Search
Skip to Search Results- 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
-
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'...
-
Fall 2012
We present three articles written to satisfy the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Operations and Information Systems: The first is focused on the use of a bidimensional Markov model to compute the expected performance of an ambulance system using dynamic ambulance repositioning based on the...
-
How Do Constraints Affect Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity? A Regulatory Focus Perspective
DownloadFall 2023
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...
-
Maintaining the Institutional Core: A Case Study of Institutional Disruption and Repair at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1842-2012)
DownloadFall 2015
Drawing from an institutional work perspective, I focus on how institutions are maintained amidst disruption, by analyzing what aspects are held constant, and what aspects are allowed to change over time. I offer the institutional core as the main focus of maintenance work set alongside...
-
Fall 2013
Antecedent volition, such as participation strategies, goals, mindsets and information processing modes, has been shown to influence consumer evaluative processes and choice in consumer behavior literature. However, these forms of pre-evaluation volition have been ignored in the quantitative...