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Super girl power: Can girls move swiftly through deliberate practice to become successful entrepreneurs?
(2017-12)
The researcher developed a five-day, seven-city entrepreneurship program--Envision Lead Grow--which introduces middle-school girls to entrepreneurship through small groups managed by camp counselors. This program culminates ...
Volitional Vulnerability: From Qualitative to QuantitativeVolitional vulnerability: From qualitative to quantitative
(2016-10)
This paper introduces a newly developed psychometric measure called volitional vulnerability. Results of the present study show how the qualitative theory of vulnerability as set forth by Dr. Brene Brown can be expressed ...
Climbing the corporate ladder: How top management team structure affects corporate misconduct
(2017-12)
To bolster the possibility of becoming the next CEO, the heir apparent of a corporation has both a level of expectancy and motivation to reduce corporate misconduct. Studies that examine the relationship between corporate ...
It's who you are: Explaining the antecedents of new CEOs' psychological profiles
(2018-07)
Given the breadth of implications that CEO psychological characteristics have for their organisations, in this manuscript I examine those characteristics as outcomes of the new CEO selection process. At the core of this ...
Cronyism and entrepreneurship: An international analysis of the influence of cronysim on country level productive and unproductive entrepreneurship
(2016-05)
Cronyism or the practice of favoritism based on network connections represents a strong informal institution or rule of the game in many countries. This study adopts Baumol's model of productive, unproductive, and destructive ...
Another missing link in the service profit chain: Composite self-regulation as a mediator
(2014-12)
The service profit chain contends that service-related human resource practices and management influence service behavior, performance, and ultimately organizational performance. This study builds upon recent work implicating ...
Does perceived belonging impact performance? Examining the impact that minority status and time perspective have on perceptions of belonging and ultimately performance
(2016-12)
Despite social commentary and a more top-of-mind awareness of the demographic characteristics of the workforce, cultivating a gender and performance-balanced workforce has proven to be a challenge in many industries. Many ...
Hybrid model for IT investment analysis: Application to RFID adoption in the retail sector
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study: One of the major obstacles in Information Technology (IT) adoption is its return on investment analysis. IT benefits in organizations are hard to measure and are usually realized over time. System ...
Determinants of top management compensation: The case of NCAA football head coaches
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation examined National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Bowl Subdivision head football coach's contracts to investigate the determinants of both maximum compensation and ...
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear: The impact of change on readiness to learn
(2017-12)
As individuals go through life and experience the workplace they encounter changes, new and novel situations, planned and unplanned. Each of those encounters is an opportunity for an individual to appraise their readiness ...