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Nonmarket Autonomy: Combining Private and Collective Approaches to Corporate Political Activity
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)By pursuing private and collective political action in the nonmarket environment, businesses attempt to influence public policy that shapes their operating environment. This dissertation considers how a firm’s market-based ... -
Imported Mothers and Subsidized Love: An Analysis of U.S. Labor Policy and Rights for Domestic Workers
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Over the last several decades, economic and cultural shifts in the United States have created an increasing demand for domestic labor, and data shows that these jobs have largely been filled by women of color, many of whom ... -
Elaborating a Model of Cultural Exchange: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Organizational Cultures and the Adoption of Environmental Certified Management Standards
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In this dissertation, I investigate how organizations understand and apply shared meanings of sustainability. Integrating recent theoretical developments regarding organizational culture with findings from prior literature ... -
Reconciling Oregon's Smart Growth Goals with Local Policy Choice: An Empirical Study of Growth Management, Urban Form, and Development Outcomes in Eugene, Keizer, Salem, and Springfield
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Oregon's Statewide Planning Goals embody Smart Growth in their effort to revitalize urban areas, finance environmentally responsible transportation systems, provide housing options, and protect natural resources; yet the ... -
Explore with Strangers, Exploit with Friends: Organizational Ambidexterity and Networks in Successful Technology Commercialization
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)This dissertation seeks to relieve theoretical tension between organizational ambidexterity and network perspectives by developing a contingent model of firm-level exploration and exploitation. The central proposition of ... -
An Alternative Alternative: The Road to Sustainable Transportation Law
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The dominance of motor vehicle use throughout America reflects a massive government intervention on behalf of automobiles. Congress directs billions of dollars into America's highway system annually, assuming that building ... -
Bicycle Boulevards: Statistical Analysis of the Presence of Bicycle Boulevards and Their Influence on Bicycle-to-Work Rates in Portland, Oregon
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)One of the top bicycling cities in the United States, Portland, Oregon has used a mixture of bicycle infrastructure to create a cohesive network for bicyclists. Building on their success, in 2010 Portland set forth on an ... -
Conflict and Change in Category Identities: How Did the Internet Change What It Means To Be a Travel Agent?
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)This research investigates evolution of the meanings assigned to the categories that designate and demarcate formal organizations of the same genre or type. I use grounded theory techniques to examine whether and how members ... -
The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Institutional Maintenance in the Face of Social and Technological Change in American Public Libraries, 1876-2006
(University of Oregon, 2012)Institutions are generally assumed to be stable, but recent research has focused on how that stability may be overturned to create institutional change. The assumption of stability has led to a lack of research on the flip ... -
Great Expectations and Dodgy Explanations
(University of Oregon, 2012)How do organizations assess and explain their performance? Prior studies have attempted to demonstrate that, like individuals, organizations take credit for good performance and blame poor performance on influences in ... -
Aligning institutional logics to enhance regional cluster emergence: Evidence from the wind and solar energy industries
(University of Oregon, 2009-12)For over a century, researchers from diverse intellectual disciplines have tried to explain the emergence of regional business clusters. I contribute to research on cluster emergence by applying an institutional logics ... -
Constructing nanobusiness: The role of technology framing in the emergence of a commercial domain
(University of Oregon, 2009-09)Entrepreneurs seeking to commercialize science-based technologies face considerable challenges including uncertain environments, policy makers and investors' ignorance, and public opposition and ethical concerns. Most ... -
When does the network organizational form fail? Examining the impact of project characteristics on organizational structure and performance
(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This dissertation integrates economic and sociological approaches to network organizing to explain the structure and performance of network organizational forms. Previous theorizing from economics and sociology linked ...