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Audit Signals of Accountability and Transparency in the Marketplace of Donor Information
(2019-05-10)
Potential donors have many sources of information when evaluating charities. IRS Form 990 is a readily accessible source of information. Charity rating organizations exist to help donors evaluate charities (i.e. Charity ...
The Linkages Among Firm Strategies, Firm Reputation, and Performance: A Three Essay Dissertation
(2012)
No one would question that firm reputation is a quality commonly ascribed to successful firms in the market. However, the premise of the relationship between firm reputation (FR) and firm performance (FP) has not been ...
THE ROLE OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN A RESOURCE DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
(2014)
Venture capitalists (VCs) perform valuable services to entrepreneurs and to the economy as a whole by accelerating innovation through the funding of high potential, nascent ventures. The operational duties of a VC are ...
Boundary Spanner Modification of Organizational Directives
(2013)
Boundary spanners represent an important and challenging set of employees for organizational management. Given frequently high autonomy levels and varied job roles, boundary spanning agents have ample opportunity and ...
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 ...
Essays in Banking: Consolidation, Shock Transmission, and Payout
(2019-05)
This dissertation comprises three essays. The first documents the equilibrating effect of bank M&As on deposit and loan markets; the second explores board interlocks as a means of bank-shock transmission across sectors; ...
IMPACTS OF FIRM PERFORMANCE ON IT ADOPTION DECISIONS: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS
(2019-08-01)
IT innovations are key to public firms’ competitive advantage, even survival. We investigated the diffusion of a novel IT innovation – Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) from a performance feedback perspective. We ...
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 ...