The purpose of this study was to develop and compare the profiles of entrepreneurs who completed a specific Small Business Development Program (SBDP) and those who have not received any business training with a view to identifying training needs for the two groups. The results were obtained from...

The objective of this dissertation was to improve our understanding of why some accounting issues emerge onto the FASB agenda. This necessary condition for the issuance of accounting standards has received no attention in the accounting literature. This paper employs a regulatory space metaphor...

The emergence and transmission of organizational culture in small growing organizations founded by teams was examined using data from a laboratory study of 40 simulated organizations and a field study of 4 actual organizations. The dimension of culture examined was the nature of human relations...

This dissertation determines how well the Rubinstein-Leland (1981) synthetic option strategy replicates listed call options and theoretical Black-Scholes (BS) call premiums. Three rebalancing methods are implemented to trigger changes in the stock/debt mix: time--the portfolio is changed at...

Essay 1 extends the existing theoretical framework to incorporate a bank's charter value and analyze directly its effect on the pricing of deposit insurance. It derives values of deposit insurance with both deterministic and stochastic charter values. It is shown that significant charter value...

Strategic group research has progressed over the last two decades to the point where the creation of intra-industry groupings is no longer a significant contribution to management in and of itself. The research to date has not, however addressed questions of why these structures emerge in the...

This study evaluates post-acquisition performance adjustments in banks that have been involved in bank acquisitions. Evaluation of post-acquisition changes in productive efficiency, leverage, and portfolio mix are the basis for the analysis. The magnitude and types of performance changes that...

This study develops and empirically tests propositions derived from a model of the corporate turnaround process. This model, based on several established streams of organizational research, proposes that successful turnaround attempts for firms suffering from firm-based decline (as opposed to...

This study looks at recent changes in managerial labor markets in terms of changes in the relationship between tenure and earnings. Many product markets have become less stable during the past decade with the deregulation of several industries and increases in foreign competition. As a result,...

Much research has been generally done on the U.S. multinational corporation (MNC) and its foreign direct investment (FDI). Recently, the focus has shifted to foreign MNCs and their investments in the U.S. As the significance and magnitude of FDI have increased in the 80s, researchers have...