Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: RATIONALE, MOTIVATION AND EFFECT OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN VIETNAMESE COMPANIES
Author: Le, Ben
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: Existing literatures have documented that foreign investors in developed markets hold disproportionately more shares of firms with high turnover rates. In Vietnam, I find evidence that foreign investor ownership percentage is higher in firms with ...

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 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: 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: 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: Quantitative style investing, portfolio optimization, and factor models
Author: Dickson Jr., Robert
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation consists of three related chapters in the field of empirical asset pricing. Broadly speaking the chapters investigate issues related to active portfolio management, stock-picking, portfolio optimization, and asset pricing model p...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: How Is the Value of Real Estate Affected by the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Process?
Author: Hiebert, Thomas
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Business
Description: This study examines the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process as it relates to real estate prices in the communities surrounding the bases marked for closure and realignment. I examine the history of the BRAC process, d...