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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 ...
The economic impact of internal migration :
(1984)
Based on the theoretical models, several empirical models have been developed to estimate the impacts of migration on sending and receiving areas. The econometric estimates obtained by this study using single equation and ...
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 ...
The effect of non-audit services on investor judgments about auditor independence, auditor knowledge, audit quality and investment.
(2002)
Increasing levels of non-audit services (NAS) provided by auditors to their audit clients, along with large-scale investigations of questionable accounting practices employed by major firms, have brought the issue of auditor ...
DEVIATIONS FROM THE NORM: VITAL SIGNS AFFECTING ATTRIBUTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR MOTIVES
(2009)
Since the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) construct was introduced twenty-five years ago (Bateman & Organ, 1983; Smith, Organ, & Near, 1983), researchers have directed a great deal of research effort toward ...
To what extent is slack conditioned on munificence? Extending the behavioral theory of the firm.
(2004)
This dissertation studies the accumulation and "spending" of organizational slack dependent on environmental munificence. Over five decades have passed since the "behavioral theory of the firm" formally introduced the idea ...
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 ...
Xenophilic consumer behavior :
(1980)
XCB was measured as the ratio of imports to total consumption within several product categories. Income, dualism, exposure, education, and governmental intervention were used as independent variables in the hypothesized ...
An investigation of latitude models of service-encounter evaluation.
(1997)
Recently, Zeithaml, Berry, and Parasuraman (1993) (ZBP) have proposed a "zone of tolerance" model of perceived service quality. Its fundamental propositions are that (1) the standard of comparison is a zone which is bounded ...