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Virtual Team Citizenship Behaviors: Scale Development And Validation, Joline Robertson May 2013

Virtual Team Citizenship Behaviors: Scale Development And Validation, Joline Robertson

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Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) are the extra-role, voluntary behaviors performed by organization members for the benefit of the organization. These behaviors have been widely studied and several dimensions have been defined. However, the majority of the work on OCBs focuses on traditional organizations where all employees are collocated and can interact on a regular basis. With the changing workplace, employees can now work remotely or across different locations and still be expected to work together. Those employees who are not collocated may not feel the need to benefit the organization, but may feel connected to the team and therefore participate …


Three Essays On Financial Intermediation And Asset Pricing, Ujjal Chatterjee May 2013

Three Essays On Financial Intermediation And Asset Pricing, Ujjal Chatterjee

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This dissertation consists of three essays on financial intermediation and asset pricing. In the first essay (Chapter 1), I investigate individuals' consumption-portfolio choices in the presence of financial intermediation. Unlike the existing literature where individuals seamlessly transform their savings to productive assets, I show that individuals employ intermediaries and that individuals' consumption growth is a scaled version of intermediaries' liabilities growth. As a consequence, the growth of intermediaries' balance sheet variables, such as liabilities and assets, determines the stochastic discount factor. That is, it is shown that the stochastic discount factor for asset returns is affine in intermediaries' balance sheet …


Knowledge Transfer Between Expatriates And Host Country Nationals: A Social Capital Perspective, Yu-Shan Hsu Dec 2012

Knowledge Transfer Between Expatriates And Host Country Nationals: A Social Capital Perspective, Yu-Shan Hsu

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One of the competitive advantages of multinational corporations (MNCs) is to successfully transfer knowledge among geographically dispersed and diverse locations (de Pablos, 2006; Kogut & Zander, 1993). During the process of knowledge transfer in MNCs, expatriates and host country nationals (HCNs) serve as boundary spanners, meaning that they generally serve as bridges for the transference of knowledge. However, because it might be more difficult for expatriates and HCNs to form positive relationships as they are from different cultural backgrounds, the transfer of knowledge may be impeded. This raises an intriguing question: How can expatriates and HCNs overcome the differences inherent …


A Three-Stage Process Model Of Self-Initiated Expatriate Career Transitions: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Yu-Ping Chen Aug 2012

A Three-Stage Process Model Of Self-Initiated Expatriate Career Transitions: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Yu-Ping Chen

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With more than 31 percent of employers worldwide having difficulty filling positions due to the lack of suitable talent available in their home markets (Manpower, 2010), talent shortage has become a global problem. Thus, many employers are seeking and recruiting skilled employees worldwide. Echoing this trend is the emergence of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), a growing breed of expatriates that is responding to global talent shortages. Unlike corporate expatriates who are sponsored by organizations to take an international assignment, SIEs independently choose to expatriate and their expatriation experiences are riskier and more unpredictable. Thus, SIEs' motivations pertaining to their decisions to …