DSpace at My University: Recent submissions
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(2018)This Ph.D. thesis studies the determinants and consequences of information asymmetry between investors and financers on the one hand, and managers on the other, in an uncertain and complex environment. I focus on Small ...
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(2017)This dissertation investigates talent management (TM) approaches and practices to analyze the impact of the label talent on employee perception, moods, attitudes, and behavior. It explores the mechanisms through which ...
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(2017)We address decision problems under uncertain information with non-linear structures of parameter variation, and devise solution methods in the spirit of Bertsimas and Sim s -Robustness approach. Furthermore, although the ...
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(2017)The following dissertation is concerned with plurality of worldviews and ideologies and the implications for fraud and accounting. Chapter 1 is concerned with documenting how different worldviews and the associated ...
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(2016)The research project presented in this document enriches our understanding of these questions by unbundling the micro-level activities and socio-material dynamics underpinning the use of control tools in CSR implementation. ...
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(2016)This dissertation is based on three separate but interconnected essays which underscore the important roles of discourse, legitimacy and power in fueling or hindering institutional change towards sustainability. In two ...
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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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(2016)This dissertation consists of three chapters representing three self-contained essays on the effects of corporate political connections on firm operational, financial, and investment activities. The research is based on ...
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(2016)Creativity is one of the cornerstones of marketing. Due to technological advances, companies have more tools and resources at their disposal for enhancing creativity. Drawing on creative cognition research, this dissertation ...
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(2016)This dissertation consists of three chapters that present three standalone essays on the application of dynamic models to marketing and finance. The first essay uses a structural approach to dynamic models to study the ...
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(2015)This thesis contains three stand-alone essays on the operating segment disclosures that European multi-segment companies make under IFRS 8 Operating Segments. Each essay aims to improve our collective understanding about ...
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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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(2016)This thesis consists of three empirical papers on French colonial trade patterns: Chapter 1 presents an original database on colonial trade statistics from French archives. Its main purpose is to describe the construction ...
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(2016)This dissertation focuses on assessing the value of social media. There are several theoretical and practical gaps in the stream of social media marketing literature, particularly in terms of the impact of social media ...
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(2015)This thesis consists of three empirical papers on central bank institutional design. Chapter 1 contributes to the debate on the importance of central bank independence (CBI) in lowering inflation rates. It stresses the ...
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(2015)This dissertation addresses the issue of how to make decisions involving both time delay and ambiguous information. This dissertation is arranged into three chapters. Chapter 1 reviews a set of studies on the influence ...
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(2015)This dissertation investigates middle-managers work, experience of work, and construction of organizational reality. It draws its empirical material upon a seven month multi-site ethnographic fieldwork within a medium-sized ...
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(2015)I develop a new input-based measure of internal audit function (IAF) quality and investigate the factors that incentivize firms to establish a high-quality IAF as well as the economic consequences of a high-quality IAF. ...
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(2015)This dissertation, Identity in the Political Economy of Institutions: Taxation, Group Conflict and the Perception of Democracy, contains three essays that study the impact of the economics of identity on taxation, social ...
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(2015)This dissertation consists of three chapters that present three standalone essays on the monitoring role of financial analysts. Chapter 1 investigates the monitoring role of financial analysts in the financial reporting ...
