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Dual-systems perspective on turnover types and destination choices
(2015-07)
This dissertation adopts a dual-systems perspective to investigate how impulsivity and self-control relate to turnover types and destination choices. The personality traits of impulsivity and self-control are directly ...
Essays on lonely consumers and social gaze
(2021-05)
This dissertation includes two essays. The first essay examines how two dimensions of loneliness influence brand relationships. Lonely individuals tend to use consumption to compensate for their lacking relationships. ...
Impact of investor relations on stock performance surrounding restatement announcements
(2020-12)
Many firms use investor relations (IR) to communicate with investors and the financial community through meetings, conference calls, and presentations. Engaging in IR provides benefits to firms, including increased liquidity, ...
Configurations of Durability Capabilities and Their Performance Implications During an Economic Shock: An Exploratory Study on New Ventures
(2019-05-01)
Organizational resilience (OR) has long been understood as an organizing framework of firm functioning during economic adversity. OR is central to strategic entrepreneurship research because new ventures emerge and exist ...
Two essays on stock repurchases
(2020-05)
My dissertation comprises two chapters. The first chapter examines the information content of actual share repurchase within the context of informed options trading, while the second chapter examines the impact of EPS-motivated ...
Intersection of entrepreneurial processes: The effect of integrating causation and effectuation processes on venture performance
(2017-12)
Entrepreneurs rely on a variety of decision-making heuristics when implementing entrepreneurial processes in small ventures. Researchers have suggested that entrepreneurs use effectual logic to utilize their available means ...
Government Incentives and Defined Benefit Pension Investment
(2019-05-01)
This study investigates the association between government incentives and defined benefit pension funding. The government provides tax incentives to defined benefit plans to buoy pension funding. In addition, sponsors of ...
H-Factor and the Moderating Role of Psychological Capital in Predicting Student Retention
(2019-07)
Nobody wins when a student drops out of college. Colleges lose revenue and students accumulate debt and experience lower lifetime earnings if they never finish college. Colleges and universities have spent an enormous ...
Consideration of prior experience in auditor industry specialization
(2015-07)
While industry expertise has been identified as a method of differentiation among audit firms to signal their skills and capabilities within particular industries, it is not known whether the length of time that an auditor ...
Dash of grit, a smidgen of stressor management and a pinch of regulatory tendencies to be engaged?
(2016-08)
This paper involved a path analysis of a new measure of grit to understand work engagement. Recent studies have found significant correlations between both constructs; however an explanation of "how" grit plays a role in ...