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I examine two different types of market data. First, I examine how distress risk is priced. Previous literature finds mixed results when examining if distress risk is priced in the cross section of returns, depending on whether firm...
The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
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...
This dissertation explores the dark side of corporate political connections. Chapter One investigates the reputational spillover effect between scandal-tainted congresspersons and politically-connected firms. During the period 1992-2018, ...
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...
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...
I examine whether the FASB's revenue recognition guidance (codified as ASC Topic 606) increases revenue comparability across firms and industries, and whether revenue comparability provides decision useful information to analysts. I...
During my childhood, my family owned a small convenience store that served members of our community. However, our family business had to close because of customers who failed to pay. I find that small businesses tend to be more...
This dissertation is comprised of two essays that focus on the role of disposition effect to market reactions in seasoned equity offerings and the importance of considering the dynamics of reference price in disposition effect. The first...
This dissertation brings together two independent studies that examine marginalized groups of entrepreneurs being affected by different types of external shocks. In this work, I define as marginalized groups individuals that are socially...
Despite the theoretical and strategic importance of firms’ networks, scant research has been done that focuses on how their structure as an antecedent to their diversification strategy. Drawing on resource-based view (RBV) of the firm...
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...
Defected customers cost U.S. companies over $62 billion in 2016, $42 billion more than 2013 (Hyken 2016). To combat these losses, firms increasingly engage with these defectors in an effort to cultivate a fruitful second-lifetime. In a...
Competitive dynamics is the study of firms' competitive moves; and corporate governance is the study of the influence of boards of directors on managers. Both areas of study have revealed important factors that affect performance, such...
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...
Chapter one examines how weather conditions near a firm’s major institutional investors affect stock market reactions to firms’ earnings announcements. We find that unpleasant weather experienced by institutional investors leads to...
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 overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide insight into the role surplus lines insurance companies play within the insurance industry. Surplus lines insurers are regulated quite differently than standard insurance companies, ...
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...
This dissertation examines several key aspects regarding health insurance policies in the United States. The development of the United States health insurance market began in the 1920s with life insurance companies selling traditional...
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 &...
This dissertation examines the relationship between the presence of international investors and firm success. The first chapter of my dissertation examines the relationship between international venture capital investors and private firm...
Although a large body of research demonstrates a positive relationship between a focal firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and its performance, some research suggests otherwise. This dissertation attempts to extend...
This dissertation consists of two independent essays on corporate finance. The first essay explores the trend in the profitability of U.S. firms, why it occurs and how firms respond to it. We document that the return on assets (ROA) of U...
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...
In two essays, this dissertation explores how marketing tactics, both in the development and marketing of technology and food, influence consumer well-being. In Chapter 2, I seek to explore the Quantified-Self phenomenon empirically....
A software-based platform brings app developers and customers together. It creates new opportunities for app developers to compete in a dynamically changing marketplace. To survive in intra-platform competition, app developers have to...
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...
Salesperson performance and turnover are outcomes of utmost importance for marketing practitioners and scholars. While much research has been conducted to determine drivers of these outcomes, I argue social dynamics within the...
Prior audit research and PCAOB inspection reports provide evidence that auditors often fail to revise audit plans to effectively address new risks that are revealed during audit fieldwork. I investigate how budget performance measures...
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...
Accompanying firms’ globalization and market expansion worldwide is a dramatic increase in firm structural intricacy and interorganizational relationship complexity. The firm’s relational complexity in the value chain has been recognized...
Negative book equity firms have grown to comprise a substantial subset of the equity market, totaling $893 billion in market value at the end of 2017. Few studies focus on negative book equity firms, leaving our understanding of this...
Although behavioral consistency provides a theoretical basis for a variety of personnel selection procedures, this concept is not well defined and is operationalized differently across selection procedures. This lack of clarity limits...
The marketing literature on consumer responses to environmentally friendly programs, products, and communications (together referred to as "green initiatives") is widely diverse in operationalizations and definitions, varied in outcomes...
This study investigates whether labor union strength is associated with the quality of audits and internal control. Labor unions have reason to demand high quality audits and strong systems of internal control because they rely on...
This study examines whether the mandated disclosure of CEO-to-employee pay ratios motivates firms to curb CEO pay. In July 2010, the U.S. Congress directed the SEC, via Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, to enforce a rule that...
I examine whether managers are more likely to meet-or-beat earnings benchmarks when firms experience natural disasters. When a natural disaster strikes and causes significant damages, it could negatively affect a firm’s financial...
This dissertation studies the role of cultural holidays in equity pricing. In the first essay, we study individual stock returns in eleven major international markets that celebrate six cultural New Year holidays not on January 1st. Our...
The following dissertation examines how consumers' assessment of an observed consumer is influenced by the form of payment and body weight of the observed consumer. Although form of payment and weight are both common cues in the...
The following dissertation examines consumer decision-making in two important contexts. The first is in the domain of health and nutrition decisions. Both governmental entities and corporations alike have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to...
I examine the effect of the change from incurred loss model to the current expected credit loss (CECL) model on mortgage lending. I find that the extent that the CECL model under ASC 326 exacerbates the lending disparities for low-income...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend research that examines the overlap between leadership and human resource management (HRM). Specifically, it sought to understand the leadership factors that would predict HRM system strength...
Organizational politics long has been considered a negative phenomenon, but scholars have noted it is an unavoidable part of organizational life. As such, much research has been devoted to exploring its nature, as well as its antecedents...
We examine the relationship between the share of ‘non-traditional’ members, such as African-Americans and women, present on a firm’s board of directors and firm value. We also explore the implications of the presence of non-traditional...
This dissertation research will bring together two streams of research. One stream examines the effect of regional-level community social capital (CSC) on entrepreneurial social networks. The other examines the effect of the individual...
The focus on the quality of health care, both clinical and experiential, is becoming increasingly important to academics and managers alike as its impact on hospital performance is established. Accordingly, research on the topic is...
The value of the current pass/fail version of the standardized audit report has been criticized as not providing stakeholders with much information beyond the qualified vs. unqualified opinion (Cohen Commission 1978; Church et al. 2008;...
This dissertation explores two different kinds of investor preferences for stocks: geographicpreference and skewness preference. In the first essay titled "Faster than Flying: High-Speed Rail, Investors, and Firms", we study the effects...
Prior research suggests auditor resources are quasi-fixed at the office-level: local audit offices operate as semi-autonomous units, and resources are costly to transfer across offices. The objective of this study is to document a...
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