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On Managing Stochastic Decentralized Projects
Managing decentralized projects effectively is a critical issue today as projects have become increasingly complex, costly, and strategically important (especially IT and product development projects). In this dissertation, ... -
Production planning, pricing and market coordination for news vendor problem with price dependent demand
Randomness is a common and yet quite an expensive challenge that every manufacturing and marketing system faces. In this research we focus on products for which the malfunction likelihood of the production outputs are not ... -
Essays on Omnichannel Sale
In this dissertation, we study three problems related to omnichannel sale. In the first two chapters, we study omnichannel fulfillment where a retailer can use either the online or the offline channel to back up the other ... -
MINDFULNESS AND MORAL BEHAVIOR IN THE ORGANIZATION: THE ROLE OF AWARENESS OF AND ATTENTION TO MORALITY
Mindfulness is an awareness of and attention to present events and experiences. This dissertation examines the relationship between mindfulness and moral behavior in employees. I draw on mindfulness theory (Brown & Ryan, ... -
Laboro ergo sum (I work therefore I am): The effects of occupation characteristics on psychological characteristics and nonwork outcomes
This dissertation examines the transformative effects of occupations on individuals. I begin by examining a prominent theory in organizational behavior that focuses on the effects of occupations on individuals: the Job ... -
The formation and outcome of corporate venture capital investments between incumbents and new ventures
This dissertation examines the formation and outcomes of interorganizational partnerships between industry incumbents and new ventures. New ventures are often a powerful competitive force threatening established firms, but ... -
How Social Integration Leverages Interpersonal and Brand Trust
Practitioners believe that "creating or expanding business relationships is not about selling - it's about establishing trust" (Myatt 2012, p. 1), yet practitioners have little guidance about whether sources of trust (brands ... -
The Impact of Digital Marketing on Firms' Strategies and Consumers' Post-purchase Behavior
Companies have for decades built up their business around the traditional brick-and-mortar channel. The rise of the Internet and the surging popularity of online shopping have offered rapid growth in e-commerce and embodied ... -
Examining the Effects of Varying Levels of Similar or Dissimilar Detail on Investors' Risk Perceptions and Investment Decisions
I use an experiment to examine how varying levels of similar or dissimilar detail between risk oversight disclosures influences nonprofessional investors' judgments and decisions. Investors evaluate the risk oversight ... -
Partner Rotation and PCAOB Inspections: Effects on End-of-Term Audit Quality
I examine the joint effects of two current audit regulations, mandatory partner rotation and PCAOB inspections, on audit quality. In doing so, I respond to Congress's call for research about the effects of the 2002 ... -
Ownership Structure and Firm Value: Evidence from Mergers of Institutional Investors and Genetics, Homeownership and Home Location Choice
In the first chapter I investigate the effect of the dispersion of institutional shareholders on firm value. By using mergers of institutional investors as exogenous changes to the ownership structure of firms in their ... -
Currency Denomination Decision and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Global Bonds
This paper studies the currency choice of government and public agency borrowers when they issue bonds in the international market. In particular, by constructing a comprehensive sample of global bonds issued by these ... -
When Do Firms Risk Shift? Evidence from Venture Capital
This paper studies the agency costs of debt and the role of risk shifting as firms face financial distress. The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program is a novel setting to evaluate the importance of these costs. ... -
Essays on Similarities Between Executives and Investors
The first chapter of my dissertation examines the effect of similarity in personal characteristics between start-up executives and investor principals on whether the start-up obtains funding from the investor, as well as ... -
Essays on Entrepreneurship and Founder Pre-entry Knowledge
This dissertation research extends our understanding of the ways in which founder pre-entry knowledge influences the evolution and performance of start-ups in technologically intensive industries. In the first chapter, I ... -
Is the risk of product market predation a cost of disclosure?
Competitors engage in product market predation when they lower prices or increase expenditures on non-price competition with the goal of forcing a rival to exit. This study provides evidence consistent with the hypothesis ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Healthcare Payments and Operations
A common objective of my dissertation is to use analytical and empirical models to understand the impact of current healthcare policies on outcomes for stakeholders, cost containment, quality of care, and efficiency of the ... -
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 ... -
Reducing Underreporting by Aggregating Budgeted Time
Underreporting, or reporting fewer hours than actually worked, is a prevalent behavior among auditors at all levels. Underreporting can result in negative consequences such as tight budgets and reductions in future audit ...