Browsing by Department "Business Administration"
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A Household Level Model of Television Viewing with Implications for Advertising Targeting
(2015)Television (TV) is the predominant advertising medium, and recent technological advances such as digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes (STBs) have the potential to transform this industry by enabling household-specific ... -
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Social Relationships in Consumer Behavior
(2020)While consumer research has long explored social influences in consumer phenomena, the literature rarely considers the implications of different dynamics in relationships. In this dissertation, I take a multi-dimensional ... -
A Multiple Goal Perspective on Eating Behavior
(2016)Although people frequently pursue multiple goals simultaneously, these goals often conflict with each other. For instance, consumers may have both a healthy eating goal and a goal to have an enjoyable eating experience. ... -
A Theory and Test of How Speakers with Nonnative Accents are Evaluated in Entrepreneurial Settings
(2016)An abundance of research in the social sciences has demonstrated a persistent bias against nonnative English speakers (Giles & Billings, 2004; Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010). Yet, organizational scholars have only begun to investigate ... -
A Theory, Measure, and Empirical Test of Subgroups in Work Teams
(2011)Although subgroups are a central component of work teams, they have remained largely unexamined by organizational scholars. In three chapters, a theory and measure of subgroups are developed and then tested. The theory ... -
Accrual Noise Ratio as a Measure of Accrual Reliability
(2009)I develop an empirical model that estimates a firm-specific accrual noise ratio (ANR), an operational and statistically grounded measure of accrual reliability, and test the measure's construct validity. The model allows ... -
Action Simulations in Acquisition Cost Estimates
(2009)Consumers often lack objective information about product acquisition costs. In such cases, consumers must rely on estimates of acquisition costs in making their choices. The current work examines the influence of mental ... -
Adding by Subtracting: The Impact of Performance Feedback on Divestitures
(2013)This dissertation examines what drives firms' divestiture activity and how it impacts their performance. Divestitures is defined here as the sale, spin-off or liquidation of assets from an ongoing organization. ... -
Aggregate Deferred Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and GDP Growth
(2022)This paper examines whether deferred tax asset valuation allowance growth, as a measure of expected future performance, aggregated at the macroeconomy level, conveys information about future GDP growth. Using hand-collected ... -
All That Twitters Is Not Gold: How Verbally Documenting or Reflecting During or After an Experience Can Affect Enjoyment
(2013)Social media and mobile technology now provide consumers with the opportunity to continuously document or reflect on their moment-to-moment internal and external experiences. For instance, "tweets" are often written while ... -
An Empirical Examination of the Commitment to Increased Disclosure
(2008-06-04)I examine the relation between a corporate commitment to increased disclosure and measures of liquidity, information asymmetry, and cost of equity capital. Relative to prior research on voluntary disclosure, I use a composite, ... -
An Integrative Solution to the Conflict over Conflict
(2009)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 ... -
Analysis and Comparison of Queues with Different Levels of Delay Information.
(2007)Information about delays can enhance service quality in many industries. Delay information can take many forms, with different degrees of precision. Different levels of information have different effects on customers and ... -
Analytical Models for Strategic Decisions in Settings with Asymmetric Information
(2019)This dissertation studies managerial problems involving strategic considerations under asymmetric information. Specifically, we build analytical models to investigate three problems.The first problem relates to how riders' ... -
Antecedents and Consequences of Authenticity in the Marketplace
(2019)Consumers value and seek authenticity in the marketplace, including in their products, themselves, and others. Due to its appeal to consumers, the study of authenticity in the marketplace has recently accelerated in consumer ... -
Application of Game Theory Analysis in Epidemiology and Service Management
(2010)We present two game theoretic models on resource allocation in epidemic control and waiting time competition in service management.The first model considers the drug allocation problem when facing the outbreak of an international ... -
Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large Scale Service and Inventory Systems
(2010)Many types of services are provided using some equipment or machines, e.g. transportation systems using vehicles. Designs of these systems require capacity decisions, e.g., the number of vehicles. In my dissertation, I use ... -
Behavioral Perspectives on Organizational Change: Practice Adoption, Product Culling, and Technological Search
(2016)This dissertation explores the complex process of organizational change, applying a behavioral lens to understand change in processes, products, and search behaviors. Chapter 1 examines new practice adoption, exploring ... -
Biases in Creativity Assessment: How the Social Setting Influences Observer's Perceptions of Team and Individual Creativity
(2013)One important aspect of enhancing creativity in organizations is to measure and reward creativity. However, not every creative process can be immediately tied to and measured by numerical standards. In such cases, the ... -
Brands, Close Relationships, and Consumer Well-Being
(2016)Consumers have relationships with other people, and they have relationships with brands similar to the ones they have with other people. Yet, very little is known about how brand and interpersonal relationships relate to ...
