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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 ... -
Antecedents, Wide-Spread Consequences, and Strategic Implications of Organizational Corruption
(2019-03-05)Antecedents, Wide-spread Consequences, and Strategic Implications of Organizational Corruption -
Essentialism, Moral Opposition, and the Aversion to Genetically Modified Foods
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the psychological underpinning of the consumer aversion to genetically modified foods. Although a substantial body of scientific evidence supports the notion that genetically modified organisms ... -
Determinants of Success of the Open Source Selective Revealing Strategy: Solution Knowledge Emergence
(2018-11-21)Recent research suggests that firms may be able to create a competitive advantage by deliberately revealing specific problem knowledge beyond firm boundaries to open source meta-organisations such that new solution knowledge ... -
The Head and the Heart in Crisis: The Temporal Dynamics of the Interplay Between Team Cognitive Processes and Collective Emotions During Crisis Events
(2018-08-27)Organizations commonly use teams to rapidly and appropriately respond to crises. These teams must face a multidimensional challenge because crises not only present sets of ill-defined, complex problems, but also exert high ... -
Empirical Essays on Finance and Innovation
(2018-08-27)This dissertation consists of three empirical studies in finance and innovation. I study various financial factors affecting innovation such as stock market manipulation and public to private transaction. I also investigate ... -
Empirical Essays on Entrepreneurial Finance
(2018-08-27)This dissertation contains three chapters, covering analyses on crowdfunding, mutual fund, and entrepreneurial ecosystem. The chapters are connected at a theoretical level by the study of information asymmetries among ... -
Essays on Corporate Intangibles and Misconduct
(2018-08-27)This dissertation examines three different aspects of corporate intangibles or misconduct and their impact on firms. The first essay examines the impact of employee flexibility on firm value, the second essay examines ... -
Strategically Poised: Balancing, Learning, and Innovating in Coopetition Three Essays on the Interplay Between Competition and Cooperation
(2018-08-27)This research dissertation explores the firm strategy of coopetition, a neologism denoting simultaneous cooperation and competition. Theoretical development and empirical investigations are conducted to tease out the ... -
Re-Thinking Supplier Risk Management With Case Studies and Agent-Based Simulation
(2018-03-01)This mixed method research uses a series of case studies and an agent based simulation to investigate how firms doand shouldacquire information to manage risks inherent in supplier processes. Managing this risk born from ... -
Two Essays on Investments: Corporate and Institutional Perspective
(2018-03-01)In my dissertation, I study factors that influence investments from either corporate or institutional perspective. First, I examine the sensitivity of corporate investment to internally generated cash flow and its pattern ... -
Materializing Performance: The Interactions that Enact Inclusions, Exclusions and Arrangements in Charity Social Performance Reports
(2018-03-01)The accounting concept materiality is theorized then elaborated in two empirical studies. Materiality is theorized as a performative enactment of entangled objects and idealities that in turn influences which objects and ... -
Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
(2018-03-01)This dissertation consists of three empirical studies in entrepreneurial finance around the world. The first essay empirically compares the impact of entrepreneurship on GDP, unemployment, exports, and patents by examining ... -
Accounting and Accountability in the Field of Social Services - A Multi-level Investigation
(2018-03-01)Roberts (1991, p.355) remarked that the analysis of accounting in systems of accountability (also) offers alternative ways to conceive of the transformation of accounting. This dissertation aims to improve multi-level ... -
Three Essays on Finance, Culture and Investor Behavior
(2017-07-27)This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the effects of corporate culture and investor psychology on corporate decisions and financial markets. The first essay focuses on the role of corporate culture in ... -
The Activist Tale of Emergent Crowds & Mobilized Communities: Investigating the Interplay Between Consumer Activism & Consumer Collectives
(2017-07-27)Consumers are collaboratively and collectively engaging in activist performances in the marketplace to challenge market(er) hegemony and power. Facilitated and enabled by online technologies, consumer collectives are waging ... -
Essays on International Corporate Finance
(2016-11-25)The first chapter examines whether and how concentrated stock markets dominated by a small number of large firms affect economic growth. Using data from 47 countries worldwide relating to the period 19892013, I show that ... -
CSR, Big Data, and Accounting: Firms' Use of Social Media for CSR-Focused Reporting, Accountability, and Reputation Gain
(2016-11-25)The rise of Big Data, particularly social media, is engendering considerable disruptions in the ways in which firms and stakeholders communicate about firm-relevant issues. The effect of social media appears to be particularly ... -
The Internationalization of Emerging Economy Firms: The Impact of Corporate Governance and Political Connections
(2016-11-25)This dissertation consists of two chapters on the internationalization of emerging economy firms. I examine the influence of the firms corporate governance and political connections on the firms internationalization behavior, ... -
Technology Metaphors at the Base of the Pyramid
(2016-09-20)Much of the technology consumption literature is predominantly situated in the context of the relatively free individual. It also assumes that the adopted technology is owned, or easily accessible by the consumer. This ...
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