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Manufacturing in Lawrence, Kansas, 1854-1900
(University of Kansas, 1940-08-31)The plan of organization for this study is to set forth, for each major division, the background or special external developments and general business conditions affecting manufacturing enterprises in Lawrence, and then ... -
An analysis of the organization and operation of selected negro retail business establishments in Mississippi
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The Use of Heuristics in Service Evaluations
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGH INVOLVEMENT WORK SYSTEMS, SUPERVISORY SUPPORT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: THE ROLE OF EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCES AT WORK
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study adopts a multilevel, multiple stakeholder perspective to examine the impact of high involvement work systems (HIWS) and supervisory support on organizational effectiveness. Organizational effectiveness is measured ... -
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Investigation of Assurance Process, Assurance Characteristics and Assurance Frameworks Used
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This dissertation is on assured sustainability reporting. It has three parts that are titled as follows: Part 1. Planning Assurance Services for Sustainability Reporting: An Analysis of Cost versus Assurance in Audit ... -
The role of executive capital and the market for alternative candidates in CEO dismissal and labor market consequences for dismissed chief executives
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Research on the dismissal of Chief Executive Officers has primarily examined how firm performance and executive power affect dismissal. However, the process used to evaluate a CEO's capabilities is complex, as a myriad of ... -
Design and Pricing of Probabilistic Quality
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Increasingly, sellers are offering goods characterized by probabilistic quality. In such offers, buyers receive a synthetic product comprising of a lottery between two vertically differentiated goods. Given this emerging ... -
The bright and dark sides of empowerment: Linking psychological empowerment and job stressors to proactive and counterproductive work behaviors
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Recently, organizational scholars have stressed the importance of employee proactivity in today's dynamic and uncertain work environment. As such, research has investigated employee proactivity in two similar ways but ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON MONITORING OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY CORPORATE DIRECTORS
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Recent high-profile financial scandals and increasing instances of restatements focus public attention on the role of audit committees, auditors and CFOs in maintaining the integrity and quality of corporate financial ... -
Three Essays on Segment Reporting
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-31)Segment information is vital, essential, fundamental, indispensable, and integral in the process of projecting companies' performance (AIMR, 1993). The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the causes and consequences ... -
BUSINESS VALUE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Information Technology (IT) business value research is suggested as fundamental to the contribution of the IS discipline. The IS research community has accumulated a critical mass of IT business value studies, but only ... -
Three Essays on Characteristics and Economic Consequences of Financial Statement Restatements
(University of Kansas, 2010-08-31)Restatements are made to correct material errors in companies' financial statements previously filed with SEC. Companies try to avoid restatements because a restatement itself would raise the question of whether the ... -
THE TRUE COST OF PAIR PROGRAMMING: DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL AND TEST
(University of Kansas, 2011-09-19)To advance the nomological net and theory, this dissertation proposed a comprehensive pair programming research model where the relationships among system complexity, programming methods, pair composition, effort, duration, ... -
Impact of self and temporal construal on brand categorization and extension evaluation
(University of Kansas, 2011-07-14)Instead of using all information, consumers often use only the one that is most readily accessible for arriving at a decision. This is known as knowledge accessibility in decision making. This dissertation examines the ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON THE CHOICE OF DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES IN ALLIANCES AND OTHER COMBINED VENTURES AND THE PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH CHOICE AT THE DYADIC AND FIRM LEVELS
(University of Kansas, 2011-07-07)The optimal choice of a decision-making structure in alliances and other combined ventures is an important yet underexplored question. There is no single theory that predicts what types of decision-making structures will ... -
IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN AFFECT VALUATION ON CUSTOMER DECISION MAKING
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-10)Businesses go to great lengths to create positive emotional experiences for their customers, often applying the same affective or emotional practices in communication with a culturally diverse customer base. This dissertation ... -
Essays on Venture Capital Syndication and the Informational Efficiency of the Corporate Bond Market
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-08)The first two essays in this dissertation examine the phenomenon of venture capital syndication, or co-investment. In the first essay, I construct measures of syndicate heterogeneity and find that when venture capital firms ... -
Uncovering the Role of Human Resource Management in Organizational Turnarounds: Supernumerary or Supporting Actor?
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-08)The main research question of this dissertation was derived from a few common sense perceptions most people have about health. The question that we address is how to define organizational health and how it relates to firm ... -
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE MODERATING RELATIONSHIP OF COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY ON PERFORMANCE IN A COMPUTER-SUPPORTED TASK
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Computer Self-Efficacy has been shown to be a critical construct in a number of research areas within the Information Systems literature, most notably training, technology adoption, and performance in computer-related ... -
On Solving Stochastic PERT Networks and Using RFIDs for Operations Management
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-01)The current methods used to solve stochastic PERT networks overlook the true distribution of the maximum of two distributions and thus fail to compute an accurate estimation of the project completion time. This dissertation ...