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(2023)According to the global humanitarian overview published by the UNOCHA, 274 million people needed some form of humanitarian assistance across the world in 2022. In the same year, 387 natural disasters were recorded world ...
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(2015)The thesis consists of three innovative studies of microfinance. It addresses issues regarding loan products design, credit risk assessment, and strategic planning of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The objective of the ...
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(2019)I study the causes and consequences of the decision of active US equity mutual funds to close to new investors. I start by analyzing results of the prior literature, which has focused on performance before and after closure ...
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(2018)Investment manager skill is one of the most researched topics in finance, so readers may wonder why there are still theses such as this one which launches three new Essays on the topic. There are two parts to the answer. ...
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(2014)This dissertation explores the efforts of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to produce a common set of accounting standards accepted for worldwide ...
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(2020)This work aims at investigating the optimization opportunities among several typical service industries where the digital revolution occurs. We made a few contributions in the intersection of business analytics and ...
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(2016)Proactive work behaviors are known as self-started and forward-thinking action that constructively challenges the status quo, being capable of positively impacting organizational outcomes. Current measurement, however, ...
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(2016)This dissertation investigates how organizations (specifically social enterprises) create and implement information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects for the people at the bottom of the pyramid ...
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(2017)This thesis investigates the dynamics of financial markets from different perspectives. First, we analyze the impact of different political variables on market prices. We show that the quality of economic policy and the ...
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(2018)We address three different allocation problems for which the literature tends to ignore the complex nature of their objective. The problems under study fall under two different contexts of non-profit and commercial ...
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(2016)This thesis consists of four essays on finance and the real economy. Chapter 1 studies the effect of banking crises on the composition of investment. It builds a partial equilibrium growth model with a banking sector and ...
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(2014)Novel heuristic algorithms were developed for data mining methods employing tree or network graphical structures. A heuristic algorithm was proposed to boost the predictive accuracy of the well-known tree structure data ...
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(2010)This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute in the investigation of the interface between marketing and operations in supply chain management (SCM). The main motivation behind this work relate to the evolution ...
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(2015)This dissertation investigates how organizations reconcile different institutional logics in the development of cross sector partnerships. It is based on longitudinal data from three cases of partnership between firms and ...
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(2014)This dissertation focuses on the development of a powerful idea in transnational space referred to here as a world myth and demonstrates the effect of this myth on contemporary organizational structures and discourses. ...
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(2011)This dissertation explores the mechanisms of global information systems (IS) diffusion and adoption of a French multinational corporation (MNC) within Chinese settings. By using an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system ...
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(2023)Recent scholarship has emphasized that, while we know a lot about the complexity of the work domain, the complexity of the life domain has been neglected and limited to the family domain demands. In particular, an important ...
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(2021)Payments are a quintessential economic activity that is increasingly digitalized. The idea of cashless societies, where central banks cease to issue notes and coins, becomes more realistic. However, this socio-technical ...