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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 ...
Norms of Fairness.
(2011)
Chapter 1 introduces the topic of fairness. Chapter 2 measures the beliefs and behavior of third parties who were given the opportunity to sanction or reward individuals who engaged in an economic bargaining game under ...
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 ...
Three Essays on International Finance and International Capital Markets.
(2009)
This dissertation consists of three essays examining informational and behavioral frictions in international financial and capital markets. Chapter II investigates whether characteristics of the home country capital market ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three papers in applied microeconomic theory. "Criminal Registries, Community Notification, and Optimal Avoidance" studies the effect of community notification of criminal registries on ...
Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.
(2007)
This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western ...
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 ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory.
(2011)
In Chapter 1, I examine the frequent use of recommended retail prices by manufacturers.
I present a model in which price recommendations convey information to consumers about
aggregate market conditions. The manufacturer ...
Measuring and Leveraging the Contribution of Sport to Business and Society.
(2012)
Recently, sports have been recognized as a powerful means to promote education, societal equity, health, culture, sustainability and peace. This unique potential is based on the universal popularity of sport in global ...
Essays on Aging and Human Capital.
(2011)
This dissertation comprises three distinct essays on aging and human capital. The first essay focuses on the financial literacy of older women. In the U.S., women tend to have lower levels of financial literacy than men. ...