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The Dissolution Of Effective Leadership: A Multiple-Case Study Analysis Of Destructive Leadership, Joshua B. Leonard Dec 2014

The Dissolution Of Effective Leadership: A Multiple-Case Study Analysis Of Destructive Leadership, Joshua B. Leonard

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu Aug 2014

Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve performance and healthcare outcomes. The existing literature does not point to a clear conclusion on whether competition can help address the performance challenges of hospitals which lead to improvements in clinical outcomes. Prior research on the effects of hospital competitive strategies usually focuses on one strategy or one type of outcome at a time. As such, there is a dearth of systematical studies on different hospital competitive strategies and their consequent performance outcomes.

The main objective of this dissertation is to examine several hospital competitive strategies and quantitatively validate the implications of each …


Tennessee Archways Summer 2014, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration Jul 2014

Tennessee Archways Summer 2014, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration

Haslam Magazine - Tennessee Archways

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The Effects Of Group Personality Composition On Project Team Performance: Operationalizations And Outcomes, Mark Collins May 2014

The Effects Of Group Personality Composition On Project Team Performance: Operationalizations And Outcomes, Mark Collins

Doctoral Dissertations

Teams are used to achieve organizational goals and objectives, and their success has led to a broad increase in their use in businesses, non-profits and NGO’s. Extant research suggests that group personality composition is related to team performance (Barry and Stewart, 1996; Halfhill, Nielsen, Sundstrom, and Weilbaecher, 2005; Peeters, Rutte, Tuijl, and Reymen, 2006; Bell, 2007). Project teams are frequently used in the business world and undertake a wide variety of tasks (Hackman, 1990). This paper investigates the relationship between the group personality composition of project teams and team performance. The study context is project teams involved in a semester-long …


The Multilingual Reality In American Business, Zachary Z. Lim May 2014

The Multilingual Reality In American Business, Zachary Z. Lim

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Tennessee Archways Winter 2014, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration Jan 2014

Tennessee Archways Winter 2014, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration

Haslam Magazine - Tennessee Archways

No abstract provided.


Tennessee Archways Winter 2014-15, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration Jan 2014

Tennessee Archways Winter 2014-15, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville, College Of Business Administration

Haslam Magazine - Tennessee Archways

No abstract provided.