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Why Machiavellian employees engage in unethical behavior: Examining the roles of moral disengagement, moral flexibility, and (un)ethical leadership
(2022-05)
This research examines how and when employee Machiavellianism could be harmful to organizations and their members. Two explanatory mechanisms, moral disengagement, and moral flexibility were proposed and tested in the ...
Evaluating the performance of irrigation scheduling approaches based on monitoring and modeling soil water status
(2022-07)
Improving irrigation management through adopting scientific irrigation scheduling offers a great potential for optimizing irrigation applications and reducing water withdrawals. However, adoption of scientific irrigation ...
Extension of an equilibrium displacement model: Relaxing the fixed proportion assumption and recovery of shocks under observed equilibrium
(2022-07)
The goal of this research is to extend a conventional equilibrium displacement model (EDM) to one that permits substitution between inputs. The empirical example evaluates economic shocks and their effects on social welfare ...
Compliment responses in Vietnamese: The influence of genre and context on gender and region
(2022-07)
The aim of the present study is to investigate how genre and context impact region and gender in Vietnamese compliment responses (CRs) using two different sets of data. The sociolinguistic interview data were gathered ...
Impact of firm-level bank consolidation on mortgage loan availability
(2022-07)
Since the economic crisis of 2008, the number of U.S. banks has declined by an average of 4.5% per year. Factors in bank decline include consolidation due to increased competition from nonbank entities, technological shifts, ...
Investigating economic, design, and usability aspects of electronic health record systems
(2022-05)
Following a 3-essay approach, this dissertation explores three aspects of healthcare IT using three different methodologies. In the first essay, we use econometric modeling to quantify the business value of information ...
Effects of mastery criteria on skill maintenance
(2022-05)
There is currently limited research detailing the effects of varying mastery criteria on skill maintenance for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Mastery criteria are used to determine whether a skill has been ...
Investigation of the implementation of technology tools to facilitate online interaction
(2022-05)
Research has shown that online interaction and technology, which has been used to facilitate interaction, affect the success of online learning (Downing, 2012; Harper, 2018; Keengwe et al., 2013; Moore, 1989; Saadatmand ...
Effects of receiving and observing dysfunctional help at work
(2022-05)
Helping behaviors at work are often seen as beneficial and effective for both employees and organizations. In this study, I examine when a helping experience at work could be dysfunctional in terms of its utility and ...
Operationalizing mindfulness in the workplace
(2022-12)
Mindfulness, generally characterized as a state of receptive attention and awareness, is a well-studied construct in psychology, but has yet to be widely accepted in the organizational and behavioral sciences. Some of this ...