Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 14
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Antecedents to business succession planning in small relationship-dependent service businesses
(2015-12)
As the baby boom generation approaches and enters traditional retirement ages, the owners of small professional service firms are being inundated with advice concerning how to implement a business succession plan. While ...
Opacity of private philanthropy
(2015-12)
Calls for greater transparency among corporations and social institutions continue to grow in the literature. Many contend that greater transparency is needed to reduce potential for wrong doing and enhance the capacity ...
Investor activism and mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
(2015-12)
This study analyzed activism that leads to a merger or acquisition (M&A) of a firm to see its benefits for the shareholders at the target firm as well as its acquirer. It used over thirty years of data to understand the ...
Essay on unexpected mandatory pension contributions in defined benefit pension plans
(2015-12)
Corporate sponsors of defined benefit (DB) pension plans in the US are legally required (if underfunded) to make mandatory pension contribution (MPC) as a non-linear function of the funding status of the pension plan. Prior ...
Leadership climate, attitudes, and evidence-based management behavior
(2015-12)
There is a huge gap between knowing and doing in organizations. Why do organizations find it so difficult to bridge the gap between practice and research? evidence-based management is an approach that tries to bridge this ...