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Reconciling External Clinical Data: Providers’ Friend Or Foe?, Mindy Oberg

Business Administration Dissertations

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Reconciling External Clinical Data: Providers’ Friend Or Foe?

By

Mindy M. Oberg

November 2021

Committee Chair: Dr. Carol Saunders

Major Academic Unit: Doctorate in Business Administration

Adopting Health Information Exchanges (HIE) increased the exchange of clinical data relevant to patient care. This type of data exchange can reduce medical costs and increase efficiencies of care. However, most health care organizations and providers fail to reap the full intended benefits, as only 28% of health care organizations integrate external data into patients’ charts. Researchers, such as Hossein Ahmadi, Mark J. Dobrow, Nir Menachemi, and Farahnaz Sadoughi validate there is no …

Social Entrepreneurship Within A Capitalist Economy, Audria King

Business Administration Dissertations

Recent world events have reignited awareness and conversations about income inequality across the world and even in the richest country on the planet, the United States. Social unrest and a pandemic have thrust the staggering gap between the haves and the have-nots front and center and become a part of regular public discourse – specifically as it pertains to those who are considered corporate benefactors versus the production mechanism, i.e. the workers. Attempts to remedy some of the societal ills sowed by capitalism have been put forth by corporations via various initiatives and activities known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). …

Time-Varying Style Rotation By Small-Cap Mutual Fund Managers: Incentives And Implications, Peter Mcgaffigan

Business Administration Dissertations

This study examines the behavior of small-cap equity mutual fund managers during certain turning points in the economic cycle. Although each recession is unique, there is evidence supporting time variation in equity style performance in and around recession periods. In general, large-cap firms have greater access to capital thereby reducing financial stress during recessions compared to small-cap firms. As a result, some managers may use style rotation as a tool to improve their performance or reduce risk during these turning points in the economic cycle. I show that during the last two NBER cycle recessions, small-cap managers significantly increase holdings …

Do Age And On-Screen Reading Vs. On-Paper Reading Affect Reader’S Trust And Risk In Reading Financial Content?, John Harrison

Business Administration Dissertations

Seldom if ever has there been such a sudden shift in a society’s reading medium (the last time was from parchment to paper). The current migration is from on paper reading (OPR) to reading on electronic screen (OSR). Many studies and several meta-analyses show varied results in comparing OPR and OSR, and for most metrics OPR may be superior, depending on the subject area of the text. Only one other known study compared OPR to OSR regarding financial material.

To test whether or not reading financial material on screen or on paper affects the reader’s decision making, we ran an …

Growing The Pie: How Supplier Diversity Can Enable Minority Businesses To Create Stakeholder Value, Ashok Kasi Vairavan

Business Administration Dissertations

Minority business enterprises (MBEs) are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy and are vital to the nation’s growth and prosperity. Supplier diversity is a strategic procurement initiative implemented by large purchasing organizations (LPOs) to identify, support, and promote diverse supplier partnerships. When LPOs partner with MBEs as strategic suppliers, MBEs are enabled to scale, which can create positive stakeholder value, particularly in underserved communities. However, many LPO and MBE relationships do not realize their full potential in generating mutual value. Contrary to prior supplier diversity research, which has primarily focused on the LPO buyer perspective, this dissertation sheds …

Analyzing The Budget And Strategic Plan Relationship: A Case Study Approach, Tina Wilson

Business Administration Dissertations

The strategic plan and budget remain essential factors in the strength of most organizations. Organizations only have a finite amount of financial resources to deploy to continue to carry out their vision, mission, and goals, more commonly known as the strategic plan. The purpose of the budget is to funnel those financial resources to execute that mission. Many organizations experience a divergence between their budget and strategic plan. The literature is inundated with coverage on the budget and strategic plan yet mainly centers around them as entirely separate and distinct topics. This study examines the relationship between the budget and …

Consumer Preferences Towards Book Formats: How To Address Technological Disruption In The Publishing Industry, Gustavo Cotrino

Business Administration Dissertations

Consumer Preferences Towards Book Formats:

How to Address Technological Disruption in the Publishing Industry

By

Felipe Cotrino

April 2021

Chair: Naveen Donthu

The digital era has disrupted the publishing industry in many fronts during the last two decades. The way people consume media content has evolved dramatically, creating alternative platforms to the traditional printed material. Specifically for the book segment, publishing companies have developed new formats in order to capture some of the new digital trends, offering to the public not only the traditional paper-based book, but also an electronic and audio version. These new formats have helped the companies …

The Impact Of Deliberation Time On Ethical Decision Quality: A Study Of Early-Career Professional Accountants, Ricki Livingston

Business Administration Dissertations

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The Impact of Deliberation Time on Ethical Decision Quality: A Study of Early-Career Professional Accountants

By

Ricki Livingston

April 2021

Committee Chair: Subhashish Samaddar, PhD

Major Academic Unit: GSU Robinson College of Business

Ethical decision-making is central to the study of the professional accounting practice. When professional accountants engage in decision-making without consideration to ethics, decision quality declines, and stakeholders suffer severe financial implications. Situational factors such as time variation may influence the accountant’s ability to make a sound ethical decision. The result is an increased potential for fraudulent behavior. The Fraud Triangle Theory postulates three factors that must …

Technology Usage To Manage Client Growth: Understanding Robo-Advisor Adoption Among Registered Investment Firms, Kevin Chalk

Business Administration Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of fee discounts offered by Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) on the adoption of a robo-advisor solution by their clients within a hybrid investment services model. The analysis of fee discounts within the RIA model is based on assets under management, those less than $250 million and those above $250 million. In addition to analyzing fee discounts offered by an RIA, this study looks at the characteristics of clients using an RIA that has adopted a robo-solution. The findings suggest that RIA firms over $250 million, that offer a fee discount …

Balancing Focal And Client Firm Employee Identification And Acculturation Tensions: A Case Study Approach At A Bpo Firm, Jonna B. Blount

Business Administration Dissertations

Research in the organizational behavior and identification domains includes numerous studies examining how employees identify and acculturate with their employing firm. However, a dearth of research exists examining the identification and acculturation process for firms that employ individuals who support a client firm full-time for an extended period. This case study seeks to discover the identification and acculturation process of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm operating with this model. The research seeks to learn how the focal firm balances the tension of acculturating its employees while preparing and equipping them with the processes, procedures, and necessary cultural elements of …

Industry 4.0 Technology: A Cross-Industry View Of Adoption, Usage And Covid-19 Effects, Dawn Gregory

Business Administration Dissertations

Industry 4.0 technology (I4.0) is inescapable. It transforms the way businesses and customers interact and revolutionizes how organizations produce goods and services (SAP Insights, 2020). It requires a level of agility that many organizations do not possess. Defending against disruptive business models is no longer enough. Organizations must be nimble to optimize assets and resources in response to adversity. In March 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ushered a devastating blow to the U.S. economy and job market with pervasive shocks that continue to be a business threat. In response, many organizations are accelerating automation, digitization, and communication capabilities to close …

Phenomenological Assessment Of Integrative Medicine Decision-Making And The Utility Of Predictive And Prescriptive Analytics Tools, Osie Gaines

Business Administration Dissertations

The U.S. Healthcare system is struggling to manage the burden of chronic disease, racial and socio-economic disparities, and the debilitating impact of the current global pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). More patients need alternatives to allopathic or “Western” medicine focused on fighting disease with mechanism, pharmaceuticals, and invasive measures. They are seeking Integrative Medicine which focuses on health and healing, emphasizing the centrality of the patient-physician relationship. In addition to providing the best conventional care, IM focuses on preventive maintenance, wellness, improved behaviors, and a holistic care plan.

This qualitative research assessed whether predictive and prescriptive …

An Examination Of The Role Of Vciso In Smbs: An Information Security Governance Exploration, William Dicker

Business Administration Dissertations

Information security threats and their associated breaches are exponentially growing, with millions of records containing personally identified information released to the public each year. Cyber incidents targeting businesses nearly doubled in US past 6 years, with more than 130 large-scale targeted breaches per year in U.S. In the first half of 2020, 36 billion records were exfiltrated by external hackers, with the average cost to recover from a cyber-attack averaging $21.00 per record.

While Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMBs) attempt to stay ahead of this growing trend and protect organizational data, they have specific behaviors that do not affect larger …

The Esg Behaviors Of Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration Of Emerging And Developed Market Norms, Julie A. Anderson

Business Administration Dissertations

This paper examines how, when, and where environmental, social, and governance (ESG) behavior varies globally. I build on existing research that proposes country-of-origin constructs, such as regulatory and cultural foundations, influence ESG behavior of firms. Specifically, I propose that perceived differences in ESG standards for developed and emerging markets incentivize multinational enterprises (MNEs) to exhibit different levels of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) when operating abroad versus at home. My findings show that developed market-headquartered MNEs behave more irresponsibly in emerging markets than they do at home, while emerging market MNEs behave better when operating in developed markets. Importantly, the abroad-versus-home …