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Implications of Subchapter S tax status for commercial banks
(2009-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Banks first became eligible to elect Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code in 1997. Subchapter S status provides institutions the ability to maintain limited liability while avoiding double ...
Organizational slack and managerial attention to risk: Impact on an organization's experience with harmful surprises
(2014-07)
Many organizations today are faced with an increasing number of risks related to their internal and external environments. When these risks manifest, the results can be disastrous. Recently, as these disasters have increased ...
Empirical investigation of challenge and hindrance appraisals of customer demands
(2015-12)
My dissertation investigates how frontline employees (FLEs) assess and respond to demanding customers. The results provide normative recommendations for managers for the effective management of FLEs so as to reduce the ...
Code-switching for work life self-preservation: A study of the role of sexual orientation discrimination on employee job behaviors and outcomes
(2017-05)
Despite societal advances in LGBT acceptance, perceptions of sexual orientation discrimination have caused individuals to experience perceptions of threat toward their self-preservation of identity in the workplace. The ...
Two essays on the substitutability of cash holdings and lines of credit
(2016-07)
Essay 1: using a novel database of lines of credit from 42 countries, I study the choice between cash holdings and lines of credit in the liquidity management of the firm and examine the determinants of this choice in the ...
Stock mispricing and corporate investment decisions
(2006-05)
This study analyzes the effect of stock market mispricings on corporate investment decisions. Particularly, this study addresses the three possible explanations of the relation between mispricings and corporate investments ...
Impact of group member creative style on creative problem solving process in a technology-mediated environment
(2007-07)
Scope: This study investigated how homogeneous teams with members with a specific cognitive style perform on the two phases of a creative problem solving process when facilitated by GSS. Ideators groups were compared to ...