With 2.4 million employees, the military is America's largest employer. Individuals make the military labor force participation decision within the context of other labor market opportunities, which may vary by race and over the business cycle. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic...

This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...

This qualitative research study examines the organizational practices that are used in companies that have been able to sustain innovation as part of their business strategy. Currently there is a gap in the literature regarding what organizational practices support innovation. This study...

This study examines the impact of affective reactions on corporate managers' risky decision making when using accounting data. While prospect theory and considerable research indicate that decision makers are often risk averse (taking) when deciding between decision alternatives that result in...

The present study examined the relationship between individual values and job characteristic preferences based on the Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA) (Lofquist & Dawis, 1969). In order to increase the generalizability of the research, an expanded values inventory and job characteristics...

Previous research over the past two decades has demonstrated support for a curvilinear-shaped relationship between job performance and voluntary turnover, such that highest and lowest performers are most likely to quit while moderate level performers stay. The purpose of this study was to...

Both the comparable worth controversy as well as the current federal posture, which emphasizes the importance of basing employment tests on information that is directly related to job content, have led employers to inspect their wage allocation systems. In the present study, 66 professional jobs...

Automobile crashes are associated with considerable economic costs for organizations that rely on the operation of motor vehicles as a part of everyday business activities. As such, being able to identify drivers who are more likely to be involved in crashes is something that would greatly...

The purpose of this study is to explore organizational learning, using the lens of absorptive capacity, as a multi-level phenomenon spanning individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. In the first chapter we explore how characteristics of individual employees interact with group...