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Title: A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
Author: Szymanska, Izabela
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...

Title: Benchmarking for Action & Satisfaction in Facility Operations & Maintenance
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While benchmarking is a well-established strategy that organizations have been using to manage performance and seek continual improvement for almost 4 decades, the field of facility management has only started using benchmarking in the last 20 yea...

Title: Blockchain and the Transformation of Inequitable Markets
Author: WINBORNE, RITA
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Marketing, Sociology
Description: AbstractRITA WINBORNE. Blockchain and The Transformation of Inequitable Markets. (Under the direction of DR. SUNIL EREVELLES)Markets are inherently inequitable. Markets replicate historical social norms and outdated business beliefs, they perpetua...

Title: Brand Wonder
Author: Lee, Michael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Marketing, Industrial management
Description: Affect is a critical construct in marketing, particularly within the area of branding. Despite the extensive body of research on affect in marketing, there appears to be a substantial and surprising gap in the literature as it relates to one type ...

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: 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: Disruptions in Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Model Simulation To Measure Resiliency and Performance During Disasters
Author: Brewer, Laura
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Operations research
Description: Supply chain disruptions have been a major concern in businesses and society. Our goal is to study these disruptions and analyze ways to mitigate their effects. To do so, we propose an agent-based model simulation. In our model, we consider the fo...

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: Dynamic Capabilities of Research Universities and the Innovation Performance Through Technology Transfer
Author: Bibi, Ghazala
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: ABSTRACTDYNAMIC CAPABILITIES OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AND THE INNOVATION PERFORMANCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Under the direction of DR. KELLERMANNS This research paper explores the relationship between dynamic capabilities and innovation perfo...

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: 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: Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Persistence within Small-size Companies
Author: He, Xiaowen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: This dissertation explores the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial persistence within small-size companies. Although prior literature has acknowledged that entrepreneurial passion enhances entrepreneurial persistence, ...

Title: Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
Author: EGHAN, EMMANUEL
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
Description: Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...

Title: Exchange Rates, Carry Trade Returns and Political Risks
Author: Kesse, Kwabena
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Industrial management
Description: This dissertation elucidates the channels through which sovereign risk, exchange rates and currency risk premia are related. I show that the channels are different depending on whether a country is classified as emerging or an advanced economy. Ge...

Title: Executive Leadership Style and Firm Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement
Author: Mitchell, Keondra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Firms are thinking creatively and strategically to inform corporate social responsibility that benefits essential stakeholders. Not only is doing good vital for business, but it has become the responsibility of firms to create initiatives that inc...

Title: Exploring The Effect of Mentoring Programs for Both Private and Public Sectors: Formal and Informal Relationships
Author: McCrowre, Rodney
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Studies on mentoring projects have highlighted the polarization of subjects, unique to the role of mentoring relationships, the role of that mentor, and the influences of those groups through an individual's journey toward career development. This...

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: Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Santos, Kristen
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Sex role, Management
Description: Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...

Title: Guilt, Pride, and Persuasion: Rethinking the Pathway to Charitable Contributions
Author: Kelly, Michael
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Marketing, Behavior therapy, Industrial management
Description: The conceptualization of the consumer as one who not only does and thinks but also feels has gained increased attention from both academics and practitioners alike in recent years. To better understand the effectiveness of advertisements as well a...