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Legacies in Organizations.
(2013)
Within some organizations, certain individuals seem to “live on” after they are gone. We often refer to these individuals as having a legacy, or a representation that endures in the collective memory of the group after ...
The Effects of State Innovation Programs on Entrepreneurial Firms: Three Essays.
(2013)
My dissertation provides new evidence regarding the effects of state innovation programs on the performance and behavior of entrepreneurial firms in the Great Lakes region. Specifically, I assemble novel databases and use ...
A Study of Skills, Problem Solving, and Collaboration Networks.
(2010)
Problem solving plays an important role in many contexts, including scientific innovation and economic production. Individual problem solvers work together, combining their skills to innovate and solve problems that none ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Shipping Container and the Globalization of American Infrastructure.
(2013)
Over the past few decades the transportation infrastructure of the United States has been globalized by the shipping container, an object that carries vast amounts of global commerce. Best known for traveling over the ...
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 ...