College of Business Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Essays on Price and Quality Tradeoffs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-29)Price and product quality are among the most important factors that influence consumers’ choices. This dissertation comprises two essays that examine the price and quality trade-off among consumers in two distinct settings. ... -
The Promise and the Peril of Equipping Service Chatbots with Emotions and Choices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-17)The advance in AI-powered chatbot technologies and their rapid deployment in the service industry have attracted enormous interest from both researchers and practitioners in recent years. However, we still know little about ... -
When The Uniqueness Brings Us Together: How Initial Cues of Uniqueness Influence Creative Collaborations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-30)While diverse perspectives benefit collaborations in generating creative outcomes, people generally tend to favor and connect based on similarities. To unpack this seeming dilemma, this research examines whether, how, and ... -
Knowledge Sharing: The Spillover Effects of Process versus Outcome Accountability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-13)Whereas prior literature has examined how process and outcome accountability affect task performance, in this paper, I experimentally investigate the spillover effects of these accountability requirements on employees’ ... -
Essays on International Finance: Stock Market Wealth Creation, Sovereign CDS Spreads, and Currency Comovement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-11)Using the wealth creation measure developed by Bessembinder (2018), we estimate stock market wealth creation around the world and show the importance of national culture in explaining wealth creation. The 88 stock markets ... -
Essays on Online Behavior in Medical Crowdfunding
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-20)In the context of medical crowdfunding, this dissertation investigates how individual reactions are diversified as they encounter certain events online. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on the two types of events: ... -
Interactions and Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-20)Interaction between individuals is especially crucial for innovation as it enables the exchange and recombination of knowledge necessary to create new or improve existing technologies, processes, or products. In my ... -
Trust versus Rewards: Revisiting Managerial Discretion in Incomplete Contracts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-02)Incentive compensation is often characterized by incomplete contracts. While managerial opportunism has been documented as one of the most pronounced problems with managerial discretion in incomplete contracts, prior work ... -
ESSAYS ON FUNDING AND PATENTING IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-14)Inventors often translate their ideas into commercially viable new products through a sequential process called innovation value chain. First, I revisit the innovation value chain and study various innovation platforms, ... -
The Effect of Opaque Audit Methods and Auditor Ownership on Reliance on Independent Expectations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-30)Increasing access to data and advanced statistical methods can help auditors generate independent expectations of estimates, but expectations are not useful unless auditors rely on them. However, advanced methods are likely ... -
IDENTIFIED MOTIVATION AND THE ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS OF INFORMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS ON SUBORDINATE BEHAVIOR
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-06-23)Due to the limits of formal management control systems (MCS) for tasks with unobservable/non-contractible inputs, firms often preferentially select subordinates who exhibit identified motivation (strong perceptions of ... -
The Effect of Payment Format on Consumer Affect and Behavior
All else equal, consumer evaluation of a purchase should not logically depend on the form of payment that is used. However, voluminous research on the “pain of payment” phenomenon has shown that payment format impacts ... -
Courageous Followership: An Investigation of the Nature, Antecedents, and Outcomes of a Multidimensional Construct
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-17)Evolving views of followers and power in today’s increasingly complex and turbulent business environments provides a backdrop for the emergence of scholarly and industry intrigue in the role and behavior of followers. ... -
NETWORK ANALYSIS OF STOCK MARKETS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-22)This dissertation consists of three essays on the application of network methods in finance study at the country-level, firm-level, and fund-level. In the first essay, we extend the analysis of globalization from the market ... -
Essays on The Effects of Variable Debt Obligations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-29)This dissertation consists of three essays on variable debt obligations. In the first essay, I develop a novel dataset to examine the impact of pension group annuity purchases on capital structure and corporate policies. ... -
Three Essays on the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Brand and Firm Outcomes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-08)This work examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on marketing outcomes from three unique perspectives. The first essay centers on a multimethod approach and distinguishes between three types of CSR ... -
BALANCING THE MAIN ACT AND THE SIDE HUSTLE: MULTIPLE WORK IDENTITIES AND JOB CRAFTING AT THE FULL-TIME JOB
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-11)Due to the changing employment landscape, more people are seeking their own “side hustles” (side jobs beyond the full-time job), out of a concern for financial security or a yearning for more meaning in work. However, we ... -
Essays on financial intermediation and household finance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-14)This dissertation consists of three essays on the intersection of financial intermediation and household finance. In the first essay, using proprietary account-level data from a major credit bureau, I examine the impact ... -
Essays on the effectiveness and implications of governments' green product incentives
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-22)In my dissertation, I empirically study the impact of two of the most common types of state-level government incentives, i.e., HOV-lane exemption and tax credit, in the U.S. automobile industry. Assessing the impact of ... -
Behavioral research on sustainable and socially/environmentally responsible operations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-16)With the growth of global interest in sustainability and social responsibility, more companies and manufacturers have started practicing sustainable operations and social and environmental responsibility in their supply ...