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An investigation of the effects of IT investment on firm performance: The role of complementarity.
(2006)
The concept of complementarity has been introduced into IT-based firm performance research in order to address inconsistent magnitudes of the impacts from IT investments across studies. This dissertation seeks to understand ...
The Brain Trust Model: A proposed change to modern change management.
(2006)
The study of change management and innovation is a perplexing and challenging undertaking. A review of the literature revealed that change management practices and methodological frameworks are currently insufficient to ...
Understanding transferee assimilation through the analysis of egocentric networks.
(2006)
This project expanded on early research and examined employees as they began a new job after undergoing an intra-organizational job transfer. Consistent with earlier research the results demonstrated support for the ideas ...
Do sales below cost laws protect small businesses?
(2006)
This paper examines whether state laws to prevent below cost sales provide protection for small businesses beyond the protection afforded by the federal antitrust laws. The paper first identifies the theoretical implications ...
IT personnel sourcing decisions in IT projects.
(2006)
The evolutionary growth of information technology, during the past few decades, has created the impetus for change in the organizational workplace from a focus on narrow and specific tasks, carried out by individuals, to ...
Effects of venture capital social advice networks on escalation of commitment.
(2006)
Characteristics of focal VC firms and the various advice network indices attached to their position in the network were used to predict escalation of commitment in new start-ups where the first round of funding was between ...