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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Rise Of Glocal Generation Y: How Its Personality And Psychological Contract Is Affected By Global Forces And Local Context
(Management, 2012-04-11)When Generation Y started to enter the workforce in the early 2000s, discussions about their characteristics and their impact on organizations began among scholars around the world. A question has been raised whether the ... -
The Road Less Traveled: The Moderating Effects Of Relational Coordination On The Relationships Among Human Capital, Employee Behaviors And Performance
(Management, 2013-03-20)This dissertation studies the micro-foundations of Strategic Human Resource Management by examining the relationships between human capital, employee behaviors, relational coordination, and performance among individuals ... -
The Role Of Intuition In Ethical Decision Making
(Management, 2009-09-16)The literature regarding ethical decision making has focused almost exclusively on examination of variables that test relationships between individual or situational differences and ethicality. These examinations, on the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sociolinguistic Cues, Perceived Race, And Employment Selection Outcomes: An Exploration Of The Aversive Racism Framework
(Management, 2007-09-17)The limited number of available positions to job candidates has led to increased competitiveness among job seekers and the development of new and more efficient employment screening methods by human resources personnel. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Strategic Human Resource Management At The Crossroads: Relationships Among Human Resource Capital, Overlapping Tenure, Behaviors, And Performance
(Management, 2009-09-16)Empirical work in strategic human resource management has tended to focus solely on the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. This study attempts to shift the focus of strategic human resource ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...