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Fall 2018
This thesis is composed of three individual papers in information system area. In the first paper, we build an economic model to study the problem of o↵ering a new, high-certainty channel on an existing business-to-consumer platform such as Taobao and eBay. In the second paper, we use game...
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Fall 2021
Humans are known to gain or lose utility by comparing their payoffs with those of their peers. I analyze how such social preferences affect incentive contracts and performance evaluation in principal-agent settings. In my models, agents dislike getting worse off than their peers (I say they have...
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Embedded Categories: Three Studies on the Institutional Shaping of Categories and Category Effects
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Over the past fifteen years, a rich program of research has emerged among scholars interested in the role of categories within fields and industries. In this context, studies have shown that categories shape organizational and market processes by grouping firms and products in ways that convey...
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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...
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Fall 2015
In this dissertation I aim to gain a better understanding of employee voice and taking charge through the interactions between employees’ attitudes, personality, and experiences with leaders. To this end, the studies presented herein investigate how transformational leadership; different types of...
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Employees’ Behavioural Responses to Workplace Mistreatment and Person and Workplace Factors Influencing Their Responses
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Media reports have testified to the frequency and profound consequences of workplace aggression, focusing attention on this behaviour. Workplace aggression involves behaviour with an intention to harm others in a work-related context. In this dissertation, I used the General Aggression Model to...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation seeks to explore how entrepreneurs engage in prospective sensemaking and what role their arational beliefs play in it. I investigate the implications of prospective sensemaking on opportunity identification and risk management. While the current literature on entrepreneurship...