Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Ireland, R. Duane"
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Kuban, Scott (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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Lamb, Nai Hua (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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Boss, David S (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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Fetching Top Dollar: How a Target Firm's Competitive Action Repertoire Impacts Acquisition Premium Carnes, Christina Louise (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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Webb, Justin W. (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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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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Reutzel, Christopher Ray (2009-05-15)The role of top managers in shaping the performance of the firms that employ them represents a central issue to strategic management research. Indeed, a substantial amount of research has examined potential linkages between ...
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Fuller, Nicole Renee (2018-07-30)Extant literature on institutionalization asserts that organizations establish norms and practices collectively with peer organizations to enhance stability in the business environment. Organizations with practices reflecting ...
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Holcomb, Timothy R. (2009-06-02)A widely held belief is that resource constraints and industry conditions pose severe threats to the performance of entrepreneurial firms. While previous research links resources controlled by these firms to different ...
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Brymer, Rhett (2012-10-19)While resource based theory (RBT) addresses the importance of both possessing and orchestrating resources that have the potential of creating competitive advantage, it suggests little about the effects of unintentionally ...
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Collins, Jamie D. (2009-05-15)Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular ...
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Holmes Jr, Robert Michael (2009-05-15)Firms form marketing and technology alliances to access other firms’ resources, and these alliances act as signals to investors. Investors use these signals to adjust expectations about new venture performance prospects, ...
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Campbell, Joanna (2012-07-16)The manager's personal wealth is one of the central building blocks of agency theory, which considers wealth to be an especially important source of individual utility. The managers' financial position, or the portion of ...