Theses - Judge Business School
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Connecting for a Social Good: A Multi-level Analysis of a Nascent Online Community
Online communities (OCs) such as Wikipedia have the potential to transform our global society and economy. Building and sustaining OCs, however, appears to be rather complex. Indeed, most OCs fail early on. The extant OC ... -
Materiality, identity and social positioning: The case of the Elbphilharmonie
The papers in this dissertation are studies of totalities such as the NDR EO, the citizenry of Hamburg, the French fashion house Chanel, and the Elbphilharmonie concert hall itself. Each of these totalities is a component ... -
Defining Organizational Purpose and Exploring the Concept’s Implications for Innovation: How Perspective Affects Creative Idea Generation in the Innovation Process
In the last decade, organizational purpose has re-emerged as a prevalent topic in the practitioner world. However, a detailed academic understanding of the modern version of the concept and its implications has remained ... -
Microfoundations of Strategy: Enriching the Psychological Underpinnings of Upper Echelons
This dissertation consists of three related essays that contribute to the microfoundations of strategy and the upper echelons perspective in particular. The first essay (Chapter 2) unpacks the psychological mechanism through ...
