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(2024)In this doctoral dissertation, we explore applications of Operations Research (OR) and Operations Management (OM) methods to various contemporary, real-world problems encompassing healthcare, smart home insurance, and ...
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(2024)This thesis investigates the impact of energy and carbon mitigation policies and regulations on energy use choices and economic performance in French manufacturing. Chapter 1, titled "Carbon tax reform and French industry ...
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(2024)This thesis is motivated by challenges in two areas: last mile deliveries and humanitarian logistics. With a rising demand in e-commerce, it becomes imperative to work towards making it sustainable, economical, and ...
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(2024)Accounting practices are deeply embedded within the broader socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts in which they operate (Burchell et al., 1980; Hopwood, 1983, 1987). This perspective reframes accounting from ...
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(2024)This dissertation explores how firms evolve and adapt in the face of complexity, technological changes, and market shifts, with the diverse and conflicting knowledge and interests of their members being both the catalysts ...
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(2024)This thesis examines the search function of categories and alternative means of search in the context of identifying competitors for startup ideas. Traditional categorization literature often assumes that audiences search ...
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(2024)This thesis consists of three essays that address questions in the intersection of finance and accounting research, financial analysts’ performance, and corporate disclosure strategies. Collectively, the three essays delve ...
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(2023)Childcare arrangements are critical in mothers’ employment decisions. It is a fundamental determinant of whether mothers are partially free from childcare responsibility to participate in the labour force and provide more ...
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(2023)This thesis studies the impact of a fiscal devaluation on macroeconomic variables in a closed economy in both the short and long run, in an open economy under different market structures, and how it contributes to ...
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(2023)My dissertation consists of three essays reported in three different Chapters, each related to a different research question about the Key Audit Matters (KAM) section in audit reports. KAM disclosures have been implemented ...
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(2023)This dissertation explores the complex dynamics of interorganizational relationships between employee spin-outs – i.e., ventures created by employees or ex-employees – and their previous employers (parent firms). In the ...
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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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(2023)This thesis studies the causes and consequences of gender norms. The first chapter examines the interplay between marriage and gender norms. Marriage, as a mechanism of horizontal and oblique social learning and as a ...
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(2023)This thesis consists of three essays that address questions related to challenges in the field of Sustainable Finance. Chapter 1 estimates the benchmark greenium. Chapter 2 experimentally tests whether Socially Responsible ...
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(2023)This work examines novel prospects and challenges in two primary domains: retail and healthcare delivery. In the retail sector, we make several methodological and analytical contributions. Pursuing an optimal portfolio ...
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(2023)Research partially attributes women's under-representation in leadership positions to gender differences in competitiveness and performance in competition. To establish the magnitude and boundary conditions of these ...
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(2023)This thesis is in the area of corporate finance and focuses on the impact that diversified institutional investors have on the competition in the product market of portfolio companies, also through the analysis of their ...
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(2023)This thesis provides an exploration of inflation rates and their impacts on economies at both macro and micro levels. The work is structured as a collection of three interconnected studies, each offering insights into ...
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(2023)This thesis explores the influence of interregional connectivity on the development of regions and their interactions. Connectivity takes various forms, whether through physical transport infrastructure or the ability to ...
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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 ...
