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Value gain from corporate reorganization
(2007-08-22)In the absence of taxes and transactions costs, there can be no benefit to corporate reorganization from a financial standpoint, but ‘real world’ limitations and frictions do provide additional value that is gained through ... -
Expanding the Realm of Possibility: Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
(2007-09-27)This dissertation examines how consumers cope with stress and, specifically, the role of magical thinking in consumer coping. Magical thinking is defined here as creating or invoking ‘extraordinary’ connections – symbolic ... -
Fences, gates, and contested terrain: overcoming identity-based differentiation between anaesthesiologists and surgeons
(2007-10-03)Integrative behaviours in professional medical practice are those actions taken by a physician to better coordinate practice with other physicians to ensure that the most appropriate care is offered to patients. It has ... -
The Development and Investigation of a Conceptual Model to Understand Knowledge Management
(2008-05-30)The realization that knowledge constitutes a key organizational resource and should be managed effectively gave rise to the field of knowledge management (KM). Since then, the field has experienced tremendous growth as ... -
Market impacts in major events: an analysis using state price distributions
(2008-06-04)For the past two decades, events on the world stage and particularly in the United States have serious implications for the operations of financial markets. In this study, we will attempt to provide some insights into ... -
Timing equity issuance in response to mandatory accounting standards change in Australia and the European Union
(2008-07-11)This study examines the association between changes in accounting performance resulting from mandated adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and managerial incentives to engage in opportunistic ... -
Alternative takes on information systems post-adoption behaviors : the deliberative, the ecological, and the emotional
(2008-08-27)This thesis concerns individuals’ behaviors with Information Systems (IS) once an application has been applied by users in accomplishing their work activity. Despite research on IS acceptance and continuance, little is ... -
Using Information Technology to Support the Discovery of Novel Knowledge in Organizations
(2008-08-27)In this dissertation, I examine how IT can support individuals, and in turn their organizations, in learning about and knowing their external environment on the Web. Specifically, I examine novel-knowledge discovery in ... -
Status, Relatively Speaking: Extending the Organizational Focus on Status and Status Inequality
(2008-11-25)This dissertation explores the role of status and status hierarchies in organizations, with considerable attention devoted to status-based health disparities. Manuscript 1 extends the current work stress literature by ... -
The Impact of Minimum Investment Barriers on Hedge Funds: Are Retail Investors Getting the Short End of Performance?
(2009-01-05)Using paired tests of high and low minimum investment group funds on several performance measures for hedge funds and funds-of-funds from 1991-2005, we find that funds imposing a higher entry fee requirement on their ... -
Accessing Resources in a Global Economy: Three Essays on Outsourcing and Immigration
(2009-01-12)This thesis is a collection of three manuscripts. In the first manuscript I develop a general equilibrium model that explains the growth and maturation of outsourcing – an outsourcing lifecycle – based on industry learning ... -
The Alignment of Knowledge Strategies
(2009-04-14)This thesis is a collection of four manuscripts linked by the aim of extending strategic alignment thought into the knowledge management domain by explicitly including the concept of knowledge strategy into the discussion ... -
Analysts' Selective Provisions of Cash Flow Forecasts
(2009-05-28)In this thesis, I examine the factors associated with analysts’ voluntary practice of issuing cash flow forecasts and earnings forecasts on the same day. I draw on Hughes and Pae’s (2004) management partial disclosure ... -
The Meaning and Impact of Respect in the Context of Business-to-Business Marketing Relationships
(2009-10-07)In the field of marketing, there is anecdotal evidence that “respect” is an important determinant of marketing relationship success (e.g., Berry 1996; Bitran and Hoech 1990; Costley, Friend, and Babis 2005). The current ... -
The Effects of Partner Aggression on Women's Work
(2009-11-10)The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationship between partner aggression enacted against women and victims’ work withdrawal, as well as to investigate the possible moderators of this relationship. To ... -
Investor Perceived Earnings Quality and Disclosure of Internal Control Weaknesses
(2009-12-17)This study investigates whether disclosures of material weaknesses in a firm’s internal control over financial reporting are associated with lower investor perceived earnings quality. I measure investor perceived earnings ... -
Towards a Relational and Dynamic Perspective of Leadership
(2010-02-08)This dissertation is composed of three manuscripts, all of which focus on the role of followers in leadership. Manuscript 1 investigates followers’ preferences for leader characteristics. Guided by social identity theory ... -
Three Essays on Information Asymmetry and Principal-Agent Problems
(2010-04-29)In this dissertation, we investigate three different questions that are related to information asymmetry and principal-agent problems. The first question is whether principal-agent conflicts lead executives to influence ... -
Exit, Voice, Patience, and Neglect: Young Worker Responses to Occupational Safety Concerns
(2010-08-19)I conducted four studies that develop and test a safety-specific model of exit, voice, patience, and neglect (EVPN) in the context of young workers’ reactions to declining safety conditions (Hirschman, 1970). In the face ... -
The Relationship Between Analyst Coverage and the Distribution of Security Returns
(2010-08-27)The current study investigates the relationship between analyst coverage and the moments of the return distribution. Results are presented to support a time-varying pattern in the premiums associated with the higher moments ...