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The Role Internal Stakeholders Play in Innovation in Large Corporations
(2023-08-21)Despite the vast existing literature on innovation, the investigation of work conditions that support the generation of ideas to feed the innovative process remains elusive. Holding the assumption that the entire organization ... -
Stakeholder-Specific Reputation and Organizational Performance: Comparing the Effects of Overall and Employer Reputation
Corporate reputation scholars largely agree that reputation is an asset related to the competitive advantage of firms. However, there is far from universal agreement about whether corporate reputation is best characterized ... -
THE EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON THE CHANGE IN MARKET VALUATION OF CORPORATE SPIN-OFFS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF SPUN-OFF SUBSIDIARIES
This dissertation focuses on the change in market valuation of spun-off subsidiaries two years after the corporate spin-off. A review of the literature indicates that the research pertaining to determinants of the market ... -
CEO CHARACTERISTICS, INDUSTRY 4.0 CAPABILITIES, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
(2022-08-11)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/6/2024** ABSTRACT: Industry 4.0 has received significant attention from academia and industry in the last decade. Despite its growing popularity, this area is relatively ... -
A Behavioral Study of Supply Chain Inventory Management
(2022-07-15)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 6/20/2024** ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores issues regarding inventory management in the domain of behavioral operations management by employing a combination of ... -
FORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTRACT: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
(2021-07-12)In recent years, the globalization in business has transformed the traditional linear supply chain into a complex network of interactions among supply chain participants across different tiers. In such a supply chain system, ... -
The Strategic Choice of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Impact of Fund Level Heterogeneity on Investment Decisions and Governance
(2023-05-10)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/08/2025** ABSTRACT: Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have emerged as a new form of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs), structured to manage the wealth of countries ... -
New CEO Appointment and Its Influence on Foreign Market Re-Entry Decisions
(2023-04-24)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 04/21/2025** ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the effect of new CEO appointment on foreign markets re-entry decisions given that new CEOs are likely to bring a ... -
CUSTOMER MISTREAMENT, THIRD PARTY OBSERVERS, AND EMOTIONAL LABOR: AN EXPLORATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF BREAKING CHARACTER
(2022-06-27)The emotional labor literature is vast and complex. Overwhelmingly, most studies focus on surface acting and deep acting. Breaking character, expressing true, negative emotions to a customer, is understudied, despite ... -
THREE ESSAYS EXAMINING ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCES ON EMPLOYEE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
(2022-08-15)Identity consists of the roles and expectations individuals use to define their self. My dissertation examines the effects of individual perceptions around how identities are constructed in organizations on employee outcomes, ... -
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Employee Selection: How Algorithm-Based Decision Aids Influence Recruiters’ Decision-Making in Resume Screening
(2022-08-16)With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithm-based decision aids have been adopted by more and more organizations to help recruiters and hiring managers screen and review job candidates. This dissertation ... -
Shah-Dissertation2020-HumanCapitalOfUpperEchelons
(2020-09-04)My dissertation studies strategic change in the context of digital transformation and the role of organization’s upper echelons (specifically the human capital of TMTs and CEOs) in predicting digital transformation. I ... -
Predictors of Organizational Decoupling in the Context of Corporate Sustainability
(2020-08-11)The gap between what firms say and what they do is referred to as organizational decoupling. Despite the fact that decoupling is a widespread phenomenon, there is a paucity of empirical studies that have examined individual ... -
EARNINGS MANAGEMENT IN RESPONSE TO FAIR TREATMENT: THE ROLES OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND MORAL IDENTITY
(2022-05-04)Fraud continues to be an issue that organizations face globally, losing an estimated 5% of annual revenue for a total of $4.5 trillion globally. However, fraudulent behavior is difficult to study due to the unacceptable ... -
“CAN ENTREPRENEURS SELL THEIR FIRMS AND STILL OWN THEM?”: THE ADOPTION OF DUAL-CLASS STRUCTURES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON IPO PERFORMANCE
(2019-08-12)Dual-class Structures enable entrepreneurs to separate voting rights and cash-flow rights in arbitrary proportions to exercise control of the firm. Dual-class structures allow entrepreneurs to retain the benefits of being ... -
SELF-REGULATION OF BOUNDARIES FOR THRIVING, ENRICHMENT, AND BALANCE ACROSS THE WORK-NONWORK INTERFACE
(2021-08-05)This three-essay project explores boundary management and work-nonwork enrichment to explain how thriving in the work domain relates to thriving in the nonwork domain. The Cross-Domain Thriving model proposed in Study 1 ... -
A MULTIFACETED VIEW OF CAREER CHOICE AND WORK OUTCOMES OF NURSES IN HEALTHCARE
(2021-08-03)Turnover among new nurses is rampant within the health care industry and generated significant costs for organizations and the nursing profession. The overall aim of this dissertation is to understand the career choice ... -
THE POWER OF GOOD: MICRO LEVEL OUTCOMES FROM CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SOCIAL MISSION ORIENTATION
(2021-03-26)What happens to employees on an individual level when they see their organization doing good things for society? Whether the manifestation of good be in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or social mission ... -
US AND THEM: THE IMPACT OF DIFFERING FOUNDER MINDSETS ON FIRM STRATEGIC ORIENTATION
(2020-08-19)Historically, small business founders were assumed to be motivated by profit-maximization. Today, we understand that founders also have non-economic goals for starting a business, including furthering their family legacy. ... -
EMOTIONAL DEMANDS-ABILITIES (ED-A) FIT, EMOTIONAL LABOR, AND RESOURCE DEPLETION
(2020-08-03)Perceived emotional demands-abilities (ED-A) fit, defined as a perception of the congruence or fit between emotional demands of a job and abilities to fulfill these demands (Diefendorff, Greguras, & Fleenor, 2016), has ...