Filters: Publication Type:"dissertation" Collection:"ir_etd" Department:"Entrepreneurship & Strategy"
| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | Accounting measurement and beta risk measures | Burger, Marcus Alexander | Accounting; Beta; Conservatism; Risk | Prior literature provides evidence that accounting beta risk measures|based on the covariance between firm-specic and marketwide accounting rates of return|better estimate the risk implied by market prices than do stock returns beta risk estimates based on realized equity returns. Because capital ma... | 2012-08 |
| 2 |  | An environmental study of the development of the Utah labor movement, 1860-1935 vol.2 | Pawar, Sheelwant Bapurao | labor unions; Utah; history; working class | The structural formation of the Utah labor movement was completed by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, The State Federation of Labor was successfully established as a branch of the American Federation of Labor, Although the radical and conservative elements in the Utah labor move... | 1968 |
| 3 |  | Board monitoring, director connections, and credit quality | Sandvik, Jason J. | This dissertation investigates the causes and consequences of effective monitoring by corporate boards of directors. I demonstrate that distortions to a board's ability and disposition to monitor management, represented by Board Co-option, affect the firm's credit quality. Firms with higher levels o... | 2019 | |
| 4 |  | Can you expect the boss to be ethical? the effects of the boss' power and status on subordinates' trust | Soderberg, Andrew T. | ethical; expectations; power; status; trust | In many organizations, the power an employee has is dependent on the position he/she holds within the organization. Whereas a great deal of research has examined the effects that power can have on those who possess it, this research examines how others perceive individuals who hold powerful position... | 2016 |
| 5 |  | Changes in market structure and financial market outcomes | Kim, Yeon Kyeong | suggests | This dissertation consists of two essays. Each essay measures how changes in particular market rules and structure affect financial market outcomes. The essays assess two of the most debated regulatory issues that have arisen in recent years, speculative trading and transparency, respectively. The i... | 2014-08 |
| 6 |  | Developing a model of jealousy expression and manifestation in organizational settings within same- and mixed-sex triads | Netchaeva, Ekaterina | Gender differences; Jealousy; Organizations | In prior literature, jealousy has been conceptualized as a response to a threat of losing benefits in a relationship (romantic or nonromantic) with same-sex or opposite-sex partner due to a rival's interference (Bringle, 1991; Buunk, Goor, & Solano, 2010). Despite being seemingly applicable to a wid... | 2014 |
| 7 |  | The disruption model of inspiration: toward a general model of "being inspired to act" | Smith, Isaac H. | Ethics; Inspiration; Leadership; Morality; Motivation; Prosocial behavior; Social psychology; Management | For many-from prophets and poets to athletes and activists-experiencing inspiration is a fundamental part of the human condition. Specifically, inspiration can be a powerful tool in motivating people to act morally, help other people, and become their best selves. However, despite the power of inspi... | 2014-08 |
| 8 |  | The efficiency of resource reallocation within firms | McMahon, Susan Ryan | Resource reallocation; Business planning; Accounting; Resource allocation; Efficiency; Corporate governance; FASB statements; Financial accounting standards | This study examines the efficiency of resource reallocation within multisegment firms. A defining feature of multisegment firms is management's ability to transfer resources across divisions. Although the option to use the proceeds or cash flows from one division of the firm to finance operations in... | 2011-08 |
| 9 |  | Entrepreneurial value creation: three essays examining how entrepreneurs create value under conditions of uncertainty | Angus, Ryan Winn | Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Economic theory | This dissertation consists of three essays examining how entrepreneurs create value under conditions of uncertainty. The first essay theoretically examines the process of stakeholder enrollment through which entrepreneurs acquire critical resources for their endeavors under informational conditions ... | 2018 |
| 10 |  | Essays in empirical market microstructure | Carrion, Allen Mario | Corporate bonds; High-frequency trading; Market microstructure; Market quality; Mini-flash crashes; Trading costs; Finance | This dissertation is composed of three essays in empirical market microstructure. My first two essays study market quality issues related to High-frequency Trading (HFT) using a dataset provided by NASDAQ that identifies the activity of high-frequency traders (HFTs). My first essay studies the syste... | 2012-08 |
| 11 |  | Essays in financial markets | Zhang, Xiaodi | Stock exchanges; Finance; Economic theory | This dissertation studies how heterogeneous opinions affect financial market outcomes, including price informativeness and trading volume. The dissertation contains two chapters. In both chapters, theoretical models are developed and then supportive empirical evidence is provided. In the chapter ""I... | 2015-08 |
| 12 |  | Essays in healthcare quality and efficiency: an operations management examination | Lindsey, Scott Hixson | Competititive capability; Drivers of quality and efficiency; Healthcare efficiency; Healthcare focus; Healthcare operations research; Healthcare quality | U.S. healthcare costs have shown a marked increase as a percentage of GDP over the past decades. Additionally, the growth of U.S. healthcare spending is outpacing that of other industrialized economies. With this rapid pace of growth and spending, explorations of quality and efficiency within the U.... | 2012-05 |
| 13 |  | Essays in supply chain management | Jin, Ming | Social sciences; Bullwhip effect; Pharmaceutical supply chain; Trade promotion | Supply chain management involves coordination and collaboration among organizations at different echelons of a supply chain. This dissertation explores two challenges to supply chain coordination: trade promotion (sales incentive offered by a manufacturer to its downstream customers, e.g., distribut... | 2016 |
| 14 |  | Essays on corporate finance | Qiu, Mingming | Corporate finance; Finance; Default; Investors; Debt | This thesis consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we use a unique dataset of natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, and wildfires, to test whether investors suffer from behavioral bias such as underreacting to news and investor sentiment. In Chapter 2, we ... | 2013-08 |
| 15 |  | Essays on investor sentiment and institutional trading momentum | Bulsiewicz, James Gerard | Anomalies; Institutional Demand; Institutional Trading Momentum; Investor Sentiment; Mispricing | This dissertation is composed of 3 chapters on the topics of investor sentiment and institutional trading momentum. In the first chapter, I investigate whether the returns to cross-sectional anomalies reported in the finance literature are due to investor sentiment. I present evidence of a weak rela... | 2016 |
| 16 |  | Essays on management compensation and dividend policy | Nguyen, Thanh | Management; Finance; Studies; Compensation; Dividend distributions | In this dissertation, I consider effects of two corporate policies on shareholder wealth. First, I examine whether paying high dividends in an economy such as the United States, where tax on dividend income is higher than tax on capital gains, results in higher stock required rate of return to comp... | 2011-08 |
| 17 |  | Essays on online influence and motivation: the cases of crowdfunding and employment | Lee, Michael J. | Web studies | This paper is a collection of three articles on the subject of the motivational influences of online platforms and social media. The cases of crowdfunding and employment markets are addressed. The first two articles are intended to contribute to the scholarly literature on online social media and in... | 2018 |
| 18 |  | Essays on the flow of distress along the supply chain | Kolay, Madhuparna | Finance | This dissertation is composed of three essays which examine the effects of a firm's bankruptcy on its suppliers and customers. Suppliers and customers are considered to be stakeholders of the firm with which they trade and face potential costs if the firm files for Chapter 11. In the first essay, I ... | 2012-08 |
| 19 |  | Evaluating determinants of sticky costs and operations based earnings prediction models using air transportation industry data and validation of verifiable detail as a source of credibility in customer retention strategy disclosure | Cannon, James Nibley | Accounting; Transportation industry; Earnings forecasting; Airline industry; Cost accounting; Capacity; Customer retentio | Chapter 1 examines the relevance of operations based variables predicting future earnings. We use United States Air Transportation (airline) industry data to identify operations based variables that provide predictive information beyond that found in earnings components. We show that the adjusted R-... | 2011-08 |
| 20 |  | Firm size, idiosyncratic risk, and shareholder gains in corporate acquisitions | Buti, Krisztina | corporate acquisitions; event study; limits to arbitrage; shareholder gains | Small acquirers experience greater abnormal returns upon acquisition announcements (other things equal) than large acquirers. In efficient markets, the persistence of differential abnormal returns over time and across industries would imply that shareholder wealth effects of corporate acquisitions ... | 2016 |
| 21 |  | Following the leader or following the follower: subordinates as influential agents of managers' behaviors | Howe, David Charles | Claiming; Followership; Granting; Influence; Leadership | The prevailing perspective that leaders are the main agents of influence of followers’ behavior is an overly simplistic and incomplete assessment of the interactions between leaders and followers. The present research attempts to “reverse the lens†and establish that subordinates ... | 2017 |
| 22 |  | Government accountability and financial reporting: are two reporting models better than one? | Kim, Won Jung | The primary goals of financial reporting for U.S. state governments are to provide useful information for assessing whether governments' fiscal performance over the short term and the operational effectiveness of governmental activities with a longer-term perspective are met. To fulfill these object... | 2019 | |
| 23 |  | He Does, She Does? the effects of sexism on nonverbal complementarity and mimicry of dominance and affiliation in mixed-gender dyadic interactions | Wareham, Justin D. | Social psychology; Management; Organizational behavior; Gender studies | Previous research on the social dynamics of nonverbal communication has shown individuals who display nonverbal behaviors signaling dominance often elicit complementary responses of submissiveness from their partners. This interpersonal dynamic involving the nonverbal exchange of dominance cues, ref... | 2017 |
| 24 |  | Hercules or Medusa: heroes and villains and their impact on consumers' preference for vice and virtue products | Masters, Tamara M. | Branding; Consumption; Decision making; Heroes and villains; Preference; Vice and virtue products | In cultures around the world the morality taught from childhood supports heroes as role models while villains are to be eschewed. Research and folk lore suggest that heroes are looked up to while the villains should be looked down upon. However, across time, we see that villainy has a certain allure... | 2012-08 |
| 25 |  | Human distortions in the digital economy: three pieces of evidence | Kapoor, Anuj | This dissertation consists of three essays studying the effect and causes of human distortions in the digital economy. In these essays, I use quasi- and actual experimental variation to explore how different types of human distortion affect the profitability of digital platform business models. The ... | 2018 |