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Boundary Spanner Modification of Organizational Directives
(2013)
Boundary spanners represent an important and challenging set of employees for organizational management. Given frequently high autonomy levels and varied job roles, boundary spanning agents have ample opportunity and ...
Do the ends justify the means: A role identity examination of pro-social rule breaking
(2015-08-14)
Pro-social rule breaking, the volitional violation of explicit organizational rules in an attempt to increase organizational efficiency or to provide a greater service to a stakeholder such as a customer or coworker, has ...
Manager-Debtholder Alignment and Opportunistic Income Smoothing
(2016-05-13)
Managers’ risk preferences are typically greater than those of debtholders. Managers have the potential to gain from risky activities, but debtholders share only in the losses. Debtholders recognize their misalignment with ...
Essays in Market Microstructure and Risk Management
(2012)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigates various issues related to market microstructure and risk management. Chapter 1 examines the determinants of traders' decisions to revise orders, and 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, ...
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 ...
Investors' Reactions to Management Earnings Forecasts: The Effects of Changes in Forecast Precision and Investor Preferences
(2014)
This study examines the effects of changes in management earnings forecast precision (i.e., changes in the width of the forecast range) and investor preferences on investor judgments. In general, prior research finds that ...
In over their head? Executive job demands and their effect on decision making and firm outcomes.
(2012)
The business environment is more uncertain, dynamic and complex, organizations are more diverse and harder to manage, and owners demand greater and greater returns. From the perspective of CEOs, these factors, in tandem ...
We are in this together: Group psychological contracts, breach, and outcomes
(2010)
For nearly two decades, researchers have often turned to the psychological contract as a framework for examining employer-employee relations. During this time, they have largely focused on examining the perceived obligations ...
Media Affordance and Emotion Regulation in Organizational Communication
(2015-05)
Emotion regulation and the use of emotion regulation strategies to manage one’s emotional experiences or expressions have received extensive attention in the management, communication and psychology literatures. Despite ...