Dissertations from 2009

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Globalization and identity formation: A postcolonial analysis of the international entrepreneur, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

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How does beauty matter? An exploration of employee perceptions of office aesthetics, Elizabeth Siler

Dissertations from 2008

A multilevel analysis of the association among individual capabilities, team leadership behaviors, and performance in China, Jose C Alves

The role of the supplier in marketing process innovation and value creation, Anthony K Asare

Lean longevity: Kaizen events and determinants of sustainable improvement, Michele Kowalski Burch

Knowledge nets: The role of total market orientation on firm performance and dynamic capabilities in network environments, Cory Taylor Cromer

An empirical investigation of managers' interventions and asymmetry in intra-industry information transfers, Rosemond Desir

Organizational response to change: A resource-based view from the commercial banking industry, Donna M Gallo

Tax equalization in mutual funds, Steven Leigh Gill

Three essays on emerging capital markets, Iuliana Ismailescu

Expectations management and public guidance in the post-Regulation FD period, Fang Li

Transportation and dynamic networks: Models, theory, and applications to supply chains, electric power, and financial networks, Zugang Liu

Three essays on socially responsible investing: A summary look, eco-efficiency and measuring opportunity cost, Aixin Ma

Three essays on credit default swaps, Xiaoling Pu

The impact of time perspective on the decision making of financial advisors, Kenneth N Ryack

A policy capturing investigation of the effects of organizational justice dimensions on pay satisfaction, Robert E Till

Dissertations from 2007

The impact of research and development on the fundamentals and market values of firms, Cosette P Chichirau

Organizational forming in (a)modern times: Path dependence, actor-network theory and Ireland's Industrial Development Authority, Paul F Donnelly

Volatility in the futures markets for financial and physical commodity assets: The impact of high frequency data on the distributional properties and forecasting of volatility, direction-of-change probability forecasting and asymmetric volatility effects, Georgi Y Georgiev

Three essays on the risk of hedge funds, Hyuna Park

Three essays on the risk of hedge funds, Hyuna Park

A dynamic theory for the integration of social and economic networks with applications to supply chain and financial networks, Tina B Wakolbinger

Three essays on risk arbitrage, Jia Wang

Supply chain synergy in mergers and acquisitions: Strategies, models and key factors, Shenghan Xu

Dissertations from 2006

Efficient lattice methods for pricing contingent claims under stochastic volatility and jumps models, Natalia A Beliaeva

In and out of balance: Women entrepreneurs and the gendered 'work' of work-family, Kristina A Bourne

The governance of reverse leveraged buyouts, Michael R Braun

On mutual fund terminations, survivorship bias, and the smart money effect, Qiang Bu

An investigation into the effect representatives have on their clients' perception of justice in mediation, Kevin Patrick Farmer

Revealing Victoria's Secret: A hermeneutic exploration of female New Luxury consumers, Elad Granot

Three essays on hedge funds characteristics, performance, risk and managerial incentives, Ying Li

Dynamics of global supply chain and electric power networks: Models, pricing analysis, and computations, Dmytro Matsypura

Two essays on managerial discretion in pension accounting under SFAS 87, Erin A Moore

Valid inequalities for multi-period, multi-modal supply chain models, Debra J O'Connor

Financialization of the United States economy and its effects on capital accumulation: A theoretical and empirical investigation, Ozgur Orhangazi

Individual adaptation to the changing workplace: Causes, consequences and outcomes, Jane D Parent

Inside greening: The role of middle managers' strategic processes, attitudes, and behaviors in corporate environmentalism, Terry B Porter

Doing money: The social construction of money in management theory and organizational practice, Sarah Brand Stookey

Dissertations from 2005

Multiple selves and the meanings they give to consumptions, Shalini Bahl

Tax efficient investing, Janie Casello Bouges

A statistic for measuring response model performance: Determining the significance of the gains chart, Henry J Greene

Conditional performance evaluation and style analysis: The case of hedge funds and managed futures, Bhaswar Gupta

The application of data envelopment analysis to publicly funded K--12 education in Massachusetts in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 in improving educational outcomes, Andrew D. J Hall

Examining creative destruction in the IT industry: A resource-based view perspective, Scott F Latham

Essays on international financial integration, Saira Latif

Modeling teams: A general systems theory approach, Ralitza Patrashkova-Vozdolska

A unified complex network framework for environmental decision-making with applications to green logistics and electronic waste recycling, Fuminori Toyasaki

Dissertations from 2004

Auditor-client negotiation, Charles William Bame-Aldred

International financial networks and global supply chains: A unified framework for decision-making, optimization, and risk management, Jose M Cruz

Maquiladorization on the United States-Mexico border: A cultural studies approach to international management research, Carlos B Gonzalez

The linkages between governance, justice and outcomes: A study of unilateral interfirm relationships in marketing, Vishal Kashyap

Statics and dynamics of complex network systems: Supply chain analysis and financial networks with intermediation, Ke Ke

Risk exposure and survival of individual hedge funds and managed futures funds, Scott P Mackey

Dissertations from 2003

Organizing pathways to peace: An exploratory study of intermediary nongovernmental organizations promoting peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, John Martin Bruton

The entrepreneurial orientation-performance linkage in high-technology firms: An international comparative study, Jann-Marie Halvorsen Culhane

Now you see them...now you don't: Toward a greater understanding of virtual team effectiveness, Linda M. Leitch Peters

Capability building and performance: A study of pioneer Internet firms, Thuhang Thi Tran

Predictable errors in financial analysts' annual earnings forecasts and the evaluation of earnings forecast-based securities returns anomalies, Le Xu

Dissertations from 2002

Extrapolative biases and expectations of growth: A re-examination of the accruals and forecast to price anomalies, William Douglas Brown

Survival of the fittest: An investigation of the relationship between stressful work environments, physical fitness, and employee well-being, Kathi J Lovelace

Asset recognitions and revaluations accompanying business combinations: Relations to future operating performance, Karen Jane Tucker

The risk arbitrage profitability and naive/passive indices: Cash tender offers, stock swap mergers and collar mergers, Taewon Yang

Dissertations from 2001

Essays on information asymmetry and microstructure of equity markets, Malay K Dey

An application of configurational theory to compare CEO leadership styles in entrepreneurial organizations, James Paul Grinnell

Consumers' channel preferences: An integrated model, Stephanie M Noble

Strategic knowledge, social structure, and middle management activities: A study of strategic renewal, James Milton Pappas

Promotions within professional service firms: The importance of technical skills, internal connections and external connections in making advancement decisions, Cheryl McLean Sullivan

Prescriptive and descriptive perspectives on business unit structure and performance: The influence of business strategy, general manager, and external and intracorporate environments, Andrew Watson

Dissertations from 2000

Productivity and comparative analysis in service and manufacturing operations, Yao Chen

Corporate risk management and measurement: Theory and empirical evidence on commodity-based corporations, Sam Young Chung

The impact of matching sales compensation with characteristics of the salesperson, the strategic business unit, and the corporation, Karen Eileen Flaherty

Essays on closed-end country funds and investment trusts, Urbi Alain Garay

Arrow-Debreu prices implicit in the term structure of interest rates: Theory and tests, Padideh Jalali

Essays on capital markets: Application of pricing kernels to derivatives pricing and asset allocation, Jin Gyoon Jung

Defamiliarizing diversity, Deborah Riese Litvin

The impact of brand alliances on brand image and favorability perceptions, Michael D Musante

Strategy and luck: Exploring the theory of strategic configuration and market evolution by simulating dynamic competitive markets as a complex adaptive system, James M. Wilson

Essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management, Jun Zhang

Dissertations from 1999

The effects of alternative justification techniques on judgment accuracy and information communicated in the review process, Christopher P Agoglia

Implementing information systems in organizations: A study of technical and social influences, Rosio Alvarez

Organizational change schemas: An empirical investigation of how health care managers make sense of organizational change, Peter C Diplock

Bid and ask spreads in futures markets, Thomas Henker

The influence of cultural and socioeconomic variables on reactions to ad appeals, Elzbieta Magdalena Lepkowska-White

Transportation network policy modeling for congestion and pollution control: A variational inequality approach, Padma Ramanujam

A resource-based view of strategic alliances and industry structures, Diana J Wong

Dissertations from 1998

Doing justice: Human resource managers and the practices of organizational fairness, Jean Mannheimer Forray

The impact of affective reactions on managers' risky decision-making with accounting information, Kimberly Kelly Moreno

Testing a model of work/family fit, Christine Leiz Murray

Essays on capital markets, Brett Peter Salazar

Predictability and dynamic asset allocation strategies, Kathryn Alison Wilkens

Effective practices of Continuous Quality Improvement in United States colleges and universities, Zhiming Xue

Dissertations from 1997

Auditors' analytical review decision processes: The impact of hypothesis set size on decision accuracy and information search, Sudip Bhattacharjee

Environmental policy modeling and computation: A variational inequality approach, Kanwalroop Dhanda

Measuring reverse cannibalization: Strategic implications for category and product line management, Rajiv Kashyap

The transformation of work: A critical examination of the new organizational paradigm, Ali Husain Mir

Antecedents and consequences of relationship importance and relationship quality during the sales process, Amy Lou Parsons

Essays on managed portfolios, Mark Edward Potter

Essays on international asset allocation, Udomnit Warotamasikkhadit

Dissertations from 1996

Measurement error in the returns/earnings association: Diagnosis and remedies, Susan Marie Machuga

Essays in banking, Natarajan Sundaresan