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The Effect of Governance Form Upon Adaptation During Times of Environmental Turbulence
… semiannual periods for the population of all thrifts in the U.S. (over 4000). Governance form was found to have a main effect on such organizational outcomes as: the amount of adaptation, risky adaptation, and performance. Governance form was also found to moderate the relationship between …
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Three Essays on Financial Institutions and Real Estate
This dissertation examines several aspects of U.S. financial institutions’ real estate-related activity. The first two essays examine the impact of Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) membership and funding on bank and thrift holding company (BHC and THC) risk and returns. The first essay uses risk …
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Mergers and the Structure of Organizational Populations: Revisiting the Thrift Industry via Peter Blau
<p>In 1985 Rush demonstrated that Blau's (1977) structural perspective, developed for relations between persons, could be applied to the study of mergers as a form of relation between organizations. This dissertation is an extension of that work. It highlights that even in the presence of …