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(2019)This dissertation aims to understand how insiders in Asian markets (i.e., China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea) trade in response to various financial information that are either released by their firms ...
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(2010)Rapid industry expansion has elevated research on tourism demand to an important area of inquiry. This work examines the topic through four interconnected studies. It starts by reviewing statistical methods previously ...
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(2010)This dissertation explores the mechanisms of institutional change in practice. The institutional change under study relates to the progressive penetration of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) criteria into conventional ...
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(2012)This dissertation explores resistance factors toward Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) that can be observed in French companies, more precisely in relation with the micro interactions between managers and lawyers as ...
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(2014)The recent financial crisis has reinvigorated an academic interest in the precepts upon which rational economic behavior is based. Answering to the need for a better understanding of capitalism s fundaments, this dissertation ...
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(2021-06-03)Within this broad domain of nonmarket strategy, I study a set of research questions concerning firms’ risk and uncertainty management strategies as a response to government’s policy actions. A robust literature in strategy, ...
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(2014)This thesis contains three essays dealing with the modeling of complex decision processes in marketing. Each of these deals with a different aspect of complex decision making, either at the individual or at the network ...
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(2016)Going back to the disagreement of Wilensky (1964) in the beginning of this paper, I have some concluding thoughts with respect to my findings. Wilensky (1974) made his stance quite clear by arguing that everyone cannot ...
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(2018)Overall, the aim of all essays is, in different forms, to study mechanisms whereby individual cognition is affected and constrained by relational networks, represents them, and in turn affects which portions of them is ...
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(2018)Working on these three essays, I learned that while strategic concerns drive both search and selection processes, their efficiency is determined by the organizational structure. Another insight is: geographical factor ...
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(2012)This dissertation explores multiculturals in global corporations. To date, limited research helps us understand the role of multicultural individuals in facilitating the effective functioning of global teams. To investigate ...
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(2012)In this dissertation, I study the emergence, diffusion, and transformation of ready-to-wear fashion in New York and Paris from the 1940s to the 1970s through three component papers. The comparative study in paper 1 reveals ...
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Networking behaviors under the microscope : examining networking actions from different perspectives (2020)In this dissertation, I examine between-people variations in their engagement in networking behaviors. In particular, I investigate the emotions, cognition, motivations and network properties associated with those networking ...
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(2013)The following three chapters investigate: 1) whether Southeast Asian real exchange rates are nonlinear mean reverting, 2) bayesian inference on nonlinear time series model with applications in real exchange rate, and ...
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(2019)The thesis consists of three empirical chapters on the extent of inequality of opportunity in India using data from the National Sample Survey. Inequality of opportunity is conceptualized as the unequal distribution in ...
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(2021)Since the 1990s, entrepreneurship has been promoted as a solution for the issues faced by developing countries. However, the outcome of the global push for entrepreneurship as a way toward socio-economic development depends ...
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(2022)The essays in this dissertation explore how individuals who engage in proactive behavior may experience negative consequences in three domains: cognitive functioning, emotional states, and subsequent behavior within ...
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(2011)This dissertation explores how organizations cope with multiple and heterogeneous institutions, a situation recently referred to as institutional complexity . It is based on the study of French Business Schools, known as ...