Department of Management: Recent submissions
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International Compensation: An Examination of the Relationship Between Societal Culture and Preferred Compensation Policies
(2020-06-08)In my thesis, I review the research literature on the influence of national culture on reward preferences and compensation practices. I first review the major models of culture used to examine reward practices and then ... -
NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF SADDLE POINT PROBLEMS BY PROJECTION
(2017-12-04)In this thesis, we work on iterative solutions of large linear systems of saddle point problems of the form A B1 T B2 0 x y = f 0 , where A ∈ R n×n , B1, B2 ... -
ME, MYSELF, AND I, AT WORK AND AT HOME, TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE DAY AFTER: UNDERSTANDING INTRA-INDIVIDUAL MULTIPLE SELVES ACROSS THE WORK-NONWORK INTERFACE
(2017-08-14)While scholars commonly agree that self-concept is a complex set of self-representations, or identities that influences individual’s decisions, evaluations, attitude, and behaviors, little is known about how individual’s ... -
An exploration of social class: Its symbols and influence on the selection process and career success
(2017-08-25)With a shrinking middle-class population, and an increasing economic divide between the haves and haves not, social class within the United States has become an important topic of conversation in the popular press. Yet, ... -
Stellar Observations: Star Employee Productivity, Compensation, and Reputation
(2017-05-10)This three-essay dissertation focuses on star employees – most commonly defined as those individuals who are both disproportionately productive and externally visible relative to their colleagues (Kehoe, Lepak, & Bentley, ... -
THE ROLE OF TIME HORIZONS IN SHAPING THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HEDGE FUND ACTIVISM
(2019-07-09)While the general stream of shareholder activism literature examines the antecedents and consequences of hedge fund activism, this dissertation investigates this phenomenon from a different angle. I examine the impact of ... -
THE TIME-DIMENSION IN STRATEGIC CHANGE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE SOUTH KOREAN CONTEXT
(2019-05-09)The management of time in an organization is a fundamental activity for the survival and growth of firms. In the field of strategy, time, albeit under-studied, has received increasing attention among scholars. However, in ... -
TWO TIMING WORK AND HOME, THE RELATIONSHIP OF INDIVIDUAL VALUES WITH BOUNDARY PERMEABILITY PREFERENCE AND BOUNDARY PERMEABILITY BEHAVIOR
(2018-08-13)Boundary theory (Ashforth et al., 2000, Clark, 2000; Nippert-Eng, 1996) discusses how individuals build, keep, arrange, and cross the boundaries around work and family domains. However, the process through which people ... -
Demographic Characteristics and the Bounds of Occupational Choice
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between race, gender, generation, perceptions of discrimination, and socioeconomic status (SES) of origin and the prestige level of occupational choice. This ... -
CEO NARCISSISM, PRIOR EXPERIENCE, BOARD PRIOR EXPERIENCE, AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR): AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK USING UPPER ECHELONS THEORY, STAKEHOLDERS’ THEORY, AND A DECOMPOSED MEASURE OF CSR
(2017-03-14)This study examines the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) narcissism and the firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, the relationship between CEO prior CSR experiences and the focal firm’s ... -
Antecedents Of Foreign Corporate Political Activity In American Politics
(Management, 2014)International firms compete in the United States in both the market and non-market arenas (Doh, & Lucea, 2013). The international management literature has a long history of research focused on market competition but, ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON NETWORKS AND KNOWLEDGE VALUE
(2016-03-21)Knowledge creation is one of the most factors that contribute to organizational performance and competitive advantage. Ample studies have employed network theory to examine the impact of various social capital and ... -
The Moderating Effect Of Instrumental Job Attributes On The Relationship Between A Firm's Perceived Value Of Diversity And Its Organizational Attractiveness
(Management, 2012)Increasingly more firms are targeting both racial and sexual minorities in recruitment ads to attain a diverse work climate. However, the challenge remains of recruiting job seekers without alienating qualified others. ... -
Resources, innovative outcomes, and the symbolic and substantive performance of entrepreneurial firms: an examination of independent popular music artists
(2015-11-30)The importance of innovation to the success of entrepreneurial firms has been well established in prior work. Yet, important gaps still remain. I draw from the innovation literature, the resource-based view, and institutional ... -
Negative Exchange Spirals: A Process Model Of Incivility Among Coworkers
(Management, 2014-09-17)Increasing instances of incivility (e.g. rudeness or disrespect) in the workplace have led to the growing popularity of incivility research within the mistreatment literature. It is believed that incivility may encourage ... -
A Review Of Team Learning
(Management, 2014-07-14)The purpose of this thesis is to review literature on team learning published from 1985 to 2013. The papers were selected from academic journals from business, as well as psychology, education and management. I examine ... -
Age Differences In Attraction To Instrumental And Symbolic Organziational Attributes
(Management, 2014-07-14)As the demographic landscape in business continues to get more diverse, the need to examine what attracts individuals of different demographic attributes to organizations becomes increasingly more important. This study ... -
Hire For Personality, Train For Skill: The Relationship Between Cognitive And Non-cognitive Human Capital, Desired Employee Behaviors, And Performance
(Management, 2014-03-12)This study proposes to examine the relationship between cognitive and noncognitive human capital and work performance as mediated by desired employee behaviors. The study will also explore the moderating effects of high ... -
TMT Characteristics That Position Family Firms For Success: Examining The Effects Of Human Capital, Non-familiness, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Transactive Memory Systems
(Management, 2013-10-23)Entrepreneurship is critical to family firm growth, profitability, and survival (Zahra 2005); however, entrepreneurship remains understudied in the family business context (Zahra and Sharma, 2004). Limited extant research ... -
Understanding The Relationship Of Job Embeddedness With Social And Human Capital: The Importance Of Organizational Identification
(Management, 2013-03-20)This dissertation examines organizational identification as a critical moderator of the outcomes of job embeddedness using a survey sample of employees from a hospital in the Southwestern United States. Results suggest ...