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What makes collaborations succeed or fail : understanding uncertainty in collaboration formation and outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Collaborative relationships are a distinct type of agreement that sets them apart from the broader concept of social networks. These relationships involve participants who commit to sharing ... -
Effects of new clients on the audit quality of an audit partner's existing portfolio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Using AP forms filed with the PCAOB between 2017 and 2021, I find that audit partners on new engagements experience attention costs that adversely affect the audit quality of their existing engagements. The existing ... -
Effect of brand social media adoption on brand performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)The continuous emergence and decline of social media platforms present challenges for businesses in planning, investing, and justifying their investments in these platforms. Observations have noted that social media often ... -
Organization's response to external disruptive events
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Essay 1: While implementing a change in distribution strategy, firms often end up creating negative ramifications for some of their channel partners. One such ramification is channel demotion, ... -
Widely publicized events and the demand for director skills: evidence from data breaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] I examine whether widely publicized data breaches affect firms' preferences for IT skills among new board members. The widely publicized data breaches at Target and Equifax in the prior decade ... -
Letting customers win: live chat agent effectiveness in B2C sales negotiations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Sales negotiations over Internet-enabled live chat portals are increasingly common in business-to-consumer (B2C) durable product sales, but little is known about sales agent effectiveness in this ... -
Measuring and comparing the spatiotemporal evolution of accident hot spots
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/31/2023] One reality of transportation systems is that vehicular accidents can happen practically anywhere and at any time. An increasing body of research suggests though that spatial and/or temporal ... -
Information management and security protection for internet of vehicles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Considering the huge number of vehicles on the roads, the Internet of Vehicles is envisioned to foster a variety of new applications ranging from road safety enhancement to mobile entertainment. These new applications all ... -
Financial leverage and predictability of earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This study investigates whether firms' financial leverage affects earnings predictability. I posit and find that earnings predictability is negatively associated with firms' leverage. Further analyses using an instrumental ... -
Reverse knowledge absorptive capacity of MNE-HQ (RKAC): conceptualization, theoretical framework, and empirical testing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Despite the increasing importance of reverse knowledge for innovation and competitive advantage of multinational enterprises (MNEs), the issue of how to make reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) more effective is under-explored. ... -
Voice in marketing interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Voice is an intrinsic feature of marketing interactions that varies among individual agents, across encounters, and throughout interactions. Despite ... -
Three essays on innovation, corporate control and household consumption-based asset pricing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Chapter I: Tracking more than 100 billion weekly transactions of two million products at the barcode level from 2007 to 2017, we identify and categorize new products as pioneers, followers and improvers to study corporate ... -
Credit availability and voluntary disclosures : evidence from interstate branching deregulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines whether the increased availability of bank loans affects borrowers' voluntary disclosures. Exploiting the staggered ... -
Who is the ideal worker? How gendered organizations adversely impact women's promotability and development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Women tend to earn fewer promotions (Roth et al., 2012) and receive fewer developmental opportunities (King et al., 2012) than men, but little research explains why. I explore the stereotype of the ideal worker, someone ... -
Catch-up innovation in emerging market multinationals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this dissertation, I study how emerging market multinationals innovate to catch up with incumbent global leaders. By extending entrepreneurial ... -
The value of crowdsourcing in apparel and fashion retail buying
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Apparel and fashion retail buyers are responsible for selecting and ordering products, on behalf of the retailer, to be sold to retailers' end-consumers. ... -
Two essays on new B2B sales incentive mechanisms for enhancing selling effectiveness and coordinating inside and outside sales forces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Essay 1: Motivating Salespeople to Enhance Selling Effectiveness: The Role and Optimal Design of Activity-Based Incentive Plans This paper provides a rationale and model for the use and optimal design of salesplus ... -
Two essays in real estate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 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) ... -
Complex service offerings : a theoretical exposition and empirical investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)It is generally acknowledged that not all services are alike, still little has been done to distinguish between service offerings of different varieties. While some service offerings are simple and others complex, how they ... -
Three essays on mergers and acquisitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this dissertation, I investigate two segments of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) literature: serial acquirers and cross-border M&As. In the first ...