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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Research has shown that abusive supervisor behavior can have psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral impacts on targeted employees, and the literature has primarily focused on the effects of abusive supervisor behavior on the target...
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...
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, ...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
In July 2011, I began to lay the foundation of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra (TFO) in Branson, Missouri, and we completed our fourth successful concert season in June 2015. The TFO is a two-week classical music festival in Branson, ...
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical test of the proposed theoretical link between the construct of celebrity, in an organizational context, and firm performance. The model proposed in this dissertation...
This dissertation attempts to provide a better understanding of how employees develop a positive personal reputation in a work environment. Drawing from expectancy and social exchange theories, it is proposed that politically skilled...
We study how the decision by management to release or withhold signals about firm value in industries with only a few top competitors depends not only on the company's own financial attributes but also on the strategic relationship among...
In this thesis, I examine the previously un-investigated relationship between politics perceptions and work drive. I hypothesized that those with high level of drive would experience fewer adverse effects when coupled with heightened...
The first essay examines the motives behind why CEOs manipulate earnings and quantifies the gains accruing from each motive. Prior literature has identified that CEO manipulate earnings for personal gain; in this I estimate the direct...
In the first essay, I formulate an empirical model that lets me estimate what bidders pay for separate components of a target's sources of cash flows. Specifically, my model allows me to examine previously disparate threads in the...
My dissertation focuses on examining the role that sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in the economy. Research in the foreign investment literature generally finds positive impacts associated with foreign investment. However, the...
This qualitative, soft-systems case study examined the digital strategy development process at a large Midwest art museum in the United States. The study explored the process of working together to create the strategy, the role of...
"The purpose of this paper is to form an organizational pattern representative of art museum libraries. The writer's choice of this subject has grown out of an extended period of interest in art history and in museums as depositories of...
I have composed a three essay dissertation. I examine mutual and/or exchange traded funds in an attempt to give a deeper understanding of the interplay between our financial markets and fund investors, in order to: 1) determine the...
How do market and nonmarket environmental factors affect firm investment decisions and subsequent performance? Economic Institutional Change Theory is extended to the product market-firm level of analysis to develop a model of dynamic...
Exploring Relationships between Arts Administrators in Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee and Their State Arts Agencies: A Qualitative Narrative Inquiry
This dissertation explores the relationship of arts administrators in isolated Appalachian communities in Kentucky and Tennessee with their respective representative state arts agencies. Using the narrative inquiry methodology, I...
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...
This is an exploratory study on the characteristics of the agile methodology and its possible contribution to the success of new ventures within an entrepreneurial orientation. We explore this relationship by asking three research...
As museums continue to shift from being object-centered to visitor-centered, they also need to reconsider their exhibition development practices to become more relevant to their communities. In alignment with this premise, this double...
Social power balances within supervisor-subordinate work relationships were investigated. Supervisor power, subordinate power, and supervisor-subordinate power differentials were shown to account for subordinate expectations regarding...
Pursuit of novel and long-term goals is a double-edged sword. Reaching successful outcomes can be rewarding, yet pursuit of such goals are fraught with intermediate challenges including failures. How organizations pursue novel and long...
The first essay examines the extent to which individual demographic characteristics influence capital structure decisions. I estimate the joint effects of traditional capital structure determinants and manager age, gender, education, ...
Since its introduction by Williamson (1975), transaction cost theory (TCT) has become one of the most influential theoretical perspectives used for explaining how economic activity is governed. TCT asserts that the nature of a...
Recognizing leadership as a social influence process (Treadway et al., 2012), the purpose of this dissertation was to develop and empirically evaluate a moderated, multi-mediational model linking leader political skill, leader...
Market Efficiency and Market Anomalies: Three Essays Investigating the Opinions and Behavior of Finance Professors Both as Researchers and as Investors
I study the topics of market efficiency and anomalies to market efficiency by focusing on finance professors in their joint roles as both researchers and market participants. I ask three main research questions: (1) how efficient do...
The global purpose of this research is to further the study of leader-member exchange (LMX) by using a new, and primarily unused multidimensional measure. The large majority of prior work on LMX has examined the construct using...
A firm's legitimacy becomes a critical issue during an organizational crisis. Blending social identity theory (SIT) and institutional theory, I explain why legitimacy is more difficult to maintain for foreign firms than domestic firms....
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine financial market liquidity when investors and markets face financial crises. The investigation attempts to discern changes in investor behavior and if evidence exists to support the theory...
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