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Business, Smith School Graduate Projects
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Investigating the Regulation of Audit Quality in Canada: Complexity, Emotions, and Expertise
I investigate the impact of regulation around audit quality in Canada on the work and perceptions of the stakeholders directly affected by these rules. More specifically, I examine auditors’ and audit committee (AC) members’ ... -
Alliance Portfolio Configurations and Competitive Action Frequency
(Sage, 2016-05-01)We advance competitive dynamics research by introducing alliance portfolio configuration as an important antecedent of competitive action frequency. We propose and test a model for developing effective alliance portfolio ... -
Racial Diversity and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Competitive Intensity
(Sage, 2014-03-01)The authors examine the mediating role of competitive intensity in the relationship between managerial racial diversity and firm performance (i.e., market share gain and average stock return). Racial diversity relates to ... -
Does It Pay to Compete Aggressively? Contingent Roles of Internal and External Resources
(Sage, 2019-11-22)We examine, in hypercompetitive environments, why some firms fail to benefit from competitive aggressiveness while others experience superior profits. We explore the relationship between competitive aggressiveness and ... -
Forbearance: Strategic Nonresponse to Competitive Attacks
(Academy of Management, 2020-04-14)Evidence suggests that firms often do not respond to competitive attacks even when they are aware of an attack and have the capability to counter it. We believe that this is because they engage in a form of nonresponse ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
In this thesis I present three essays on Corporate Finance. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis, Chapter 2 presents “Cash Flow Volatility, The Opportunity Cost of Missed Investments, and the Financial Crisis.” ... -
Exploring Digitalization in New Venture Ecosystems – Three Essays
Despite significant business opportunities made possible through digital technology advancements, readily available digital technologies such as social media, mobile technologies, analytics, and cloud computing (SMAC) are ... -
Romantic Relationships and Leadership: Three Studies
Questions of who becomes a leader, and what predicts the quality of their leadership behaviors, have been of interest to scholars and the public for decades. Although most explorations of antecedents to leadership focus ... -
The Impact of Marketing on the Financial Services Sector: An Empirical Investigation
We examine the role of marketing within the financial services sector by conducting three empirical examinations that involve pricing, sales force compensation, and targeting/positioning. Beginning with the first essay, ... -
A Passion for Leadership: Three Studies
This dissertation sought to further our understanding of the nature of leadership by developing and investigating a novel construct: a passion for leadership. In Study 1, I developed a dualistic model of a passion for ... -
Essays In Empirical Corporate Finance
This thesis explores several aspects of empirical corporate finance. The three essays in my dissertation are in line with the two streams of empirical corporate finance research: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is with the ... -
Celebrations everywhere: How social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production
I investigate how social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production in the context of local food initiatives in a small city in Canada. In Localtown, a local food movement conducts initiatives ... -
Three Essays on Organizational Economics
In the first essay, we build a model investigating how the nature of managerial human capital affects firms' choices of growth strategies. The model shows that when firms are cash constrained, managers with more general ... -
Disability, Career Advancement, and Leadership
My dissertation includes three research papers on disability, career advancement, and leadership. With limited prior research on the lived experience of leaders with disabilities, I begin with a qualitative study on career ... -
Driving Market Change: A Multi-Level Perspective on Institutional Disruption and Defense
In recent years, many industries – from transportation and accommodation to finance and automobiles – have been disrupted by platform businesses that ostensibly remove middlemen from market transactions. Much of this work ... -
A Social Worth Framework of Perceived Persuasion: Understanding Consumers' Reactions to Feeling Targeted by Marketers' Persuasion Attempts
Consumers often react badly to marketers’ attempts to persuade them, demonstrating mostly negative attitudes towards salespeople, advertisements, and brands. Prior work typically attributes these reactions to inferences ... -
Managing Competing Work Priorities Mindfully: A Multi-Level Investigation of Organizational Paradox and Mindfulness
Organizations are rife with paradox, or the seemingly contradictory yet interdependent forces that surface across organizational levels (Smith & Lewis, 2011). This dissertation seeks to answer the recent call for greater ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
In this thesis I present three papers on the implications of corporate finance and credit markets. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis. Chapter 2 presents the paper "Do investors value bond granularity?". It ... -
Implications of Firms' Interactions with Debt Markets
In this thesis I present three papers on "Implications of Firms' Interactions with Debt Markets". Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis. Chapter 2 presents the paper "Does a Firm's Bond IPO have Implications ... -
Revisiting the Nature of Transformational Leadership: How Followers' Affect Matters
The seven studies within this dissertation investigate the nature of transformational leadership. I consider whether transformational leadership is affective, whether it is multidimensional, and whether people perceive ...
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