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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 ... -
Board Dynamics: A Structural Investigation
This paper studies how board structure changes with CEO characteristics. I estimate a structural model that endogenizes board structure, CEO firing, and firm performance to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Adopting such an ... -
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. ... -
Can “I” and “We” in Accounting Disclosures Influence Investors’ Perceptions of Manager Credibility and Investment Decisions?
I contribute to a growing literature on the role of managers’ language choices in financial reporting by studying whether managers’ pronouns influence investor judgments and decisions. I study the impact of managers’ use ... -
Choice avoidance in managerial accounting decisions
(2002)Managers often delay making decisions when decision tools indicate a preferred alternative. This avoidance behavior is costly. I posit this tendency to delay arises from the conflict inherent in choice and the manager's ... -
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 ... -
Contingencies between organizational identification and professional employee performance
(2007)Organizational identification research demonstrates only weak support for the central hypothesis that organizational identification motivates employees to pursue organizational goals. I show that the influence of organizational ... -
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 ... -
Costs and benefits of managing earnings to meet an earnings target
(2002)I examine both the incentives and the disincentives associated with managing earnings to meet a specific earnings target by looking at two related questions: What are the benefits that firms seek by managing earnings to ... -
Curiosity Can Resist Anything but Temptation: The Incidental Effects of Curiosity on Indulgent Consumption
Curiosity can do more than kill a cat. The present research sheds light on an unexpected consequence of curiosity by showing that curiosity can lead to indulgent consumption. Four experiments present convergent evidence ... -
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 ... -
(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. ... -
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 ... -
Dividend capture and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
(1991)This dissertation develops direct tests for the presence of dividend capture trading in NYSE stocks. The empirical method also separates stocks with dividend capture trading from those whose ex-day returns are set by the ... -
Dividends and earnings: their effect on firm value
(1992)This dissertation investigates the relation between firm value, dividends, and earnings. It develops a model of firm value which distinguishes between the operating activities of the firm, in which the average return on ... -
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. ...