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How Choosing for Others Affects Consumption for the Self: The Consequences of Preference Imposition and Accommodation
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Consumers make choices not only for themselves but for others. For example, parents make a variety of consumption decisions in a typical day for themselves as well as for their family. Yet, little is known about how decisions made for others influence the decision maker’s subsequent consumption....
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How Do Constraints Affect Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity? A Regulatory Focus Perspective
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Academics and practitioners tend to accept that people found new ventures only primarily for economic reasons, but is that always true? Emerging work in the field suggests other non-economic key motives that may drive entrepreneurial decisions. My dissertation explores one such critical...
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How Institutional Logics Influence Venture Growth: A Field Experiment with Tunisian Women Entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneurial training programs promoting women’s entrepreneurship in low- and middle- income countries command significant global attention and concomitant resources. Despite this broad investment, many ventures in these contexts fail to grow. Prior research suggests that institutionalized...
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Fall 2014
I advance a theory of how institutional complexity of national systems shapes the fate of hybrid organizations. In particular, I investigate how various prevailing societal logics independently and jointly affect the founding and social mission focus of microfinance organizations (MFOs); a form...
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Spring 2016
This research study explores how past political legacies have shaped the ways that Chinese organizations are conceptualizing and responding to recent pressures to engage in corporate social responsibility initiatives. While an established body of research has been devoted to unpacking the...
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Spring 2021
I study whether the greater scalability of intangible assets results in a positive relation between firms’ use of intangible assets and shareholders’ perception of the permanence of earnings innovations (the earnings response coefficient or ERC). After documenting that ERCs increase with the use...
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Integrating Research on Acculturation into Organizational Scholarship: Two Empirical Studies and a Construct Development Effort
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The overarching objective of this dissertation is to offer a more comprehensive and profound understanding of how the concept of acculturation can be applied within scholarship on organizations. Through processes of acculturation, individuals experience affective, behavioural, and cognitive...