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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 ... -
Use of Radio Frequency Identification for Targeted Advertising: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Using Bayesian Networks
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007-07)This article discusses a potential application of radio frequency identification (RFID) and collaborative filtering for targeted advertising in grocery stores. Every day hundreds of items in grocery stores are marked down ... -
Decision Making with Hybrid Influence Diagrams Using Mixtures of Truncated Exponentials
(Elsevier, 2008-04-01)Mixtures of truncated exponentials (MTE) potentials are an alternative to discretization for representing continuous chance variables in influence diagrams. Also, MTE potentials can be used to approximate utility functions. ... -
Arc Reversals in Hybrid Bayesian Networks with Deterministic Variables
(Elsevier, 2009-05)This article discusses arc reversals in hybrid Bayesian networks with deterministic variables. Hybrid Bayesian networks contain a mix of discrete and continuous chance variables. In a Bayesian network representation, a ... -
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 ... -
Order imbalance and stock returns: Evidence from China
(Elsevier, 2007)We investigate the relation between daily order imbalance and return in the Chinese stock markets of Shenzhen and Shanghai. Prior studies have found that daily order imbalance is predictive of subsequent returns. On the ... -
Top Management Group Pay Disparities and Subsequent Firm Performance: The Effect of Powerful CEOs
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-21)The issue of pay equity within publicly-traded companies has been a question of growing interest in recent years. Academics, policy-makers, and members of the popular press and general public have become increasingly focused ... -
Essays in International Finance
(University of Kansas, 2008-04-30)The two essays in this dissertation are concerned with investors' decision making in the global environment. Finance literature has established that investors do not allocate their investments in mean variance efficient ... -
Transforming Caterpillars Into Butterflies: The Role of Managerial Values and HR Systems in the Performance of Emergent Organizations
(University of Kansas, 2008-06-17)Emerging firms are the foundation for economic growth in today's business world, yet relatively little is known about the factors that contribute to the success or failure of developing organizations. This research study ... -
Using Bayesian networks for bankruptcy prediction: Some methodological issues
(Elsevier, 2007-07-16)This study provides operational guidance for building naıve Bayes Bayesian network (BN) models for bankruptcy prediction. First, we suggest a heuristic method that guides the selection of bankruptcy predictors. Based on ... -
Solving stochasic PERT networks exactly using hybrid Bayesian networks
(Oeconomica Publishers, 2006-09-16)In this paper, we describe how a stochastic PERT network can be formulated as a Bayesian network. We approximate such PERT Bayesian network by mixtures of Gaussians hybrid Bayesian networks. Since there exists algorithms ... -
Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks Using Mixtures of Gaussians
(AUAI Press, Corvallis, OR, 2006-07)The main goal of this paper is to describe a method for exact inference in general hybrid Bayesian networks (BNs) (with a mixture of discrete and continuous chance variables). Our method consists of approximating general ... -
Approximating probability density functions in hybrid Bayesian networks with mixtures of truncated exponentials
(Springer Netherlands, 2006-09)Mixtures of truncated exponentials (MTE) potentials are an alternative to discretization and Monte Carlo methods for solving hybrid Bayesian networks. Any probability density function (PDF) can be approximated by an MTE ... -
On Walley's Combination Rule for Statistical Evidence
(Éditions E.D.K., 33, rue Bezout, 75014 Paris, 2006-07)Dempster’s rule of combination is the commonly used rule for combining independent belief functions. In 1987, Peter Walley proposed an alternative rule for combining belief function representations of independent ...