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The purpose of this research was to examine the differences in the organizational structure of Sports Commissions in the United States of America. This study also examined Sports Commissions according to general organizational...
Scholars have given considerable attention to how activists influence social change in organizations. These studies have primarily examined how external pressures (e.g., protests, boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to...
Leaders often are faced with making difficult decisions for their group, such as when a course of action preferred by group members conflicts with one that is likely to optimize group outcomes. Across five studies, I provide evidence...
The Group Decision-Making Communication Effectiveness (GDMCE) Scale: Development of a New Integrated Measure for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Effectiveness
The ability of groups to make the most effective decisions possible has long been a primary focus of the decision-making communicative process within any group. As such, the effectiveness of groups in making decisions has been an...
This dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, ...
This dissertation focuses on corporate contributions to state-level politicians. Scholars have devoted significant attention to the antecedents of corporate political activity, often invoking resource dependence logic to explain...
Previously a narrowly researched phenomenon (Fine & Nevo, 2008), interest in underemployment is gaining momentum and current research (Erdogan, Bauer, Peiro, & Truxillo, 2011a; 2011b; Feldman & Maynard, 2011) in the area has provided...
Research on cultural distance normally assumes corporate homogeneity within a country, which makes the untenable assumption that all firms within the country are culturally homogeneous. In addition, research on cultural distance has only...
The first essay examines CEO pay cuts. Understanding CEO pay cuts allows for a better overall understanding of CEO compensation policies. I provide a comprehensive analysis of the board's design of the executive compensation contract...
Three issues were discussed in this paper exploration of an Art Coordinator who directs a community-based art program within the nonprofit Sojourn House. The paper's first issue was the identification of the role and responsibilities of...
Relatively few studies in MIS research have examined computerized systems to support value-based decision-making behavior using system feedback. This dissertation developed a model of value-based decision-making behavior and explored how...
Social class is an important construct throughout the social sciences but has not received nearly as much attention in the management literature as it has in other fields. As a result, there is relatively little information regarding the...
Over the years, scholars and practitioners have discussed how U. S. symphony orchestras are an unsustainable business model due to their financial and audience decline. Though orchestras are continuously improving their artistic quality, ...
This dissertation integrated the role of emotions into the ethical decision-making process, which traditionally has been conceptualized as an exclusively logical process. The study examined the process by which the arousal of emotion...
Although there are millions of Veterans of the United States military (i.e., Veterans) currently working in civilian organizations, and millions of unemployed Veterans seeking jobs in civilian organizations, little research has examined...
Building on resource dependence theory, this dissertation seeks to explain why target firm directors are retained from the target organization and if this retention has an effect on post-acquisition performance. Both acquisition level...
The saliency of politics in organizational settings makes perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) an impactful organizational factor capable of eliciting psychosocial, psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes for...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend the research surrounding the impact of leaders' political skill on the valuable outcomes experienced by their followers at work through the high-quality relationships developed between...
Self-regulation involves individuals altering their behavior in order to achieve desired goals, act in accordance with certain ideals or beliefs, and generally to follow the rules governing appropriate behavior in society (Bauer &...
The first chapter of my dissertation uses the financial crisis as a natural experiment to analyst the extent to which firms adjust financial policies on the margin in response to the credit supply shock of the financial crisis. We...
This study explores the roles of subordinates' individual differences in predicting their perceptions of abusive supervision. Supervisor behavior was controlled via a video vignette to assess if subjects perceived the same supervisor...
The purpose of this dissertation is to offer two complementary proposals to enhance our knowledge of security returns' behavior and analysis. The original assumption that this behavior is best described by a normal distribution underlies...
This dissertation discusses hybrid venture firm performance. The predictors include the complementary and competitive institutional logics of social impact accelerators (SIAs) and hybrid ventures, as well as country-level institutional...
Firm Communication, Environmental Spill Severity, and Firm Financial Performance: Was Interessiert Mich Mein Geschwätz von Gestern? (What Do We Care About Yesterday's Chatter?)
This dissertation investigates the effect of environmental emergency spill severity on firm financial performance and the effect of firm communication prior to the environmental emergency on the spill severity firm financial performance...
There are several motivating and satisfying factors that affect volunteer retention. Organizations need to know what these factors are in order to make the volunteer’s role more satisfying and therefore improve rates of retention. The...
We examine the information content of derivative prices. In Chapter 1, we examine the information content of implied volatility for both future realized volatility and future returns. Previous studies have explored possible seasonal...
Accountability is an important organizational phenomenon that has been recognized by both academicians and practitioners as a fundamental element in the successful operation of organizations (Tetlock, 1985; 1992; Ettore, 1992). However, ...
The success of organizations rests largely on their ability to coordinate with the external environment. At the foundation of this external coordination are the interpersonal work relationships that enable organizations to gather...
Stock price reactions to reverse stock splits are examined in relation to various firm characteristics and market movements. It is found that the market reacts stronger on the ex-date than on the announcement date. The market reaction...
Research has examined the experiences of women in the workplace, yet women's experiences during pregnancy have been neglected to a large extent. Stress during pregnancy has consistently been shown to lead to detrimental consequences for...
A new paradigm for running youth orchestras is needed in order to reduce redundancy, increase efficiency, deal with reduced budgets in many music programs, and create a sustainable infrastructure for the creation of youth orchestras....
This dissertation consists of two related essays examining the consequences of corporate litigation for U.S. public firms. In the first essay, we use a comprehensive sample of 83, 260 cases filed and resolved in U.S. Federal District...
The main focus of this dissertation is to examine liquidity determinants of stock returns in a time-series asset-pricing model. The main questions I address are if the effects of liquidity on asset returns have significant time-variation...
A noteworthy disconnect may exist between how researchers conceptualize and measure host country institutional variables and how executives of multinational enterprises (MNEs) evaluate host countries when making international investment...
In this dissertation, I look at the forecasting power of implied volatility. I decompose implied volatility into a risk component and a sentiment component, and examine the forecasting power of these components for future returns and...
Leaders' actions often speak louder than words, and when a pattern of incongruity between leaders' espoused values and their actions is perceived by subordinates, the individual and organizational consequences can be significant....
This thesis directly deals with the developmental path and business aspects behind bringing a drug to market. The drug and science that is focused on pertains to concussion and treatment of this condition. If you are a scientist...
With art programs becoming more prominent in medical environments, this research seeks to investigate the way art materials are being used and perceived in these settings. Through observation of one pediatric unit and information...
Past research indicates that the quantity and quality of resources available for immigrants in a destination city have serious implications for an immigrant's overall success. Previous research though, has failed to look at resources for...
This dissertation studies the consequences of paying CEOs too much and paying CEOs too little. My first essay examines the effects of excess executive compensation on the future performance of S&P 1500 companies from 1992-2011. We...
In information systems development, end-users have shifted in their role: from consumers of information to informants for requirements to developers of systems. This shift in the role of users has also changed how information systems are...
With a growing number of pension plans switching from defined benefit to defined contribution, it is becoming increasingly important that individuals understand the risk and rewards of investing and diversification. Educating plan...
The focus of this dissertation is on innovation through the lens of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation, and as such, begins to integrate the literature between these two relatively disparate streams of research. Because...
Digital video recorders (DVRs) are an emerging technology that is fundamentally changing the competitive landscape in industries that advertise on television. Perhaps the most familiar impact of DVR technology is that it enables...
This dissertation seeks to better understand the concept of community engagement through the application of the arts to address social concerns. This case study focused on The Tallahassee Community Chorus and its performance of “Sing for...
Strategists at the largest financial institutions have, for years, offered asset allocation advice to their clients. Given the size of these firms and the trillions of investment dollars they influence, the value of this active asset...
This thesis analyzes the construction of the public memory of Arthur Ashe, well known African American tennis player, breaker of racial barriers, activist, and humanitarian, through a discussion of a sampling of public displays that...
The primary purpose of this research is to examine a model of leadership that includes leader political skill, leader-member-exchange (LMX), follower motivation, followers' trust in their leaders, follower organizational commitment, ...
Only in the last couple of decades have scientists begun to delineate the nomological web of constructs that relate to the entrepreneurial process. The task is far from complete. In fact, many of the most exciting individual-level...
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