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Cognitive Fit in Visualizing Big Data
(2015-05)
This dissertation examines the consequences of cognitive fit in visualizing big data. Specifically, it focuses on the interplay between different types of business data analysis tasks and visualization methods, and how the ...
Strategic Non-disclosure of Major Customer Identity
(2016-05)
This study investigates firms’ decision to withhold the identity of their major customers. I first document that the extent of private firms in the industry (private firm intensity) relates positively to non-disclosure of ...
Which of These is Not Like the Other? The Role of Segment Reporting Differentiation in Determining Firm Value
(2015-05-08)
This study examines a firm’s excess value based on segment reporting for the firm and its peer group. Firms often operate in industry segments not reported by peers. When such operating segments are reported separately, ...
Is breaking up hard to do? An exploration of the resignation process
(2013)
Although much is known about why employees decide to resign from their jobs, scant research has examined what occurs after employees decide to leave their jobs but before they exit their organization for the final time. ...
SALESPERSON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: A STUDY OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF COMPLEXITY, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND PERSONALITY-RELATED ANTECEDENTS
(2017-05)
Recent events suggest that counterproductive salesperson behavior—a behavior with the possibility of damaging the organization and its related partners—is a common phenomenon in the professional selling context. Considering ...
Balancing investors' information needs with accounting conservatism: The role of voluntary disclosure of non-GAAP earnings
(2010)
In this paper, I investigate whether accounting conservatism, or asymmetric timeliness of earnings, contributes to the disclosure of non-GAAP earnings. Earnings that incorporate losses in a timely manner inevitably produce ...
Networks of Meaning: Identity Productions across Digital and Print Media
(2015)
Managing organizational identity evolution is critical for identity coherence and consequent legitimacy. The complexity of identity evolution management has increased with the widespread adoption of digital media. In ...
CRAFTING AN EFFECTIVE STORY: A NARRATIVE THEORY APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURIAL FUNDRAISING IN CROWDFUNDING
(2017-05-12)
The stories told by organizations have long played a critical role in furthering our understanding of organizational culture, the implementation of firm strategies, and the creation of new venture legitimacy. Recently, ...
Essays in International Finance
(2017-05-01)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays on the theme of international finance. Chapter 1 compares the takeover premia paid by government-owned and private sector bidders in the oil and gas industry. Using the ...
Understanding the Nature and Impact of Business Models
(2013)
As business model centered research has grown significantly over the last decade, the focus has primarily been on establishing an initial understanding of the construct. Much of the existing research has focused on defining ...