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External agency: Redefinition of ex ante value in agency relationships
(2015-05)
In this dissertation, in response to mixed empirical findings and theoretical criticism of Agency Theory, I raise a broader question: are there agency behaviors that are not considered within traditional renderings of ...
Essays on mispricing of equity securities
(2016-07)
Mispricing of equity securities is an area of research with many implications for academicians, individual investors, money managers, and executives. The first essay in this dissertation explicitly studies the consistency ...
Institutional capabilities and entrepreneurial advantage: Bridging the gap between regulatory management and opportunity
(2014-07)
Firms are increasingly using tactics to manipulate their regulatory constraints, while at the same time regulatory environments are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Although scholars have described many of the ...
Impact of customer expectations on service employees
(2015-12)
This dissertation introduces the concept of customer expectations as a group-level construct impacting employee outcomes such as satisfaction and turnover. In addition, a new construct, Expectation Management Behaviors, ...
Storytelling by the sales force and its effect on personal selling and buyer-seller relationships
(2011-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Though often observed in the field, storytelling by the sales force in not widely studied in the marketing literature. Collection and analysis of data from interviews and field observation of ...
Funding climate and its impact on new venture success: Toward construct identification and scale validation
(2014-12)
To date, the relationship between a business management team and its funding source to new venture success has not received a great deal of attention in the literature. This research attempted to fill the knowledge gap by ...
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 ...
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 ...
Corporate governance and hedge fund activism
(2015-12)
Over the past two decades, hedge fund activism has emerged as a new mechanism of corporate governance that brings about operational, financial and governance reforms to a corporation. Many prominent business executives and ...