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Global Supply Chain Dynamics in the Mobile Handset Industry
(2017)
The 21st century features disaggregated supply chains that can reduce costs but also limit firms’ ability to monitor and control critical processes, including labor practices and the sourcing of supplies. My dissertation ...
Principles vs. Profits: Is a Fairness or Business Rationale for Workplace Diversity Most Effective at Promoting Diversity?
(2021)
In today’s global world, organizations are increasingly committed to diversity. Yet, diversity in the workplace is a controversial topic that is often met with opposition. As such, organizations regularly attempt to justify ...
Anything Lost Inside the Black-Box? A Study of Learning by Teaching in Post-Merger Integration
(2018)
This dissertation studies a unique learning by teaching opportunity in post-merger integration where the acquirer firm needs to train its existing and new employees during the integration process followed by an acquisition ...
Examining the Economic Tether and the Meaning of Work
(2021)
In this dissertation I explore social processes as they relate to interpretations of financial dependence on employment and the meaning of work. In Chapter 1, I provide an overview of the dissertation as well as background ...
Behavioral Market Design for Social Good
(2021)
Market design studies allocation rules of marketplaces, institutions, and economic environments. In addition to solving the equilibrium solution for rational agents in strategic environments, real-world market design ...
Work and Non-Work Activities in Replenishing Workday Energy: Meetings, Individual Work, and Micro Breaks
(2018)
With heightened demands in today’s workplaces, it has become increasingly challenging for knowledge workers to replenish their energy during the workday to sustain work performance and personal well-being. Prior research ...
Being in Relation: Achieving Mutuality in Moments of Play
(2017)
Human connection is an innate human need. More than that, it is a rich source of life satisfaction, the purest expression of our humanity, and only in moments of human connection do we fully come into being. Such moments ...
How You Like Me Now? The Influence of Athlete Behavior on Fan Group Dynamics and Sports Consumption
(2017)
Within sports, membership in a fan base often constitutes an attachment to a team and its various personnel. As part of a presumed ingroup, sports fans will go about evaluating their favorite teams and players based on ...
Examining the Critical Role of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study of Emerging Nonprofit Organizations.
(2016)
This qualitative study examines how individual nonprofit organizations (“NPOs”) emerge. I build on the limited empirical research by studying eight emerging NPOs in a single New Jersey county using forty qualitative ...
Mapping the Transition of Work in Labor Markets and Entrepreneurial Organizations
(2019)
Jobs and technology have a complicated history. Advances in technology can enable people to do existing jobs more efficiently, or technology can completely replace the human element of a job. While fear of the impact of ...