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A comparison and classification of shopper strategy and activity pattern market segment solutions.
(1982)
Markets appear to be too similar to be grouped in any meaningful way. The findings appear to support the contention that a similar set of shopper types can be found across markets. This suggests that corporate profitability ...
ESSAYS IN CORPORATE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
(2016-05-04)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of discretionary disclosures by managers, stock price comovement and government intervention into financial markets during a financial ...
ESSAYS ON CORPORATE BOND MARKETS
(2014)
The aim of my dissertation is to provide new insights into corporate bond markets from empirical corporate finance and bond market microstructure vintage points. The first chapter introduces the topic. The second chapter ...
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
(2020-05-08)
This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) looks at the incidence of sexual harassment in U.S. S&P 500 firms, and its relationship to shareholder value. The second essay (Chapter 2) is an ...
The role of organizational identification in marketing channels: A quantitative and qualitative assessment.
(2001)
This dissertation develops theory and empirically tests developed hypotheses. A survey instrument is developed and administered to collect data for analysis. Primarily, the data was analyzed through regression analysis and ...
Information Transparency and the Effectiveness of R&D Tax Credits
(2023-05-12)
Using staggered changes in state-level R&D Tax Credits (RTC), I investigate the effectiveness of RTCs offered by U.S. states and their dependence on information transparency. The results show that RTCs increase aggregated ...
Assessing reverse logistics complexity: Conceptual model, scale development, and a case study.
(2007)
Paper three represented a case study at one of the biggest computer wholesale distribution companies in the USA. Under conditions of anonymity, the reverse logistics program development and implementation was studied in ...
IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS VIA LOGIC DIVERSITY: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA NARRATIVES AND USE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR
(2015-05-08)
Over the last decade, social media has diffused widely through society, increasingly impacting aspects of our lives. In the private sphere, we use social media to develop and maintain personal relationships. In the civic ...
IT personnel sourcing decisions in IT projects.
(2006)
The evolutionary growth of information technology, during the past few decades, has created the impetus for change in the organizational workplace from a focus on narrow and specific tasks, carried out by individuals, to ...
State ownership and investor protection: Dynamic model of the cost of capital; empirical investigation of a worldwide panel of firms.
(2003)
The empirical part of this work uses a worldwide panel dataset to document the effect of state and insider ownership on the firm's cost of capital. Using panel data allows me to resolve some of the econometric problems ...