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Essays in International Finance
(2017-05-01)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays on the theme of international finance. Chapter 1 compares the takeover premia paid by government-owned and private sector bidders in the oil and gas industry. Using the ...
Understanding the Nature and Impact of Business Models
(2013)
As business model centered research has grown significantly over the last decade, the focus has primarily been on establishing an initial understanding of the construct. Much of the existing research has focused on defining ...
Locus of control and the service encounter: The impact of individual differences on perceptions of service quality, customer satisfaction and consumer complaint behaviour.
(1998)
Recently in the literature there has been a resurgence of interest in identifying the needs and wants of consumers and then designing business strategies which ensure that these needs and wants are satisfactorily met. ...
Essays in Corporate Governance
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of corporate governance in public and private firms. Chapter 1, investigates the role of governance characteristics in determining ...
Three Essays on Energy Finance
(2023-08-04)
The field of energy finance is currently confronted with new challenges in the ever-evolving global landscape, characterized by dynamic changes in fundamental factors and shifting economic conditions. Understanding the ...
Creditors’ Rights and Management Forecast Decisions: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
(2023-05-12)
I study how creditors’ rights affect management’s disclosure decisions, employing the introduction of anti-recharacterization laws in the United States as an exogenous shock to creditors’ rights. These laws increased the ...
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 ...
Toward a framework for alleviating technostress: The role of affect state
(2022-08-04)
The objective of this dissertation proposal is to design a general framework for interventions aimed at alleviating the impact of technostress, that is, stress occurring when individuals use information technology (IT) ...
Supply chain process integration: A conceptual and empirical examination.
(2007)
The third paper takes a holistic approach to examining the role of supply chain process integration in the customer orientation-innovation-performance framework. Results of an empirical study indicate that supply chain ...