AbstractPRINCIPLES OF ON DEMAND SYSTEMS: STUDIES IN SYSTEMSORIENTED ARCHITECTUREBy: Sascha VitzthumWith the proliferation of Information and CommunicationTechnologies (ICT)and the digitalization of information, services have permeatedorganizations and markets.Industries, public institutions, and...

The organizational experience that members of the founding teambring to new ventures can influence how new business opportunitiesare pursued and their ultimate success; and yet, little is knownabout how the importance of such experience varies acrossentrepreneurial contexts. In this...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2011. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Chandra Kanodia. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 94 pages, appendices A-C.

This study measures the economic consequences of information security activities, in general, and more specifically the market value of disclosures of information security activities. Since information security activities are primarily non-revenue generating, management tends to view them as the...

Prior research has identified the manner in which human capital, social capital, and other intangible resources create value for organizations. Among such resources, those contributed by a firm's top managers have been singled out as particularly important for the generation and preservation of...

Organizations are currently facing increasingly dynamic environments that require fast action in high-velocity settings. Recent research on dynamic capabilities purports that organizations need to build these capabilities to successfully confront increasing uncertainty. Among these capabilities,...

This study documents behavior consistent with herding in voluntary disclosure decisions and investigates two possible reasons for this phenomenon. Based on theories of social learning and rational herds, herding in disclosure decisions may be due to managers' use of information reflected in the...

This study proposes an alternative measure of discretionary accruals that can be used in testing for intentional earnings management. Prior research has shown the prevalence of measurement error in all models used to estimate discretionary accruals (Healy (1985), DeAngelo (1986), Jones (1991)...

This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that small firms in poor quality legal environments (poor quality contract enforcement and property rights environments) are more financially constrained relative to small firms in better quality legal environments. Consequently,...

This dissertation investigates the use of information exchange in industrial supply chain relationships. Specific information exchange characteristics are analyzed to determine their contribution to firm performance from the perspective of both the technology champion firm and the trading...