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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 ...
Signal opacity and debt contracts in entrepreneurial ventures
(2020-07)
New ventures that are unable to fund expansion using internal equity or that prefer to maintain complete firm ownership may supplement existing cash flow by accessing external funds in the form of debt contracts. To overcome ...
Essays on privacy perceptions and privacy behaviors of online shoppers
(2007-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Information privacy in e-commerce is tied to concrete situations of information exchange. Current studies on information privacy in e-commerce primarily focus on the impact of privacy concern as ...
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 ...
Frontline retail employees -- extinct or evolving: A look at the relationship between, servant leadership, employee engagement, organizational change recipients' belief and employee intent to quit
(2021-12)
Rapid change in the retail industry will remain constant as we navigate the new normal after the pandemic and innovation is implemented. The frontline retail worker is typically the least engaged and costly to replace. The ...
Opportunity Creation: The Effects of Affective Events and Information Processing (Systematic, Heuristic) on Opportunity Creation Idea Quantity and Quality
(2019-07)
Utilizing a sample of 206 entrepreneurs, this study examines opportunity creation idea quantity and quality for dispositionally positive or negative entrepreneurs following the experience of a positive or negative affective ...