DSpace at My University: Recent submissions
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(2019)In the following three essays, I explore the persistence and volatility induced under adaptive learning. Chapter One derives a simple and versatile model about permanent/transitory decompositions based on agents’ beliefs ...
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(2020)Payan and McFarland (2005) argue that sales influence tactics (SITs) with more complete argument structure are more effective in gaining influence with customers (e.g., providing information on product features and ...
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(2020)The purpose of this dissertation was to examine challenging job experiences (CJE) and their role in facilitating the process of leadership development. In the first essay of the dissertation, I provided an overview and ...
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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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(2019)A common thread of the three chapters addresses the abovementioned trends and focuses on the internationalization decisions of both firms and PEs. I try to explore how technology transfer motivations, cultural distance, ...
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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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(2019)In this thesis, we have investigated the transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) while considering the social dimension via the concept of DJ. This enabled us to highlight the ...
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(2018)This dissertation aims to investigate the dynamic impacts of customer engagement on customer value and firm revenues in a multichannel context. I address this research question in three chapters. In chapter 1, we propose ...
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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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(2019)This doctoral thesis includes three essays investigating several topics in empirical asset pricing. Essay 1 examines statistical and economic evidence of out-of-sample Treasury bond return predictability for a real-time ...
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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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(2019)In this dissertation, I study the sales and operations planning (S&OP), a cross-functional integration process in supply chain planning whose goal is to align a firm’s demand plan. In Chapters 2 and 3, I analyze group or ...
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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)The three essays in this thesis, in general, explore different dimensions of fexibility to better manage the operations in firms/supply chains for higher economic and environmental performance.
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(2018)A recent and growing literature investigates the consequences of such heterogeneity in labor market institutions, studying how labor market rigidities a ect the causes and consequences of policy changes, such as trade ...
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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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(2018)This dissertation consists of three stand-alone papers that investigate three consequences of corporate philanthropy, namely: (1) firms’ tax strategies, (2) firms’ reporting with regard to corporate philanthropy, and (3) ...
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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 ...