Hankamer School of Business: Recent submissions
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Boundary Conditions of Ethical Leadership: Exploring Supervisor-Induced and Job Hindrance Stress as Potential Inhibitors
(Springer, 2017-12-28)It is widely accepted that ethical leadership is beneficial for the organization, the leader, and followers. Yet, little has been said about potential limitations of ethical leadership, particularly boundary conditions ... -
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 ... -
A dynamic approach to examine the growth trajectory of e-participation factors.
(2021-08-05)This research explores key factors that drive e-participation growth among 147 nation-states over seven years (2014-2020). While the literature utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to advance ... -
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 ... -
A social networks framework to study the influence of language on international trade in services.
(2021-04-23)Social network theory has been overlooked as a tool to examine relationships in economics whereas all economic interactions create networks, some more complex than others. Specifically, attempts to estimate drivers of ... -
A multi-level analysis of the spread of COVID-19.
(2021-04-23)This paper uses extensions of the traditional methods for evaluating panel data to evaluate the effect of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) on the spread of COVID-19. I utilize data from weather conditions, policy ... -
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 ... -
Precursor to crime : an instrumental variable analysis of the effects of meth supply interdictions on crime.
(2021-03-30)In the late 1990s, the use of methamphetamines (meth) grew substantially. At the same time, crime fell prodigiously, seemingly at the same time as two governmental supply interdictions on two key chemical precursors of ... -
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 ... -
Putting family first as a boundary management tactic
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-01)Purpose – The authors examine a boundary management tactic for managing the work–family interface: putting family first (PFF). PFF is a boundary management tactic defined as the voluntary behavior of intentionally putting ... -
With a little help from my (her) friends: The role of friend support on the negative effects of work engagement for married couples
(Elsevier, 2021-01-29)In this study, we examine an employee’s personal social support received from friends and how it may benefit not only that employee, but also her or his spouse. By examining this unique source of support, we contribute to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Intermediation and disintermediation of resources for entrepreneurship and innovation in the maker movement.
(2020-07-12)The maker movement phenomenon represents potential disintermediation of producer innovation as well as intermediation of creative processes for entrepreneurs and innovators. This dissertation introduces the maker movement ... -
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 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 ... -
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. ... -
Dignity, respect and grace in participatory research involving university teams.
(2020-04-20)Higher education institutions are increasingly responding to global development challenges through collaborative interventionist research efforts with organizational partners. By doing so, they increasingly engage in roles ... -
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 ... -
A differences-in-differences approach to the UPP policy and crime displacement in the city neighborhoods and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
(2020-04-27)This thesis uses differences-in-differences causal inference method to study the impact of the UPP policy in the surrounding neighborhoods of the city of Rio and also the spillover effects potentially caused by it. Five ...