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The Ontology of Communications: Capturing Meaning From Organizational Communications
(2018)
This dissertation seeks to further scholarly understanding of the content and structure of organizational communications by developing an analytical approach to systematically transform communications into consistent ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Cleaning the Ivory Tower: (De)constructing Neoliberal Discourse and Dignity in Dirty Work
(2017)
The growth of neoliberal ideologies since the 1970s has (re)structured many organizations in the U.S., including education. University administrators in a neoliberal climate are pressured to expand facilities and matriculation ...
Network Dynamics of Organized Misconduct
(2023)
This dissertation investigates the effect of social cohesion and structural inequality on the persistence of misconduct communities. Building from nascent work that considers misconduct as an organized phenomenon among ...
Getting Acquainted: How Knowing About Colleague's Personal Lives Impacts Workplace Interactions, for Better and Worse
(2017)
In my dissertation, I introduce the concept of personal knowledge, discuss how it is formed, explore how it is used, and examine potential boundary conditions of its effects. In Chapter 1, I motivate the need for this ...
Financial Capital and Human Capital in American Corporations: How Ownership by Activist Hedge Funds and Index Investors Affects Employee Satisfaction
(2020)
Two major trends in the American capital market affect whether firms adopt a long-term or a short-term orientation. The first trend is the growing concentration of ownership of public companies by index investors, such as ...
Revenue Management in the New Age: Analysis and Learning with Dependency and Non-Stationarity
(2021)
In this dissertation, we focus on revenue management practices in the settings where the traditional assumptions are challenged because of the rise of social technologies in the new age. We develop theoretically sound and ...
Essays on Organizing Human Capital, Automation and Innovation
(2020)
In this dissertation, I explore how different modes of organizing and automation shape processes and outcomes of knowledge-based work within organizations. With advances in artificial intelligence and automation, firms are ...
Internal and External Antecedents of the Adaptive Search of Firms: The Multiplex Influence of Politics on Innovation
(2021)
Innovation by firms is often conceptualized as an adaptive search process. While a large body of research has examined what leads to effective search, it largely abstracts away the heterogeneous preferences and goals of ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...