The purpose of this study was to investigate how organizations navigate change to survive and thrive amid complexity and uncertainty. Through a single qualitative case st[...]

Drawing from theology and classical perspectives in clinical psychology, I introduce and develop the phenomenon of micro-confessing—self-disclosing shortcomings of desire[...]

Why do people trust? To this point, the literature has focused on only two answers to that question: because they are trusting and because others are trustworthy. Althoug[...]

I examine how a firms multiple reputations influence managers and stakeholders reactions to a negative violation. Specifically, I investigate how a firms financial and so[...]

Research on corporate governance reforms has typically focused on whether the reforms accomplish their stated objectives; however, reforms of any kind can bring unintend[...]

This dissertation provides a re-conceptualization of the construct of psychological empowerment. This effort is motivated by the observation that the definition proposed[...]

Single Objective Network Flow (SONF) optimization is one of the most widespread techniques for modeling real systems. Network flow models have been used for many diverse [...]

While much is known about the biases females face in reaching the top, less is known about how stereotypes influence expectations once they become chief executive officer[...]

Every day, employees experience moments where they must decide how much of their private lives they want known to others. Sometimes, these moments are triggered by questi[...]

Gossiping, defined as informally exchanging negative information with a colleague about an absent third person (Kurland & Pelled, 2000), is a pervasive phenomenon. By[...]

Corporate governance scholars have employed agency theory extensively to examine the relationship between boards of directors and CEOs. In corporations, principals (owner[...]

This study proposes and tests two social-constructivist, knowledge-based models through which organization members personal epistemological beliefs about knowledge and le[...]

Work engagement has been used to describe the extent to which employees devote themselves and their full energies to work related endeavors. Although engagement is recei[...]

Identity research is replete with theories about what identity is, how it is formed, and under what conditions it changes. Nevertheless, the field seems to have neglected[...]

This dissertation explores how job seekers develop expectations about their future employment relationship prior to organizational entry. The organizational behavior lite[...]

The person-environment (P-E) fit literature has largely focused on employees self-perceptions of their own fit with the workplace. This dissertation examines managers per[...]

This dissertation inductively conceptualizes how activist organizations engage in nontraditional rivalry with firms. Using cluster and qualitative analysis of 778 such at[...]

Corporate social reporting is the voluntary disclosure of corporate social performance information to the general public. Although the idea of corporate social reporting[...]

Impression management describes the strategies a firm implements to manage evaluator perceptions, an important dimension of firm survival and success. Scholarship to date[...]

Despite the importance of CEO succession planning, firms do not typically disclose much information regarding their CEO succession plans due to fear of incurring propriet[...]

In making a major decision, like the voluntary decision to leave ones current organization, there are opposing forces that push us towards or pull us away from making the[...]

The effects of impression management tactics are poorly understood when used inanticipation of events that trigger stakeholder reactions. I examine voluntary firm disclos[...]

This study makes the following contributions to strategic management theory. First, it identifies specific actions firms take to protect critical resources such as techn[...]

The reputational perspective on boards of directors lends a number of insights to the corporate governance literature which clarifies and explains outcomes which are coun[...]