Browsing Business, Smith School of by Type "thesis"
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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 ... -
Accounting, Trust and the Government in Labour-Management Negotiations: The Crisis in the Canadian Automotive Industry
(2013-10-11)This thesis investigates the role of accounting information in the automotive industry restructuring of 2008 and 2009 in Canada. The crisis in the automotive industry led to government-funded restructurings for two of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Applications of Machine Learning in Revenue Management and Routing
In this thesis, I use machine learning techniques to solve issues in revenue management and public transportation design. The first two chapters relate to problems of revenue management and online learning. The problem of ... -
Asymmetric Information in Emerging Markets: Lessons From China
(2011-03-25)Asymmetric information has crucial implications for various market participants in financial markets, including investors (local and foreign), firms, and governments. The information asymmetry problem is especially severe ... -
Auditor Mental Representations and Hypothesis Testing of the Control Environment
(2011-02-22)In this thesis, I examine how auditors construct their mental representations and test their hypotheses about the strength of a client’s control environment. With regard to the former, I hypothesize that management’s frame ... -
Auditors' Career Transitions: Three Studies on Auditors' Recruitment into Public Accounting, Transition to Industry, and the Long-lasting Effects of their Auditing Experience
In my thesis, I investigate the career transitions of auditors. In the first study, I explore students’ experience going through the recruitment process in public accounting. I conducted 51 interviews with undergraduate ... -
Authenticity and the Corporate Brand Saga
(2012-06-21)This dissertation analyzes what a corporate brand is and what motivates it. Using qualitative methods the corporate brand of IBM is investigated from the viewpoint of many of its stakeholders. It is discovered that IBM’s ... -
The Belonging Paradox: The Belonging Experience of Committed Uncertain Members
(2011-11-29)The existing literature in marketing and consumer behavior tends to adopt a somewhat static view of membership and belonging, focusing on the status uncertainty that surrounds new group aspirants. In the literature, the ... -
Brand Attachment as a Limitation on Customer Prioritization Strategies
(2015-07-29)The marketing literature suggests that the existence of a strong customer attachment to a brand has the potential to bring increased profitability to that brand. While there is certainly the potential for positive benefits, ... -
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 ... -
The Causes and Effects of Inferences of Impression Management in Consumption
(2013-08-09)Observers frequently make inferences of what consumers are like based on the products they use. The general view in social cognition is that the consumption behavior of others is taken at face value, where observers do not ... -
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stereotyping: Content, Bias, and Impact.
(2014-09-30)Since the origin of the IT executive role in organizations, IS researchers have attempted to understand the barriers that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) face in their efforts to realize IT business value. One such ... -
The Consequences of Interpersonal Forgiveness Following Trust Breach
(2012-10-11)In organizational life, trust breach is a common but destructive phenomenon. This dissertation explores how a prosocial, virtuous response to trust breach -- interpersonal forgiveness -- might influence the behaviour and ... -
Consumer Creativity as a Journey Toward a Moral Destiny: an Investigation of the Free/Open Source Software Community
(2010-11-30)Drawing on Berman’s (1972, 1988) political-cultural view of creativity, this thesis contextualizes consumer creativity in the context of a consumer community wrought with paradoxes and conflicts. Adopting a netnography ... -
Continuously Improving in Tough Times: Overcoming Resource Constraints With Positive Psychological Resources
(2013-10-01)Individuals and organizations must continuously improve to succeed in today’s competitive economic climate, yet a major dilemma in tough economic conditions is that the resources needed to support such proactive improvement ... -
Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, and Corporate Bond Spreads
(2013-05-01)Exploring the main factors that determine bond spreads with respect to Treasury rates is one of the most critical issues in the corporate debt market. Credit risk has long been perceived as the most important determinant ... -
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 ...