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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 ... -
The Static and Dynamic Impact of Couple-Level Work-Family Conflict on Intra-Couple Job Change, Couple Separation and Family Expansion
In this study, I seek to advance understanding in the work-family interface by investigating how work-family conflict alters a couple’s work-family interface over time. To do so, I first provide a theoretical foundation ... -
Taxes, conservatism in financial reporting, and the value relevance of accounting data
(2005)This study investigates whether taxes affect conservatism in financial reporting and the relevance of the resulting financial accounting data for valuation purposes. My motivation is to provide evidence on taxation as a ... -
Taxes, financial distress, and capital structure in the United States and Japan
(2001)In Study 1, I examine whether a U.S. firm's proximity to both financial distress and tax exhaustion affects whether debt is negatively related to non-debt tax shields. Effective tax planning requires a firm to consider ... -
A Time for Cognitive Change: The Reappraisal of Anger, Interpersonal Injustice, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors
(2012-08-10)This dissertation looks to the emotional regulation literature, specifically the cognitive change stage (i.e. reappraisal) of Gross's (1998) process model of emotional regulation, to help employees adaptively regulate their ... -
Turnover in the high-tech industry: shocks and sensemaking in the unfolding model of turnover
(1998)This research explored the shock construct in Lee and Mitchell's (1994) unfolding model of turnover. The first study consisted of qualitative interviews conducted with professionals in the high-technology industry. Based ... -
Two Essays on Corporate Finance: Financing Frictions and Corporate Decisions
(2013-07-25)My dissertation focuses on the effect of financial market frictions on firm value in the context of corporate mergers, capital structure and growth. The first chapter explores how financing frictions faced by potential ... -
Two Essays on Payout Policy: Strategic Interaction Effects and Union Effects
(2012-09-13)Previous literature on payout policy has focused on the effects of firm-level characteristics on firms' dividend payouts or stock repurchases. My dissertation investigates whether industry characteristics affect these ... -
Two Faces of a Control Freak: Decomposing Authoritarian Leadership and its Effects on Work Unit Effectiveness
(2012-09-13)Decomposing authoritarian leadership into two essential elements - authoritarian decision making and authoritarian decision implementation, this dissertation focuses on disentangling the relationship between authoritarian ... -
A Unified Theory of Consumer Response to Self-Concept Threat
(2012-09-13)This dissertation comprises three chapters. Chapter one is designed to stand alone as a conceptual framework and literature review prepared for submission to an edited volume. This chapter presents a unifying model of ... -
Unintended Consequences of Loyalty Initiatives
(2013-11-14)Firms launch loyalty initiatives (e.g., loyalty programs, relationship marketing investments) in the hopes of eliciting greater behavioral loyalty (e.g., less defection, more expansion). Extant research evaluates the direct ... -
Using cognitive load theory to explain the accrual anomaly
(2007)The accrual anomaly represents the positive abnormal returns generated by a trading strategy that seeks to exploit investors' failure to accurately forecast earnings when the accrual and cash components of earnings (earnings ... -
The Value of Social Media for Patients: Social Supports, Networking, and Learning in Online Healthcare Communities
(2013-02-25)Social media are changing the way we learn about health and illness. Yet, there is limited information about whether online healthcare communities have a significant effect on patients' health conditions, as they do in ... -
Venture Capital Directors, Earnings Manipulation, & Firm Performance
(2012-08-10)The accounting system allows for flexibility in how earnings are presented, and this flexibility is susceptible to the incentives for managers and controlling stakeholders. Venture Capital (VC) firms have competing ... -
When is a threat more or less of a threat? The sensitivity of psychologically central identities to threat and the resulting impact on work
Psychologically central identities are those that are so important to individuals’ self-definition that they are top-of-mind for individuals across situations. This becomes a critical consideration when these identities ... -
Why Consumers Help Victims Who Resemble Their Attachment Figures – An Attachment Anxiety Account
Why do several breast cancer campaigns occur on Mother’s Day? This research suggests that such campaigns emphasize the similarity between the victims (e.g., female cancer patients) and consumers’ attachment figures (e.g., ...