Recent Dissertations

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


Meghana Ayyagari, “IInternational Corporate Governance: A Study of Complementarities and Convergences

Chien-Yu Chen, “Optimization-Based Available to Promise (ATP)

Jian Chen, “TThree 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