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A servant leader and their stakeholders: When does organizational structure enhance a leader's influence?
(Elsevier, 2016-12)Accumulating evidence finds servant leadership is related to critical employee and organizational criteria, but only a limited amount of studies link servant leaders to both internal and external stakeholder outcomes. ... -
Servant leaders inspire servant followers: Antecedents and outcomes for employees and the organization
(Elsevier, 2013-04)Despite widespread adoption of servant leadership, we are only beginning to understand its true utility across multiple organizational levels. Our purpose was to test the relationship between personality, servant leadership, ... -
Service employees give as they get: Internal service as a moderator of the service climate-service outcomes link
(National Library of Medicine, 2011-03)We lend theoretical insight to the service climate literature by exploring the joint effects of branch service climate and the internal service provided to the branch (the service received from corporate units to support ... -
A shirking model of NBA players.
(2007-01-11)As guaranteed National Basketball Association (NBA) contract salary amounts continuously increase there is a strong possibility of shirking due to difficulty in modeling contracts based upon future performance. Based on a ... -
Shopping for a cause : exploring the role of information systems in ethical consumption.
(2017-07-24)There is a growing awareness and concern from consumers about the negative impacts of their consumption decisions on the environment, public health, and the global economy. Consequently, consumers are beginning to seek ... -
Social network analysis in college choice.
(2017-04-05)This research paper employs Social Network Analysis to examine the effect of peer groups on the college application process, taking Baylor University as a case study. Degree centrality and eigenvector centrality are two ... -
State-level political party effects on the war on drugs.
(2018-04-17)The United States' drug arrest rate and incarceration rates have been increasing steadily for over two decades. Additionally, there is a general perception that Republicans are "tougher on crime" than Democrats. This thesis ... -
Stress in remote work: two studies testing the Demand-Control-Person model
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2018-06-29)The popularity of remote work continues to rise, but uncertainty remains about how it influences employee well-being. We extend the Demand-Control-Person (DCP) model to test both person and job factors as important ... -
A study of a workflow management system in higher education.
(2009-06-10)The Online Protocol Submission system is web-based workflow management system designed and implemented by Information Technology Services and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Baylor University. The system ... -
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. ...