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Essays on closed-end funds : internal versus external management and insider trading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation examines two aspects of closed-end funds (CEF). First, a limited number of these funds maintain the historical management structure of internally allocating resources to investments as opposed to hiring an advisor external...
Hiding in plain sight : camouflage in the corporate governance of IPOs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
evidence that how the bylaws and charter are written is equally important to what is written in them. Bebchuk and Cohen (2005) show this when they provide evidence that the text of a staggered board provision is less important, and that how the provision...
Dispositional antecedents of career success : a social network perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[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 ...
Three essays on the corporate debt choice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the determinants of the corporate debt choice between different forms of debt financing and different countries. By examining the most extensive...
Who is the ideal worker? How gendered organizations adversely impact women's promotability and development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
dissertation presents future research opportunities to further investigate the ideal worker stereotype and its impact in the workplace....
Firm strategy and knowledge management in strategic supply chain relationships : a knowledge-based view
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Using the knowledge-based view, this study seeks to understand the relationship between firm strategic orientation and interorganizational knowledge management in strategic supply chain alliances of high technology firms. ...