Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Business Administration program, College of Business, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Industry Tournament Incentives, Sarah Almisher

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment, Amin Amoulashkarian

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Retail Trading, Qiqi Liang

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Dissertation: Two Essays in Real Estate Dynamics, Navid Safari

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Dissertation: Firm Capabilities, Great Power Competition, and the Structural Reshaping of Globalization, Samuel Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Momentum, and Firm Investment Efficiency, Chen Chen

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Dissertation: Exploring Blockchain-Based Digital Transformation In Organizations, Weiru Chen

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Award-Winning CEOS, Veronika Ciarleglio

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Dissertation: Two’s a Crowd? Implications of Economic Geography for Corporate Governance, Matthew Farrell

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of CEO Social Activism, Habib Islam

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Role of Empathy in Consumer Response to User-Generated Content, Mohammadali Koorank Beheshti

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Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior, Saeed Zal

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value, Rongyao Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity, Fatemeh Askarzadeh

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Dissertation: Application of Optimization Techniques in Corporate Cash Management, Venkateswara Reddy Dondeti

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Corruption, FDI, and Digitalization, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Information Embedded in Flow of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hamed Yousefi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dissertation: The Influence of Mating Motives on Reliance on Form Versus Function in Product Choice, Seyed Hamid Abbassi Hosseini

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy, Rajib Chowdhury

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Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang

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Dissertation: Essay 1: How We Feel: The Role of Macro-Economic Sentiment in Advertising Spending-Sales Relationship; Essay 2: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Effect of Emotional Uncertainty and Arousal on Healthy Food Choices, Leila Khoshghadam

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Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance, Jin Ho Kim

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Dissertation: Three Essays on the Roles of Review Valence and Conflict in Online Relationships, Ran Liu

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias, Zhaohui Li

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Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt, Xiang Long

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Dissertation: Pricing the Cloud: An Auction Approach, Yang Lu

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Envy, Murong Miao

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Negotiations Between Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors, Aydin Selim Oksoy

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume, Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing, Qiuye Cai

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Dissertation: Success Factors Impacting Artificial Intelligence Adoption --- Perspective From the Telecom Industry in China, Hong Chen

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Dissertation: Early Information Access to Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion, Anjee Gorkhali

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Consumer Acculturation Process – A Need for and Development of a Consumer Acculturation Measure, Kristina Marie Harrison

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions, Trung Nguyen

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior, Andrew Root

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Dissertation: Underlying Factors Behind Generation of Different Types of User-Generated Content - Impact of Individual and Brand/Product Level Factors in Generation of Brand-Oriented Content and Community-Oriented Content, Kemal Cem Soylemez

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Dissertation: Customers’ Goal-Related Behavior in Loyalty Programs, Junzhou Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Dissertation: Security Risk Tolerance in Mobile Payment: A Trade-off Framework, Yong Chen

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Dissertation: Numerical Framing and Emotional Arousal as Moderators of Review Valence and Consumer Choices, Anh Dang

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment, Sonik Mandal

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Creation and Success of New Ventures, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh

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Dissertation: Effectiveness of Social Media Analytics on Detecting Service Quality Metrics in the U.S. Airline Industry, Xin Tian

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Value Co-Creation, Hangjun Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends, Bader Almuhtadi

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Dissertation: The Role of Consumer Ethnocentrism on the Effects of Domestic vs Foreign Product Failure on Post Consumption Emotions and Complaint Behaviors, Kittinand Bandhumasuta

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Dissertation: The Impact of Help-Self and Help-Others Appeals Upon Participation in Clinical Research Trials, Susan Lewis Casey

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Dissertation: Is Every Tweet Created Equal? A Framework to Identify Relevant Tweets for Business Research, Thad Chee

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment, Feng Dong

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Impact of Institutional Structures on Entrepreneurship: Country Level Analysis, Mehdi Sharifi Khobdeh

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Antecedents and Effects of Internationalizing Out of Emerging and Developed Economies, Mark Robert Mallon

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Dissertation: From Placebo to Panacea: Exploring the Influence of Price, Suspicion, and Persuasion Knowledge on Consumers’ Perception of Quality, Vahid Rahmani

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Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability, Zhijun Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Dissertation: The Effect of XBRL and Social Media on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts, Dazhi Chong

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Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting, Asligul Erkan

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Dissertation: Two Essays on The Internationalization Speed of New Ventures, Orhun Guldiken

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value, Yi Jian

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Dissertation: Valence or Volume? Maximizing Online Review Influence Across Consumers, Products, and Marketing, Elika Kordrostami

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Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium, Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui

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Dissertation: A Study of the Impact of Information Blackouts on the Bullwhip Effect of a Supply Chain Using Discrete-Event Simulations, Elizabeth Rasnick

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets, Jiancheng Shen

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Dissertation: Two Studies on The Use of Information Technology in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR), David McCaw Simmonds

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Dissertation: Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context, Christina Helen Tupper

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Dissertation: Ambidexterity: The Interplay of Supply Chain Management Competencies and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Organizational Performance, Serdar Turedi

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling, Zhaobo Zhu

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Dissertation: Buying Love Through Social Media: How Different Types Of Incentives Impact Consumers’ Online Sharing Behavior, Yueming Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy, Mehmet Deren Caliskan

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Dissertation: "The Magic Formula: Scent and Brand"- The Influence of Olfactory Sensory Co-Branding on Consumer Evaluations and Experiences, Ceren Ekebas

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Dissertation: The Value of Integrated Information Systems for U.S. General Hospitals, Liuliu Fu

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management, Sanjib Guha

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Opportunistic Claiming Behavior in a Services Setting: Customers and Front Line Employees Perspectives, Denis Khantimirov

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Dissertation: Spillover Effects of Brand Alliance and Service Experience on Host Brands in Loyalty Program Partnerships, Gulfem Cigdem Kutlu

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Dissertation: Measuring Consumer Expectations of Salesperson Unethicality: A Scale Development, Amiee Mellon

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Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations, Liang Meng

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar

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Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective, Amir Pezeshkan

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Development, Adam Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Earnings Management in Emerging Markets, Shuji Rosey Bao

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Dissertation: Dynamic Capabilities and Resilient Organizations Amid Environmental Jolts, Stav Fainshmidt

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Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of Direct Versus Indirect Comparative Advertising, Chun-Kai Hsu

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective, Ryan Lawrence Mason

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Dissertation: The Effect of Online Reviews on Attitude and Purchase Intention: How Consumers Respond to Mixed Reviews, Chatdanai Pongpatipat

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Dissertation: Three Essays on the Enterprise Strategy for Multinational Firms, Veselina Plamenova Vracheva

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Dissertation: The Antecedents and Effects of Strategic Caring: A Cross-National Empirical Study, Thomas Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages?, James Edward Benton

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate, Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Kaveh Moghaddam

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Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli, Denise Williams Streeter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Dissertation: An Examination of Middle Manager Innovation Behaviors and Institutional Factors Impact on Organizational Innovation in the USA and Mexico, J. Lee Brown III

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Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing, Charles William Duval

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Strategic Risk Taking, Krista Burrill Lewellyn

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Executive Pay and Firm Performance, Thuong Quang Nguyen

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Dissertation: A Study of Risk-Taking Behavior in Investment Banking, Elzotbek Rustambekov

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Dissertation: A Study of Failures in the US Banking Industry, Joseph Trendowski

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Behavioral Finance, Quang Viet Vu

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Individual Currency Traders, Boris Sebastian Abbey

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Dissertation: Cross-listing Premium or Market Timing, Moustafa M. Abu El Fadl

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Dissertation: Warranty and Price as Quality Signals: The effect of Signal Consistency and Unexpectedness on Product Perception, Sultan Alaswad Alenazi

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Dissertation: The Behavior and Choices of Serial Bidders in M&A Transactions: A Prospect Theory Approach, Ahmed Essam El-Din El-Bakry

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market, Ajay Kongera

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Dissertation: Intercultural Accommodation of Ethnic Minority Consumers: An Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects in Service Encounters, Sarah Mady