Browsing by Department "Management"
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation examines the phenomenon of stigma by association between firms in the context of corporate accounting scandals. I draw from the social psychology literature to develop a theoretical framework that supports ...
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(2016-06-24)This study examines the influence of executives’ prior employment ties on unrelated acquisitions. I do this by considering the relational ties created by both the oft-studied board interlock as well as the hitherto ...
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In Bostock v. Clayton County (hereafter, Bostock), the United States Supreme Court answered the legal question, "does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (hereafter, "Title VII") encompass discrimination based on an ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)In this dissertation I will present and test a model linking actual applicant-interviewer demographic, human capital, and cultural capital similarity to an interviewer??s recommendation to hire. Actual similarity is ...
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(2012-07-16)While extant research on recruiting has highlighted a number of applicant attitudes that predict future attitudes and decisions, questions regarding how attitudes develop over time and differentially predict applicant job ...
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(2010-01-14)Organizations use work teams to solve complex problems in innovative ways. As such, an abundance of diverse ideas, suggestions, and information should help organizations generate quality products and remain competitive. ...
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(2020-04-16)The leader development literature has paid considerable attention to the outcomes of leader development activities; however, this has come at the expense of understanding how leader development is allocated. Yet, those ...
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(2020-04-16)The leader development literature has paid considerable attention to the outcomes of leader development activities; however, this has come at the expense of understanding how leader development is allocated. Yet, those ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Using the attention-based view, this study is concerned with two levels of board of directors interaction relating to strategic entrepreneurship: (1) how individual board members may affect the attention of the entire ...
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(2022-05-18)This dissertation builds grounded theory on how dominant group members evaluate, experience, and respond to their own allyship failure. I conducted an inductive, qualitative exploration of allyship failure in 46 interviews ...
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(2013-09-25)The purpose of this research was to develop understanding of the relationship between physical attractiveness and leadership emergence, and the perceived biases that help explain this relationship. Focused on adult populations ...
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(2014-04-10)Research on the diffusion of strategic actions through board interlocks has mainly focused on the dyad level, meaning the one-on-one relations between a focal firm and its interlocked firm. The structural embeddedness of ...
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(2014-04-23)Organizational research has historically investigated strategy formulation while giving far less consideration to strategy implementation. This is surprising given that between 70 and 90 percent of formulated strategies ...
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(2014-08-21)Resource orchestration research has focused primarily on aspects associated with the structuring and bundling of resources to form capabilities. However, questions remain regarding the theoretical and empirical underpinnings ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation examines the strategic choices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries that become engaged in war. By combining the resource-based view and resource management theory, and drawing additional ...
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(2018-08-01)CEOs face a number of options regarding how to lead their firms in pursuing innovation. Two important modes of innovation are internal innovation through R&D and external innovation through acquisition activity. Past ...
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(2022-04-20)This dissertation explores why some large company CEOs elect to serve in nonprofit organizations. While public expectations regarding large companies contributing to solving social issues have recently increased, CEOs are ...
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(2016-08-08)In this study I integrate self-determination theory and social comparison theory to create a new theoretical lens that highlights the multilevel dark side of empowering leadership. Examining how team leaders differentially ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)New conceptual work in the judgment and decision-making research arena has suggested a nonconsequentialist perspective to decision-making. From this perspective, an emphasis is placed on emotions during the decision-making ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Emotions are recognized as central to organizational life. The dialogue on the role of emotion in organizational life is furthered here by addressing the role that gendered display rules and associated expectations play ...