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Abstract This study examines state agency leadership and the viability of the traditional politics-administration dichotomy in state government. Despite all the academic theorizing about how appointed public managers should be involved...
How do sport consumption activities (i.e., sport participation, sport spectating, and sport media viewing) affect the subjective well-being (or happiness) of sport consumers? To fulfill the ethical creed of sport marketers and to...
A multitude of studies have examined key factors influencing college or university selection by student-athletes. Much less attention, however, has been given to the roles of athletic recruiters and how their qualities and...
This thesis elaborates and tests a model of nonprofit leadership development. Nonprofit leaders create meaning for other nonprofit participants through their activities and words and thus need to possess skills for interpreting the...
The author of this dissertation establishes an overarching framework of spectator emotion, proposes a research design, and provides initial evidence of the framework by multiple studies. In building the spectator emotion framework, an...
All 28 colleges of the Florida College System (FCS) have made space in their budgets and on their campuses in order to attract upper-division partners, colleges and universities that represent the State University System (SUS), ...
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...
In this dissertation, I developed a measure of sports team reputation. The reputation construct is one that has been the subject of decades of scholarly focus in the broader management field, but has been comparatively neglected by sport...
Considered as a popular and effective practice in public agencies, teleworking is an alternative work arrangement that is believed to benefit both individuals and organizations. However, the research on teleworking remains centered on...
Creative Systems, Social Networks, and New Product Development: Two Essays Examining the Impact of Connected Teams and Heavyweight Leaders on Marketing Outcomes
The overall objective of this dissertation is to enhance understanding of the role of social networks in creative systems and new product development. Two essays examine the effects of local and global social network characteristics on...
While there is a robust business management research field on rater motivation related to personnel appraisals, almost no research in the public sector exists on this topic. This paper makes the case for a theory based, on the public...
Using the lens of positive thinking is an essential key to improving one's psychological well-being, especially in the modern workplace. In today's "flat-world" and fast-paced environment, modern organizations are well-fitted with the...
The overall objective of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of the impact visible shelf inventory has on consumer decision making in retail settings. Two essays examine the effects of visibly diminished shelf...
Across two essays, this dissertation investigates how firms can develop goodwill in order to reduce negative impacts from failures. Essay 1 uses the context of a service failure to introduce and examine the concept of "external service...
The Politics of Golf Course Development: An Examination of the Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects of Golf Course Development on Its Primary Stakeholders in the Republic of Panama
ABSTRACT Since the year 2000, the number of golfers in the United States has steadily declined (National Golf Foundations, 2013). Coupled with an oversupply of golf courses and a sluggish real estate market, this drop has contributed to...
An Examination of the Relationship between Individual Fraud Impressions Formed during Fraud Brainstorming and Subsequent Auditor Judgments and Decisions
One of the outcomes of fraud brainstorming as outlined in PCAOB AS 2110 Identifying and Assessing Risks of Material Misstatement is that auditors should continually be on alert for information or conditions which indicate the presence of...
The contribution of the professional sports stadium to the American city has long been debated by team owners, elected officials, scholars, activists, fans, sportswriters, and ordinary citizens. This debate intensifies whenever the...
The number of females participating in high-performance track and field continues to increase. However, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of women in head coaching and other leadership positions (Acosta &...
For decades, sport consumer behavior scholars have been interested in understanding individuals' psychological connection to sport teams. Through their efforts--including the development of concepts such as team identification--scholars...
Sport organizations rely on volunteers to accomplish their missions. Volunteers are a finite resource whose supply may not keep up with the ever increasing demand (Bussell & Forbes, 2002; Cuskelly, 2004). The number of organizations...
Despite findings suggesting that perfectionism may have important implications for individuals' career development, little research has examined adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism within a career decision-making context. The purpose...
Effects of Process-Oriented and Product-Oriented Worked Examples and Prior Knowledge on Learner Problem Solving and Attitude: A Study in the Domain of Microeconomics
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of process-oriented and product-oriented worked example strategies and the mediating effect of prior knowledge (high versus low) on problem solving and learner attitude in...
Public sector leadership calls on public administrators to possess skills to resolve complex policy problems/crises and balance political interests and values through negotiation and conflict resolution. However, current leadership...
The goal of this study was to provide insight into the experiences of first-generation students by learning how the participating group of first-generation students viewed their leadership identity development and what factors had the...
The decentralization or devolution of public service delivery has been prevalent in modern governance. Such transformation of governance enhances the roles of sub-national governments or nonprofit and private organizations for public...
The present study investigated relationships among variables of career decidedness, satisfaction with career choice, goal instability, decision-making confusion, commitment anxiety, and external conflict through structural equation...
After Chun and Rainey's seminal study in 2005, goal ambiguity is widely accepted as "the extent to which an organizational goal or set of goals allow leeway for interpretation." (Chun and Rainey 2005a; b). The mainstream discussion so...
Publicness is a critical concept in the field of public administration as it relates to the unique characteristics of public organizations. Not surprisingly, publicness has long been studied in the public administration literature, ...
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