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Antecedents And Effects Of Perceived Age Discrimination Against Employees Under 40
(Management, 2007-08-23)Over the past decade, much of the organizational literature has used age-associated stereotypes and the age context of jobs to explain the occurrence of age discrimination against older workers (e. g., Cleveland & ... -
Multinational Strategies As Options Creation And Exercise: An Analysis Of Country, Industry, And Firm Specific Characteristics
(Management, 2007-08-23)This study investigates international expansion strategies using a real options framework. Decisions to enter foreign markets and their subsequent decision to increase, delay or abandon their commitments are both predicted ... -
The Effects Of Equity Sensitivity And Personality On Transformational Leadership Behavior
(Management, 2007-08-23)This thesis examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and neuroticism) and equity sensitivity and transformational leadership ... -
Differences Between Women And Minority Businesses And Nonminority Businesses: A Culture-based Explanation
(Management, 2007-08-23)As the American workforce is buffeted by industries that are downsizing, requesting pay concessions and relocating production to foreign countries with lower factor costs, politicians and union representatives wave the ... -
The Effects Of Supervisor-subordinate Goal Congruence On Performance And Turnover Intentions During Expatriation
(Management, 2007-08-23)This dissertation investigates how the quality of the relationship between sending supervisors and expatriates is related to turnover and performance. Utilizing goal congruence and social exchange theories, it is hypothesized ... -
Sociolinguistic Cues, Perceived Race, And Employment Selection Outcomes: An Exploration Of The Aversive Racism Framework
(Management, 2007-09-17)The limited number of available positions to job candidates has led to increased competitiveness among job seekers and the development of new and more efficient employment screening methods by human resources personnel. ... -
A Communication-centered Approach To Leadership: The Relationship Of Interpersonal Communication Competence To Transformational Leadership And Emotional Intelligence
(Management, 2007-09-17)Communication is frequently cited as a critical component of leadership. This study takes a significant theoretical departure from that view and embraces the realm of communication as a lens through which we understand ... -
The Effects Of Religious Fundamentalism On Individual Belonging
(Management, 2007-09-17)In the last several years there has been an increase in the interest of religion in the workforce (Mitroff & Denton, 1999; Konz & Ryan, 1999; Mohamed, Wisnieski, Askar, & Syed, 2004; Marques & King, 2005). A number of ... -
Institutional Distance And Foreign IPO Performance: The Moderating Effects Of Governance And Organizational Capabilities
(Management, 2008-08-08)To date scholars have examined a wide range of factors which impact the ability of firms to raise optimum levels of equity capital in their domestic markets. However, little attention has been paid to the growing number ... -
Strategic Human Resource Management At The Crossroads: Relationships Among Human Resource Capital, Overlapping Tenure, Behaviors, And Performance
(Management, 2009-09-16)Empirical work in strategic human resource management has tended to focus solely on the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. This study attempts to shift the focus of strategic human resource ... -
The Role Of Intuition In Ethical Decision Making
(Management, 2009-09-16)The literature regarding ethical decision making has focused almost exclusively on examination of variables that test relationships between individual or situational differences and ethicality. These examinations, on the ... -
Entrepreneurial Orientation: An Investigation Into The Ecology Of "EO" Measures
(Management, 2010-11-01)This dissertation is designed to investigate variables that may influence the application of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) related measures commonly used in Entrepreneurship research. It examines the theoretical development ... -
Firm Governance And Shareholder Value Creation: A Study Of Cross-border Acquisitions By U.S. Acquiring Firms
(Management, 2011-10-11)Cross-border acquisitions have become an important part of the arsenal of strategies that firms deploy in internationalizing their operations. With the significant resources that are generally involved in such transactions ... -
Are Coworkers Good Soldiers Or Good Actors?
(Management, 2011-10-11)Drawing from attribution theory, I propose a field study which develops and tests a model to describe (1) how individuals use multiple observations of coworker behavior to form attributions about whether beneficial behaviors ... -
The Moderating Effect Of Instrumental Job Attributes On The Relationship Between A Firm's Perceived Value Of Diversity And Its Organizational Attractiveness
(Management, 2012)Increasingly more firms are targeting both racial and sexual minorities in recruitment ads to attain a diverse work climate. However, the challenge remains of recruiting job seekers without alienating qualified others. ... -
The Rise Of Glocal Generation Y: How Its Personality And Psychological Contract Is Affected By Global Forces And Local Context
(Management, 2012-04-11)When Generation Y started to enter the workforce in the early 2000s, discussions about their characteristics and their impact on organizations began among scholars around the world. A question has been raised whether the ... -
The Road Less Traveled: The Moderating Effects Of Relational Coordination On The Relationships Among Human Capital, Employee Behaviors And Performance
(Management, 2013-03-20)This dissertation studies the micro-foundations of Strategic Human Resource Management by examining the relationships between human capital, employee behaviors, relational coordination, and performance among individuals ... -
Antecedents And Outcomes Associated With The Individual Stress Response
(Management, 2013-03-20)This dissertation explores the antecedents and outcomes associated with the individual stress response. It begins with an extensive literature review of three conceptualizations of stress in organizations. Next, the ... -
Understanding The Relationship Of Job Embeddedness With Social And Human Capital: The Importance Of Organizational Identification
(Management, 2013-03-20)This dissertation examines organizational identification as a critical moderator of the outcomes of job embeddedness using a survey sample of employees from a hospital in the Southwestern United States. Results suggest ... -
TMT Characteristics That Position Family Firms For Success: Examining The Effects Of Human Capital, Non-familiness, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Transactive Memory Systems
(Management, 2013-10-23)Entrepreneurship is critical to family firm growth, profitability, and survival (Zahra 2005); however, entrepreneurship remains understudied in the family business context (Zahra and Sharma, 2004). Limited extant research ...