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Supply Risks and Asymmetric Information.
(2009)
In the extant supply-risk management literature, most research assumes the manufacturer is as knowledgeable about supply disruption risk as its suppliers. In practice, however, a supplier often has better information about ...
Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-12)
‘Job hopping’ by engineers and scientists is widely heralded as an important channel for knowledge spillovers within industries. Far less is known, however, about the actions firms take to reduce the outward flow of knowledge ...
Examining General Managers in the North American Professional Sport Context: Upper Echelons and Logics of Action as Determinants of Performance.
(2012)
This study integrates and extends the literature on upper echelons theory (UET) and institutional theory by investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision making in the North American professional sport context. ...
Enabling Shared Leadership in Hierarchical Groups.
(2013)
Despite the long-recognized importance of informal influence processes in organizations, leadership researchers have traditionally assumed that the designated managers of groups fulfill all of the groups’ leadership ...
Financial Cash Flow Determinants of Company Failure in the Construction Industry.
(2014)
Construction is a risky business with only 47% of startup businesses in construction operating after four years. The indirect costs of failed companies far exceed the direct costs of their failure.
Cash is often seen as ...
Retail Pricing of Substitutable Products under Logit Demand.
(2010)
This dissertation discusses substitution effects on retail pricing problems. In the presence of substitutable products, the inventory levels and prices of different products interact in complicated ways and, therefore, ...
Perceptions of Stakeholder Salience for NCAA Campus Student-Athlete Advisory Committees.
(2011)
This study used stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984; Mitchell, Agle, & Wood, 1997) to frame an examination of the influence of campus student-athlete advisory committees (SAACs) with their institutional athletics administrators ...
Models and Algorithms for Stochastic Network Design and Flow Problems: Applications in Truckload Procurement Auctions and Renewable Energy.
(2010)
This dissertation presents novel mathematical models and algorithms for stochastic network design and flow (SNDF) problems: the optimal design and flow of a network under uncertainty to meet specific requirements while ...
Optimal Production Control under Uncertainty with Revenue Management Considerations.
(2010)
This dissertation consists of three essays on supply chain and revenue management. Its main focus is the integration of dynamic production and demand management decisions for multiple products facing uncertain demand. ...
New Wine in Old Bottles? The Role of Status and Market Identity in Creating a 'Digital Media' Catagory.
(2011)
In this dissertation, I examine the role of the status and market identity in the adoption of a discontinuous technology, and theorize how status, market identity, and technology mutually shape each other in the diffusion ...