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The New Era of Electronic Commerce: Mobile Commerce, Electronic Book Market and Novel Online Retail Strategies
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines three subareas of modern electronic commerce--the mobile app market, the electronic book market, and the online retail market--each of which is presented in a separate essay. Essay 1 focuses on ... -
New Technologies and the Value of Information Systems
(2013-11-14)As new forms of information systems emerge, they affect organizations in new ways. Technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization and mobile computing are revolutionizing the way businesses work. So many aspects of ... -
On dimensions of corporate misbehavior: Financial misrepresentation and operational misconduct
This study examines whether corporate misbehavior toward shareholders and non-shareholders are complements or substitutes. Specifically, I ask whether firms engaged in misconduct against non-shareholders are also likely ... -
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, ... -
Operations Management of On-Demand and Crowdsourced Systems
Over the last few years, crowdsourced and on-demand service platforms have provided unconventional accessibility to services and products, and hence, studying their operations is of great importance. Research in this thesis ... -
Organizational Cultures of Guilt and Shame
This manuscript develops theory on organizational affective cultures of guilt and shame as systems of social control that guide members in how they ought to feel and behave surrounding the violation of norms. Moral emotions ... -
Organizational Genealogy: Boundaries and Extensions of the Biological Metaphor
(2012-09-13)Management scholars have long sought to understand the genesis of core strategies and practices that are selected at the formation of new entrepreneurial ventures. Past work has drawn from the biological sciences, invoking ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Persistence in pension account returns: the impact of survivorship and reaction of asset flows
(2001)This paper is the first to examine the effects of survivorship on persistence in the performance of U.S. equity pension accounts. Evidence of predictability of returns is stronger with the total sample of accounts than ... -
Picturing Diversity: The Use of Photographs in Annual Reports
I examine firms’ depictions of diversity using photographs in annual reports. I investigate how the determinants of diverse pictorial content varies from those of actual firm diversity practices and whether these vary with ... -
Principles of railroad property taxation with particular application to the state of Washington
(1938)The constant increase in the magnitude of American governmental expenditures because of the increased demand on thepart of the public for enlargement of the protective, developmental, and commercial functions, in all ... -
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 ... -
Promotional enhancement theory: a model for designing promotions that enhance brand evaluations
(1999)It is commonly argued that although sales promotions effectively influence initial brand choice, they may ultimately undermine brand evaluations and repurchase intentions. Prior experimental results demonstrate that under ... -
Promotional Strategies on Online Platforms
This dissertation studies various promotional strategies on online platforms by investigating their empirical impact and comparing different policies by analytic models. In three different context, product sampling on ... -
Quality and Capacity Decisions in Service Industry
(2013-11-14)In this research we provide different analytical models that capture the effects of quality of service. We consider quality of service as a measure separate from capacity decision and analyze the effects of these decisions ... -
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 ... -
Self-esteem and social influences on retaliation behavior
(2002)Two studies were conducted to examine the role of a person's self-esteem and group influences in their reactions to a perceived injustice. Study 1, conducted with a sample of undergraduate business students, indicates that ... -
Stable versus Shifting Ethical Leadership: The Impact on Follower Positivity and Performance
(2013-02-25)Considering the temporal nature of ethical leadership is among the greatest challenges for ethical leadership researchers (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Rising to that challenge, the central goal of this research is to consider ... -
State taxation of financial institutions
(1928)The question of bank taxation has recently come to assume a position of first importance to banks, owners of other moneyed capital and to state legislatures. The national banking act (Section 5319) provides that the states ...