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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Analyst Following, Capital Market Pressure, and Real Activity Manipulation, Melanie Maureen Rose
Dissertation: Judging Credence Service Based on Experience Service Evaluation: Moderating Effect of Ease of Assessing and Extrinsic Cues, Kungpo Tao
Dissertation: What Drives U.S. Banking Mergers: Misvaluation, Gambling or Envy?, Wenjia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: What Is Influencing Financially-Driven Shareholder Activism in the US and UK—Principal-Agent or Principal-Principal Problems?, Maureen I. Muller-Kahle
Dissertation: Three Essays on Cross-Listing, Liu Wang
Dissertation: The Effect of the Governance Environment on International Business: Three Essays, Jun Wu
Dissertation: The Effects of Emotions on Strategic Decision-Making: A China-U.S. Cross-Cultural Experimental Study, Weichu Xu
Dissertation: A Re-Examination of Stock Repurchase in USA, Hua Yang
Dissertation: Remembering to Remember and the Consequences of Forgetting: The Role of Prospective Memory in Consumer Intentions, Eyad M. Youssef
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment and the Profitability of Contrarian and Momentum Strategies, Changmei Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation: Promotion Induced Competitive Effects: Two Essays, Rajeev Airani
Dissertation: Consumer Receptivity of Foreign Products: The Roles of Country-of-Origin Image, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Animosity, Larry Lee Carter Jr.
Dissertation: Product Market Competition and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Yen-Chih Liu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Earnings Quality and Corporate Decisions, Qian Sun
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Corporate Payout Behavior of Japanese and European Firms, Rahnuma Binte Ahsan
Dissertation: A Social Relational Model for Firm-Hosted Virtual Communities: The Role of Firm Support, Tung Duy Cu
Dissertation: Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds, Hung Duong
Dissertation: Configuration of Market Oriented Culture, Organizational Structure and Business Strategy Types and Their Performance Implications in Service Organizations, Omer Gokus
Dissertation: Integration of Market and Entrepreneurial Orientations; and Their Impact on Export Performance: A Contingency Approach, Ayse Nilgun Kaya
Dissertation: The Impact of Collective Animosity and Collective Guilt on the Judgments of and Preferences for Japanese Products, Amro Maher
Dissertation: How Personal Nostalgia Influences Giving to Charity, Altaf Merchant
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Essays on Momentum, Autoregressive Returns, and Conditional Volatility: Evidence From the Saudi Stock Market, Abdullah Alsubaie
Dissertation: The Effect of Nutrition Information on Menu Selection When Eating Food Away From Home, Rebecca Foster Hochradel
Dissertation: Coopetition (Contemporaneous Cooperation and Competition) Among Nonprofit Arts Organizations: The Case of Symphony Orchestras, Theresa A. Kirchner
Dissertation: Costly Arbitrage and the Lead-Lag Structure Between Value and Glamour Stocks, Meng Li
Dissertation: Two Essays on Corporate Spin-Offs, YingChou Lin
Dissertation: Ex Post Valuation Correction and Motives of Merger and Acquisition Decisions, Hien T. Nguyen
Dissertation: The Effect of Survey-Based Sentiment Measures on the Predictability and Volatility of Stock Returns Conditioned on the Payout Yield and Issue Yield, Darryl Philip Samsell
Dissertation: Two Essays on IPO Earnings Management, Yong Sun
Dissertation: Relational Benefits and Costs in Channel Distribution: A Dyadic Research From Buyers and Sellers Perspective, Dung The Vu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Lead-Lag Patterns Between Trading Volume and Stock Return in China Stock Markets, Xiaotian Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: Overreaction, Seasonality and Relationship Among Middle East and North Africa National Stock Markets, Yaser A. Al-Kulaib
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation of the Link Between Market Orientation and New Product Performance: The Mediating Effects of Organizational Capabilities, Turkan Dursun-Kilic
Dissertation: The Effects of Local and Global Risk Factors on Industry Stock Returns: Across Country Analysis, Mahdy Farag Elhossiny
Dissertation: Essays on Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf
Dissertation: Operating Measures, IPO Valuation, and After Market Performance-Perspective From Internet Bubble Period, Yuhong Fan
Dissertation: The Role of Interfunctional Market Orientation in New Product Program Success: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis, George Grady Gresham
Dissertation: Valuation Effects of Earnings Restatements Due to Accounting Irregularities, Tan Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Dissertation: Customer Relationship Marketing and Effects of Demographics and Technology on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Financial Services, Priscilla Gaudet Aaltonen
Dissertation: An Experimental Examination of Equivalence Failures in Multi-Cultural Comparative Research, F. Mark Case
Dissertation: An Investigation of the Antecedents and Consequences of Individual-Level Customer Orientation: A Comprehensive Approach, Ceyhan Kilic
Dissertation: Three Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Yan Lin
Dissertation: First-Mover Advantage: A Cross-National Comparison of Mature and Emerging Market Consumers' Attitudes Toward Pioneer and Follower Brands, Tarek T. Mady
Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of the Service Recovery Paradox, Vincent P. Magnini
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: Overreaction, Heteroscedasticity, and Spillovers in Stock Returns: Evidence From the Kuwait Stock Exchange, Mohammad Yousef Al-Hashel
Dissertation: Market Valuation of Corporate Diversification in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets in Emerging Countries, Supannee Buasook
Dissertation: Corporate Diversification and Stock Returns, Tatiana Isakovski
Dissertation: Market Orientation and Export Performance in Thailand: A Moderating Effect of International Marketing Strategy, Phattarawan Tantong
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Dissertation: Institutional Investors and ADRs: Three Essays, Deqing Li
Dissertation: Deception in Advertising: A Content Analysis of the Legal Parameters of Deception, E. Carla Mitchell
Dissertation: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Ethnocentrism Across Russia's Three Sub-Cultures, Shawn Thelen
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Investigating the Effect of the International Stock Indexes on the United States Stock Index Futures, Zehlha Illhan Ertuna
Dissertation: Understanding the Digital Divide As It Relates to Electronic Commerce, Franklin D. Gaillard
Dissertation: Corporate Investment Activity, Industrial and Global Diversification and Internal Capital Markets, Ozgur Berk Kan
Dissertation: Towards a Strategy-Balanced Measure of Business Performance: Conceptualization and Empirical Examination With the Market Orientation Construct, David William Lambert
Dissertation: Strategy Implementation Effectiveness in a Nonprofit Environment: The Case of Museum Stores, Sandra A. Mottner
Dissertation: Market Orientation: Towards an Understanding in Developing Marketplaces of South America, Howard Warren Olsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Dissertation: Sales Training Practices in Malaysia: Comparisons of Domestic and Multinational Companies, Mohamad Asri Jantan
Dissertation: An Empirical Analysis of the Critical Determinants Affecting Commitment and Performance of the U. S. Firm in the South African Market: Apartheid Versus Post-Apartheid, Sonja Pollard Mitchell
Dissertation: An Assessment of the Links Between International Diversification, Product Diversification, Performance and Risk Within Service Corporations, Sally Ann Sledge
Dissertation: A Content Analysis of Advertising in Magazines Directed at United States and United Kingdom Seniors, Ray Markham Smith
Dissertation: An Examination of a Multidimensional Model of Customer Satisfaction with Internet Purchasing, Kathleen VanScoyoc
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Dissertation: Competitive Interaction: The Influence of Strategic Group Structure, Sherry M. Burlingame
Dissertation: The Long-Term Performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): Venture Capitalists, Reputation of Investment Bankers, and Corporate Structure, Halit Gonenc
Dissertation: Regulation S: Offshore Equity Offerings, Marla Sue Howard
Dissertation: First Mover Advantage: An Industrial Buyer Behavioral Perspective, Howard G. Ling
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation Into Significant Factors of Moral Reasoning and Their Influences on Ethical Judgment and Intentions, Janet K. Mullen Marta
Dissertation: Psychological Influencers of a Consumer's Innovative Propensity: A Cross-Cultural Examination, Angela D' Auria Stanton
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Dissertation: Market Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Relevance of Leverage, Growth Opportunities, and Corporate Structure, Mojib U. Ahmed
Dissertation: Measuring and Evaluating Sales Force Training Effectiveness: A Proposed and an Empirically Tested Model, Ashraf Magdy Attia
Dissertation: Three Essays on European Union Advances Toward a Single Currency and Its Implications for Business and Investors, Charlotte Anne Bond
Dissertation: The Effects of Corporate Diversification and Control on Division Risk-Taking Strategy and Performance, Hae Ryong Kim
Dissertation: Measurement of Perceived Service Quality of Selected Dental Specialists, David P. Paul III
Dissertation: Essay I. Intra-Industry Contagion and Competitive Effects Associated With Corporate Liquidation Announcements: Does Shareholder Governance Influence the Results? Essay II. Investors' Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in U. S. Firms That File for Bankruptcy, J. Terry Ray
Dissertation: The Convenience Orientation of Services Consumers: An Empirical Examination, Patricia Kramer Voli
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Dissertation: The Pricing Behaviors of Stock Index Futures: Some Preliminary Evidence in the Korean Market, Jaehoon Min
Dissertation: The Impact of Director Interlocks on Interorganizational Imitation in Germany, Elke Reuning-Elliot
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Dissertation: Determinants of CEO Pay: A Critical Assessment, W. Otto Carroll
Dissertation: Extreme Response Style, Irvine Clarke III
Dissertation: Volatility Risk Premiums in Futures Markets: Investment Prices and Commercial Bank Performance, Richard P. Gregory
Dissertation: The Valuation Effects of Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence From Domestic and Foreign Plant Announcements, Bum Suk Kim
Dissertation: The Corporate Effects of R&D and Patent-Grants: Evidence From Intra-Industry Analysis, Steven Alan Lifland
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Machiavellianism, Self-Monitoring, and Adaptiveness to the Performance of Real Estate Sales Professionals, Dianne Broman Eppler
Dissertation: Non-United States Firms' Exchange Rate Exposure and the Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in Foreign Stock Markets, Patricia Hill Hamlin Hall
Dissertation: Values in Transition: The Case of Modern Mexico, Howard Stanley Hart III
Dissertation: New Paradigms for Evaluating Performance and Performance Persistency of Domestic and Globally Diversified Portfolios, Larry Joseph Prather
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Dissertation: Taxes and Dividend Policies: An International Study, Chinwe Edna Nweke
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Dissertation: Materialism and the Self, Kathleen Shirley Micken