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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 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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Political Ideology in Corporate Governance
This dissertation examines how beliefs and values held by members of a board of directors can influence the decisions and actions they take in the board. I have adopted theories found in political ideology literature in ... -
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 ...