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Translating Lightning in A Bottle: Idealists, Pragmatists, and the Reorientation of Translators at the Intersection of Blockchain and Climate
(2022-03-03)The travel of ideas is a ubiquitous part of social and organizational life. People and organizations are constantly exposed to ideas and often incorporate them into their lives in some way, including adopting them to create ... -
Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from Management Earnings Forecasts
(2021-11-15)This research consists of two parts. In the first part, I examine whether a firm whose chief executive officer (CEO) is more future-oriented (as measured by commitment to voluntary disclosure practices, i.e., issuing more ... -
Analysts' Risk Discussions and the Use of Valuation Models: A Content Analysis of Sell-Side Equity Analyst Reports
(2021-11-15)This dissertation consists of three research studies on sell-side equity analysts based on textual analysis of analyst reports from Investext. In the first study, I examine whether analysts' geographic location is associated ... -
Essays on Platform Sponsor Scope: Implications for Ecosystem Emergence and Growth
(2021-11-15)Platform sponsors and complementors co-create value in platform ecosystems. This dissertation sheds light on a critical aspect platform sponsor scope of such value co-creation. Platform sponsor scope constitutes the ... -
Accounting and Performance Metrics in the Baseball Industry
(2021-11-15)This doctoral thesis explores the roles of accounting and performance metrics in the baseball industry, a sport characterized by significant income inequalities amongst players. I entered the field with a broad research ... -
Regional Influences on Responsible Behaviours of Business Organizations
(2021-11-15)My dissertation explores how regional societies influence the responsible behaviors of business organizations. It is comprised of three essays that come together in the shared theme of investigating the role of regional ... -
Essays in Asset Management and Corporate Credit Markets
(2021-07-06)In the first chapter of this dissertation I investigate the extent to which firm cash holdings are affected by credit default swap (CDS) coverage of their product market peers. Using a sample of firms incorporated in the ... -
A Post-ANT Study of the Translation of a Performance Management System
(2021-07-06)This dissertation consists of three individual research papers that push the boundaries on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of the actor-network-theory (ANT) pertaining to its mobilization in sociological and ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
(2021-07-06)My dissertation explores the economic relationships among firms within customer-supplier networks and examines their roles in corporate environmental policies, competitive behaviors, and information dissemination. One ... -
Negotiating in Professional Relationships: The Impact of High-Quality Relationships on Negotiation Behaviours and Outcomes
(2021-03-08)This dissertation draws on the concept of High-Quality Relationships (Dutton & Heaphy, 2003) to explore how professional relationships impact negotiations. Most negotiation research on relationships has focused on relationship ... -
Models for Capacity Allocation in Anticipation of Time-Varying Demand
(2020-11-13)In this dissertation, we propose and investigate several stationary capacity allocation methods that anticipate time-varying demand. We apply these techniques to three practical settings in customer acquisition and retention, ... -
Of Snakes, Guns, and Innovative Products: The Impact of Threat Cues on Consumer Preference
(2020-11-13)Across two empirical essays, the current dissertation documents how design elements that connote potential threats can impact subsequent consumption preferences. Essay 1 focuses on product form, and elaborates on the notion ... -
Essays on Creditor Rights Protection, Corporate Debt and Corporate Liability
(2020-08-11)This dissertation examines how information asymmetry and bankruptcy costs magnify the conflict between creditors and borrowers. And the conflict between creditors and managers.The central idea of this dissertation is that ... -
Global Tax Transparency and Tax Behaviour: Empirical Evidence for the Effects of Country-By-Country Reporting on Tax Avoidance and Income Shifting
(2020-08-11)Tax transparency and exchange of information are at the heart of a global effort to tackle aggressive tax planning of multinational corporations (MNCs). Policymakers worldwide, including within the Organisation for Economic ... -
Debt, Neoliberalism, and Accounting
(2020-08-11)The present doctoral thesis aims to explore the roles and limitations of accounting, in the broadest sense and including auditing, in financialized neoliberalism where indebtedness, through personal and public debt, has ... -
Creation and Resilience of Decentralized Brands - Bitcoin & the Blockchain
(2020-08-11)This dissertation is based on a longitudinal ethnographic and netnographic study of the Bitcoin and broader Blockchain community. The data is drawn from 38 in-depth interviews and 200+ informal interviews, plus archival ... -
Strategic Categorization, Category Bundle, and Typecasting: Three Essays on Product Categorization
(2020-05-11)Categories are social agreements about the meanings of labels applied to products. Categories serve as the basis for market interaction: audiences use categories to make sense of the products offered to them, producers ... -
Accounting and Money Laundering
(2020-05-11)This study sheds light on some aspects of money laundering and the role of accounting by examining how does money laundering persist and continue to increase or go undetected for extended periods of time given the institutional ... -
The Incremental Information Content of Analysts' Research Reports and Firms' Annual Reports: Evidence from Textual Analysis
(2019-11-22)This dissertation consists of three essays, investigating the properties of analysts research reports and firms annual reports, and their impact on capital markets using textual analysis methods. The first essay studies ... -
The Opportunity Not Taken: Institutional and Cognitive Barriers to Entrepreneurial Innovation in Contexts of Resource Scarcity
(2019-03-05)Entrepreneurship is increasingly heralded as a solution to poverty, and many organizations and governments have begun to pursue market-based approaches to poverty alleviation through programs like microfinance and ...
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