Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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A tale of two arbs : essays on agency and financial institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis consists of two essays covering topics in the economics of financial institutions with an emphasis on certain types of potential agency problems. In particular, it investigates two radically different types of ... -
Tapping into the pulse of the market : essays on marketing implications of information flows
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)As the Internet continues to penetrate consumer households, online marketing is getting increasingly important for firms. By adapting to online strategies, firms are blessed (or doomed) with a plethora of new business ... -
Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)The organization of professional work-that of lawyers, doctors, and accountants, among others-is undergoing change. One of the most notable changes is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into ... -
Team design and performance : a study of short-term enterpreneurial teams
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)In this dissertation, I study the factors that influence the performance of short-term teams engaged in an entrepreneurial activity. This is an important area to study because team-started businesses account for a ... -
Technological capability catching up : follow the normal way or deviate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The thesis explores a puzzle in technological capability development: many firms in China follow the "normal" way of technological capability development suggested by the existing literature but have not made much progress, ... -
Technological change for environmental improvement : the case of the Mexican automobile sector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The main objective of this research was to articulate the processes and factors of technological change that promote environmental improvement while contributing to development goals in the Mexican automobile sector. The ... -
A technology acceptance model for empirically testing new end-user information systems : theory and results
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
Technology strategy : the case of the diagnostic ultrasound industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
The technology treadmill : managing product performance and production ramp-up in fast-paced industries
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Technologyical anchors of interfirm cooperation : a study of the structure of the alliance networks of U.S. public firms
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Temporal patterns of change in groups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
A theoretical model of correlates of evaluation of expertise boundary roles : formulation and empirical test
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Three essays in corporate finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The first chapter of this dissertation studies the relationship between firm age and the diversification discount. The second and third chapters analyze how firms use the proceeds of their stock offerings. In particular, ... -
Three essays in decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation is composed of three essays about consumer judgment and decision making. In Essay 1, I develop a novel explanation for the well-known endowment effect - the tendency for owners to value goods more than ... -
Three essays in finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis consists of three essays on asset pricing. Chapter 1 presents an equilibrium model to study the convergence trading of large hedge funds in segmented markets. The model provides an alternative explanation for ... -
Three essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Chapter 1 studies endogenous medium term cycles in a Schumpterian growth model. New firms are created by imitating existing firms and they drive the least productive firms out of business. In this manner, firm entry speeds ... -
Three essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In Chapter 1, I propose that abnormal returns generated by price momentum can be explained away within the framework of an existing risk factor model such as the Fama-French three-factor model. Two features of a systematic ... -
Three essays in marketing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)(cont.) that threaten to disappear cause decision makers to invest more effort and money in order to keep these options open, even when the options themselves seem to be of little interest. The last experiment provides ... -
Three essays in operations management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The thesis applies optimization theory to three problems in operations management. In the first part of the thesis, we investigate the impact of inventory control on the availability of drugs to patients at public health ... -
Three essays in the economics of information technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The first chapter is to investigate the impact of a free on-line repository of research articles on the diffusion of their ideas measured by the citation counts. The key questions that this chapter answers are as following: ...
