Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation [...]

The first paper ("Does Executive Compensation Duration Generate Different Risk Incentives? Evidence on Corporate Hedging") investigates whether and how corporate hedging [...]

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The[...]

Aggregate production planning generally deals with configuration of an aggregate plan in advance of 6 to 18 periods (e.g. months) to give the organizations an idea about [...]

This dissertation elucidates the channels through which sovereign risk, exchange rates and currency risk premia are related. I show that the channels are different depend[...]

Group purchasing (GP) is a procurement strategy by which the retailers can negotiate better prices by increasing their negotiation power through collaboration with each o[...]

Modern power and energy systems rely heavily on power electronics converters. The most significant component of these converters is the power semiconductor switching devi[...]

Effective management of IT-enabled services is becoming increasingly important. These services are often delivered by networks of knowledge workers who constitute Knowled[...]

Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s sid[...]