Faculty of Management Graduate Theses
Recent Submissions
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DOES RUDENESS REDUCE CREATIVITY? EXAMINING THE ROLE OF APPRAISAL AND RUMINATION FOLLOWING INCIVILITY AT WORK
(2023-04-24)The current study examines how rude customers might deplete the creativity of service workers by investigating the roles of negative appraisal and rumination following customer incivility. Simultaneously, we also examine ... -
Gratitude Journal Exercise Increases Leaders’ Individual Consideration Through Change in Objectification and Perceived Closeness: A Randomized Experiment
(2023-04-13)Effective leadership is critical for achieving positive outcomes in the workplace, including increased profits, job satisfaction, and performance. However, little is known about what enhances positive leadership behaviors. ... -
A Dynamic Asset Allocation Strategy with Macroeconomic Indicators
(2023-04-12)This thesis proposes a novel approach to strategic asset allocation (SAA) that uses macro-econometric factors and a regime-switching regression model to capture systemic risk, which is crucial in setting target allocations ... -
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE G20 COUNTRIES
(2023-04-12)This study analyzes the relationship between sustainability and financial performance in a sample of G20 firms over a decade (2010-2021), while controlling for relevant variables. Results show a positive bidirectional ... -
Vaccine Approval Effect on Firms in Socially Responsible and Conventional Funds During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2023-04-11)This research investigates the effects of vaccine approval on socially responsible and conventional funds in the United States and Canada. The study analyzes the daily total returns of the constituents of the Jantzi Social ... -
Impact of Expressed Emotions (EE) in TikTok Beauty Influencers' Content on the Degree of Engagement: the Moderating Effect of Inclusive Marketing Factors (IMF)
(2022-12-14)Nowadays, companies using social media are looking for innovative ways to improve engagement on their pages. Previous studies show the positive effect of eliciting emotions on engagement in image- and text-based platforms. ... -
Asset Pricing Model Fit for Canadian Mutual Funds
(2022-12-15)Asset pricing models have been used extensively in studies to predict fund performance. However, my motivation is to test which asset pricing model is the best to evaluate mutual fund performance in Canada. In addition, ... -
THEY/THEM/THEIR: GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUNS ON NAMETAGS AND CONSUMERS’ MICROAGGRESSIONS TOWARDS THEM
(2022-12-15)This study draws on theories from psychology and sociology to examine how consumers will react to non-binary individuals in sales and service situations. Results from an online experiment show that consumers tend to evaluate ... -
What makes people share news on social media? Exploring the moderating role of perceived fakeness
(2022-12-12)Social media platforms help individuals form social relationships. They enable the quick spread of information. One of the most common misuses of these platforms is the creation and sharing of fake or misleading news or ... -
EXAMINING CUSTOMERS’ INTENTION OF CONTINUED USE AND CROSS-BUYING ON INTERNET-ONLY BANKS
(2022-12-09)Internet-only banks (IOB) refer to financial institutions which provide services entirely through online digital platforms without physical branches. Although IOBs have been around for over 26 years, there is still room ... -
What Makes Brand TikTok Videos Engaging? An Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective
(2022-12-09)Short-form videos in social media are growing in popularity and becoming a promising channel for marketing. This study explores consumer engagement in brand short-form videos by investigating the effect of five non-content ... -
The Ability to Create Household Wealth: An Alternative Perspective and Conceptual Framework
(2022-07-20)This thesis reviews the theories and evidence on households’ financial decision-making. It further relates these to a household’s ability to create wealth against the background of changing retirement systems. The work’s ... -
Asymmetric Systematic Risk and Risk Premiums Under a Regime-Switching Model
(2022-04-14)The purpose of this thesis is to identify asymmetry in stocks’ systematic risk and market risk premiums under different financial market regimes. It is assumed that there are two unobserved regimes, bull and bear markets, ... -
Visualizing Keyword Co-occurrence from Two Queries to Aid Exploratory Search
(2022-04-12)This study presents a method of keyword co-occurrences network visualization comparing two separate queries of a commercial database as a visual aid to mitigate an information seeker’s uncertainty during the exploratory ... -
FIRM-LEVEL PRESIDENTIAL PREMIUM
(2021-12-17)This thesis investigates the relationship between the presidential administrations in the United States (U.S.) and equity performance at the firm level, using a large sample of about 8,700 U.S. firms for periods covering ... -
The Herding Behavior in Chinese Stock Markets: Evidence from A-Share Markets during COVID-19
(2021-12-14)This paper studies the presence of herding behavior in Chinese A-share markets using both individual firm and industry-level data before and after the pandemic. Using a sample of all firms listed over the period 10/08/2018 ... -
Which Factors? International Evidence
(2021-04-13)This thesis investigates five major asset-pricing models recently proposed in the literature. Those models are Fama and French’s (2015) five-factor model and its six-factor extension adding a momentum factor (Carhart, ... -
THE TRANSITION FROM ‘PAID PC/CONSOLE GAMES’ TO ‘FREEMIUM MOBILE GAMES’: FOCUSING ON USERS’ REACTIONS TO AND PRICE TOLERANCE OF IN-APP PURCHASE ITEMS
(2021-01-11)This study examines how customers react to online games that transition from being ‘Paid PC/console Games to ‘Freemium Mobile Games in the context of the game series “Diablo”. In particular, this study focuses on three ... -
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF MOBILE NEWS ARTICLES: FOCUSING ON HEURISTIC AND SYSTEMATIC CUES OF CURATED MOBILE NEWS APPS
(2021-01-11)Online curated news apps, such as Inshorts, have been becoming increasingly popular, largely because they provide users with the highlights of news articles that have been specifically selected for them. Each curated news ...