Browsing Hankamer School of Business by Title
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Teaching Business Ethics: A Faculty Seminar Model
(2007-12-20)Who is responsible for the increasing incidence of ethical misconduct in businesses? The short answer: the ones who committed the ethical misconduct are responsible. As these incidents receive more and more coverage ... -
The Team Descriptive Index (TDI): A Multidimensional Scaling Approach for Team Description
(Academy of Management, 2014-08-27)The literature on teams is filled with many alternative team type taxonomies, and the persistence of so many conflicting taxonomies serves as evidence for the lack of consensus in the field about how to describe and ... -
Technostress and the Entitled Employee: Impacts on Work and Family
(2021-04-19)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of techno-overload and techno-invasion on work and family. Specifically, we focus on intention to turnover in the work domain, work-family conflict in the ... -
A test of agglomeration using wage behavior.
(2006-10-13)The neoclassical economic model of wage behavior over time and place predicts that firms spread out and wages converge, given assumptions such as no transactions costs, homogenous products, and same access to resources ... -
The digitized infant : a field study of entangled emotions and affordances.
(2020-06-30)The digitization of one’s personal data is of growing interest in the information systems discipline. Parents digitizing their infant’s personal data in the form of infant monitoring is of particular interest. This study ... -
The downsides of information systems security policy compliance efforts : toward a Theory of Unintended Reversed Security Action and Productivity (TURSAP).
(2016-04-26)Modern organizations face significant information security violations from inside the organizations to which they respond with various managerial techniques. It is widely believed in IS security literature that enforcing ... -
The effect of Ruiz v. Estelle on crime in Texas.
(2020-04-28)I examine the effects of a 1980 Texas District Court ruling that ruled the conditions in the Texas prison system unconstitutional. In particular, I analyze its effects on crime and incarceration. I use a difference-in-differences ... -
The effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on mortality : evidence from state border counties.
(2021-04-20)This thesis examines the effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Reform on adult mortality at the county level. This thesis uses a difference-in-difference (DD) causal inference research design to study the ... -
The impact of hiring chief diversity officers on college student diversity.
(2018-04-26)Diversity has become an increasingly important component of American education. In the past decade, many postsecondary educational institutions have established long-term goals to increase minority representation and ... -
The network as dependent variable : antecedents of online social network formation.
(2018-04-05)Although social networks change over time, network dynamics remains an understudied area of social network research. The detailed logs that are a feature of online social networks allow for easier observation and capturing ... -
A theory of information systems strategy : antecedents and performance impacts through the development of dynamic capabilities.
(, 2012-08-08)Of central importance to the functioning of the IT department is its information systems (IS) strategy which delineates the perspective it takes toward IS and the general attitudes that reflect intentions regarding IS. ... -
Three essays on firm-hosted online user communities.
(2017-06-07)Firms have been increasingly relying on building online user communities (OUCs) to access external, distant knowledge and expertise. In OUCs, participants – i.e., external product users and internal employees of the host ... -
Token Female Voice Enactment in Traditionally Male-Dominated Teams: Facilitating Conditions and Consequences for Performance
(Academy of Management, 2020-06-29)When is a token female’s voice incorporated into the actions of a traditionally male-dominated team, and to what ends? Drawing from the tokenism, gender stereotypes, and minority influence literatures, we advance a model ... -
Toward a process view of entrepreneurial action : an empirical investigation of activities, mechanisms and outcomes.
(2020-07-15)Entrepreneurial action is of keen interest to entrepreneurship scholars, and research on the topic centers on studying the different dynamics of entrepreneurial action as the underlying mechanism for engagement in the ... -
The trade balancing act : reconciling domestic and foreign politics.
(2010-10-08)This paper examines the motives for policymakers in their use of antidumping tariffs. In a scenario where a country is facing domestic political economy influences and foreign political economy influences, I find evidence ... -
Transforming viscous data into liquid data : how does intermediating through platforms impact data?
(2019-07-15)This study examines how data platform intermediaries enable the evolution of viscous data into liquid data. Viscous data represents the many data usage problems that have plagued information systems since data was first ... -
Understanding Customer Value in Technology-Enabled Services: A Numerical Taxonomy Based on Usage and Utility
(INFORMS, 2015-09-25)Use of technologies in service encounters can enhance service delivery and increase customer satisfaction in services. Our research develops a numerical taxonomy that provides a deeper understanding of usage and value of ... -
Unemployment Duration under Wrongful Discharge Law
(2005-08-13)In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public ... -
Unintended consequences : how agricultural subsidies are fueling the drug trade.
(, 2011-12-19)The United States has historically subsidized its farmers directly and indirectly through a variety of different methods. In recent years, there has been evidence that OECD agricultural subsidies are leading farmers in ... -
Unintended consequences of well-intended regulation : the procyclical effects of the Basel I capital regulations on the U.S. banking industry.
(2018-04-20)Numerous solutions have been posed to address the risks that fractional reserve banking systems cause for depositors. The newest regulatory trend to combat these issues has been capital regulation. Many critics have accused ...