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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
- 1Akkoc, Ali Utku
- 1Al-Haji, Ahmad
- 1Alanis, Ramon
- 1Amerongen, Loretta Mary.
- 1Anderson, Clarence Glen.
- 1Andrews, Julian.
- 4Auditing
- 3Categories
- 3Consolidation and merger of corporations
- 3Consumer behavior.
- 3Corporations. Finance.
- 3Entrepreneurship
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Spring 2010
The first essay provides evidence on the origins of the size and value premiums by examining how order flow in the SMB and HML portfolios relates to economic conditions and investor sentiment. We find that buying pressure for SMB and HML is lower (increases) when economic conditions are expected...
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Three Studies of Institutional Transformation: Theorizing an Institutional Logic’s Basis of Worth, The Role of Values in the Coherence of Institutional Logics, and Remaking Worth in Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry
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Values are core to institutions. The overarching aim of this dissertation is to examine institutional values and their role in enabling or constraining a widely examined phenomenon within organizational studies: transformations. Theoretically, my research contributes towards a growing body of...
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Three Studies on Cultural Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding: We’ve Got Your Back, The Legitimacy Threshold Revisited, and Four Pathways Towards Cultural Resonance
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The primary goal of this doctoral thesis is to advance knowledge on the processes by which entrepreneurial actors gain and maintain the support of their audiences, such as resource providers. Theoretically, my research contributes to the growing body of work on the cultural dynamics of...
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Fall 2021
The stigma literature is burgeoning in the field of management and organization studies. While much of the existing work has sought to unpack the sources and characteristics of stigma or the varied counter-responses by which individual organizations manage their stigma, stigma scholars only...
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Fall 2010
In two essays I investigate two antecedents of self-concept change in consumers: Threats to the self and the activated self-construal and its effect on goal conflict resolution. In the first essay, I explore identity strictly as consumers define themselves in terms of the possessions with which...