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Business-School Partnerships In Career And Technical Education, Michael E. Trimberger

Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

BUSINESS-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS IN CAREER AND

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

by

Michael E. Trimberger Jr.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2019

Under the Supervision of Professor Dr. Elise Frattura

Public education in Wisconsin has come under harsh political scrutiny in recent years. Schools have been asked to reduce budgets and use the tools provided through legislative changes. The reduction of budgets has not come with a reduction of expectations for our schools. Since 2011, high school principals have been forced to implement Academic Career Plans and ensure that every student graduate college and career ready along with their already comprehensive list of requirements. …

Essays In Financial Economics, Kamilla Kasymova

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three essays concerning financial economics.

In the first essay, I focus on the role of the life insurance in the financial markets and the factors that drive the development of life insurance industry. The essay examines the causality of the banking sector development on the development of the life insurance market measured by the total premiums received by life insurers using panel estimation for about 90 countries over the period 1996-2010. I employ the dynamic System Generalized Method of Moments estimation technique to resolve the endogeneity problem between the development of the life insurance and the …

Two Essays On Distribution, Fulfillment And Pricing Decisions For Retailers With E-Commerce Channel, Khosro Pichka

Theses and Dissertations

E-commerce has grown rapidly in the past decade. In 2015, e-commerce was accounted for 7.2 percent of all retail sales in the U.S., which is massively higher than 0.2 percent in 1998 (U.S. Department of Commerce 2017). Worldwide e-commerce sales also show the same trend and reached $2.356 trillion in 2018 and are expected to grow steadily (Statista 2017). This trend has impacted major areas of operations management including supply chain management and revenue management. Today, e-commerce companies cannot satisfy their customers’ demand using traditional distribution systems. Therefore, retailers with e-commerce channels (e-tailers), cooperate with third party logistic service providers …

Comparing Self-Disclosures And Disclosures Of Co-Owned Private Relationship Information (Copri) In The Workplace: Comfort, Frequencies, And Motivations For Disclosing, Emily Anne Mueller

Theses and Dissertations

Individuals self-disclose (SD) private information to increase intimacy, build trust, and to give or receive social support. When private information is self-disclosed and shared between two people, it is co-owned. For individuals in romantic relationships their private information and co-owned private relationship information (COPRI) is shared in displaced contexts. One context in which such disclosures can be studied is the workplace, where differences in these two types of disclosures can be compared. A sample of 308 individuals was surveyed to compare differences between SDs and disclosures of COPRI in relation to comfort disclosing, disclosure frequency, motivations for disclosing. Additionally, comparisons …

Cohesive Conflict: Task Cohesion As A Moderator Of Conflict And Group Outcomes, Jonathan Bryce Dellinger

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the moderating impact of group cohesion on workgroup conflict and product outcomes. The presence of conflict is hypothesized to serve an important purpose for effective group functioning, but the presence of group cohesion is expected to facilitate the role of conflict as a means to productive ends. The development and influence of task-related group cohesion in short-term contexts is of particular interest, as temporary workgroups, such as student project groups, necessarily operate within limited timeframes and uncertain social relationships. Results indicate that task cohesion provides a strong and persistent positive predictor of the outcome variables (grade, reported …

Two Essays On The Chinese Ceos In The National People's Congress (Npc), Xiaoyu Yang

Theses and Dissertations

Existing studies suggest that firms actively seek to “create” their environment by trying to shape government regulations to produce a more favorable environment. The ultimate way to link a Chinese firm to the government is to elect its business leader as a member of the National People’s Congress (NPC). In Essay 1, the effects of corporate political strategies on firm performance and strategic change will be explained through the lens of Chinese CEOs’ political appointments, especially their behavior regarding legislation in the Congress. Drawing on a sample of 365 Chinese CEOs in the NPC over a period of seven years, …

A Stochastic Control Model For Electricity Producers, Charles William Beer

Theses and Dissertations

Modern electricity pricing models include a strong reversion to a long run mean and a

number of non-local operators to encapsulate the discontinuous price behavior observed in

such markets. However, incorporating non-local processes into a stochastic control problem

presents significant analytical challenges. The motivation for this work is to solve the problem

of optimal control of the burn rate for a coal-powered electricity plant. We first construct a

pricing model that is a good general representative of the class of models currently used for

electricity pricing as well as a model for the supply of fuel to the plant. Under …

Elements Of Capacity In Hmong Community-Based Organizations, Shuayee Ly

Theses and Dissertations

Capacity building efforts in for-profit and non-profit organizations are thought to be positively associated with increasing organizational effectiveness. As a result, organizational capacity research on non-profit organizations continues to expand as federal funding, charitable giving, and private donations decrease or remain stagnant. With less funding opportunities in combination with the increasing number of non-profit organizations and for-profit organizations competing for scarce resources, how to increase organizational capacity is one area of research scholars are pushing for further analysis. This dissertation continues that analysis through a case study of Hmong mutual assistance associations in Wisconsin and asks: What factors hinder the …

Two Essays On Customer-Supplier Network And Trade Secrets, Yi Liu

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates two important topics: idiosyncratic shock aggregation in customer-supplier network and impacts of trade secret litigations on stock performance. The first essay studies the underlying factors for stock returns comovement between a customer and supplier firm. The investigation further explores the idiosyncratic shocks propagation and aggregation in the network. The second essay documents the stock market reactions to trade secret lawsuit outcomes and its economic meanings to the industry.

The first essay, Idiosyncratic Shocks Aggregation in Customer-Supplier Network, is inspired by Acemoglu, et al. (2012)’s theoretical work and Cohen and Frazzini (2008)’s empirical study. Traditional theory regarding idiosyncratic …