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The Role Internal Stakeholders Play In Innovation In Large Corporations, Heloisa Benevides Pontes Aragao
The Role Internal Stakeholders Play In Innovation In Large Corporations, Heloisa Benevides Pontes Aragao
Management Dissertations
Despite the vast existing literature on innovation, the investigation of work conditions that support the generation of ideas to feed the innovative process remains elusive. Holding the assumption that the entire organization is responsible for innovation, not only a specific department or set of experts, I aim to investigate the role two internal stakeholders play in innovation – employees and CEO. I empirically examine the relationship between voice climate – or the workforce perception about its participation in current discussions with ideas, suggestions, and thoughts - and explorative and exploitative innovation. Further, I consider the impact of CEO attributes (origin …
New Ceo Appointment And Its Influence On Foreign Market Re-Entry Decisions, Jawaher Falah O Alotaibi
New Ceo Appointment And Its Influence On Foreign Market Re-Entry Decisions, Jawaher Falah O Alotaibi
Management Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the effect of new CEO appointment on foreign markets re-entry decisions given that new CEOs are likely to bring a new set of skills and knowledge to their firms, leading these firms to evaluate opportunities in foreign markets in a different way. To examine this relationship, data for exit and re-entry events were collected by relying on RavenPack analytics tool. Specifically, data of 294 exit and 144 re-entry events for 339 firms in BRIC economies (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, and China) were used and supplemented by Compustat data and additional data sources. Conditional Fixed Effect Logit Regressions …
The Strategic Choice Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Impact Of Fund Level Heterogeneity On Investment Decisions And Governance, Malak Abdulaziz A Malibari
The Strategic Choice Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Impact Of Fund Level Heterogeneity On Investment Decisions And Governance, Malak Abdulaziz A Malibari
Management Dissertations
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have emerged as a new form of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs), structured to manage the wealth of countries and promote their economic development. They mainly function as institutional investors, but what drives those investment decisions has yet to be fully understood due to the limited prior research in this area. However, it is increasingly recognized that SWFs are not a homogeneous class of investors. This study draws on multiple theoretical perspectives and argues that the heterogeneity across SWFs leads to different investment and governance choices. Specifically, I examine the impact of the variation in the source …
Customer Mistreament, Third Party Observers, And Emotional Labor: An Exploration Of The Phenomenon Of Breaking Character, Nicolina Leeann Taylor
Customer Mistreament, Third Party Observers, And Emotional Labor: An Exploration Of The Phenomenon Of Breaking Character, Nicolina Leeann Taylor
Management Dissertations
The emotional labor literature is vast and complex. Overwhelmingly, most studies focus on surface acting and deep acting. Breaking character, expressing true, negative emotions to a customer, is understudied, despite evidence of occurring frequently. Despite conceptual work stating that breaking character produces negative outcomes, empirical work is scant. Further, the impact that breaking character has on employees is unknown. In summary, researchers know very little regarding what leads to breaking character, how employees feel about breaking character, and the aftermath of breaking character. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to explore the phenomenon of breaking character. First, I qualitatively …
A Behavioral Study Of Supply Chain Inventory Management, Yan Lang
A Behavioral Study Of Supply Chain Inventory Management, Yan Lang
Management Dissertations
This dissertation explores issues regarding inventory management in the domain of behavioral operations management by employing a combination of game theory analyses, human subject experiments, economic behavioral modeling, and numerical analyses. This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter highlights the important role of strategic inventory in the multiperiod dual channel supply chain. The second chapter explores the effect of strategic disposal in the multiperiod Newsvendor supply chain. The last chapter further investigates the optimal strategy of strategic disposal and strategic carryover in the multiperiod supply chain with the present of supply disruption risk.
Three Essays Examining Organizational Influences On Employee Identity Construction, Esther Lamarre Jean
Three Essays Examining Organizational Influences On Employee Identity Construction, Esther Lamarre Jean
Management Dissertations
Identity consists of the roles and expectations individuals use to define their self. My dissertation examines the effects of individual perceptions around how identities are constructed in organizations on employee outcomes, decisions, and experiences. In a three-essay format, I develop the construct of identity work supportive organizational support (IWSOP) and a scale to measure it, evaluate how IWSOP relates to affective commitment for employees, and examine whether IWSOP might affect job choice decisions. IWSOP is conceptualized as the degree to which employees perceive that their organization encourages, allows, or provides the opportunity to think about, talk about, or display aspects …
Ceo Characteristics, Industry 4.0 Capabilities, And Firm Performance, Vidya Laxmanrao Ganji
Ceo Characteristics, Industry 4.0 Capabilities, And Firm Performance, Vidya Laxmanrao Ganji
Management Dissertations
Industry 4.0 has received significant attention from academia and industry in the last decade. Despite its growing popularity, this area is relatively understudied. There is a lack of thorough understanding of the disparate thematic areas under the umbrella term "Industry 4.0" in the literature. My first essay aims to elucidate the intellectual structure of Industry 4.0 publications using: (a) bibliometric techniques; and (b) topic modeling. The synthesized analyses unraveled diverse themes of Industry 4.0 and deepened our understanding of academic research on Industry 4.0. Such an understanding is important to identify opportunities to advance the boundaries of scholarship on Industry …
Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Employee Selection: How Algorithm-Based Decision Aids Influence Recruiters’ Decision-Making In Resume Screening, Dan Chen
Management Dissertations
With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithm-based decision aids have been adopted by more and more organizations to help recruiters and hiring managers screen and review job candidates. This dissertation assesses how HR recruiters integrate selection information produced by algorithms into assessments of job candidates’ qualifications to make the hiring decisions. To assess how algorithm-based decision aids are used, I first investigate how individual characteristics of recruiters influence their perceived usefulness of algorithm selection information. I then examine how recruiters rate applicant employability when they are given different types of jobs (HR Assistant vs. Data Engineer) and algorithm-based selection …
Earnings Management In Response To Fair Treatment: The Roles Of Organizational Identity And Moral Identity, Kimberly M. Bates
Earnings Management In Response To Fair Treatment: The Roles Of Organizational Identity And Moral Identity, Kimberly M. Bates
Management Dissertations
Fraud continues to be an issue that organizations face globally, losing an estimated 5% of annual revenue for a total of $4.5 trillion globally. However, fraudulent behavior is difficult to study due to the unacceptable nature of it. I provide researchers with an adapted measure of earnings management that mitigates the socially undesirable act of earnings management which can suppress findings in self-reported studies. Additionally, based on the target similarity model, my dissertation considers accountants’ perception of fair treatment by the organization on willingness to engage in earnings management benefiting the organization. I survey 123 financial and managerial accountants to …
A Multifaceted View Of Career Choice And Work Outcomes Of Nurses In Healthcare, Ifeyimika Oluwadamilola Ogunyomi
A Multifaceted View Of Career Choice And Work Outcomes Of Nurses In Healthcare, Ifeyimika Oluwadamilola Ogunyomi
Management Dissertations
Turnover among new nurses is rampant within the health care industry and generated significant costs for organizations and the nursing profession. The overall aim of this dissertation is to understand the career choice motivations of nurses through a framework that link initial choice motives with eventual turnover intent. A broader management understanding of the experiences and attitudes of nurses in various situations will inform healthcare organizations as to the performance management strategies to develop for employee retention. I address this by exploring pertinent situations in the nursing work environment across three essays, which incorporate qualitative and quantitative research methods. The …
Formation Of Supply Chain Contract: Theory And Experiment, Lei Hua
Formation Of Supply Chain Contract: Theory And Experiment, Lei Hua
Management Dissertations
In recent years, the globalization in business has transformed the traditional linear supply chain into a complex network of interactions among supply chain participants across different tiers. In such a supply chain system, firms are facing the challenges of making better operational decisions on strategic sourcing and collaborative/competitive negotiations. My dissertation explores the formation of supply chain contract under competitive scenarios in complex supply chain networks from both theoretical and behavioral perspectives. Specifically, Essay 1 examines the implications of asymmetric bilateral relations for supply contract negotiations under retail competition and highlights the intuition that a firm should not only focus …
Self-Regulation Of Boundaries For Thriving, Enrichment, And Balance Across The Work-Nonwork Interface, Shelia A. Hyde
Self-Regulation Of Boundaries For Thriving, Enrichment, And Balance Across The Work-Nonwork Interface, Shelia A. Hyde
Management Dissertations
This three-essay project explores boundary management and work-nonwork enrichment to explain how thriving in the work domain relates to thriving in the nonwork domain. The Cross-Domain Thriving model proposed in Study 1 theorizes that when employees experience growth and energy at work, they create and deplete resources within and across roles and individual boundary management strategies, role congruency, and ease of transition moderate the degree to which thriving translates into enrichment and/or conflict across roles. Study 2 tested aspects of the cross-domain thriving model and found that neither work nor nonwork thriving was related to increased time-based conflict, but both …
The Power Of Good: Micro Level Outcomes From Corporate Social Responsibility And Social Mission Orientation, Michael Darin Mcdaniel
The Power Of Good: Micro Level Outcomes From Corporate Social Responsibility And Social Mission Orientation, Michael Darin Mcdaniel
Management Dissertations
What happens to employees on an individual level when they see their organization doing good things for society? Whether the manifestation of good be in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or social mission orientation (SMO), this paper seeks to explore the micro level outcomes from employee perceptions of these organizational attributes. Considered together, these three articles provide significant insight into the individual level outcomes from doing good as an organization, as well as the mechanisms through which those relationships flow. Specifically, CSR and SMO result in positive individual outcomes including increased organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), and …
Emotional Demands-Abilities (Ed-A) Fit, Emotional Labor, And Resource Depletion, Joohan Lee
Emotional Demands-Abilities (Ed-A) Fit, Emotional Labor, And Resource Depletion, Joohan Lee
Management Dissertations
Perceived emotional demands-abilities (ED-A) fit, defined as a perception of the congruence or fit between emotional demands of a job and abilities to fulfill these demands (Diefendorff, Greguras, & Fleenor, 2016), has been recently introduced to the area of management research. The main goal of this study is to test how a service employee’s psychological ownership of a job (POJ) predicts his or her ED-A fit and whether/how ED-A fit is related to emotional labor and depletion. I also look into the underlying mechanism by testing the mediation effect of commitment to display rules (CDR) on the relation of POJ …
Shah-Dissertation2020-Humancapitalofupperechelons, Tushar R. Shah
Shah-Dissertation2020-Humancapitalofupperechelons, Tushar R. Shah
Management Dissertations
My dissertation studies strategic change in the context of digital transformation and the role of organization’s upper echelons (specifically the human capital of TMTs and CEOs) in predicting digital transformation. I concur with the prevalent belief that digital transformation is the fourth industrial revolution. It is already disrupting several businesses and business models as a result of which existing models of strategic change may have to be modified to explain these drastic transformations. I begin with defining the domain of strategic change as experienced by organizations when they intend to or are undergoing digital transformation. To support my theoretical assertions, …
Predictors Of Organizational Decoupling In The Context Of Corporate Sustainability, Ajith Venugopal
Predictors Of Organizational Decoupling In The Context Of Corporate Sustainability, Ajith Venugopal
Management Dissertations
The gap between what firms say and what they do is referred to as organizational decoupling. Despite the fact that decoupling is a widespread phenomenon, there is a paucity of empirical studies that have examined individual level predictors of organizational decoupling, especially in the context of corporate sustainability. In this dissertation, utilizing upper echelon theory, I examine how CEO psychological charactersitics predict policy-practice decoupling in the environmental and social dimensions of corporate sustainability. Using a sample of U.S.manufacturing companies from S&P 1500 during the period 2009-2018, I test the relationship between CEO personality (FFM traits), CEO value (self-transcendence), and CEO …
Us And Them: The Impact Of Differing Founder Mindsets On Firm Strategic Orientation, Manisha M. Vaswani
Us And Them: The Impact Of Differing Founder Mindsets On Firm Strategic Orientation, Manisha M. Vaswani
Management Dissertations
Historically, small business founders were assumed to be motivated by profit-maximization. Today, we understand that founders also have non-economic goals for starting a business, including furthering their family legacy. This dissertation contrasts two types of founder mind-sets: an entrepreneurial mindset and a small business mind-set. I propose theoretical arguments which predict that founders who identify more with the small business mindset would pursue long-term, trust-based strategies that foster relationships with stakeholders such as suppliers and customers. On the other hand, founders who identify with the entrepreneurial mindset are more likely to pursue strategies that are ambitious, contractual, and profit-enhancing. Using …
“Can Entrepreneurs Sell Their Firms And Still Own Them?”: The Adoption Of Dual-Class Structures And Their Effects On Ipo Performance, Nitin Kumar Singh
“Can Entrepreneurs Sell Their Firms And Still Own Them?”: The Adoption Of Dual-Class Structures And Their Effects On Ipo Performance, Nitin Kumar Singh
Management Dissertations
Dual-class Structures enable entrepreneurs to separate voting rights and cash-flow rights in arbitrary proportions to exercise control of the firm. Dual-class structures allow entrepreneurs to retain the benefits of being private and reap the benefits of going public. This dissertation identifies the governance, firm-specific, and strategic antecedents of firms that adopt dual-class structures and determines its effect on IPO performance. This study finds that firms that adopt fewer governance mechanisms, have a greater number of insiders, are younger, have a higher level of sales, pursue risky strategies (such as internationalization, acquisition, and innovation) are more likely to adopt dual-class structures. …
The Time-Dimension In Strategic Change And Firm Performance: The South Korean Context, Kilho Shin
The Time-Dimension In Strategic Change And Firm Performance: The South Korean Context, Kilho Shin
Management Dissertations
The management of time in an organization is a fundamental activity for the survival and growth of firms. In the field of strategy, time, albeit under-studied, has received increasing attention among scholars. However, in reviewing multiple conceptions of time in strategic change research, scholars have failed to develop consistent and sound theories and constructs of time. Thus, this study systematically organizes existing knowledge about time and develops a comprehensive theoretical framework that accurately describes the dynamic temporal patterns of strategic change. To explain, by mapping various patterns of strategic change into the time continuum, this study identifies five objective time-dimensions …
Two Timing Work And Home, The Relationship Of Individual Values With Boundary Permeability Preference And Boundary Permeability Behavior, Faezeh Amirkamali
Two Timing Work And Home, The Relationship Of Individual Values With Boundary Permeability Preference And Boundary Permeability Behavior, Faezeh Amirkamali
Management Dissertations
Boundary theory (Ashforth et al., 2000, Clark, 2000; Nippert-Eng, 1996) discusses how individuals build, keep, arrange, and cross the boundaries around work and family domains. However, the process through which people manage boundaries in work and home domains is not well-understood. In this study, I focused on boundary permeability as the key factor that explains how boundaries differ on the integration-segmentation continuum and investigated how people manage the boundaries of home and work domains. I proposed that individual values including achievement, hedonism, stimulation, and tradition are directly and indirectly associated with work-to-home and home-to-work permeability preference through work role identity …
The Role Of Time Horizons In Shaping The Antecedents And Consequences Of Hedge Fund Activism, Anna Obedkova
The Role Of Time Horizons In Shaping The Antecedents And Consequences Of Hedge Fund Activism, Anna Obedkova
Management Dissertations
While the general stream of shareholder activism literature examines the antecedents and consequences of hedge fund activism, this dissertation investigates this phenomenon from a different angle. I examine the impact of time-related antecedents on the choice of campaigns initiated by hedge fund activists and the consequences of such interventions. To be specific, I study the impact of the shareholder mix, i.e. long-term (dedicated) vs. short-term (transient) ownership, and firm investment horizon on the choice of two most common hedge fund demands: governance changes and business strategy-related changes. Building on prior research, I argue that governance changes are associated with long-term …
The Effect Of Corporate Governance On The Change In Market Valuation Of Corporate Spin-Offs: An Empirical Investigation Of Spun-Off Subsidiaries, Orhan Volkan Ozbek
The Effect Of Corporate Governance On The Change In Market Valuation Of Corporate Spin-Offs: An Empirical Investigation Of Spun-Off Subsidiaries, Orhan Volkan Ozbek
Management Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on the change in market valuation of spun-off subsidiaries two years after the corporate spin-off. A review of the literature indicates that the research pertaining to determinants of the market valuation following corporate spin-offs from the perspective of spun-off subsidiaries has been limited. While the extensive corporate governance literature indicates that different governance structures of the firm have diverse implications on the choice of firm strategies and associated performance, our knowledge of how these governance elements might impact the change in market valuation of spun-off subsidiaries is virtually nonexistent. Grounded in agency, resource dependence, and upper echelons …
Stakeholder-Specific Reputation And Organizational Performance: Comparing The Effects Of Overall And Employer Reputation, Michael A. Kimmel
Stakeholder-Specific Reputation And Organizational Performance: Comparing The Effects Of Overall And Employer Reputation, Michael A. Kimmel
Management Dissertations
Corporate reputation scholars largely agree that reputation is an asset related to the competitive advantage of firms. However, there is far from universal agreement about whether corporate reputation is best characterized as a single, global assessment that is common to all stakeholders, or as many assessments made by different stakeholder groups. Scholars developing corporate reputation theory have recently focused on the idiosyncratic expectations of different stakeholders, and the consequences of meeting or failing to meet those expectations. This dissertation extends this analysis to employee stakeholders by drawing on social exchange and instrumental stakeholder theory frameworks to develop hypotheses around 1.) …
Numerical Solution Of Saddle Point Problems By Projection, Gul Karaduman
Numerical Solution Of Saddle Point Problems By Projection, Gul Karaduman
Management Dissertations
In this thesis, we work on iterative solutions of large linear systems of saddle point problems of the form ? ? ? A B1 T B2 0 ? ? ? ? ? ? x y ? ? ? = ? ? ? f 0 ? ? ? , where A ? R n×n , B1, B2 ? R m×n , f ? R n , and n = m. Many applications in computational sciences and engineering give rise to saddle point problems such as finite element approximations to Stokes problems, image reconstruction, tomography, genetics, statistics and model order reduction for …
An Exploration Of Social Class: Its Symbols And Influence On The Selection Process And Career Success, Demetria Faye Henderson
An Exploration Of Social Class: Its Symbols And Influence On The Selection Process And Career Success, Demetria Faye Henderson
Management Dissertations
With a shrinking middle-class population, and an increasing economic divide between the haves and haves not, social class within the United States has become an important topic of conversation in the popular press. Yet, the diversity research in the management literature has largely focused on factors such as race and gender, while the implications of social class for work-related outcomes has remained largely unexplored. In this dissertation, I address this gap by exploring the role of social class in a person’s career across three essays. The first essay is a qualitative study in which I identify the signs and perceptions …
Me, Myself, And I, At Work And At Home, Today, Tomorrow, And The Day After: Understanding Intra-Individual Multiple Selves Across The Work-Nonwork Interface, Seyedeh Hoda Vaziri Bozorg
Me, Myself, And I, At Work And At Home, Today, Tomorrow, And The Day After: Understanding Intra-Individual Multiple Selves Across The Work-Nonwork Interface, Seyedeh Hoda Vaziri Bozorg
Management Dissertations
While scholars commonly agree that self-concept is a complex set of self-representations, or identities that influences individual’s decisions, evaluations, attitude, and behaviors, little is known about how individual’s multiple identities influence important employee and organizational outcomes because studies to date have typically adopted a static approach to understanding the interrelationship among identities. Research has also rarely examined the interrelationships among more than two identities. Through the introduction of the concept of an identity coactivation episode, a momentary occurrence in which multiple identities are simultaneously triggered and occupied, I recognize that multiple identities might be experienced differently across various situations. Further, …
Stellar Observations: Star Employee Productivity, Compensation, And Reputation, Ryan Patrick Terry
Stellar Observations: Star Employee Productivity, Compensation, And Reputation, Ryan Patrick Terry
Management Dissertations
This three-essay dissertation focuses on star employees – most commonly defined as those individuals who are both disproportionately productive and externally visible relative to their colleagues (Kehoe, Lepak, & Bentley, 2016) – and their influence on organizations in terms of performance contributions, the compensation they command, and their ability to enhance firm reputation. The star employee is not a new phenomenon as one of the first and still influential studies within the literature was published over three decades ago (i.e., Rosen, 1981). The influence of star employees is evident across a diverse range of fields including business, academics, the arts, …
Demographic Characteristics And The Bounds Of Occupational Choice, Cheryl K. M. Mcintosh
Demographic Characteristics And The Bounds Of Occupational Choice, Cheryl K. M. Mcintosh
Management Dissertations
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between race, gender, generation, perceptions of discrimination, and socioeconomic status (SES) of origin and the prestige level of occupational choice. This study finds that the prestige level of occupational choice is significantly related to background factors that are outside of the control of the individual. This suggests that the interaction between race, gender, generation, perceptions of discrimination, and SES of origin may shape the choices that people make, potentially calling into question the extent of control that people have over their occupational choices. This is an important addition to the …
Ceo Narcissism, Prior Experience, Board Prior Experience, And Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr): An Integrated Framework Using Upper Echelons Theory, Stakeholders’ Theory, And A Decomposed Measure Of Csr, Marwan Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Shammari
Ceo Narcissism, Prior Experience, Board Prior Experience, And Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr): An Integrated Framework Using Upper Echelons Theory, Stakeholders’ Theory, And A Decomposed Measure Of Csr, Marwan Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Shammari
Management Dissertations
This study examines the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) narcissism and the firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, the relationship between CEO prior CSR experiences and the focal firm’s CSR, the relationship between board prior CSR experiences and the focal firm’s CSR, and the relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate social responsibility decomposed into two main categories: internal CSR and external CSR. The study uses a sample of 295 fortune firm-CEO to test the hypothesized relationships. The study finds that CEO prior CSR and board prior CSR experiences are positively and significantly related to the focal firm’s CSR. The …
Three Essays On Networks And Knowledge Value, Mahmoud Ibrahim M Fallatah
Three Essays On Networks And Knowledge Value, Mahmoud Ibrahim M Fallatah
Management Dissertations
Knowledge creation is one of the most factors that contribute to organizational performance and competitive advantage. Ample studies have employed network theory to examine the impact of various social capital and network-related features on the creation of new knowledge. However, some areas have been understudied or have not been explored yet. Thus, through three essays, this dissertation attempts to examine the relationships among networks, knowledge value, and firm performance. It advances our understanding of how the structure of networks changes, how some network characteristics affect the value of created knowledge, and how knowledge value contributes to firm performance. Using data …