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Three Essays on Labor Market Entry.
(2012)
Recent studies have found a large earnings premium to attending a more selective college, but the mechanisms underlying this premium have received little attention and remain unclear. In the first chapter, I develop a ...
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 ...
Sensemaking and Sensegiving: Leadership Processes of New College Presidents.
(2009)
This dissertation is a study of how new college presidents simultaneously learn about the organization while being in charge. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were completed with new presidents who were organizational ...
In Pursuit of Revenue and Prestige: the Adoption and Production of Master's Degrees by U.S. Colleges and Universities.
(2011)
I propose a research program on the pursuit of enrollments from desired student populations. Non-prestigious institutions grow enrollments because excess enrollment capacity undermines organizational survival. Prestigious ...
Sensemaking as a Trigger for Change in University Emergency Response Routines: Ethnographic and Case Study Analyses of a Residential Life Department.
(2010)
In light of incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre, there is growing need for scholarship on emergency management in higher education. Traditional literature has focused on locating breakdowns, blame, and accountability ...
The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.
(2010)
The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition ...
Small World, Big Ideas, and Smart Companies - A Qualitative Study of Academic Spin-off Companies and Knowledge Creation.
(2010)
This dissertation is about spin-off companies that stem from academic research activities from within universities. The focus is on the ways in which these companies create knowledge, the ways in which knowledge flows ...