Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Eden, Lorraine"
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Dai, Li (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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Phelan Ribera, Kelli Catherine (2011-10-21)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a subject long debated since the 1930s, but the premises of the topic in regards to the what, how, why, and to whom it should be remain in question. The relation between CSR and ...
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Developing a tight gas sand advisor for completion and stimulation in tight gas reservoirs worldwide Bogatchev, Kirill Y. (2009-05-15)As the demand for energy worldwide increases, the oil and gas industry will need to increase recovery from unconventional gas reservoirs (UGR). UGRs include Tight Gas Sand (TGS), coalbed methane and gas shales. To economically ...
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Yu, Tieying (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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Runyan, Bruce Wayne (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This study examines the relationship between a firm??s degree of multinationality and its managers?? earnings forecasts. Firms with a high degree of multinationality are subject to greater uncertainty regarding earnings ...
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Burgos Fuentes, Sergio Armando (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The current Record of Study presents the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a company's network of distribution centers with the purpose of determining the convenience and the feasibility to reconfigure such a network. ...
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Xu, Kehan (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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Zhu, Hong (2012-02-14)Cross-border Merger and Acquisitions (M&As) are an increasingly important strategy adopted by firms in order to create value in fiercely competitive global markets. Cross-border M&A value creation, that is, wealth creation ...
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Li, Dan (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation investigates three sets of research questions. First, how can partner selection be used as a mechanism to minimize R&D alliance participantsâ concerns about knowledge leakage? And what is the nature ...
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Wang, Di (2015-04-24)How does state ownership affect sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) investment abroad? This dissertation aims to answer this question by providing a general theoretical framework and a detailed deal-level analysis. I argue that ...
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Ke, Jie (2011-10-21)With the increasing use of the computer and the Internet in the training sector, there are constant debates about the effectiveness of e-learning versus traditional face-to-face (FTF) education since the early 1990s. ...
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Worthington, William John (2009-05-15)Managers within firms seek to align their portfolio of capabilities to best respond to their competitive environment. Processes used by firms to acquire resources, bundle those resources into capabilities, and then leverage ...
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He, Xiaoming (2011-10-21)State multinationals were investigated in the 1980s. Since then, little work on the state multinational has been done because of the dramatic changes in the world in terms of both politics and economics, such as the waves ...
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Zhu, Ying (2012-10-19)Consumers’ purchase decisions typically involve two brands: the manufacturer brand (the “what brand to buy” decision) and the retailer brand (the “where to buy” decision). While extant research suggests that consumers’ ...
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Huh, Dong Wook (2014-07-30)Typical business groups are widely diversified into unrelated industries. Scholars have explained this as a consequence of institutional weaknesses and predicted that business groups would lose their effectiveness and ...