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Full-Text Articles in Business
Change In The Concentration Of Employment In Computer Services: Spatial Estimation At The U.S. Metro County Level, Donald Grimes, Mary Beth Walker, Penelope B. Prime
Change In The Concentration Of Employment In Computer Services: Spatial Estimation At The U.S. Metro County Level, Donald Grimes, Mary Beth Walker, Penelope B. Prime
International Business Faculty Publications
This paper models the concentration of computer services activity across theU.S.with factors that incorporate spatial relationships. Specifically, we enhance the standard home-area study with an analysis that allows conditions in neighboring counties to affect the concentration of employment in the home county. We use county-level data for metropolitan areas between 1990 and 1997. To measure change in employment concentration, we use the change in location quotients for SIC 737, which captures employment concentration changes due to both the number of firms and the scale of their activity relative to the national average. After controlling for local demand for computer services, …
The Effect Of Defined Contribution Plans On The Retirement Decision, Wonku Hong
The Effect Of Defined Contribution Plans On The Retirement Decision, Wonku Hong
Risk Management and Insurance Dissertations
This study examines the effect of pensions on the timing of retirement, focusing on the differences between defined benefit (DB) plans and defined contribution (DC) plans. I find that DC plans have different effects on the accumulation of retirement wealth, the incentives for retirement and the risk of retirement benefits than DB plans. Thereby, DC plans have different effects from DB plans on the decision to retire. This paper is the first empirical study to investigate the effect of longevity risk in pension plans on retirement. It is an important addition to the literature on retirement behavior since longevity risk …
The Relationship Between R&D Investment And Dividend Payment Tax Incentives And Their Role In The Dividend Tax Puzzle, Mary Catherine Cleaveland
The Relationship Between R&D Investment And Dividend Payment Tax Incentives And Their Role In The Dividend Tax Puzzle, Mary Catherine Cleaveland
Accountancy Dissertations
Although much research on corporate dividend policy exists, the evidence is far from conclusive. Understanding how dividend taxes affect firm-level decisions is crucial to evaluating dividend imputation credits which provide shareholder-level tax credits for dividends received or decreased shareholder-level dividend tax rates, which reduce the double taxation of dividends. Using changes in New Zealand and Australia’s tax regimes, this dissertation provides new evidence on the relationship between tax incentives for R&D investment and dividend payment. The results show that the theory that the tension between R&D investment and dividend payment decreases when a country previously not offering tax incentives for …
What Drives Firms To Diversity?, Rong Guo
What Drives Firms To Diversity?, Rong Guo
Finance Dissertations
WHAT DRIVES FIRMS TO DIVERSITY? By RONG GUO Committee Chair: Dr. Omesh Kini Major Department: Finance This paper examines whether corporate governance structures, serving as proxies for agency costs, can explain firms’ decision to diversify. Specifically, it has been hypothesized that firms with worse corporate governance structures are more likely to diversify. The extant literature usually compares the governance characteristics of multi-segment firms to those of single segment firms to address this issue. However, different governance characteristics may simply reflect differences in firm characteristics of diversified firms and focused firms. Furthermore, industry factors may affect both the propensity of firms …
Managerial Incentives And Takeover Wealth Gains, Ebru Reis
Managerial Incentives And Takeover Wealth Gains, Ebru Reis
Finance Dissertations
ABSTRACT MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES AND TAKEOVER WEALTH GAINS By EBRU REIS DECEMBER 5, 2006 Committee Chair: Dr. Jayant R. Kale Major Department: Finance This study examines the relationship between managerial equity incentives and takeover wealth gains both for target and acquirer firms. Although there is some research about the effect of acquirer managers’ incentives on acquirer wealth gains, this paper is one of the first to investigate the effect of target managers’ incentives on the wealth effects of target firms in corporate takeovers. In addition, prior research has focused on the alignment effect of equity incentives in takeovers. However, takeovers provide …
Exploratory And Exploitative Knowledge Sharing In Interorganizational Relationships, Ghiyoung Im
Exploratory And Exploitative Knowledge Sharing In Interorganizational Relationships, Ghiyoung Im
Computer Information Systems Dissertations
A growing body of research investigates the role that organizational learning plays in generating superior firm performance. Researchers, however, have given limited attention to this learning effect in the context of long-term interorganizational relationships. This paper focuses on a specific aspect of learning, that is, explorative and exploitative knowledge sharing, and examines its impacts on sustained performance. We examine interorganizational design mechanisms and digitally-enabled knowledge representation as antecedents of knowledge sharing. The empirical context is dyadic relationship between a supply chain solutions vendor and its customers for two major classes of supply chain services. Our theoretical predictions are tested by …
Do Mutual Fund Managers Have Superior Skills? An Analysis Of The Portfolio Deviations From A Benchmark, Jean-Francois Guimond
Do Mutual Fund Managers Have Superior Skills? An Analysis Of The Portfolio Deviations From A Benchmark, Jean-Francois Guimond
Finance Dissertations
By construction, actively managed portfolios must differ from passively managed ones. Consequently, the manager’s problem can be viewed as selecting how to deviate from a passive portfolio composition. The purpose of this study is to see if we can infer the presence of superior skills through the analysis of the portfolio deviations from a benchmark. Based on the Black-Litterman approach, we hypothesize that positive signals should lead to an increase in weight, from which should follow that the largest deviations from a benchmark weight reveal the presence of superior skills. More precisely, this study looks at the subsequent performance of …
Impact Of Customer Crowding On Frontline Service Employees: Theoretical And Empirical Implications, Anita H. Whiting
Impact Of Customer Crowding On Frontline Service Employees: Theoretical And Empirical Implications, Anita H. Whiting
Marketing Dissertations
This study investigates the impact of crowding on frontline service employees. In particular, this study examines how customer crowding affects frontline service employees’ stress, emotions, job performance, and displayed emotions. This study pioneers a new avenue by investigating employee (as opposed to consumer) reactions to customer crowding and addressing the gap in the literature on employees’ interaction with the physical environment. The underlying theoretical framework of the study is rooted in Lazarus’s (1966; 1991) model that links appraisal, emotional response, and coping in a sequential process. Applying theory to the context issue of customer crowding, the major constructs for this …
A Communication Based Perspective On Customer Relationship Management (Crm) Success, Alex Ricardo Zablah
A Communication Based Perspective On Customer Relationship Management (Crm) Success, Alex Ricardo Zablah
Marketing Dissertations
Although little empirical evidence exists to support this contention, the extant literature suggests that firms can potentially achieve two types of benefits from developing a CRM orientation: (1) increased efficiency in the allocation of resources destined for relationship building and maintenance activities, and (2) enhanced exchange relationship outcomes through the provision of superior customer value (Zablah, Bellenger, and Johnston 2004). This effort focused on the latter of these purported benefits and sought to answer the following two fundamental questions: (1) does a CRM orientation influence the outcome of customer-provider relationships and, if so, how; and (2) does CRM technology have …
Effects Of Free Riders And Incentive Discrimination On Customer Acquisition And Retention Resource Allocation, Geng Wang
Managerial Sciences Dissertations
How should a company best allocate its spending between acquisition and retention? Under what condition should a company devote resources and money to analytics? The above questions are just examples of more general issues concerning many companies when managing their customer acquisition and retention programs. To answer the above questions, I will conduct a study on the allocation of financial resources between incentives that target different types of customers, and the allocation of resources between incentives and analytics spending. This research first distinguishes between customers and acquisition, between incentive and price discount, and between acquisition and retention. It then proposes …
Operational Risk Capital Provisions For Banks And Insurance Companies, Edoh Fofo Afambo
Operational Risk Capital Provisions For Banks And Insurance Companies, Edoh Fofo Afambo
Risk Management and Insurance Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the implications of using the Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA) as a method to assess operational risk capital charges for banks and insurance companies within Basel II paradigms and with regard to U.S. regulations. Operational risk has become recognized as a major risk class because of huge operational losses experienced by many financial firms over the last past decade. Unlike market risk, credit risk, and insurance risk, for which firms and scholars have designed efficient methodologies, there are few tools to help analyze and quantify operational risk. The new Basel Revised Framework for International Convergence of Capital Measurement …
Nip & Tuck: Operational Concerns Of Menu Makeovers, Dave Pavesic
Nip & Tuck: Operational Concerns Of Menu Makeovers, Dave Pavesic
Hospitality Faculty Publications
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Analysis Of Resource-Sharing Decisions In Dyadic Collaborative Knowledge Creation: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Savitha Namuduri
Analysis Of Resource-Sharing Decisions In Dyadic Collaborative Knowledge Creation: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Savitha Namuduri
Managerial Sciences Dissertations
Knowledge is an asset that can give an organization competitive edge. However, knowledge creation is an expensive activity. One of the reasons organizations form knowledge creation collaborations is to share resources that are needed to create knowledge. This dissertation models the dyadic collaborations as games between the partners and arrives at resource-sharing schemes for them. Specifically, the collaborations are modeled as two games- Stackelberg Leader-Follower game and Partnership game. The types of collaborations are distinguished based on the nature of the marginal return functions with respect to knowledge creation investments for each of the collaborating organizations. Three essays are presented …
Upgrading Packaged Software: An Exploratory Study Of Decisions, Impacts, And Coping Strategies From The Perspectives Of Stakeholders, Huoy Min Khoo
Upgrading Packaged Software: An Exploratory Study Of Decisions, Impacts, And Coping Strategies From The Perspectives Of Stakeholders, Huoy Min Khoo
Computer Information Systems Dissertations
Packaged software is widely adopted and has become an integral part of most organizations’ IT portfolios. Once packaged software is adopted, upgrades to subsequent versions appear to be inevitable. To date, research on packaged software upgrade has not received the attention that it warrants, as academic research continues to focus on initial technology adoption. To explore this understudied yet important area, three research questions were proposed: (1) What influences the decision to upgrade packaged software? (2) How do stakeholders cope with software upgrade? (3) How does a packaged software upgrade affect stakeholders? A qualitative research method was used to study …
Beyond Routine: Symbolic Adoption, Extended Use, And Emergent Use Of Complex Information Systems In The Mandatory Organizational Context, Wei Wang, J.J. Po-An Hsieh
Beyond Routine: Symbolic Adoption, Extended Use, And Emergent Use Of Complex Information Systems In The Mandatory Organizational Context, Wei Wang, J.J. Po-An Hsieh
Computer Information Systems Faculty Publications
Organizational investments in complex information systems (CIS) have reached a record high. However, the underutilization of these expensive CIS prevents organizations from achieving the advertised return on investment. This study attempts to address this issue from the perspective of extended use and emergent use. Extended use concerns using more of the technology features, while emergent use concerns applying the technology in a novel manner to support task performance. To study uses that surpass routine use, a special focus is placed on the motivational factor that drives these behaviors. Drawing upon the insights from information system (IS) infusion, the IS continuance …
Understanding Post-Adoptive Usage Behaviors: A Two-Dimensional View, J.J. Po-An Hsieh, Robert W. Zmud
Understanding Post-Adoptive Usage Behaviors: A Two-Dimensional View, J.J. Po-An Hsieh, Robert W. Zmud
Computer Information Systems Faculty Publications
Recent information systems (IS) publications reveal an emerging interest in studying postadoptive system use behaviors. Compared to the well-established research stream of IS adoption and initial usage, understanding of IS use behaviors after initial implementation stage is still at its early stage. To further develop knowledge about this phenomenon, this study reviews the IS implementation stage model and a variety of post-adoptive usage concepts in extant literature. These usage concepts are classified into three types and are mapped against their corresponding implementation stages. A two dimensional view of these use concepts is then proposed as an alternative perspective to understand …
Firm Performance Impacts Of Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Integration Capabilities, Arun Rai, Ravi Patnayakuni, Nainika Seth
Firm Performance Impacts Of Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Integration Capabilities, Arun Rai, Ravi Patnayakuni, Nainika Seth
Computer Information Systems Faculty Publications
Best practice exemplars suggest that digital platforms play a critical role in managing supply chain activities and partnerships that generate performance gains for firms. However, there is limited academic investigation on how and why information technology can create performance gains for firms in a supply chain management (SCM) context. Grant’s (1996) theoretical notion of higher-order capabilities and a hierarchy of capabilities has been used in recent information systems research by Barua et al. (2004), Sambamurthy et al. (2003), and Mithas et al. (2004) to reframe the conversation from the direct performance impacts of IT resources and investments to how and …
Asia And China Opportunities Expand For Georgia Students, Penelope B. Prime
Asia And China Opportunities Expand For Georgia Students, Penelope B. Prime
International Business Faculty Publications
Not long ago, Georgia students had to look far afield to get to China for short study courses. No more. Georgia’s state and private universities now have numerous programs with a wealth of subject choices for students. This past spring and summer at least seven different programs took over 100 students to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other destinations in Asia.