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Three essays on citizenship crafting
(2020-07-30)
This dissertation contains three essays that develop and test a new construct, citizenship crafting. Citizenship crafting describes employee-initiated behaviors and cognitions that seek to enhance/continue or diminish/eliminate ...
Three Essays Unpacking the Role of Cross-Cultural Experience on Entrepreneurship
(2019)
This dissertation comprises three essays probing the underlying mechanisms in the relationship between cross-cultural experience and entrepreneurship. Decades of research across multiple disciplines have provided evidence ...
Essays In Finance
(2023-08-04)
In my dissertation, I exhibit three studies in Finance. In Chapter 1, I provide a new perspective on the optimal call policy for corporate callable bonds by evaluating the proportion called in call exercises. My data ...
The expressed faculty preference for collective bargaining related to selected measures of job satisfaction, perceptions of collective bargaining, and attitudes toward unions and union officials.
(1982)
This study analytically assessed variables related to faculties' expressed preferences for collective bargaining. The variables identified for the purpose of this study were socio-economic, job satisfaction, perception of ...
MD&A Similarity with Local Industry Peers
(2021-05-14)
This study investigates the impact of interacted industry peer firms on management decisions regarding Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A). Given that geographic industry clusters facilitate inter-organization ...
Three Essays in Corporate Finance: Examining the Influence of Government Ownership and Evaluating Crude Oil Arbitrage
(2013)
The aim of this dissertation is twofold: first, to evaluate how governments influence firms in which they invest (chapters one and two), and second, to examine arbitrage in the crude oil market by investigating the ...
Immunization, stochastic process risk, and optimal objective functions: Reexamination of the duration vector model with Monte Carlo sampling.
(1998)
In Part One of this dissertation, the Chambers, Carleton, and McEnally (CCM) model is reexamined by two separate empirical designs. In the first, the CCM quarterly data test is replicated with a larger sample and with 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, ...
SEEING IS BELIEVING: A VISUAL SOURCE CREDIBILITY PERSPECTIVE OF CROWDFUNDING PERFORMANCE
(2019)
Crowdfunding campaigns increasingly utilize visual media in their funding appeals to potential backers. Prior research shows that inclusion of visual media positively relates to successful funding outcomes, yet what specific ...
An empirical investigation into the judicial classification of transactions as sales or leases for Federal income tax purposes.
(1983)
The objective of this study is to identify factors used by the judiciary in distinguishing between sales and leases. This was done by developing a logit model based on actual lease decisions. Results of this analysis ...