RSS 1.0Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Business
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This collection contains theses and dissertations by students in the School of Business at Washington State University.
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Dissecting the Relation between Insider and Institutional Trading
(2017)This dissertation consists of two essays. In the first essay, we examined the relation between insider trades and institution demand. The literature documents a strong inverse relation between insider trading and institutional ... -
MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR ON RISK TAKING AND RESERVE MANAGEMENT FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES
(2017)This dissertation consists of two essays on managerial behavior on risk taking and reserve management for insurance companies. In the first essay, we investigate the impact of CEOs who hold firm-specific risk on insurer’s ... -
NET SHARE ISSUANCE, INSTITUTIONAL TRADING, AND STOCK MARKET RETURNS
(2016)This dissertation contains two essays that study net share issuance, institutional trading and stock market returns. The first essay examines whether short-term institutions and short sellers exploit the net share issuance ... -
ESSAYS ON THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, COST OF EQUITY, CORPORATE OPACITY AND DEFAULT RISK
(2016)This dissertation contains three essays. The first essay examines the effects of the audit committee and insurer characteristics on the cost of equity in publicly traded property-liability insurance companies. We find that ... -
Product Recalls Conceptualized as Social Dilemmas
(2016)This dissertation explores the product recall decision. I first posit that the product recall decision can be viewed as a social dilemma where short-term individual interests and long-term collective interests are at odds. ... -
Exploring the role of team member personalities on Six Sigma project success, and modelling the analytic hierarchy process
(2016)This dissertation has two major components. First, it focuses on how the personalities of Six Sigma team members affect Six Sigma project success. Second it focuses on building a new way to simulate decision matrices from ... -
Quantity Discounts, Capacity Decisions, and Channel Structure Choices in Supply Chains
(2015)This dissertation takes a two-pronged approach into exploring best practices to optimize supply chains through procurement and distribution. Specifically, I develop three models to help managers make better business decisions ... -
NAVIGATING THE ELUSIVE INDUSTRY: A GROUNDED INVESTIGATION INTO HOTEL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IN A DEVELOPING PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRY
(2015)In that most industries with the potential to advance increased economic self-reliance in developing Pacific Island countries (PICs) have proven ineffectual over time, tourism has emerged as one of the only economic ... -
US-Based Hotel Brand Personality
(2015)Brand personality is integrated knowledge held by consumers about what a brand is and what a brand means to them. It is a critical notion to understand consumers' psychology with a brand such as brand attitude, attachment, ... -
Essays on the Monitoring Role of Corporate Boards
(2015)This dissertation contains two essays that study the monitoring role played by corporate boards. The first essay provides a new perspective to the multiple directorships literature, which focuses on outside directors. ... -
Rebranding: Two Essays
(2015)This dissertation extends the limited extant research on rebranding. Despite the high costs and influential marketplace implications associated with rebranding, brand research has largely ignored this brand strategy and ... -
EXPLORING THE BUSINESS VALUE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY EXAMINING USERS' INFORMATION SHARING BEHAVIORS, EVALUATION OF BENEFITS, AND USAGE CONTINUANCE DECISION MAKING
(2015)Social media refers to a group of Internet-based applications that facilitate the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Social media platforms enable users to create, share, and exchange knowledge, and create ... -
Cultural and Institutional Context, Entrepreneurship, and International Venturing
(2015)This dissertation examines cultural and institutional context on entrepreneurial activities and international venturing through three essays. The first essay investigated the role of individualism-collectivism as a continuum ... -
Supply Chain Insights for Hospitality and E-Commerce
(2015)My dissertation explores supply chain management and coordination insights in two of today’s most rapidly growing industries that already comprise a large portion of GDP in many countries: hospitality and e-commerce. I ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE TIME SERIES MODELS
(2015)Time series models have been widely used in finance and economics. In the first essay, an extreme value test is considered to evaluate a testing predictive ability. The exact asymptotic distribution function of the test ... -
TECHNOSTRESS IN HEALTHCARE: A MULTI-METHOD INVESTIGATION
(2015)Healthcare information technology (HIT) is regarded as a way to improve the quality of patient care in hospitals. Care providers worldwide are now reporting instances of psychological stress induced by HIT, also known as ... -
Advances in the Economic Modeling of Agriculture and Natural Resources
(2015)In the first chapter, I introduce a modification of the Fourier Flexible form. In terms of limiting function specification error, this form is preferable to functional forms based on second-order Taylor series expansions, ... -
Environmental Policy, Greenhouse Gas Polluting Inputs, and Lifecycle Analysis
(2015)This dissertation consists of three studies that investigate impact of environmental taxes on firms' technology and entry behaviors, substitution between greenhouse gas (GHG) polluting and nonpolluting inputs in agricultural ... -
Essays on International Agricultural Development
(2015)This dissertation comprises studies on three research topics related to international agricultural development. The first paper examines trades costs associated with Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) across a wide range of ... -
Essays on Imperfect Competition and International Trade
(2015)This dissertation consists of three chapters based on product differentiation and increasing returns to scale. Chapter 1 studies a static monopolistic competition model with social indifference curves over a group of ...