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- Title
- COMMITMENT, TRUST, KINSHIP – BUILDING A LEGACY THROUGH SUCCESSION PLANNING
- Author
- Rolan, Lisa
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship
- Description
- This dissertation deals with the incumbent's commitment to the family firm and the degree of formalization of a succession plan and how trust and kinship strengthen or weaken the relationship. This dissertation argues that the incumbent's commitme...
- Title
- Comparative Study of Inpatient Hospitalization Lengths of Stay and Discharge Dispositions Across Healthcare Payer Types
- Author
- Lovett, Chad
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- Considering the progressive growth of healthcare expenses in the national economy, many of those impacts are directly seen in the cost to our publicly and privately funded healthcare insurance programs. This research will utilize a version of the ...
- Title
- DOES ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODERATE JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS?
- Author
- Lewis, Sharon
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Information technology, Industrial management
- Description
- Often, we become so comfortable with the presence of technology in our daily lives that we do not fully consider how much technology impacts turnover intentions and job satisfaction in the workplace. Much has been researched in the way of job sati...
- Title
- Do ethics matter? A moderated model for effects of ethical climates on unethical behavior in organizations
- Author
- McCorvey, Kellie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- This research empirically examined the impact of psychological ethical climates on unethical behavior within organizations via a survey-based quantitative study of working adults in U.S. firms. Ethical climate types within an organization were hyp...
- Title
- Does Fit Matter? An Investigation of Employee-Supervisor Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation Fit on Innovative Work Behavior Within Established Organizations
- Author
- Piwowar, Theresa
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Management
- Description
- Within established organizations, employee innovative behavior is vital for the long-term survival of firms. Employee individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) represents tendencies by an individual toward innovativeness, proactiveness, and ris...
- Title
- Does Gender Matter? A Moderated Model for Family Climate and Psychological Ownership of the Family Firm as Experienced by Next-Generation Family Members.
- Author
- Shike, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship
- Description
- While most family business leaders want their offspring to take over the family business, most next-generation family members choose to pursue opportunities outside their families’ businesses. This research aims to understand how internal family d...
- Title
- Economic and Political Uncertainty and The Effects of Organizational Integration, Volume Flexibility, And Redundancy on Reliability and Delivery for Water Utilities
- Author
- Fraher, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Industrial management
- Description
- Every hour of everyday water utilities across the United States labor tirelessly to supply clean, safe, and affordable drinking water to residential and industrial consumers. Wastewater from these homes and businesses is captured and moved to trea...
- Title
- Employee Referrals: A Competitive Advantage or Operational Inefficiency
- Author
- Reeves, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- Effective and efficient recruiting is required for firms as they seek to maintain a competitive advantage in the race to hire top talent. At the time of this study, United States unemployment rates had reached historical lows of less than 4% as of...
- Title
- Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Persistence within Small-size Companies
- Author
- He, Xiaowen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- This dissertation explores the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial persistence within small-size companies. Although prior literature has acknowledged that entrepreneurial passion enhances entrepreneurial persistence, ...
- Title
- Exploring The Effect of Mentoring Programs for Both Private and Public Sectors: Formal and Informal Relationships
- Author
- McCrowre, Rodney
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- Studies on mentoring projects have highlighted the polarization of subjects, unique to the role of mentoring relationships, the role of that mentor, and the influences of those groups through an individual's journey toward career development. This...
- Title
- How Does Family Firm Status Moderate the Relationship Between Organizational Readiness for Change and Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis?
- Author
- Castillo, Nubia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Statistics, Industrial management
- Description
- ABSTRACTNUBIA A. CASTILLO DE VALLE. How does family firm status moderate the relationship between organizational readiness for change and organizational resilience in times of crisis? (Under the direction of DR.TORSTEN M. PIEPER)The literature on ...
- Title
- Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
- Author
- Medaugh, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
- Description
- To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...
- Title
- Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
- Author
- Beveridge, Chelsea
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication, Psychology
- Description
- Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...
- Title
- Optimism and Crowdfunding Success: The Moderating Effect of Pitch Changes on Funding Success After Initial Failures.
- Author
- Carrothers, James
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- AbstractJAMES L. CARROTHERS. Optimism and Crowdfunding Success: The Moderating Effect of Pitch Changes on Funding Success After Initial Failures. (Under the direction of DR. JUSTIN W. WEBB)Entrepreneurs fail. Statistics on new venture failure rate...
- Title
- Perceived Overqualification of Work Among State Employees: A Replication And Extension
- Author
- Varney, Sandra
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- As trends of employment continue to rapidly shift and evolve during the post-COVID-19 era, it is important for organizations to consider rates of underemployment as much as it is to regard unemployment. Recently, a new scale measurement of employe...
- Title
- Ready, Set, Think, Go: The Effect Of Change Communication On Organizational Readiness For Change
- Author
- Haidar, Joumana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management, Organizational behavior, Communication
- Description
- The concept of organizational readiness has attracted much attention in recent years in the healthcare sector. Interventions that improve readiness are becoming centers for healthcare change scholars and practitioners. As healthcare organizations ...
- Title
- Reexamining Intra Team Conflict: A Dyadic Perspective
- Author
- Hall, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management, Management
- Description
- Conflict is seen as an emergent process when looking at the construct of the team as a whole. Researchers have investigated the interpersonal dynamics that contribute to intrateam conflict. According to researchers, intrateam conflict may be the r...
- Title
- Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Pursue Digital Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Evaluation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Author
- Chapman, Ophelia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Information technology, Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
- Description
- Over the past several years the connection between entrepreneurship and digital technologies has transformed the way business is conducted. This, coupled with reactions to the coronavirus outbreak that have caused interruptions to significant econ...
- Title
- THE EFFECTS OF VETERAN IDENTITY STRAIN, PTSD, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON VETERANS’ JOB SATISFACTION
- Author
- Gory, John
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- ABSTRACTJOHN ARTHUR GORY. THE EFFECTS OF VETERAN IDENTITY STRAIN, PTSD, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON VETERANS’ JOB SATISFACTION(Under the direction of DR REGINALD A. SILVER) Military veterans transitioning from the Armed Forces to the civilian workforce ...
- Title
- The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship Meets the Dark Triad: Entrepreneurial Passion, Work Addiction, and Personality Traits
- Author
- Gerdts, James
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Social sciences, Psychology
- Description
- Passion can drive entrepreneurs to new heights of success and fulfilment, but the dark side can also lead to conflict with relationships and other valued activities. Work addiction goes a step further as it demands the entrepreneur’s time and ener...