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The relentless pursuit of construct validity: Why employment interviews predict job performance?
(2011)
Employment interviews are one of the most frequently researched areas in the human resources management research (Buckley, Norris, & Wiese, 2000). Over the last eighty years, the employment interview research has gone ...
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 ...
THE EFFECTS OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN AUDITOR CLIENTELE AND AUDITOR-CLIENT MISMATCHES ON AUDIT QUALITY
(2012)
This study contributes to the current debate on mandatory audit firm rotation by investigating how possible consequences of mandating audit firm rotation may affect audit quality. I find that audit offices with large ...
Managerial Ability and Real Earnings Management
(2013)
In this study, I examine the relation between managerial ability and real earnings management (REM). I find that firms engaging in production REM have significantly worse subsequent firm performance than do other firms. ...
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 ...
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, ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Intermediation
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of intermediaries in corporate finance and financial markets. Chapter 1 investigates whether bond rating agencies convey new ...
A Three Essay Dissertation on Social Movements and Social Media
(2014-05)
Users of social media are now empowered to self-organize in new ways. In particular, participants of social movements have used social media to spread their message, organize their activities, and recruit others. For ...
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 ...