Browsing by Department "Management"

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    • A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Cross-cultural Negotiation 
      Liu, Wu (2008-07-31)
      Department: Management
      Previous cross-cultural research focuses on the main effects of culture while neglecting the social contexts of negotiation. My dissertation examines how the interaction between cultural and contextual factors affects ...
    • Does content of concessions matter in negotiation? Match between concession strategy and target’s regulatory focus 
      Oh, Se Hyung (2012-07-17)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation proposes that responses to concessions in negotiation depend not just on the size of concessions, but on the specific type of concessions that are made. Some concessions focus on giving items that are ...
    • Essays in Corporate Finance 
      Wang, Cong (2007-06-25)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter examines the valuation effect of information asymmetry and the role of financial intermediaries as information gathering and processing experts. In a sample of ...
    • Essays in corporate governance 
      Reza, Syed Walid (2013-08-05)
      Department: Management
      The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that corporate giving is associated with CEO characteristics, but not with measures of firms most likely to benefit in terms of increased profitability. This ...
    • Essays in Corporate Governance 
      Guo, Lixiong (2012-05-18)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation uses forced CEO turnover events to provide new evidence on three important questions in finance and economics. Chapter one studies the causal relation between board structure and effectiveness of internal ...
    • Essays in Liquidity and Trading Activity 
      Pool, Veronika Krepely (2006-08-17)
      Department: Management
      Three separate issues are studied in the three chapters of this thesis in connection with liquidity and trading activity in financial markets. The first chapter investigates whether price discovery in the option market ...
    • Essays on Executive Compensation 
      Xie, Fei (2005-12-05)
      Department: Management
      My dissertation focuses on the incentives from executive stock and stock option ownership, how these incentives affect the welfare of firms’ different stakeholders, and how these stakeholders respond. In the first chapter, ...
    • From Bad to Worse: A Social Contagion Model of Organizational Misbehavior 
      Ferguson, Merideth (2007-04-17)
      Department: Management
      Organizational misbehavior is defined as any intentional action by a member of an organization that violates core organizational and/or societal norms. Much of the literature on organizational misbehavior focuses on ...
    • Ghosts in the shell: An investigation of the relationship between automation and the nature of work. 
      Touve, David Charles (2010-12-08)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation addresses the question, “What are the consequences of automation for the nature of work.” First, I summarize the various approaches within the literature on management and organizations to the matters of ...
    • Managing Condition Variability in Remanufacturing 
      Galbreth, Michael Ryan (2006-04-14)
      Department: Management
      The condition of the used items acquired for remanufacture is often highly variable, and this variability creates numerous management challenges for remanufacturing firms. Management decisions regarding whether or not a ...
    • Moral openness: on the climate for reasoned moral agreement 
      Stansbury, Jason Martin (2011-03-15)
      Department: Management
      Businesspeople sometimes face moral equivocality at work, when they must discern the moral implications of a problem. That equivocality poses a risk of overlooking or misconstruing important implications of a problem; for ...
    • Reputation as a Basis for Trust 
      Goates, Nathan (2008-05-01)
      Department: Management
      This project is concerned with the process by which individuals consume and process reputational information, and how reputations inform decisions to engage in trusting behavior, especially in online market contexts. In ...
    • The dark side of trust and mechanisms to manage it. 
      Kusari, Sanjukta (2010-04-15)
      Department: Management
      Trust is considered to be the cornerstone of relationship marketing in B2B contexts. However, recent studies in this area suggest that high trust levels can be detrimental to buyer-supplier relationships. I refer to this ...
    • The Effects of Pay Differential on Social Undermining and Work Effort via Envy 
      Sung, Li-Kuo (2015-11-27)
      Department: Management
      Invoking the self-evaluation maintenance model (Tesser, 1988), I argue that a pay differential leads to both social undermining and work effort behaviors through envy. In addition, I further propose that an employee’s ...
    • Three essays in empirical corporate finance 
      Zhang, Shage (2012-06-22)
      Department: Management
      My dissertation consists of three essays that address two topics: (1) the compensation gaps among top corporate executives; (2) the effects of institutional arrangements on firm debt financing decisions. The first essay ...
    • Three Essays on Empirical Finance 
      Tan, Yongxian (2011-08-23)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical finance. In the first essay, I examine whether firms strategically substitute equity for debt to exploit market mispricing. I argue that previous studies reach ...
    • Three Essays on Leader-Member Exchange in U.S. and China 
      Chen, Ying (2011-06-15)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on leader-member exchange (LMX) in the U.S. and China. In the first essay, I use the current LMX theory to examine whether LMX differentiation functions differently in ...
    • Three Essays On Market Microstructure 
      Kim, Daejin (2014-04-16)
      Department: Management
      My dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay develops a price impact function when competitive market makers are risk-averse. The essay proves that price change is linear both in current and lagged order flows. ...
    • Three essays on market microstructure 
      Kim, Sukwon (2009-06-19)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation studies price discovery processes, stock order imbalances, and trading patterns around seasoned equity offerings. First chapter studies how the volatility of a stock is affected by the trading activity ...
    • To thine own self be true?: the process and consequences of ‘pivoting’ during idea-stage entrepreneurship 
      Grimes, Matthew Glenn (2012-05-22)
      Department: Management
      Existing research has argued that entrepreneurs’ identification with their ideas is linked to their persistence, yet scholars have also noted that entrepreneurs’ ideas rarely survive exposure to stakeholder demands. As ...