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EMOTIONAL DEMANDS-ABILITIES (ED-A) FIT, EMOTIONAL LABOR, AND RESOURCE DEPLETION
(2020-08-03)Perceived emotional demands-abilities (ED-A) fit, defined as a perception of the congruence or fit between emotional demands of a job and abilities to fulfill these demands (Diefendorff, Greguras, & Fleenor, 2016), has ... -
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 ... -
FORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTRACT: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
(2021-07-12)In recent years, the globalization in business has transformed the traditional linear supply chain into a complex network of interactions among supply chain participants across different tiers. In such a supply chain system, ... -
Hire For Personality, Train For Skill: The Relationship Between Cognitive And Non-cognitive Human Capital, Desired Employee Behaviors, And Performance
(Management, 2014-03-12)This study proposes to examine the relationship between cognitive and noncognitive human capital and work performance as mediated by desired employee behaviors. The study will also explore the moderating effects of high ... -
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 ... -
International Compensation: An Examination of the Relationship Between Societal Culture and Preferred Compensation Policies
(2020-06-08)In my thesis, I review the research literature on the influence of national culture on reward preferences and compensation practices. I first review the major models of culture used to examine reward practices and then ... -
ME, MYSELF, AND I, AT WORK AND AT HOME, TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE DAY AFTER: UNDERSTANDING INTRA-INDIVIDUAL MULTIPLE SELVES ACROSS THE WORK-NONWORK INTERFACE
(2017-08-14)While scholars commonly agree that self-concept is a complex set of self-representations, or identities that influences individual’s decisions, evaluations, attitude, and behaviors, little is known about how individual’s ... -
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 ... -
Negative Exchange Spirals: A Process Model Of Incivility Among Coworkers
(Management, 2014-09-17)Increasing instances of incivility (e.g. rudeness or disrespect) in the workplace have led to the growing popularity of incivility research within the mistreatment literature. It is believed that incivility may encourage ... -
New CEO Appointment and Its Influence on Foreign Market Re-Entry Decisions
(2023-04-24)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 04/21/2025** ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the effect of new CEO appointment on foreign markets re-entry decisions given that new CEOs are likely to bring a ... -
NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF SADDLE POINT PROBLEMS BY PROJECTION
(2017-12-04)In this thesis, we work on iterative solutions of large linear systems of saddle point problems of the form A B1 T B2 0 x y = f 0 , where A ∈ R n×n , B1, B2 ... -
Predictors of Organizational Decoupling in the Context of Corporate Sustainability
(2020-08-11)The gap between what firms say and what they do is referred to as organizational decoupling. Despite the fact that decoupling is a widespread phenomenon, there is a paucity of empirical studies that have examined individual ... -
Resources, innovative outcomes, and the symbolic and substantive performance of entrepreneurial firms: an examination of independent popular music artists
(2015-11-30)The importance of innovation to the success of entrepreneurial firms has been well established in prior work. Yet, important gaps still remain. I draw from the innovation literature, the resource-based view, and institutional ... -
A Review Of Team Learning
(Management, 2014-07-14)The purpose of this thesis is to review literature on team learning published from 1985 to 2013. The papers were selected from academic journals from business, as well as psychology, education and management. I examine ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
SELF-REGULATION OF BOUNDARIES FOR THRIVING, ENRICHMENT, AND BALANCE ACROSS THE WORK-NONWORK INTERFACE
(2021-08-05)This three-essay project explores boundary management and work-nonwork enrichment to explain how thriving in the work domain relates to thriving in the nonwork domain. The Cross-Domain Thriving model proposed in Study 1 ... -
Shah-Dissertation2020-HumanCapitalOfUpperEchelons
(2020-09-04)My dissertation studies strategic change in the context of digital transformation and the role of organization’s upper echelons (specifically the human capital of TMTs and CEOs) in predicting digital transformation. I ...