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Fishing via Meaning Infrastructure: Entrepreneurial Search and Possibility Development in the Emergent AI & ML Field
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This monograph broadens the scope of cultural entrepreneurship by exploring the link between entrepreneurial search activities and the level of institutionalization of fields. Cultural entrepreneurship involves manipulating cultural repertoires to gather support from relevant audiences, but this...
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Fall 2023
Essay 1 studies how managerial overconfidence, defined as a miscalibration bias, affects the timing and terms of mergers and acquisitions. Using a real options framework, I show that overconfident acquirers lead to earlier mergers in which the terms of the deal favour target firms. Acquirers'...
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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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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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Spring 2023
This dissertation extends our understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurial teams and entrepreneurial outcomes. Using a sample of 260 nascent family ventures, I look at the impact of entrepreneurial team composition on important entrepreneurial milestones. I examine two specific...
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Spring 2023
This dissertation consists of three essays concerning corporate economic efficiency. More specifically, I document how efficiently firms have used and allocated capital over the last three decades in the U.S. and worldwide. More importantly, I explore firm characteristics that affect their...
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Fall 2023
This thesis comprises three essays examining the interactions between central bank and government interventions and financial markets. In Chapter 2, I compare corporate bond purchase programs by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan during the COVID-19 crisis. Both programs shared one...
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What Language Reflects and Predicts in the Consumption of Cuteness and Foreign Entertainment
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Language is ubiquitous and impactful in the marketplace, constantly being generated and consumed in speech, text, word of mouth (WOM), and online exchanges (Berger, 2014; Berger, Packard, et al., 2022; Moore & Lafreniere, 2020). For example, the choice of words, concreteness of language, and...
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Speaking Scientifically: The Role of Communication in the Translation of Novel Brain Science Research into Policy
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This project examines how addiction and mental health policy comes to incorporate novel research findings from brain and neurosciences by asking: “What role does communication play in the translation of research into policy?” I use a multiple case design to compare and contrast varying...
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Spring 2022
This research introduces the concept of phatic brand communication to marketing, and examines its use in the context of social media. The main function of phatic brand communication is for brands to create an atmosphere of sociability with consumers (e.g., “Hey YOU. Have a great day.”) rather...