Business Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Business, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Modeling Pharmaceutical Risk-Sharing Agreements, Reza Mahjoub
Frontstage Dramaturgy, Backstage Drama: An Ethnographic Study of the Provision of Hotel Accommodation, Maziar Raz
Essays on the Relationship Between Host Market Corruption and Multinational Enterprise Strategy, Michael A. Sartor
A Cognitive Role Theoretic Approach to the Consumer Role, Jodie Whelan
Entrepreneurial Culture: Developing a Theoretical Construct and its Measurement, Matthew A. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Role of Self-Brand Overlap in Consumer Evaluations of Brand Portfolio Management Decisions, Kendra A. Hart
Outsourcing Family: Consumers, Culture, and Marketplaces for Care & Intimacy, Aimee L. Huff
Leaders, Followers, and the Space Between: A Three Dimensional View of Leader Attention and Decision-making, Karen T. MacMillan
Coordinating over time: The micro-processes of integrating creativity and control in a dramatic television production, Esther R. Maier
Co-Ownership and Environmental Performance, Robert R. Raffety
The Role of Corporate Controls, Size, and Corporate Headquarters in the Effect of Corporate-Level Strategy on Business-Level Strategy and Business-Level Performance, S. A. Pouya Seifzadeh
New Venture Creation Mode: Differences Between Nascent Intrapreneurs and Nascent Entrepreneurs, Matthias A. Tietz
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Predictors of the Requesting and Granting of Employer-Sponsored Disability Accommodations, Katherine E. Breward
The Effects of the Environment and Corporate Governance on Illegal Cartel Activity, David Kunsch
Strategic Overpricing of Initial Public Offerings, Zheng Liu
Developing Dynamic Capabilities in Environments of Persistent Disturbances, Brent A. McKnight
Revenue Management in Multi-Firm, Multi-Product Price Competition, Michael P. Moffatt
Context is Everything: Facilitating Fit When New Products are Ambiguous, Theodore J. Noseworthy
Nursing Identity and the Computer: The Impact of Care Realities on Information Systems Use, Hannah S. Rasmussen
International returnees and the capturing of foreign knowledge by emerging market firms, Michael Joseph Dominic Roberts
A Transaction Governance Perspective on Business Entertainment: A General Model and Evidence From China, Yonglin Sun
Organizational Perceptions and Responses to the Natural Environment, Michael O. Wood
To Leave or To Stay? The Decision Context, Self-Images, and Owner-Managers' Persistence Decisions, Fei Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Impact of Human Capital and Organizational Characteristics on the Business Value of Information Technology, Shady Fraiha
The Structural Importance of Consumer Networks, Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee
Innovation Practice Transfer and Capability Development within the Multinational Enterprise, Nathaniel C. Lupton
Learning from the Enemy: Identity, Conflict, and Inter-Organizational Learning, Patricia Anne MacDonald
The CEO Effect: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Executive Orientation and Corporate Social Strategy, Daina D. Mazutis
The Newsvendor Problem with Pricing, Craig Sorochuk
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Credit Default Swaps - Essays on Model and Market Efficiency, Muhammad F. Farooqi
Object and Relations Uncertainty: Two Components of Perceived Environmental Uncertainty, Anthony Francolini
Cross-Sector Models of Collaboration for Social Innovation, Marlene J. Le Ber
Options Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Investigation of Patterns of Commitment in Display Technologies in the Flat Panel TV Set Industry, Derek Lehmberg
Incentives for Optimal Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources, Monali M. Malvankar
Occasioning Dialogic Spaces of Innovation: The pan-Canadian EHR, Infoway and the Re-Scripting of Healthcare, Akbar M. Saeed
Employment of Returnees and the Performance of Multinational Subsidairies in China, Huanglin Wang