Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Management"
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Exploring Linkages in the Cognitive-Emotional Model within the Context of Organizational Change
(2011-05-02)
To better understand linkages between cognition and emotion within the context of an organizational change, a study of employees was conducted in a public university during the introduction of a technological change. ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Stars and Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Peer Feedback Quality
(2019-07-29)
Despite growing research in star performers, little research as of yet has explored the mechanisms by which stars affect team performance. Drawing on Social Information Processing theory, I examine a potential mediating ...
Factors Influencing Adoption and Use of Precision Agriculture
(2006-08-15)
While the potential for creating efficiencies are possible with precision agricultural tools, the various combinations of tools, the steep learning curve of these technologies, and the initial investment of each of the ...
Fix, Flee, or Fan the Flames? An Attributional Investigation of Relational Responses to Coworker Incivility
(2020-04-30)
Workplace incivility, which is low-intensity interpersonal mistreatment with ambiguous intent, is increasingly prevalent in today’s organizations. The ambiguous intent that characterizes incivility suggests attributions ...
Forgone but not Forgotten: A Job and Leisure Crafting Perspective of how Employees Fulfill Their Unanswered Entrepreneurial Identity Aspirations
(2023-05-04)
Aspirations to be an entrepreneur motivate individuals to take entrepreneurial action and to work towards starting a new venture. It is unclear, however, how these entrepreneurial aspirations influence full-time employees’ ...
Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment and Attitudes of Offensiveness Toward Workplace Behaviors as Measured by the Hostile Environment Sexual Harrassment Evaluation Inventory
(1996-03-18)
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perceptions of offensiveness and sexually oriented behaviors and the influence of six demographic, organizational and personal variables upon this relationship. ...
Incorporating Enterprise Architecture in the Supply Chain
(2012-07-27)
Diffusion of innovation literature proposes a variety of conditions and antecedents that may facilitate the complete incorporation of a technological innovation into an organization. To date, no one study assimilates the ...
The Influence of Organizational Values on Profitability
(2009-11-18)
Organizational values have received increased attention in the literature. Research suggested that a relationship existed between organizational values and organizational performance (Alexander & Nagel, 1996; Cascio, 2006; ...
The Insider Threat to Organizational Information Security: A Structural Model and Empirical Test
(2007-12-15)
The organizational insider, through his or her intentional violation of organizational security policy, arguably represents one of the greatest threats to organizational information security. Drawing from the Theory of ...
Insights Into Leadership: The Role of Political Skill, Social Skill, and Self-Monitoring in Mediating the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Job Performance
(2008-08-15)
Although there have been numerous studies supporting the correlation between transformational leadership and job performance, very few of these studies have gone as far as to detail how transformational leadership predicts ...
An Investigation of Organizational Information Security Risk Analysis
(2010-03-02)
From the dawn of the information age, technology has advanced rapidly to today where networked computers are almost ubiquitous. One of the problems with connecting computers together is the increased vulnerability to ...
Iron fists or velvet gloves: examining antecendents and consequences of board control orientation and collaboration orientation
(2021-07-02)
Following corporate scandals of 1990s and early 2000s, corporations in both United States and Europe began to untangle the board leadership structure and separate the Board Chair and the CEO positions. The working relationship ...
Knowledge Integration in Software Teams: An Analysis of Team, Project, and IT-Related Issues
(2006-12-15)
Contemporary organizations are increasingly depending on team-based structures to strategically consolidate their dispersed knowledge resources. Team members possess diverse knowledge resources, and these have to be combined ...
Managing Service Inventory in the Supply Chain
(2006-08-15)
Services have become an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy. This move has forced many companies to shift their focus from simply improving product manufacturing and product delivery to improving product service ...
Managing Supply Chain Disruptions
(2008-08-15)
Supply Chain Management has become an important part of the business environment and the U.S. economy. The move towards improved efficiency and effectiveness for businesses, organizations, and process owners has forced ...
Misconduct and the media: Organizational sensegiving, media coverage, and investor reaction in the aftermath of wrongdoing
(2014-07-11)
Scholars are increasingly exploring organizational misconduct and have sought to explain when and why consequences following the revelation of wrongdoing are disparate between firms. While some explore firm characteristics ...
A Model of Managerial Effectiveness in Information Security: From Grounded Theory to Empirical Test
(2005-08-15)
Information security is a critical issue facing organizations worldwide. In order to mitigate risk and protect valuable information, organizations need to operate and manage effective information security programs. Using ...
A Multi-Industry Assessment of the Influence of Dedicated and Transient Institutional Investors on Firms’ Product Recall Strategies and Actions
(2018-03-20)
Product recalls represent a major concern for organizations and their stakeholders because of costly financial, reputational, and legal damages that ensue from well publicized consumer safety crises. Organizations attempt ...
A Multi-Study Examination of the Role of Values in the Venture Legitimation Process in the Sharing Economy: A Values Work Perspective
(2018-08-28)
This dissertation utilizes a value driven theoretical framework, coupled with a multi-study design to examine how values influence venture legitimation processes under conditions of institutional instability (i.e., study ...
MULTIPLE JOB HOLDING, IDENTITY HARMONY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING: THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF THRIVING
(2022-08-01)
Prior research has considered the impact of holding multiple jobs from the perspective of a side hustle within the gig economy, or moonlighting, and demonstrated both an enriching and a depleting effect. Adopting a different ...