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How Do You Really Feel?: Two Experiments on the Impact of Affect on Investor Judgment and Decision Making
The purpose of this thesis is to understand how investor judgments and decisions around an earnings announcement are influenced by affect. In the first study, I examine the impact of unrelated tweets on investor judgments ... -
How Consumers Create Alternative Consumer Journeys Via Imaginative Mental Experiences
Consumers who desire consumption items are thought to engage in a process of steps allowing them to seek out information, engage in transactions and thereby gain value from their consumer journey. However, not all desired ... -
Studies on the Effects of External Budgetary Controls and Accountability Reporting Demands on First Nations Communities in Canada
This dissertation is organized into four chapters; an introduction, two distinct empirical research studies, and a reflection piece on the research process. The first empirical study (Chapter 2) examines the effects of ... -
Frugal Digital Innovation: An Exploratory Study in Emerging and Developed Economies
This dissertation provides the foundation for a research program in frugal digital innovation. "Frugal Digital Innovation” is a specific form of frugal innovation digital technologies play a pivotal role in enabling ... -
Performing Above One’s Position: Micro-Institutional Licenses on Physicians and Healthcare Managers During an Outbreak
Seeking flexible structures, many organizations today are abandoning the ceremonies of hierarchy. The idea is that removing traditional dress codes, segregated workspaces, and formality with superiors will de-emphasize ... -
There’s No Space Like Home: Examining the Cultural Complexity of Creating the Space of Home
The home is a bedrock of Western culture, society and economics. Consumer research draws attention to the home as a space laden with meaning and of ubiquitous importance in consumers’ lives. However, this literature also ... -
The Role of Social Media in Financial Markets
This three-essay thesis examines the role of social media in financial markets from multiple perspectives. Chapter 2 explores the economic consequences of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) regulation of ... -
Distortions in Government Contract Awards, Executive Compensation, and Asset Prices: Three Essays in Finance
In this thesis, I present three papers in finance. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 presents the paper Competition for Government Contracts and the Payoff to Political Activism. This paper exploits three shocks ... -
PCAOB International Inspections, Audit Profession Development, and Audit Quality
Using the setting where auditors of foreign companies cross-listed on U.S. stock exchanges are subject to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection after July 19, 2004, I examine the impact of PCAOB ... -
Earnings Management During Antidumping Investigations In Europe: Sample-Wide And CrossSectional Evidence
(2017-01-03)This paper examines earnings management by European Union firms that initiate an antidumping investigation. We first document economically and statistically significant income decreasing earnings management around the ... -
Essays on Economics of Entrepreneurship
(2016-08-15)This dissertation examines three important issues. The first issue is about the human capital investment and entrepreneurship as a career choice. The standard human capital theory shows that firms (employees) never invest ... -
The Causes and Effects of Consumer Competence Perceptions
(2016-08-15)Consumers are constantly making consumption decisions and engaging in marketplace activities that require some level of competence. In other words, consumers possess and require some knowledge, skills, and abilities to ... -
WHEN INTERACTING ONLINE LEADS TO TAKING ACTION OFFLINE: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE PERSUASION ON IS USERS’ PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOURS
(2016-08-06)With the increasing attention towards the role of information systems (IS) as a vehicle to address environmental issues, IS researchers and practitioners have strived to leverage advanced Green IS innovations to persuade ... -
Momentum: A Rational Interpretation
(2016-01-08)In this thesis, I examine existing theories that attempt to explain the asset pricing phenomenon known as momentum. I revisit the seminal work of Chordia and Shivakumar (2002); Cooper, Guiterrez and Hameed (2004); and ... -
IT BUSINESS VALUE: PYGMALION EFFECT, IN-GROUP FAVOURITISM, AND ILLUSORY CORRELATION
(2015-12-16)The transformative power of Information Technology (IT) presents many exciting opportunities for organizations to use IT to achieve business success. While some CEOs of leading organizations are taking advantage of IT’s ... -
Sleep Well, Work Well: Three Studies
(2015-12-02)My dissertation explores the relationship between sleep and work, with attention to how sleep impacts work-related outcomes. Study 1 extended the current work stress and sleep literature by examining the reciprocal ... -
Water Wars and Warriors: Field Actors and the International Water Crisis
(2015-10-03)The actions of a variety of actors in the institutional or organizational field shape the rules of the game as well as the tactics, actions and forms of organization that are considered possible and legitimate. Yet despite ... -
THE MARKET VALUATION OF MANAGED EARNINGS IN A REGULATORY SETTING WITH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
(2015-10-03)This dissertation examines the market valuation of earnings announced by U.S. firms initiating or reinitiating antidumping trade investigations against foreign exporters. Trade investigations are an interesting setting ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP AND EXTREME CONTEXTS ON PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES
(2015-10-01)The need to consider context in organizational and leadership research has been highlighted by many scholars (e.g., Johns, 2006; Rousseau & Fried, 2001), and in today’s increasingly volatile world, the need to understand ... -
Essays on Organizational Decline
(2015-08-10)The purpose of this thesis is to understand how organizations manage decline, focusing on the role of management accounting. In the first study, I investigate the role of management accounting in organizations that experience ...
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