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Capturing strategic orientation toward inpatriation in management staffing policies of global organizations.
(2001)
This dissertation examines the judgment of international human resource managers in global organizations entering emerging markets about the appropriateness of inpatriation practice. First, the strategic drivers and the ...
Multifactor valuation models of energy futures and options on futures.
(2003)
The intent of this dissertation is to investigate continuous time pricing models for commodity derivative contracts that consider mean reversion. The motivation for pricing commodity futures and option on futures contracts ...
An examination of new ventures going through the initial public offering: The impact of firm capabilities and characteristics on performance.
(2004)
Entrepreneurship as a field of study generally focuses on the pursuit of new opportunities and the activities of firms engaged in bringing new ideas to financial fruition. Due to their liability of newness, growth and ...
Essays in Financial Markets
(2016-08-16)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that analyze the impact of economic uncertainty on financial market activities and evaluate alternative quantitative models for economic uncertainty based on financial asset ...
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2020-05-08)
This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay documents a significant negative relationship between policy uncertainty and venture capital (VC) investment in startups across emerging venture capital markets ...
Do Non-GAAP Exclusions Impact the Extent to Which Current Returns Reflect Future Earnings Information?
(2017-05-12)
Motivated by regulators’ concerns about non-GAAP financial measures and building on research that finds more informative disclosures allow current stock returns to better reflect future earnings, I examine whether non-GAAP ...
An evaluation of the staff functions of internal auditing
(1982)
Internal auditing is a staff function common to all organizations. Institutional research is a staff function unique to institutions of higher education. Both functions are internal to the organization, conduct appraisals ...
An investigation of the impact of current-value versus historical-cost data on users' simple economic decisions.
(1983)
This dissertation examines the usefulness of current-value data, as opposed to historical-cost data, in the context of a potential user's actual decision. The respondents in the experiment were required to render their ...
Essays in Blockchain Economics
(2023-05-12)
This dissertation consists of three essays (chapters) concerning blockchain economics. Chapter 1 is a study of a decentralized lending platform. Decentralized Financial (DeFi) lending applications allow users to take ...
Inter-firn Contracts Governing Cooperative Business Relationships
(2009)
Contracts are vital components of the governance mechanism between firms organizing to conduct transactions over a longer-term time horizon. The business management literature has advocated the importance of trust to ...