which can grow in volume and diss...