Browsing Hankamer School of Business by Title
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Economic impact of Ebola virus disease in Western African countries.
(2020-05-05)The Ebola outbreak in Western Africa from 2014 to 2016 infected 28600 people and claimed lives of 11325 people. It is the worst and the longest Ebola outbreak since the first recorded Ebola outbreak in 1976. The World bank ... -
Effects of debt relief under the enhanced HIPC Initiative and the MDRI on developing countries using a time-shifted difference-in differences strategy.
(2017-06-28)The IMF and World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in 1996 to alleviate the debt overhang problem in developing countries. They amended the program to the Enhanced HIPC Initiative in 1999 ... -
The Effects of Nursing Satisfaction and Turnover Cognitions on Patient Attitudes and Outcomes: A Three‐Level Multisource Study
(John Wiley and Sons, 2018-12)Objective: To explore antecedents and outcomes of nurse self‐reported job satisfaction and dissatisfaction‐based turnover cognitions, theorizing (using Self‐Determination Theory) that leaders can foster work conditions ... -
Employee unethical behavior to shame as an indicator of self-image threat and exemplification as a form of self-image protection: The exacerbating role of supervisor bottom-line mentality
(American Psychological Association, 2017-08)Employee unethical behavior continues to be an area of interest as real-world business scandals persist. We investigate what happens after people engage in unethical behavior. Drawing from emotion theories (e.g., Tangney ... -
Entrepreneurship in the public interest : varieties, effects, and the performance of entrepreneurial arrangements.
(2020-07-09)In this dissertation I present three self-contained research papers that examine entrepreneurial efforts to advance the public interest. In the first paper I introduce a novel class of effects caused by digital technology ... -
Equipping soldiers to benefit from goal-focused leadership: The moderating effects of non-discriminatory leader behaviors and workgroup cohesion
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-08-20)We apply the Job Demands-Resources model to explicate how two contextual factors (nondiscriminatory leadership behavior and cohesion) may equip subordinates to benefit from the leadership style of goal-focused leadership ... -
Examining the effects of perceived pregnancy discrimination on mother and baby health
(American Psychological Association, 2021-05)Over the last decade, more than 50,000 pregnancy discrimination claims were filed in the United States (United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [U.S. EEOC], 2018a). While pregnancy discrimination claims remain ... -
The exhausted short-timer: Leveraging autonomy to engage in production deviance
(SAGE Journals, 2015-05-05)This article explores the conditions under which autonomy may lead to production deviance (unsanctioned, non-task-focused behavior) rather than acting as a motivational job characteristic. In a study of 260 manual laborers, ... -
Existence of Equilibriuim in Welfare-enhancing Free Trade Areas
(2005-08-13)Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ... -
An Exploratory Study of Factors that Relate to Burnout in Hobby-Jobs
(International Association of Applied Psychology, 2012-05-15)Using the Job Demands-Resources model as a theoretical foundation, we explored the relationships among job demands, internal resources, and burnout in a unique population of workers—individuals with hobby-jobs (i.e. jobs ... -
Exploring the impacts of development methodologies on the collective action of information systems development project teams.
(2017-08-25)Information systems development (ISD) constitutes the largest proportion of capital expenditures in most medium to large organizations globally, yet delays and budget overruns are commonplace. ISD methodologies, such as ... -
Export sophistication and catching up.
(2010-10-08)The catching up model predicts that countries who continue to increase technology through economic policies will experience sustained growth and success in closing the gap between themselves and the current technology ... -
From analytics investments to revenue generation : a three-stage process to value creation with business analytics.
(2020-07-28)Business analytics is currently changing the business landscape in terms of competition, innovation, and relevance. While it is said that the combination of big data and advanced analytics technologies hold vast potential ... -
From Combat to Khakis: An Exploratory Examination of Job Stress With Veterans
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015)Veterans are having a difficult time reintegrating back into the civilian sector following their service, with nearly 44% reporting some type of problem. The experienced stress and resultant strain associated with this ... -
General job performance of first-line supervisors: the role of conscientiousness in determining its effects on subordinate exhaustion
(Wiley Online Library, 2011-04)In an integrated test of the job demands-resources model and trait activation theory, we predicted that the general job performance of employees who also hold supervisory roles may act as a demand to subordinates, depending ... -
Give Me a Better Break: Choosing Workday Break Activities to Maximize Resource Recovery
(American Psychological Association, 2016)Surprisingly little research investigates employee breaks at work, and even less research provides prescriptive suggestions for better workday breaks in terms of when, where, and how break activities are most beneficial. ... -
Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain
(2005-08-13)Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ... -
Health services research : how economics plays a role in public health for children in Somaliland and inmates in Texas.
(2021-04-26)Throughout this dissertation, I will assess three studies: (1) a cost-effectiveness analysis for pediatric surgery uptake for children in Somaliland with congenital conditions; (2) a survival analysis for time to suicidality ... -
Hidden costs of anticipated workload for individuals and partners: Exploring the role of daily fluctuations in workaholism
(American Psychological Association, 2021)The present study advances a within-person approach to the study of workaholism in line with whole trait theory, arguing that individuals have general workaholic tendencies as well as daily fluctuations in workaholism. We ... -
High-performance work systems as a remedy for growing pains: evidence from South Korean organizations
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-01)Drawing on literatures from a contingency perspective of strategic human resource management and a dynamic resource-based view, this study examines dynamic patterns of investment in high-performance work systems (HPWS) to ...