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Description:: The present thesis presents a new application of dynamic constructivism (Hong, Morris, Chui, & Benet-Martinez, 2000; Morris & Fu, 2001) to teamwork process in creativity in multicultural teams. With its roots in cognitive psychology, dynamic constructivist theory posits that varying values, social structures, and norms within cultures create different knowledge...
Keyword:: Business Administration
Subject:: Management and Organizations
Creator:: Susan Crotty
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/13/2018
Date Modified:: 09/13/2018
Date Created:: 2008-07-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
Keyword:: Marketing and Business Administration
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Federico Rossi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: There is a growing interest in both marketing and economics in the dynamics of decision-making. Researchers have proposed richer behavioral models of consumers and firms with the purpose of learning behavioral primitives that static models cannot capture. In these studies, models move away from stylized views of decision-making by explicitly...
Keyword:: Marketing and Business Administration
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Federico Rossi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: My dissertation explores the rational and emotional foundations of ethical decision making. Traditional research has associated ethical superiority with an analytic, rational decision making process and has suggested that emotions (e.g., empathy or anger) undermine ethics because they lead people to breach ethical principles such as the norm of impartiality....
Keyword:: Management and Business Administration
Subject:: Management and Organizations
Creator:: Chen-Bo Zhong
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-09-28
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the first essay, I examine the impact of exogenous changes in stock prices on managers' voluntary disclosures. Specifically, I investigate whether stock price declines prompt managers to voluntarily disclose firm-value-related information that was withheld prior to the decline because it was "unfavorable" but became favorable at a lower stock...
Keyword:: Accounting and Business Administration
Subject:: Accounting Information and Management
Creator:: Ewa Sletten
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/30/2018
Date Modified:: 07/30/2018
Date Created:: 05-11-2007
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The first essay examines how the shift between single-tasking and multitasking influences productivity and workers' bargaining power, and its implications on the distribution of earnings between management and workers. Under single-tasking, a firm can obtain high productivity because workers' hold-up power can provide them with larger incentives to work. In...
Keyword:: Business Administration
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Seongwuk Moon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/26/2018
Date Modified:: 07/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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