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Enhancement motivation derived from envy: The positive influence of watching others receive preferential treatment
(2017-05)
As a strategy to build loyal relationships with highly profitable customers, the practice of customer prioritization has been widely adopted by a variety of firms in service industries. Although prior research has shown ...
Impact of investor relations on M&A outcomes
(2020-12)
Per Marston (1996, p. 477), investor relations (IR) is "the link between a company and the financial community, providing information to help the financial community and the investing public to evaluate a company." Through ...
How information technology impacts economic growth and human development at the country-level
(2022-07)
The goal of this document is to understand the differences between two predominately used country-level measures of development, economic growth and human development, and how information and communication technology impacts ...
Service encounters and technology: The role of attachment styles in technology readiness and technology acceptance
(2014-12)
Amid ongoing innovation of technology and technological devices, service firms are continuously searching for alternative ways to deliver services to their customers. Service firms can struggle trying to strike a balance ...
Essays on asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt
(2015-12)
This dissertation examines the relationship between the ability of a firm to sell its real assets (asset liquidity) and its cash holdings behavior as well as its cost of debt. In essay 1, I show that for financially ...