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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 ...
Book now, pay later: An investigation of delays in payments, temporal distance and incentive types
(2020-12)
With competition in the hotel industry getting more intense, many hotel companies are trying hard to provide various booking options for consumers and one of such options is the ‘book now, pay later’ option. This option ...
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 ...
Influence of goal attainment level and empowerment on motivation and work effort intensity of middle managers
(2022-12)
A common challenge senior leaders face is how to keep their employees motivated. A tool often used to address this issue is a variable compensation program. Although historically this type of compensation was used primarily ...
Understanding employee non-malicious intentional and unintentional information security misbehaviors
(2021-05)
Digitization has given rise to information system security (ISS) risks since the adoption of new technologies (e.g., IoT and multi-cloud environments) has increased vulnerabilities to ISS threats. The behavioral ISS ...
Leveraging social storytelling to foster consumer brand engagement
(2020-12)
Storytelling's potential to mentally transport consumers and influence their attitudes, behaviors and beliefs has been traversed by researchers from diverse fields, including anthropology, psychology, and marketing. In ...
Legitimate distinctiveness via cultural entrepreneurship in new ventures
(2021-07)
"To be different or to be the same?" Taking an ambidextrous perspective, I argue that new ventures can acquire legitimacy through their identity claims that communicate both distinctiveness and conformity. Adopting a ...
Understanding affective trust in AI: The effects of perceived benevolence
(2022-12)
The primary objective of this research was to gain understanding of affective trust in AI (how comfortable individuals feel with various AI applications). This dissertation tested a model for affective trust in AI grounded ...
Three essays on the economics of cybersecurity
(2020-05)
The rapid growth of digitization has made cybersecurity a critical area for corporations, markets, and governments. The rise in cybersecurity investments and sweeping changes in the regulatory environment raise new economic ...