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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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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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Professionalization through socialization: Student conceptualizations of internships
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Author
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Beveridge, Chelsea
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Date Created
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2007
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Psychology
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Description
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Research suggests that internships lead beneficial outcomes for students, universities, and organizations (e.g., Eyler, 1992; Knouse & Fontenot, 2008), yet a large body of internship research is devoid of a theoretical basis. Previous research tha...
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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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There are two sides to every story: The veteran's perspective on socialization
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Author
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Dunn, Alexandra
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
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Description
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Organizational socialization is a two-way interactive process where organizational outsiders become insiders and insiders adjust to working with outsiders. When carried out correctly, socialization is related to better newcomer adjustment (e.g., h...
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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...