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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 ...
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 ...
THE EFFECT OF AMBIGUITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
(2019-08)
Mergers and acquisitions rarely deliver on expectations, yet organizations continue to pursue these strategic decisions. Scholars have researched acquisitions extensively as decisions under risk (Kumar, Dixit, & Francis, ...
Audit Signals of Accountability and Transparency in the Marketplace of Donor Information
(2019-05-10)
Potential donors have many sources of information when evaluating charities. IRS Form 990 is a readily accessible source of information. Charity rating organizations exist to help donors evaluate charities (i.e. Charity ...
Essays in Banking: Consolidation, Shock Transmission, and Payout
(2019-05)
This dissertation comprises three essays. The first documents the equilibrating effect of bank M&As on deposit and loan markets; the second explores board interlocks as a means of bank-shock transmission across sectors; ...
IMPACTS OF FIRM PERFORMANCE ON IT ADOPTION DECISIONS: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS
(2019-08-01)
IT innovations are key to public firms’ competitive advantage, even survival. We investigated the diffusion of a novel IT innovation – Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) from a performance feedback perspective. We ...
Three Essays in Financial Economics
(2019-05-10)
This dissertation comprises three essays. The first reports a macro-economic application of the synthetic control method developed in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) to assess the economic implications of the institutionalization ...
Environmental and Social Risk, Adaptation, and Equity Value
(2019-05-10)
This study investigates the impact of environmental and social (E&S) risks on firm value. Firm value is expected to be a function of current earnings to the extent current earnings reflect cash flows that are expected to ...