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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 ...
The personal cost of being in the in-group: the relationship between leader-member exchange quality and work-family conflict

Lawrence, Ericka R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Research examining the influence of leader-member exchange (LMX) on employee outcomes is plentiful. However, research exploring the potential negative consequences of engaging in LMX relationships has been limited. In order ...
The dark side of LMX: variances among out-group members in growth need and work outcomes

Wu, Keke (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Given my interest in LMX relationships and impression management (IM) behaviors, this dissertation was focused on the out-group in LMX, regarding member job performance and attitudes (Study I), and the impact of IM on ...
Risk perceptions and venture creation decisions: establishing the boundary conditions of overconfidence and perceived environmental munificence

Robinson, Anthony (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This dissertation leverages cognition theory to examine the relationship between risk perceptions and venture creation decisions and seeks to establish overconfidence and perceived environmental munificence as boundary ...

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