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Effect of grit and orientations to happiness on entrepreneurial performance among venture founders
(2016-12)
To date, research on which factors contribute to entrepreneurial performance falls short of a comprehensive explanation. Grit, although not as thoroughly researched as other personality traits, has been found to be a ...
Volatility Modeling Using High Frequency Trade Data to Identify Cryptocurrency Bubbles
(2019-08)
In the light of sudden interest in Bitcoin during 2017, which saw Bitcoin growing multifold in market price, I study blockchain, Bitcoin and few other top cryptocurrencies, and examine whether Bitcoin was in a financial ...
Grabbing the tiger by the tail, a hybridized retirement system measured through the stakeholders' eyes
(2014-12)
The changing landscape of retirement systems throughout the world presents many challenges for governments, employers, and participants. The future for employees have dimmed with the retreat of pension plans, and the ...
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 ...
Machine learning and personality traits: A disturbing contribution from the algorithmic culture to behavioral science
(2018-12)
The time has come for behavioral scholars to benefit from the superior prediction accuracy of modern data mining practices over traditional data modeling. The current investigative study uses machine learning techniques ...
Essays on the influence of website emotional design features on users' emotional and behavioral responses
(2013-07)
As the Internet technologies have become more advanced, as well as online users that have become more sophisticated, the competition in the e-commerce is increasingly aggressive for online vendors. Therefore, online user ...
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 ...
Digital Transformation: How to Beat the High Failure Rate
(2019-05-01)
Firms every year spend $1.3 trillion on digital transformation programs to improve efficiency because digital leaders outperform their peers in nearly every industry. However, digital transformations that are intended to ...
CEO Activism and Firm Outcomes: Examining the Role of CEO Political Ideology
(2019-07)
There is a growing interest in an emerging phenomenon, CEO activism, in which a firm's CEO communicates his or her stand on social-political issues. Researchers have examined the effect of CEO activism on public opinion, ...
How pre-engagement factors and service product attribute complexity impact customer tenure with a retailer
(2014-12)
The purpose of this research is to look at how various cultural dimensions - power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and individualism/collectivism - are related to the actual tenure of a customer with a retail service ...