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CEO Mental Health Discourse and Stakeholder Responses to Perceptions of CEO Humanness and Authenticity 

Kaur, Rajdeep (2026-04-27)  ETD File Embargoed
Mental health is a challenge that is both detrimental to the health of individuals and costly for organizations and economies. CEOs are opening mental health conversations in the workplace by championing mental health ...

CEO protective responses to short seller attacks at rival firms 

Song, Ruixiang (2022-06-21)  ETD File Embargoed
Short sellers prosper by betting against the interests of shareholders and managers of public firms. In recent years, however, some short sellers have escalated the intensity of short selling by organizing campaigns that ...

Entrepreneurial Impostor Phenomenon 

Zafar, Sana (2022-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
Entrepreneurs are frequently considered confident, overconfident, or even hubristic. However, little is known about what happens when entrepreneurs feel like they do not belong in the entrepreneurship space. My dissertation ...

Fix, Flee, or Fan the Flames? An Attributional Investigation of Relational Responses to Coworker Incivility 

Carson, Jack Emery (2020-04-30)
Workplace incivility, which is low-intensity interpersonal mistreatment with ambiguous intent, is increasingly prevalent in today’s organizations. The ambiguous intent that characterizes incivility suggests attributions ...

Forgone but not Forgotten: A Job and Leisure Crafting Perspective of how Employees Fulfill Their Unanswered Entrepreneurial Identity Aspirations 

Hamrick, Alexander (2023-05-04)  ETD File Embargoed
Aspirations to be an entrepreneur motivate individuals to take entrepreneurial action and to work towards starting a new venture. It is unclear, however, how these entrepreneurial aspirations influence full-time employees’ ...

Online Outrage: The Impact of Negative Social Media on Stakeholder Perceptions and Behaviors 

Cui, Meiying (2025-08-06)  ETD File Embargoed
Stakeholders frequently encounter a diverse array of social media content about firms. Although existing research has examined how organizations use social media to influence stakeholders and vice versa, it has largely ...

Strategic Orientation of Digital Innovation Under Developer Social Dynamics and Environmental Uncertainty 

Zhao, Sidi (2026-04-30)  ETD File Embargoed
Digital innovation is central to firms’ competitive strategies, yet research remains fragmented on how such strategies emerge and how their configurations influence firm value. While prior work emphasizes top-down managerial ...

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE FUNNY? THE DOUBLE-EDGED NATURE OF ENTREPRENEUR HUMOR EXPRESSION IN EQUITY-BASED CROWDFUNDING 

Waddingham, Jacob (2022-06-21)
Humor is omnipresent in our daily interactions. However, we know surprisingly little about how potential investors react to entrepreneurs who use humor during fundraising, a critical stage of the entrepreneurial process. ...