Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Management"
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Antecedents, Process, and Consequences: Strategic Choice in Organization
(2021-11-16)This dissertation seeks to understand the relationship between firms’ strategy practices and strategic decision-making processes and a breadth of organizational outcomes. While strategy and organizational decision-making ... -
Barriers and Bridges to Developmental Information Transfer
(2022-04-28)With the rise in complex, collaborative, and often subjective work, employees rely on those around them for the information they need to make good decisions, improve their performance, and contribute to organizational ... -
Competition in Digital Markets: Role of Data and Network
(2022-09-15)This dissertation studies how resources like proprietary data or market factors such as network interconnectivity influence the barrier to entry into digital markets, and analyzes their impact on the competitiveness and ... -
Emergent Forces in Health Care Management: The Role of Patients, Foundations & Digital Technology in Shaping New Product Development
(2022-09-06)This dissertation investigates the role of emerging, external forces in shaping medical product development. Drawing on concepts from the technology innovation, nonmarket strategy, and health policy literatures, I evaluate ... -
Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise and the Reinvention of the American Work Ethic
(2022-05-15)This dissertation analyzes the development of the work ethic in the United States over the course of the twentieth century –– the cultural structure that impels people to work more than is strictly necessary to meet their ... -
Essays on Data-Driven Product Innovation in Organizations
(2023-05-05)How do organizations anticipate market demand to produce commercially successful product innovations? Much previous research emphasizes the advantages of being "data-driven"—utilizing data analytics or experimentation to ... -
Essays on Precommitment
(2022-11-23)Precommitment is a way for someone to impose certain constraints on or alter various incentives, in order to encourage (or discourage) future behavior. Precommitment primarily is situated in the literature on self-control, ... -
How do health care organizations’ characteristics affect the effectiveness of service delivery reforms?
(2023-06-01)Poor performances in efficiency and quality in health system has been a persistent problem. Provider payment reforms have been adopted globally to incentivize better efficiency and quality of care, but the results are often ... -
Intentional ambiguity
(2013-10-08)In this dissertation, I present a grounded exploration of some processes and mechanisms through which internal ambiguity helps groups adapt to—and thus cope with—external ambiguity and an unpredictably changing ... -
Into the Unknown: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance in the Minibus Taxi Industry
(2022-05-09)This dissertation examines the importance of strategic selection on firm performance in the minibus taxi industry in South Africa. I use a proprietary dataset from a minibus taxi financing company that contains data on ... -
Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023-03-14)Modern organizations, especially health care delivery organizations, invest a significant amount of time and resources to prepare for, respond to, and resile through crises of various kinds. And yet, the COVID-19 pandemic ... -
Pairing Purpose with Profit
(2021-07-12)In recent years, companies that pursue both social and commercial goals have been on the rise. These companies have significant potential for social and economic impact and are emerging amidst increased pressure and ... -
PROPHETS OF PLENTY: HOW SCIENTISTS IGNORED NATURAL COMPLEXITY AND OVERPROMISED SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES, 1863-PRESENT
(2023-09-07)In this dissertation I argue that fisheries science overpromised and under-delivered large sustainable catches. Fisheries scientists’ presumption of plenitude encouraged them to ignore important aspects of fish ecology ... -
Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination
(2013-10-08)In this dissertation, I integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team effectiveness literature to theorize how minimal team structures support effective coordination when people do not ... -
The Dynamic Nature of Leader Identity Development
(2023-06-01)Leadership is complex: at its core, it deals with influencing and developing unique individuals in unique contexts. Equally complex is the construction of leaders’ identities and how they are developed. Existing research ...