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  • Essays on Digital Distribution of Information Goods.
    Vernik, Dinah Alexandra (2009)
    <p>The ability to digitize information goods such as music and movies and the growing accessibility of the Internet has led to online piracy and the emergence of a new class of retailers that specialize in digital downloads. ...
  • Essays on Household Portfolio Choice
    Addoum, Jawad M. (2012)
    <p>This dissertation consists of two essays on household portfolio choice. The first essay is entitled 'Household Portfolio Choice and Retirement'. In this first essay, I empirically examine the portfolio decisions of ...
  • Essays on Individual Incentives and Private Information
    Wang, Shouqiang (2011)
    <p>This dissertation explores the incentive issues and strategic interactions among decentralized parties in three operations management environments: inventory systems, revenue management and healthcare policies. The first ...
  • Essays on Knowledge Intensive Groups
    Zhu, Xiumei (2009)
    <p>Expertise is regarded as the most important asset for groups working on knowledge-intensive tasks. This dissertation advances a multi-dimensional conception of group expertise that includes depth, breadth and variety ...
  • Essays on Using Options to Elicit Market Beliefs about Mergers
    Borochin, Paul Alexander (2011)
    <p>The first essay of my dissertation introduces a new method for eliciting market beliefs about the expected outcomes of a merger negotiation after announcement. During a merger negotiation, the market prices of the firms ...
  • Executive Compensation and Firm Leverage
    Albert, Michael Joseph (2013)
    <p>This dissertation explores the role of executive compensation in determining the capital structure decisions of a firm. CEOs experience a large personal cost of default that interacts through the risk adjusted probability ...
  • Executive Team Financial Expertise and the Influence on Financial Reporting
    Badolato, Patrick G. (2010)
    <p>While a considerable body of research examines the determinants of financial reporting decisions, much of the heterogeneity in financial reporting outcomes is not explained by firm and industry factors. Guided by the ...
  • Feeling Good and Doing Better: How Specific Positive Emotions Influence Consumer Behavior and Well-being
    Cavanaugh, Lisa Ann (2009)
    <p>Marketers seek to create and consumers seek to cultivate a variety of positive emotional experiences. Despite their importance to consumer behavior, researchers have lacked a clear understanding of the distinct behavioral ...
  • Frameworks for Planning Collaborative Supply Chain Programs
    Gurumurthi, Suryanarayanan (2011)
    <p>This dissertation is written in three progressively restrictive parts. Part I is a set of two expansive essays on collaborative supply chain management that proposes several new perspectives and interconnections between ...
  • Goal Pursuit and the Pursuit of Social Networks
    Shea, Catherine Theresa (2013)
    <p>An abstract of a dissertation that examines the motivational foundations of social networks. Five studies using diverse methods examine goal pursuit as an antecedent to social network structure, finding that self-oriented ...
  • Hedonic Benefits of Experiential Preparation
    Lieb, Daniel Stephen (2007-07-24)
    While a vast amount of research in marketing has examined how information prior to purchase helps consumers to make purchase decisions, relatively little work has considered how marketers can increase the value consumers ...
  • How Should I Think About It?: Perceived Suitability and the Resolution of Simultaneous Conflicting Preferences
    Bond, Samuel (2007-08-08)
    Consumers often face conflict between what "makes sense" and what "feels right" - between logical analysis and intuition. This dissertation focuses on the means by which such conflict is resolved. Extending dual-process ...
  • How Stereotypes Shape Consumer Behavior
    Yang, Linyun Wu (2010)
    <p>Since the cognitive ability to process information is limited, people often rely on stereotypes to help them make sense of their social environment. These knowledge structures allow people to utilize past experiences ...
  • Human Capital Specificity and Corporate Capital Structure
    Kim, Hyunseob (2012)
    <p>I examine how employing workers with specific human capital affects capital structure decisions by employers. Based on plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I use the opening of new plants as an exogenous reduction ...
  • Hyper-Media Search and Consumption
    Roos, Jason M.T. (2012)
    <p>In the past five years, the number of Americans using the Internet as their main source of news has doubled to more than 40%, while those choosing newspapers has dropped to just over 30%. Although this trend signals a ...
  • Identifying Search Space
    Dutt, Nilanjana (2013)
    <p>This dissertation studies how organizations, when solving a specific problem, identify a set of potential solutions which we call "Search Space." By drawing from evolutionary theory and related literatures on strategic ...
  • Individual Incentives as Drivers of Innovative Processes and Performance
    Sauermann, Henry (2008-04-24)
    Applied economists and strategy scholars have examined a variety of firm-level factors that may explain the level and direction of firms' innovative effort and performance, including firms' profit incentives. Innovation ...
  • An Integrative Solution to the Conflict over Conflict
    Mannes, Albert Edward (2009)
    <p>The value of task-related conflict to team effectiveness continues to generate controversy in organizational studies. I argue that this debate reflects as much differences in the conceptualization of conflict by scholars ...
  • Internal and External Attributions by Managers in Earnings Conference Calls
    Chen, Zhenhua (2012)
    <p>In this study, I examine whether managers make self-serving attributions by internally (externally) attributing favorable (unfavorable) performance or demonstrate leadership by accepting blame and deflecting praise when ...
  • International Financial Reporting Standards and Accounting Comparability
    Siciliano, Gianfranco (2013)
    <p>This thesis includes three papers that consider the effects of IFRS adoption on accounting comparability in the European Union (EU). In the first paper, I use actual financial statement data to create a measure of ...