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A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship
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Description
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Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...
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Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
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Author
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Askay, David
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
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Description
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This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...
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Electronic Multitasking During Workplace Meetings: Why Do Employees Do It?
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Author
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Williams, Eleanor
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Communication, Psychology
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Description
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Employees are increasingly engaging in electronic multitasking during workplace meetings, as the proliferation of technology is on the rise. Though electronic multitasking is common and potentially harmful to meeting effectiveness because it distr...
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PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
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Author
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Parker, Neal
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Business
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Description
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This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...
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PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
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Author
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Allen, Joseph
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
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Description
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Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that researchers suggest is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption in work activities. Employee engagement is heavily marketed by HR consultants and recently rec...
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The Development and Validation of a Measure of the Experience of Dirty Work
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Author
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Bickmeier, Robert
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Industrial
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Description
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Dirty work is socially constructed as tainted on one or more domains (physical: dangerous, dirty, or associated with death; moral: underhanded or in contradiction to prevailing norms; social: in association with stigmatized others or done in subse...
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The power of our inner voice: The predictive validity of self-talk
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Author
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Uhrich, Benjamin
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Cognitive psychology
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Description
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Self-talk, or verbalized cognition, has been a focal construct of empirical studies in sports and clinical psychology for decades, but has only recently become of interest to organizational researchers. In the current study, we investigated the re...
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Title
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us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
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Author
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Melendez, Tanya
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Rhetoric
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Description
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In September of 2017, BuzzFeed News launched a morning television show that airs live on Twitter five days a week. AM to DM represents one of the first disruptions of a 60-year-old genre with an emphasis on audience participation, an editorialized...
