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 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Dissertation: Two Essays on Firms’ Reactions to Major Events in Rival Companies, Alireza Askarzadeh
Dissertation: Two Essays on Lottery-Like Stocks, Reihaneh Haghighi Zadeh
Dissertation: Thriving in the Age of AI: Navigating AI Identity Threat Through AI Job Crafting, Yuming He
Dissertation: Governing Innovation: Antecedents, Composition, and Impact of Board Technology Committees, Jamil Kreugel
Dissertation: The Effects of the Chief Information Officer’s Presence and Tenure on Financial Performance, Xuemei Li
Dissertation: Service with a Smile or Salesperson Mirroring? Understanding the Flow of Emotional Contagion in Sales Encounters, Vinh Quoc Trong Luong
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Role of Anthropomorphism in Consumer Behavior, Faegheh (Faa) Taheran
Dissertation: Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Syndication Strategy: Partner Selection and Features, Run Tian
Dissertation: Configurations of CEO Personality Characteristics, Power, and Board Fault Lines, Chris H. Willis
Dissertation: Specialization or Diversification? Creators’ Strategies on User-generated Content Platforms, Ziwei Ye
Dissertation: Essay on Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence, and Firm Performance, Fangling Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Dissertation: Two Essays on Labor Heterogeneity, Enxi An
Dissertation: Two Essays on Asset Prices Around Securities Class Action Lawsuits, Sounak Saha
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Dissertation: Two Essays on Industry Tournament Incentives, Sarah Almisher
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment, Amin Amoulashkarian
Dissertation: Two Essays on Retail Trading, Qiqi Liang
Dissertation: Two Essays in Real Estate Dynamics, Navid Safari
Dissertation: Firm Capabilities, Great Power Competition, and the Structural Reshaping of Globalization, Samuel Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Dissertation: Three Essays on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Momentum, and Firm Investment Efficiency, Chen Chen
Dissertation: Exploring Blockchain-Based Digital Transformation In Organizations, Weiru Chen
Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Award-Winning CEOS, Veronika Ciarleglio
Dissertation: Two’s a Crowd? Implications of Economic Geography for Corporate Governance, Matthew Farrell
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of CEO Social Activism, Habib Islam
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Role of Empathy in Consumer Response to User-Generated Content, Mohammadali Koorank Beheshti
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior, Saeed Zal
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value, Rongyao Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity, Fatemeh Askarzadeh
Dissertation: Application of Optimization Techniques in Corporate Cash Management, Venkateswara Reddy Dondeti
Dissertation: Two Essays on Corruption, FDI, and Digitalization, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Information Embedded in Flow of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hamed Yousefi
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: The Influence of Mating Motives on Reliance on Form Versus Function in Product Choice, Seyed Hamid Abbassi Hosseini
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy, Rajib Chowdhury
Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang
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
Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance, Jin Ho Kim
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Roles of Review Valence and Conflict in Online Relationships, Ran Liu
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias, Zhaohui Li
Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt, Xiang Long
Dissertation: Pricing the Cloud: An Auction Approach, Yang Lu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Envy, Murong Miao
Dissertation: Two Essays on Negotiations Between Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors, Aydin Selim Oksoy
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume, Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing, Qiuye Cai
Dissertation: Success Factors Impacting Artificial Intelligence Adoption --- Perspective From the Telecom Industry in China, Hong Chen
Dissertation: Early Information Access to Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion, Anjee Gorkhali
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Consumer Acculturation Process – A Need for and Development of a Consumer Acculturation Measure, Kristina Marie Harrison
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions, Trung Nguyen
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior, Andrew Root
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
Dissertation: Customers’ Goal-Related Behavior in Loyalty Programs, Junzhou Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Security Risk Tolerance in Mobile Payment: A Trade-off Framework, Yong Chen
Dissertation: Numerical Framing and Emotional Arousal as Moderators of Review Valence and Consumer Choices, Anh Dang
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment, Sonik Mandal
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Creation and Success of New Ventures, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh
Dissertation: Effectiveness of Social Media Analytics on Detecting Service Quality Metrics in the U.S. Airline Industry, Xin Tian
Dissertation: Two Essays on Value Co-Creation, Hangjun Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends, Bader Almuhtadi
Dissertation: The Role of Consumer Ethnocentrism on the Effects of Domestic vs Foreign Product Failure on Post Consumption Emotions and Complaint Behaviors, Kittinand Bandhumasuta
Dissertation: The Impact of Help-Self and Help-Others Appeals Upon Participation in Clinical Research Trials, Susan Lewis Casey
Dissertation: Is Every Tweet Created Equal? A Framework to Identify Relevant Tweets for Business Research, Thad Chee
Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment, Feng Dong
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Impact of Institutional Structures on Entrepreneurship: Country Level Analysis, Mehdi Sharifi Khobdeh
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Antecedents and Effects of Internationalizing Out of Emerging and Developed Economies, Mark Robert Mallon
Dissertation: From Placebo to Panacea: Exploring the Influence of Price, Suspicion, and Persuasion Knowledge on Consumers’ Perception of Quality, Vahid Rahmani
Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability, Zhijun Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: The Effect of XBRL and Social Media on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts, Dazhi Chong
Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting, Asligul Erkan
Dissertation: Two Essays on The Internationalization Speed of New Ventures, Orhun Guldiken
Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value, Yi Jian
Dissertation: Valence or Volume? Maximizing Online Review Influence Across Consumers, Products, and Marketing, Elika Kordrostami
Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium, Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui
Dissertation: A Study of the Impact of Information Blackouts on the Bullwhip Effect of a Supply Chain Using Discrete-Event Simulations, Elizabeth Rasnick
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets, Jiancheng Shen
Dissertation: Two Studies on The Use of Information Technology in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR), David McCaw Simmonds
Dissertation: Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context, Christina Helen Tupper
Dissertation: Ambidexterity: The Interplay of Supply Chain Management Competencies and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Organizational Performance, Serdar Turedi
Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling, Zhaobo Zhu
Dissertation: Buying Love Through Social Media: How Different Types Of Incentives Impact Consumers’ Online Sharing Behavior, Yueming Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy, Mehmet Deren Caliskan
Dissertation: "The Magic Formula: Scent and Brand"- The Influence of Olfactory Sensory Co-Branding on Consumer Evaluations and Experiences, Ceren Ekebas
Dissertation: The Value of Integrated Information Systems for U.S. General Hospitals, Liuliu Fu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management, Sanjib Guha
Dissertation: Three Essays on Opportunistic Claiming Behavior in a Services Setting: Customers and Front Line Employees Perspectives, Denis Khantimirov
Dissertation: Spillover Effects of Brand Alliance and Service Experience on Host Brands in Loyalty Program Partnerships, Gulfem Cigdem Kutlu
Dissertation: Measuring Consumer Expectations of Salesperson Unethicality: A Scale Development, Amiee Mellon
Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations, Liang Meng
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar
Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective, Amir Pezeshkan
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
Dissertation: Dynamic Capabilities and Resilient Organizations Amid Environmental Jolts, Stav Fainshmidt
Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of Direct Versus Indirect Comparative Advertising, Chun-Kai Hsu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective, Ryan Lawrence Mason
Dissertation: The Effect of Online Reviews on Attitude and Purchase Intention: How Consumers Respond to Mixed Reviews, Chatdanai Pongpatipat
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Enterprise Strategy for Multinational Firms, Veselina Plamenova Vracheva
Dissertation: The Antecedents and Effects of Strategic Caring: A Cross-National Empirical Study, Thomas Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages?, James Edward Benton
Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate, Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg
Dissertation: Three Essays on Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Kaveh Moghaddam
Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli, Denise Williams Streeter