• Can you feel it?: how and when leader passion impacts follower performance 

  Landay, Karen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Despite popular opinion that passion is a necessary ingredient for leadership, scholars have little insight into how, when, or even if leader passion impacts follower outcomes. I therefore make several contributions towards ...
• A mismatch between theory and practice?: the role of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) motives and measures on performance outcomes 

  Irwin, Kristin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are complex, multi-level transactions in which ownership of one firm is merged with another firm, or one firm acquires ownership of another firm. A wide-range of factors can affect M&A ...
• Retribution or reconciliation: investigating employees’ responses to abusive supervision 

  Song, Xiaochuan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Abusive supervision has been linked to a number of negative employee-related issues, including work-related issues such as counterproductive work behaviors and decreased job performance, and non-work related issues, such ...
• A connectionist model of the ideal organization: investigating nurse assessment of person-organization fit 

  Lowman, Graham Hughes (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  The attraction and retention of nurses is a primary concern in the healthcare industry. I propose a context-sensitive connectionist model of person-organization (P-O) fit to provide a framework for understanding the cognitive ...
• Work meaningfulness and its impact on stress appraisal 

  Pervez, Adam (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  The Transactional Model of Stress posits that stressors are cognitively appraised and those appraised as challenges or threats are coped with to return to homeostasis (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). This study incorporated job ...
• The more we know; the less we know: the effects of interpersonal networks on employees misperception of peers preferences to utilize family-friendly benefits 

  Mandeville, Ashley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which individuals inaccurately perceive the attitudes of their peers within their work group to be different from their own and subsequently align their behavior with what they ...
• Tales from the dark side of entrepreneurship 

  Tucker, Reginald Lewis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  This dissertation proposes that personality is a missing link in the intention-behavior relationship that can help explain why some individuals who have entrepreneurial intentions take entrepreneurial action, but others ...
• Toward an understanding of one’s future work self salience as an indicator of work related behaviors 

  Bellairs, Tom (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Future work self (FWS) refers to who a person aspires to become in the future as it relates to his or her work. FWS serves as a distal goal that motivates individuals to engage in three work-related behaviors: job crafting, ...
• The frustration-aggression hypothesis revisited: a deviance congruence perspective 

  Crawford, Wayne S. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  In 1939, Dollard and colleagues presented the frustration-aggression theory. The main tenet of the theory posits that individuals become frustrated when goal attainment is prohibited or interrupted. Further, following ...
• Exchange without return: helping behaviors over time in positive and negative reciprocity relationships 

  Leon, Matthew R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  There is broad awareness that the health of coworker relationships is often built on reciprocity and assessments of member exchanges, where relationships are pursued or terminated based on benefits received. Both social ...
• Sins of the parents: how parenting style affects successors and key family firm outcomes after succession 

  Shanine, Kristen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  The intent to transfer control to the next generation is a defining characteristic of family firms. Yet, most family-controlled firms fail to transfer control and, when they do, the next generation’s leadership often fails ...
• Dynamic capabilities “now we see them” in the airline industry 

  Jifri, Ali (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  The study of dynamic capabilities is one of the dominant research streams in strategic management. This dissertation contributes to the dynamic capabilities literature by theorizing and testing key questions regarding the ...
• Risk in the eye of the beholder?: an examination of risk evaluation, role expectations and workplace risk-related behavior 

  Stoutner, Oliver Keith (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  This dissertation presents the results of three studies designed to enhance understanding of how individual risk evaluation pertains to role theory and how prospect theory can offer clues on the process undergirding the ...
• Adherence to organizational routines: a micro-foundations lens 

  Maalouf, Jamal Tanios (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Organizational routines are viewed as a source of strategic competitive advantage that enhances firm performance. How do organizations continue to adhere to organizational routines after the routines are integrated in the ...
• Choosing between the formal and informal economy: how do business managers in emerging markets decide? 

  Abi Aad, Amine A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Why do managers in emerging markets conduct some activities in the informal economy and others in the formal economy when they have a choice? Using institutional economic theory, previous research shows that, at the country ...
• An examination of the mediators and moderators in the relationship between justifications, organizational contexts, and discrimination in personnel selection 

  Holmes IV, Oscar (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Discrimination research has largely focused on what has been called old-fashioned racism. However, research exploring modern racism is a burgeoning area. This dissertation attempted to extend and build theory on modern ...
• Ethical leadership in firms: antecedents and consequences 

  Li, Chenwei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Recent ethical misconduct of leaders, in some high profile firms, has drawn increased attention to the reality that, ignorance on the ethics of leaders could threaten the survival of companies, and that ethical leadership ...
• An examination of the role of social networks in the commercialization of entrepreneurial innovations 

  Noble, David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

  Through the extension of Seibert, Kraimer, and Liden's (2001) social capital framework to the field of entrepreneurship, this paper develops and tests a theoretical model focusing on how an entrepreneur's social network ...
• Who has conflicts with whom?: a social capital approach to conflict and creativity in teams 

  Hood, Anthony Carl (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

  Extant team conflict research treats conflict as a shared perceptual team property whereby it is assumed that all of a team's members experience equivalent amounts of conflict. This traditional approach is silent concerning ...
• Character, conditions, and cognitions: the role of personality, climate, intensity, and moral disengagement in the unethical decision-making process 

  Tillman, C. Justice (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

  Despite increased attention given to unethical decision-making, few studies have simultaneously examined the multiple influences that may effect this outcome. In addition, few studies have examined the processes through ...

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