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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 ...
Accounting quality and international accounting convergence
(2007-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This study empirically examined the functional relationship between financial reporting quality and accounting convergence. The first phase of the examination involved identifying and measuring ...
Empirical investigation of the relevance and predictive ability of the SAS 99 fraud risk factors
(2004-12)
Scope and Methodology: This study empirically examined the fraud risk factors adopted by the Accounting Standards Board in SAS No. 99 and developed a fraud prediction model that is useful in discriminating between fraud ...
Strategic competition and sequential horizontal mergers
(2008-05)
Findings and Conclusions: Temporally separated merger decisions within an industry may not necessarily be independent events. The literature on merger waves and casual observation attests to this fact. Fundamental economic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...