Browsing by Department "Management"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study argues that a firm's product location choice may be a function of the firm's way of splitting the product market (i.e., divisionalization) and the concern for product cannibalization at the division and the firm ...
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(2009-06-02)Drawing insights from liability of foreignness, the punctuated equilibrium model and the resource-based view, this dissertation develops an integrated model to identify the successful strategies and characteristics of both ...
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(2021-06-23)The development of misfit during the job search has been difficult and complex for people to assess. Prior research has typically examined misfit as low-levels of perceived person-organization fit, or as simple incongruence. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Drawing insights from strategic management and international business literature, the present study develops an integrated model to explain the competitive actions between multinational firms in a global context. Accordingly, ...
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(2010-10-12)The applicant decision making process is a complex one. During the recruitment process, signals from the organization provide information to the candidates and affect important recruitment outcomes. Ethics is one area the ...
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(2015-05-29)Despite the fact that employee alignment with an initiative is often considered a critical process of organizational change, few studies have examined processes where organizations change the individual to bring about ...
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(1980)The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its purposes were to end discrimination in employment practices and to promote affirmative action programs. The EEOC has ...
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Executive Personal Misconduct: An Existential Stigma that Increases the Likelihood of Director Exit (2016-05-06)This study examines how an executive personal misconduct event is associated with negative organizational and reputational signals and engenders an increased likelihood that an outside director will exit a firm. Specifically, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Based on social identity theory, self-categorization theory, and justice theories, this study proposed a theoretical framework for studying the psychological processes that employees go through during the period of post-merger ...
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(2009-06-24)Top executives sometimes attempt to create information asymmetry through corporate reporting manipulation. In the United States, one method was not to report financials in certain quarters (this was a legal option before ...
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Fetching Top Dollar: How a Target Firm's Competitive Action Repertoire Impacts Acquisition Premium (2015-05-01)In this dissertation, I integrate signaling and holistic processing theories to examine how the pattern characteristics of a target firm’s competitive actions over time can influence its acquisition premium by reducing ...
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(2012-07-16)Team leadership research has largely relied on traditional dyadic models (i.e., those capturing one-on-one relationships between a leader and follower) to explain team-level phenomena. Despite recent advancements, much of ...
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(2011-02-22)Firms’ top decision makers cannot possibly know what decisions to make. Rather, decision makers must interpret their situations and make the best possible decision based upon their interpretation of their situations. In ...
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(2011-10-21)Privatization is defined as the sale of state-owned assets by governmental agencies to private investors (e.g., Megginson, Nash, Netter, and Poulsen, 2004; Villalonga, 2000). Research on privatization has focused on ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The present study proposes a significant role for host country nationals (HCNs) in the expatriate adjustment process. Based on self-categorizaton theory, newcomer socialization research, organizational citizenship behavior ...
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(2013-07-31)Affective reactions to unfair treatment date back to the earliest work on organizational justice. Seminal research on inequity identifies anger and guilt as primary responses to judgments of low justice. More recently, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Based on a proposed input-process-output model of team goal, leader goal orientation, team cohesion, and team effectiveness, this study examined the influences of the leader trait goal orientation on the relationships ...
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(2015-04-24)In the current literature, there are seemingly incompatible predictions about the benefits and costs of internationalization for family firms. On the one hand, the behavioral agency model suggests that to preserve ...
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(2012-02-14)Current research in corporate governance focuses primarily upon minimization of agency costs in the shareholder-management relationship. In this dissertation, I examine a complimentary perspective based upon stewardship ...
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(2009-05-15)Why do people engage in innovative behavior in the workplace? More specifically, what motivational reasons affect an employee?s decision to introduce new product ideas, apply new work methods, and suggest new ways to achieve ...