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Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Business administration"
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Adopt or Not: How Consumers’ Implicit Beliefs Influence Evaluations of Innovative Products
We utilize the concept of implicit theories, or individuals’ lay beliefs about the malleability of human attributes, to illustrate how certain individuals can be dispositionally poised to resist (or seek) new and innovative ... -
Algorithms and User Behaviors
This dissertation delves into the burgeoning and critical field of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the increasingly intricate interaction between sophisticated algorithms and complex user behaviors. In an era of ... -
Alone and Unafraid: Observations on Functional Leader Intervention in Decentralized Organizations
Today’s organizations whether political, non-profit, or commercial have adjusted their way of thinking to fit the twenty-first century’s atmosphere of instantaneous information and shifting market places. As such these ... -
Anthropomorphism’s Influence on Consumer Involvement in Sustainability
Across two chapters, this dissertation reviews the literature of sustainability appeals, anthropomorphism, and explores the influence anthropomorphism has on sustainability appeals and downstream marketing consequences. ... -
Applications of Operations Management in Emerging Technologies
The question of how to match supply and demand, in a supply chain, is crucial because it significantly affects the supply chain's cost management. Therefore, to adopt new technologies, supply chain owners should update ... -
Audit Committee Expertise: An Examination of the Post-SOX Era
I examine whether accounting experts on the audit committee outperform other financial experts in monitoring financial reporting in the post-SOX era. SOX changed both the audit committee composition and financial reporting ... -
Brand Archetypes
Brand archetypes are a steadily growing but relatively unstudied operationalization of brand persona. This dissertation consists of three papers that examine the current use and potential of brand archetype-driven personas. ... -
Captured Equity Holders and Risk Shifting
I study how fund families’ simultaneous debt and equity holdings affect risk shifting by portfolio firms. Families generate more income from debt in one-third of their dual holding positions; I argue their equity in those ... -
Class Effects: The Role of Social Class Background on CEO Selection and Career Outcomes
This dissertation examines the influence of social class background on selection to the CEO position and subsequent career outcomes for CEOs. Specifically, I study how social class background may result in sociocognitive ... -
Community-Based Financing: Entrepreneurial Resource Acquisition in the Age of Disintermediation
Theories of resource acquisition generated by observing how early-stage ventures attain financial capital from professional investors may not apply to increasingly prevalent online financing settings such as crowdfunding, ... -
Context Dependent Communication and Its Effects on Employee Needs Fulfillment, Creative Processes, and Well-Being
Communication with employees is a prime influence mechanism through which authority figures affect important individual and organizational outcomes. In this dissertation, I argue that the communication style of authority ... -
Corporate ESG Profiles, Matching, and the Cost of Bank Loans
I examine the impact of corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) profiles on the matching between lenders and borrowers and loan pricing. High ESG firms are more likely to obtain loans, which come with lower ... -
Corporate Social Media: How Two-Way Disclosure Channels Influence Investors
I examine how a firm’s engagement with individuals on social media affects the firm’s reputation and its attractiveness as an investment. I focus on a case in which a Twitter user criticizes an application of managerial ... -
Data Analytics Strategy and Internal Information Quality
I examine whether a strategic focus on data analytics improves firms’ internal information quality, the decision-usefulness of information. Using textual analysis of firm disclosures to identify a data analytics strategy, ... -
(Debt) Overhang: Evidence from Resource Extraction
I study the empirical importance of debt overhang using a unique dataset on resource extraction firms, which provides ex ante measures of investment opportunities and important variation in the terms of a firm's obligations. ... -
Digital Healthcare: Individual Engagement and IT-Enabled Design
In this dissertation, I study the transformational effect of information technology on healthcare. I take two main perspectives to investigate the topic: individual engagement and IT-enabled design. Along the first ... -
Distal and Historical Constraints on Leadership: Loneliness and Leniency from the Leader's Perspective
Contextual factors – environmental stimuli external to individuals – are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context ... -
Division or Solidarity: The Double-Edged Sword of Workplace Gossip
Despite the ubiquity of gossip, current scholarly perspectives of gossip conceptualize gossip as a largely uniform behavior, which simplifies its inherent complexity, ambiguity, and broader consequences in organizations. ... -
Do Commissions Cause Investment Adviser Misconduct?
Sales commissions may present a conflict of interest that allows investment advisers to obtain rents from uninformed clients. Alternatively, commissions might be a contracting solution to motivate information provision. ... -
Economic Characteristics of Drayage Drivers at the Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle surveyed drayage truckers serving the port in 2006, 2008, and surveyed drivers again in 2013 in partnership with the University of Washington. This thesis describes the methodology used to survey drayage ...