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Item Two essays in real estate(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019) Chacon, Ryan G.; French, Dan; Howe, John S.[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this dissertation, I investigate two segments of the real estate literature: real estate portfolio management and analyst net asset value (NAV) estimates. In the first essay presented in Chapter 1, I investigate tenant concentration in real estate portfolios and its effect on performance and risk. Utilizing the disclosure of major tenants by 152 Equity REITs from 2000-2017, I document a positive relation between tenant concentration and profitability. REITs with greater tenant concentration experience higher profit margins and lower expense and operating efficiency ratios, suggesting the positive relation between tenant concentration and profitability is driven by increased operational efficiency. Although these REITs are more efficient, tenant concentration is often stated as a risk in public disclosures. Consistent with this view, I find that REITs with greater tenant concentration have greater idiosyncratic risk. Further, banks appear to price this risk into their rate setting process and penalize REITs with greater tenant concentration. Accounting for the quality of the tenant base, the positive effects of tenant concentration (profitability and operating efficiency) are concentrated in REITs with high quality tenants and the negative effects of tenant concentration (idiosyncratic risk and cost of debt) are concentrated in REITs with low quality tenants. In a horse race regression of tenant, geographic, and property type concentrations, tenant concentration appears to have the most critical impact on operating performance and risk.Item Dispositional antecedents of career success : a social network perspective(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006) Cheung, Yu Ha.; Dougherty, Thomas W.[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationships between personality traits (i.e., the five-factor model of personality, core self-evaluations, and proactive personality), social networking behavior, social network structure (i.e., weak ties, structural holes, and network diversity), network benefits, and career success. Participants were 216 business college alumni from a large Midwestern state university who graduated between 1985 and 2002. Results suggested that extraversion, agreeableness, and proactive personality were predictive of social networking behavior but not of network structure. Socializing was related to network structure. Personality traits (i.e., core self-evaluation, proactive personality, agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness to experience), social networking behavior (i.e., increasing internal visibility and cultivating goodwill), network structure (i.e., weak ties and organization affiliation diversity), and work-related network benefits were significant predictors of career success. However, the mediation hypotheses were not supported. Although some hypotheses received limited support, the results of this study provides some replication and extension of the current literature on personality, social network, and careers. Research limitations, implications of the findings, and future research directions are proposed.Item Mentoring as a psychological contract : implications for relationship development and evaluation(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006) Haggard, Dana L.; Turban, Daniel B.[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to investigate the mentoring relationship as a psychological contract and, in doing so, explore the influence of formality, motives for engaging in the relationship, and protégé personality characteristics on the mentoring relationship. Results support the conceptualization of the mentoring relationship as a type of contract. Results also indicate that formality, mentor's position in the organizational hierarchy, motives for engaging in the relationship, and protégé personality characteristics are related to perceptions of mentor obligations. In addition, this research contributes to psychological contract theory by investigating an acknowledged but rarely studied type of psychological contract, one between two individuals, and second by investigating the influence of a particular organizational agent on the employees' psychological contract other than the supervisor. Results indicate that breach of the mentoring contract is related to psychological employment contract breach and the related variables of turnover intentions, job satisfaction and organizational commitment.Item Dispositional and situational predictors of confirmatory behavior in the employment interview(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007) Florea, Liviu; Dougherty, Thomas W.This study analyzes the interviewers' propensity to use their first impressions about their interviewees and to subsequently engage in higher or lower levels of confirmatory behaviors toward their interviewees during the employment interview. Confirmatory behaviors include interviewers' behaviors, during the interpersonal interaction with the interviewees, intended to lead those interviewers to confirm their first impressions formed about the interviewees at the beginning of the interaction (i.e., employment interview). This study also explores the tendency of the interviewees to engage in behavioral confirmation toward their interviewers, by taking cues form their interviewers and matching or imitating the behaviors of their interviewers. Results provide moderate support for the hypotheses: confirmatory behavior was found to be related to one specific motivational trait - need for cognition - and to the extremity of first impressions formed about interviewees. In addition, the analysis of the research question indicated that interviewees tend to engage in behavioral confirmation toward their interviewers. This study has both theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, it opens a new direction in the employment interview research, which searches to identify links between individual characteristics and their decision-making strategies and outcomes. Practically, it helps improve interview training and design.Item Director ties, board experience, and firm strategic outcomes : board experience effects on post-acquisition performance(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006) Horner, Stephen V., 1952-; Moesel, Douglas D.This study examines the effects of board experience on firm outcomes. Using the resource-based view of the firm in complement with agency theory and the resource dependence perspective, theory development links the past experience of outside directors' strategic experiences at their home firms with similar strategies pursued by the focal firm. Hypotheses test the effects on both short-term and long-term performance of outside directors' experience with acquisitions by their home firms of the entire assets of target firms. Results generally do not support the notion that acquiring firms benefit through positive post-acquisition performance from the past experience of their outside directors. However, significant results with respect to board international experience and the acquisition experience of the audit committee provide empirical support for the strategic importance of board experience and of board committees and for their potential impact on firm performance. Discussion of the results address limitations of the study and provide some direction for future investigation into the effects of board experience on firm strategic outcomes.