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Essays in Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
(2015-05)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the issues related to corporate governance and executive compensation. In Chapter 1 I employ a sample of U.S. public firms to investigate the effect of ...
ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCE ACQUISITION AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL INVESTING AND CROWDFUNDING
(2016)
Crowdfunding – an open call on an internet platform for money – is becoming an important source of financial capital for entrepreneurs. Compared to traditional sources of financial capital, the phenomenon of crowdfunding ...
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 ...
Do the ends justify the means: A role identity examination of pro-social rule breaking
(2015-08-14)
Pro-social rule breaking, the volitional violation of explicit organizational rules in an attempt to increase organizational efficiency or to provide a greater service to a stakeholder such as a customer or coworker, has ...
All risk and no reward: How benevolent and hostile sexism undermine women's development through feedback seeking
(2018-12-14)
For nearly three decades, researchers have investigated a myriad of proactive behaviors in organizations, including feedback seeking. In general, feedback seeking and other forms of proactive behavior are believed to be ...
Manager-Debtholder Alignment and Opportunistic Income Smoothing
(2016-05-13)
Managers’ risk preferences are typically greater than those of debtholders. Managers have the potential to gain from risky activities, but debtholders share only in the losses. Debtholders recognize their misalignment with ...
Essays in Market Microstructure and Risk Management
(2012)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigates various issues related to market microstructure and risk management. Chapter 1 examines the determinants of traders' decisions to revise orders, and the ...
EXAMINING WORK RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIORS THROUGH A CONSTRUCTIVE-DEVELOPMENTAL LENS
(2011)
In 1979 Weick suggested that managers should strive to broaden their perspective on their organizations and their environment and develop an ability to look at situations from multiple perspectives. Building on this idea, ...
Why won't they listen to us: Stakeholder pressure, managerial discretion and corporate social performance
(2011)
Public corporations are under immense pressure from their stakeholders to improve the corporate social (including environmental) performance (CSP). But do increased stakeholder demands result in subsequent improvements in ...
Investors' Reactions to Management Earnings Forecasts: The Effects of Changes in Forecast Precision and Investor Preferences
(2014)
This study examines the effects of changes in management earnings forecast precision (i.e., changes in the width of the forecast range) and investor preferences on investor judgments. In general, prior research finds that ...