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A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
Title
A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
Author
Stewart, Oscar
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Management, Sociology, Ethics
Description
Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...
Analysis of semiparametric regression models for the cumulative incidence functions under the two-phase sampling designs.
Title
Analysis of semiparametric regression models for the cumulative incidence functions under the two-phase sampling designs.
Author
Lee, Unkyung
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Statistics, Mathematics
Description
Competing risks often arise where more than one event compete with each other for a subject. The cumulative incidence function is a proper summary quantity for analyzing competing risks data. In epidemiologic cohort studies, case-cohort study desi...
FRAME WAVELETS IN HIGH DIMENSION
Title
FRAME WAVELETS IN HIGH DIMENSION
Author
Huang, Wei
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Mathematics
Description
In this dissertation, the classic one dimension orthogonal wavelet construction scheme is discussed and extended to construct Parseval's frame wavelets in high dimension scenario. An iterative algorithm is developed to construct various Parseval's...
Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Title
Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Author
Duscha, Melissa
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Government policy, Political science, Public administration
Description
This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...