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Title: The Effect of Alliance Portfolio Size on Firm Performance Revisited: The Role of Firm- and Portfolio-Level Contingencies.
Creator: Siqueira Barreto, Tais, Lenartowicz, Tomasz, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description: Alliance portfolios, or a firm collection of simultaneous alliances, have become common phenomena particularly in technology industries. These portfolios have been found to have a significant impact on firms’ financial performance. At the same time, there is little consensus regarding the direction of this effect. Findings have shown positive, negative, curvilinear, and non-significant relationships. In this dissertation, I employed an organizational learning perspective to investigate the...
Show moreAlliance portfolios, or a firm collection of simultaneous alliances, have become common phenomena particularly in technology industries. These portfolios have been found to have a significant impact on firms’ financial performance. At the same time, there is little consensus regarding the direction of this effect. Findings have shown positive, negative, curvilinear, and non-significant relationships. In this dissertation, I employed an organizational learning perspective to investigate the effect of alliance portfolio size on firm financial performance. Using a sample of 343 firm-year observations in the U.S. software industry, I explored portfolio- and firm-level characteristics as moderators of this relationship. Findings provide evidence for a curvilinear, inverted U-shaped relationship between portfolio size and firm performance that is moderated by the timing of the alliances within the portfolio and by the firms’ Top Management Team (TMT) turnover.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004888, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004888
Subject Headings: Strategic alliances (Business)--Management., Management science., Corporate governance., Interorganizational relations., Business networks., Organizational behavior.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Firm Social Network, Information Transfer and Information Environment.
Creator: Bhandari, Avishek, Kohlbeck, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Accounting
Abstract/Description: I investigate whether or not a firm’s social network size (also known as social capital) impacts the quality of its information environment. Following social capital theory, I posit three potential channels that help bring an informational advantage to wellconnected firms. First, well-connected firms are likely to have timely access to a broader set of information that affords them the opportunity to disclose this information. Second, a social network fosters trust among social peers, which...
Show moreI investigate whether or not a firm’s social network size (also known as social capital) impacts the quality of its information environment. Following social capital theory, I posit three potential channels that help bring an informational advantage to wellconnected firms. First, well-connected firms are likely to have timely access to a broader set of information that affords them the opportunity to disclose this information. Second, a social network fosters trust among social peers, which promotes the transfer of more accurate information within that network. Third, well-connected executives and directors have greater reputational capital at stake, which may encourage them to provide accurate information to the market. I provide evidence that well-connected firms have higher quality information environments. I further document that the beneficial impact of the firm’s social network size on the quality of the firm’s information environment is higher for complex firms. I also find that the beneficial effect of the firm’s social ties on the quality of the firm’s information environment is greater when the firm’s connections are in the same industry or are top executives or are industry leaders or are financiers in the capital markets. My study extends existing social network literature by investigating whether firm’s social connections to outside executives and directors impact the quality of the firm’s information environment. My paper focuses on the networking skills of the executives and directors and extends the literature on how executives’ and directors’ personal characteristics are important. Additionally, I respond to the call by Engelberg et al. (2013) to identify the mechanism by which a CEO’s network creates value to the firm and well-connected CEOs get paid higher compensation. This study also contributes to a growing debate in social network literature between social capital theory and agency theory. Finally, my study is important to the regulators and standard setters as they can provide further evidence on the impact of non-financial information on the information quality surrounding the firm.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004901
Subject Headings: Corporate governance., Social networks., Business networks., Information technology--Social aspects., Issues management., Work environment--Social aspects.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Networking trends of small tourism businesses: A case study of post-socialist Slovakia.
Creator: Copp, Charles B., Florida Atlantic University, Ivy, Russell L.
Abstract/Description: The country of Slovakia has experienced many new changes since their adoption of a market economic system. The tourism industry is an area of the economy that has experienced high levels of growth and is deemed to be a cornerstone of Slovakia's future well being. The objective of this paper is to assess this industry by investigating the reorganization and use of networks by small businesses. A survey of Slovak hotels and tourism agents was conducted to evaluate these interrelationships. The...
Show moreThe country of Slovakia has experienced many new changes since their adoption of a market economic system. The tourism industry is an area of the economy that has experienced high levels of growth and is deemed to be a cornerstone of Slovakia's future well being. The objective of this paper is to assess this industry by investigating the reorganization and use of networks by small businesses. A survey of Slovak hotels and tourism agents was conducted to evaluate these interrelationships. The results of the survey were then used to analyze the geographic differences between firms in Slovakia's tourism industry. Emerging patterns were found that reflected the adaptation of Slovakia's small tourism businesses to the changing business environment as well as network patterns that resembled those found in older market based economies.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15753
Subject Headings: Tourism--Slovakia--Management--Case studies, Business networks--Slovakia--Case studies
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Web log analysis: Experimental studies.
Creator: Yang, Zhijian., Florida Atlantic University, Zhong, Shi, Pandya, Abhijit S., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: With rapid growth of the World Wide Web, web performance becomes increasingly important for modern businesses, especially for e-commerce. As we all know, web server logs contain potentially useful empirical data to improve web server performance. In this thesis, we discuss some topics related to the analysis of a website's server logs for enhancing server performance, which will benefit some applications in business. Markov chain models are used and allow us to dynamically model page...
Show moreWith rapid growth of the World Wide Web, web performance becomes increasingly important for modern businesses, especially for e-commerce. As we all know, web server logs contain potentially useful empirical data to improve web server performance. In this thesis, we discuss some topics related to the analysis of a website's server logs for enhancing server performance, which will benefit some applications in business. Markov chain models are used and allow us to dynamically model page sequences extracted from server logs. My experimental studies contain three major parts. First, I present a workload characterization study of the website used for my research. Second, Markov chain models are constructed for both page request and page-visiting sequence prediction. Finally, I carefully evaluate the constructed models using an independent test data set, which is from server logs on a different day. The research results demonstrate the effectiveness of Markov chain models for characterizing page-visiting sequences.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13202
Subject Headings: Markov processes, Operations research, Business enterprises--Computer networks, Electronic commerce--Data processing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Influence of consumers' trust beliefs on intentions to transact in the online environment: An e-tail study.
Creator: Becerra, Enrique P., Florida Atlantic University, Korgaonkar, Pradeep
Abstract/Description: With the increased importance of retailing through the Internet, or e-tailing, researchers and practitioners alike have been interested in the role that trust can play in intentions to transact online. However, influences of trust on intentions to provide personal information to complete the transaction, and influences of trust in the product category, and/or in the brand, on intentions to transact, have received little attention. This research fills the gap in the exiting literature by...
Show moreWith the increased importance of retailing through the Internet, or e-tailing, researchers and practitioners alike have been interested in the role that trust can play in intentions to transact online. However, influences of trust on intentions to provide personal information to complete the transaction, and influences of trust in the product category, and/or in the brand, on intentions to transact, have received little attention. This research fills the gap in the exiting literature by understanding the influence of product category trust, brand trust and vendor trust on intentions to transact online, a combination of intentions to purchase and intentions to provide personal information to complete the transaction. Hypotheses of the influence of the trust variables on intentions to transact were tested using a computer simulated Internet web-site and two products in a 2 (product trust) x 2 (brand trust) x 2 (vendor trust) between-subject factorial design with replication, and a sample of 422 subjects. Findings suggest that channel trust still influences online intentions to transact and that product category trust, particularly for product categories with low past experience, also influences online intentions to transact. Additionally, findings also suggest that brand trust may be as important as vendor trust in influencing online intentions to transact. Findings suggest that Internet vendors will benefit from carrying trusted brands and from increasing consumer trust towards the Internet as a shopping channel.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12204
Subject Headings: Electronic commerce, Retail trade--Automation, Internet marketing, Retail trade--Computer network resources, Consumer behavior, Business enterprises--Computer network resources
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Gender, Connections, and Social Responsibility: Implications for M&A and Compensation.
Creator: Shelton, Austin, Javakhadze, David, Garcia-Feijoo, Luis, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Finance
Abstract/Description: In this work I investigate how executive social connections and executive gender diversity dually affect firm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a set of firm policies implemented to benefit the social, economic, and environmental welfare of all stakeholders, and how the changes in CSR driven by executive social connections and executive gender diversity in turn affect a range of corporate policies. This research adds to the social networks, gender, and CSR literature within finance in...
Show moreIn this work I investigate how executive social connections and executive gender diversity dually affect firm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a set of firm policies implemented to benefit the social, economic, and environmental welfare of all stakeholders, and how the changes in CSR driven by executive social connections and executive gender diversity in turn affect a range of corporate policies. This research adds to the social networks, gender, and CSR literature within finance in multiple ways. First, while much past work examines the impact on corporate policy of executive gender or executive social connections in isolation, no major work to date examines the impact of gender dependent executive social connections on corporate policy. Second, this work definitively ties the dual effects of executive gender diversity and social connections to firm CSR. The dual impact of social connections and gender diversity on CSR is shown to affect major corporate policies. In all, this work provides evidence that CSR helps drive important firm polices, including M&A and executive compensation policy, and that CSR is impacted by both a firm’s executive gender diversity and social network connections.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013262
Subject Headings: Corporate social responsibility, Social responsibility of business, Executives--Social networks, Gender, Mergers and corporate policy, Executive compensation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Help or hype?: the role of Internet marketing in rural development strategies.
Creator: Klaas, Kathryn, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: International development literature suggests that Internet marketing has the potential to play an important role in rural development. Despite the abundant theoretical support for incorporating Internet marketing into development strategies, there is little empirical evidence regarding whether Internet marketing actually generates development. This thesis helps fill this gap in the literature by investigating whether one Internet marketing application associated with development, competitive...
Show moreInternational development literature suggests that Internet marketing has the potential to play an important role in rural development. Despite the abundant theoretical support for incorporating Internet marketing into development strategies, there is little empirical evidence regarding whether Internet marketing actually generates development. This thesis helps fill this gap in the literature by investigating whether one Internet marketing application associated with development, competitive-online auctions (COAs), contributes to growth and poverty reduction. An analysis of price premiums earned in Latin American specialty coffee auctions and interviews with participating coffee farmers suggest that this application's strength lies in its ability to catalyze development; it provides the foundation from which farmers can pursue above-market prices, access new markets, and improve local living conditions. However, evidence also emphasizes that COAs do not inevitably advance development goals because their ability to do so is contingent on external factors, including the actions taken by individual farmers.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209992
Subject Headings: Internet marketing, Small business, Computer network resources, Developmental economics, Rural development, Information technology, Economic aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Big 4 global networks: degree of homogeneity of audit quality among affiliates and relevance of PCAOB inspections.
Creator: Kassawat, Paulina M., Higgs, Julia, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Accounting
Abstract/Description: The Big 4 global networks (Deloitte, Ernst & Young [E&Y], KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC]) market themselves as providers of worldwide seamless services and consistent audit quality through their members. Under the current environment in which these auditors operate, there are three types of global network members: inspected non-U.S. affiliates (inspected affiliates, hereafter), non-inspected non-U.S. affiliates (non-inspected affiliates, hereafter), and inspected U.S. offices (U.S....
Show moreThe Big 4 global networks (Deloitte, Ernst & Young [E&Y], KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC]) market themselves as providers of worldwide seamless services and consistent audit quality through their members. Under the current environment in which these auditors operate, there are three types of global network members: inspected non-U.S. affiliates (inspected affiliates, hereafter), non-inspected non-U.S. affiliates (non-inspected affiliates, hereafter), and inspected U.S. offices (U.S. offices, hereafter). The recent suspension of the China-based Big 4 affiliates from auditing U.S.-listed companies calls into question whether these global networks can deliver the same level of audit quality across all their members and whether those located in jurisdictions denying access to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board, hereafter) to conduct inspections may benefit from such inspections. This study examines the effect of being an affiliate and the effect of PCAOB inspections on perceived audit quality. I use earnings response coefficients (ERCs) as a proxy for perceived audit quality.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004385, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004385
Subject Headings: Auditing standards -- United States, Business enterprises -- Computer networks, Corporate governance, Disclosure in accounting -- United States, Financial services industry -- Management, Government accountability, Intternational standard on auditing, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Format: Document (PDF)

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