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This thesis is comprised of eight chapters. Following this introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides a summary of literature relating to OHS accountability and examines issues relating to OHS performance management. Chapter 3 presents a review of stakeholder, legitimacy and institutional theory literature. The research method employed is discussed and justified in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 presents the results of the stakeholder survey and in doing so describes stakeholder demand for OHS disclosure.

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SUPERVISOR'S MANAGEMENT STYLE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SATISFACTION IN A PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY The mechanisms typically proposed to increase parental choice—vouchers, charter schools, etc.—are not at present sufficiently widespread to permit decisive empirical tests either of parental revealed preferences or of their ultimate effects on school productivity

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SYSTEM DESIGN AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Hanushek cautions: “If the efficiency of our school systems is due to poor incentives for teachers and administrators coupled with poor decisionmaking by consumers, it would be unwise to expect much from programs that seek to strengthen ‘market forces’ in the selection of schools,” (1981, p. 34-35; emphasis added). Moreover, if students’ outcomes depend importantly on the characteristics of their classmates (i.e.

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UNDERSTANDING MANAGERIAL COACHING: THE ROLE OF MANAGER ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS IN EFFECTIVE COACHING One must live while conducting research. I thank my family and friends for putting up with me these last five years and for helping me to stay sane throughout. I hope that I have not been too unbearable. Much of my graduate career was supported under a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. In addition, the research in Chapters 1 and 2 was partially supported by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at U.C....

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SITE BASED MANAGEMENT: A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE The first two chapters consider parents’ choice of schools for their children. The claim that parental choice can create incentives for schools to become more productive is a tenet of the neoclassical analysis of education. It relies crucially on the assumption that parents will choose effective, productive schools.

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INFORMATION ENGINEERING IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES: AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGER'S PERSPECTIVE For many purposes, however, one need not know why it is that schools with advantaged students outscore those with disadvantaged students; the fact that they do is itself of substantial importance. This dissertation focuses on two such topics: The competitive impacts of school choice programs, and the design of college admissions rules. In each case, when I incorporate into the standard analysis the key fact that student composition may function as a signal of student performance (and vice versa),...

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TREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES This could be because effectiveness is swamped by the peer group in parental preferences or because it is difficult to observe directly. In either case, administrators who pursue unproductive policies are unlikely to be disciplined by parental exit and Tiebout choice can create only weak incentives for productive school management.

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The Dissertation Committee for Richard Jefferson Webb Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Total Quality Management: An Organizational Communication Analysis Committee: __________________________ Larry D. Browning, Supervisor __________________________ Craig R. Scott __________________________ Dawna I. Ballard __________________________ Patricia D. Witherspoon __________________________ Sim B. Sitkin .Total Quality Management: An Organizational Communication Analysis by Richard Jefferson Webb, B.A., M.A.

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Three essays consider implications of the strong association between student background characteristics and academic performance. Chapter One considers the incentives that school choice policies might create for the efficient management of schools. These incentives would be diluted if parents prefer schools with desirable peer groups to those with inferior peers but better policies and instruction. I model a “Tiebout choice” housing market in which schools differ in both peer group and effectiveness.

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MANAGING SUPPLY CONTRACTS AND INVENTORY RISKS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN This seems a more accurate characterization of Tiebout markets, as the median U.S. metropolitan area has fewer than a dozen school districts from which to choose. It leads to a substantially different understanding of the market dynamics, as Hoxy’s assumption of competing schools with identical peer groups eliminates the “stickiness” that concern for peer group can create and that is the primary focus here.

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Supply Chain Management (SCM) offers the possibility of increased customer service while minimizing costs. Before choosing what type of supply chain strategy to pursue, a firm must first evaluate the type of supply chain(s) in which it participates. The type of functional strategies chosen should complement the type of supply chain(s) in which the firm is a member. Certain manufacturing and logistics strategies are more appropriate given the characteristics of the supply chain.

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MANAGING SIMULATION BASED TRAINING A FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZING LEARNING, COST, AND TIME Second, one can estimate the model on a sample that includes private school students. If the sample selection bias is in the hypothesized direction, either strategy should produce a smaller (more negative) estimate of the effect of interdistrict competition.

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PERFORMANCE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE DWERSIFICATION: ROLES OF KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The results presented in Section 1.5 offer no evidence that the allocation of effective schools is systematically different in high-choice than in low-choice markets. If Tiebout choice does not increase the probability that effective schools attract students from advantaged backgrounds, it is not clear how it can provide incentives that will lead administrators to exert greater effort....

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PUBLIC & PRIVATE MANAGEMENT: FUNDAMENTALLY ALIKE OR DIFFERENT? We can imagine as a thought experiment fully decentralizing school governance in Miami-Dade County, which is served by a single district.53 Figure 1.7 displays the actual distribution of peer groups and school average SAT scores in Miami, as well as the counterfactual distribution that might be observed if the Miami choice index were changed to one and if the effect of choice were at the upper limit of its confidence interval.

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A WEB-APPLICATION TOOL FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS STRATEGIC MANAG AND COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE MONITORIN Several identifiable factors may bias the coefficient on the peer group-Tiebout choice interaction in specifications like (7). I discuss two here; each can produce an upward bias in 1 ϕ . The first source of bias is statistical. There are several reasons to suspect measurement error in the peer group variable:

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COMPETITIVE SUPPLY CHAIN AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT: FOUR ESSAYS When the peer group measure is interacted with the choice index—in Column B, and again with additional controls in the remaining columns—the coefficient is indistinguishable from zero, with a negative point estimate in every specification. Panel B repeats this analysis, this time with the score earned by students when they were in the 12th grade.51 Again, estimates of the choice effect are imprecise but are—with one statistically insignificant exception—of the opposite sign from that predicted by the economic model....

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ESSAYS ON PRICING FIXED INCOME DERIVATIVES AND RISK MANAGEMENT Moreover, voucher programs that encourage the entry of new competitors may produce more options for parents than even the most decentralized of district governance structures, reducing the potential for coordination failures and increasing the probability that even parents who value the peer group highly will choose effective schools.

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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS MANAGEMENT'S PREPERENCES FOR ACOUNTING STANDARDS The model stacks the deck, however, by holding the distribution of effectiveness fixed. If school administrators respond to incentives, effectiveness sorting will also induce higher effort and greater effectiveness. This will tend to raise scores for everyone, and the productivity benefits may offset the allocative costs that Tiebout choice imposes on poor students.34

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COST CHARACTERISTCS AND MANAGEMENT DECISTION OF OKLAHOMA COOPERATIV E GRAIN ELEVATORS When parental concern for peer group is introduced, the perfectly sorted equilibrium is no longer unique. It is now possible for ineffective districts to retain wealthy peer groups in equilibrium, as long as they are not so ineffective that families would prefer a lower- x , higher-μ district. One imperfectly sorted equilibrium is displayed in Panel D.

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This dissertation provides empirical evidence on the market reaction to earnings warnings and management’s motivation to issue earnings warnings. Earnings warnings are any earnings-related management voluntary disclosures made prior to the earnings announcement date.1 Firms use earnings warnings to provide timely information to their shareholders and investors as well as financial analysts regarding their expected current period performance prior to the earnings announcement date (Ip [1997], McLean [2001] and Stone [2002]).

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