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A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE: THE MODERATING ROLES OF GENDER AND VIRTUALNESS
(2011)
This study used a longitudinal study spanning a twelve-week time period and involving 165 undergraduate students to examine the combined impact of gender and impression management strategies on leader emergence by members ...
The Effects of Audit-Firm Monopoly Within Local Audit Markets
(2017-05-12)
This study examines auditors who monopolize audit markets (monopolist auditors), defined as a particular industry within a city (Numan and Willekens 2012), and their pricing strategy as well as audit quality. I document ...
Cross-Sectional Determinants of the Impact of Management Cash Flow Forecasts
(2011)
I examine the impact of management cash flow forecasts on market participants, including investors and analysts. I posit and find that the news in management cash flow forecasts is priced beyond the news in total earnings. ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation is a collection of essays that investigate the intersection of managerial behaviors, corporate governance quality, and financial outcomes. Chapter 1 explores the relationship between chief executive ...
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 ...