Browsing by Subject "Management"
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A Comparison of Groundfish Management on the East and West Coasts of the United States
(2004)The groundfish fisheries of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US are valuable economically and ecologically. The industries in the two locations have faced depleted stocks and increased regulations by the New England ... -
A NATURAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK AND VIRGIN ISLANDS CORAL REEF NATIONAL MONUMENT
(2007)The National Parks Conservation Association’s (NPCA) State of the Parks Program was developed to identify natural and cultural resources in jeopardy across the United States National Parks System. This natural resources ... -
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 ... -
An Evaluation of Water Quality Parameters and Flow Dynamics in High Rock Lake, North Carolina to Assist in the Development of Nutrient Criteria for Lakes and Reservoirs in the State
(2018-04-26)High Rock Dam, located in Rowan and Davidson Counties in North Carolina, was constructed on the Yadkin River in 1927. High Rock Lake (HRL) is primarily fed by the Yadkin River and several smaller tributaries, draining a ... -
An Implementation Plan for Bio-Indicator Monitoring in support of Integrated Coastal Management in the U.S. Virgin Islands
(2004)Regulation and management of coastal systems is often compartmentalized into three broad categories: resource extraction (e.g. fisheries), coastal development, and pollution control. In the US Virgin Islands, the existing ... -
Assessing Fishing Pressure in a Small-Scale Fishery in St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean
(2020-04-24)World fisheries are an important source of food and income for millions of people around the world, and represents a billion dollar industry (FAO, 2018). As a result, research on fisheries has mainly focused on large, commercial ... -
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 ... -
Boom and Bust: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Inertia on Organizational Populations
(Advances in Strategic Management, 2006)Although recent public attention has focused on boom-and-bust cycles in industries and financial markets, organizational theorists have made only limited contributions to our understanding of this issue. In this chapter, ... -
Bridging and Bonding: How Diverse Networks Influence Organizational Outcomes
(2015)Although many organizations aspire to be diverse, both in their internal composition and external collaborations, diversity's consequences for organizational outcomes remain unclear. This project uses three separate studies ... -
Career Dynamics in the U.S. Civil Service
(2019)This dissertation examines how knowledge is developed and deployed among employees inside one of the largest internal labor markets in the United States: the federal civil service. Each chapter lays out the theoretical background ... -
Coordination Mechanism Design for Sustainable Global Supply Networks
(2011)This dissertation studies coordination mechanism design for sustainable supply networks in a globalized environment, with the goal of achieving long-term profitability, environmental friendliness and social responsibility. ... -
Credit and Classification: The Impact of Industry Boundaries in 19th Century America
(Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009)In this article, we examine how issues of multi-category membership (hybridity) were handled during the evolution of one of the first general systems of industrial classification in the United States, the credit rating schema ... -
Denying the Value of Goals to the Disadvantaged
(2022)Pursuing valued goals is a fundamental aspect of human behavior. In this dissertation, I explore the tendency of observers to underestimate the extent to which members of disadvantaged groups value their goals. Nine studies ... -
Developing an alternative approach to wildlife management in the Duke Forest
(2017-04-25)Wildlife management is not currently a major priority of the Duke Forest, but staff have expressed an interest in making it a more significant aspect in future forest management decisions. We here used a multi-criteria decision ... -
Empirical Essays on Gender in Organizations
(2021)This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on gender and organizations. It contributes to our understanding of the mechanisms that produce and reproduce gender inequality within organizations. The essays of this ... -
Essays on Firm Innovation in Dynamic Product Markets: Examining Competitive Interactions During Technological Commercialization
(2018)How can firms gain competitive advantage from available technologies is a key question in strategy. In my dissertation, I develop new theory and provide evidence to show that a firm’s focus in selective technological areas ... -
Essays on Knowledge Intensive Groups
(2009)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 as ... -
Evaluation of Alternatives for Mecox Bay and Inlet
(2004)Mecox Bay is a valued coastal area with a variety of stakeholders located on the east end of Long Island in Southampton, NY. The Southampton Town Trustees have the responsibility and authority to make management decisions ...
