Recent Dissertations

Below is a list of recent dissertations completed by students in the PhD Program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

  • Meghana Ayyagari, International Corporate Governance: A Study of Complementarities and Convergences
  • Chien-Yu Chen, Optimization-Based Available to Promise (ATP)
  • Jian Chen, Three Essays on Mortgage Backed Securities: Hedging Interest Rate and Credit Risks
  • Vincent Duriau, The Performance of Global Business Teams Within Multinational Corporations: The Test of an Intervening Process Model
  • Jonathan Eckhardt, When the Weak Acquire Wealth: An Examination of Why High Growth New Firms are Concentrated in Certain Industries
  • Levent Guntay, Pricing Defaultable Callable Defaultable Coupon Bonds
  • David Jenkins, Profitability, Firm Survival and the Value Relevance of Negative Earnings
  • Zhao Ouyang, An Equilibrium Model for Stock Message Boards on the Internet
  • Xing Pan, Price Dispersion and Price Competition in Online Retail Markets
  • Kirk Patterson, Antecedent and Benefits of Supply Chain Technology Adoption
  • Monvika Phadoongsitthi, The Role of Managerial Accounting in Emerging Economies: An Empirical Study of Thailand
  • Thomas Quasney, Competitive Interaction: A Study of Market, Nonmarket and Integrated Competitive Behavior
  • Narda R. Quigley, The Effects of Team Leaders? Core Self-Evaluations, Self-Efficacy, and Transformational Leadership on Team Efficacy, Goals, Processes, and Performance
  • Bharadhwaj Sivakumaran, Essays on Variety Seeking and its Link with Consideration Sets and Order of Entry
  • Riki Takeuchi, How Do We Get There from Here? Understanding the Black Box in Strategic HRM Research from Resource-based and Social Exchange Perspectives
  • Amanuel Tekleab, The Role of Realistic Job Previews and Organizational Socialization on Newcomers: Psychological Contract Development
  • Carmelita Troy, The Devil Made Me Do It? Managerial & Strategic Factors Leading to Accounting Fraud
  • Hugh Turner, Infrastructure Productivity in the North American Containerport System: A Longitudinal Study (1984-1997)
  • Thomas Vossen, Fair Allocation Methods in Air Traffic Management
  • Yuliang Yao, Measuring Impacts of Electronic Commerce on Supply Chain Management
  • Lei Zhou, The Value of Security Audits, Asymmetric Information and Market Impacts of Security Breaches