Sample Projects & Proposals

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Theses/Dissertations from 2025

• Application of a New Learning Company Layers Model Through Participatory Action Research, Donald L. Jones
• People Are First: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of People First Leadership, Richard Allan McNeal
• Sustainability Progress in Retail Small Businesses on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, Lori E. Okami
• Theses/Dissertations from 2024
• Acquisition Targeting: Toward Modelling Small Business Acquisition with Machine Learning, Jeremy Chambers
• A Rare Leadership Journey: Exploring Perspectives of Women in Construction, Taylor M. Krueger
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Smartphone Retail Shopping Apps Through the Lens of Customer Value, Satisfaction, and Loyalty, Jean B. Ntahontuye
• The Influence of Pro-White Bias on the Leadership Self-Efficacy of Minority College Students, Stacy Roland
• Residential Solar Power: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Consumer Decision Process Regarding Solar Adoption in the Low-Energy-Cost / Low-Solar-Exposure Pacific Northwest, Steven W. Schmidt
• A Time Series Geometric Term Structure Model: Indications for U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Interpretation and U.S. Federal Funds Target Rate Forecasting, Danny L. White
• Analyzing the Effect of Sponsorship Disclosure on Social Media Influencer Contribution to Engagement in the Test and Measurement Industry, Todd B. Baker
• Moral Virtues: A Quantitative Study on the Impact of National Culture on Integrity, Andrew I. Ellestad
• The Barriers to Active and Experiential Learning in Accounting Education, Elizabeth Holbrook
• Phenomenological Study of African American Female Partners in Top U.S. Corporate Law Firms, Tony Kelly
• Career Shock and Voluntary Turnover Intention among Current Employees in the Public Sector, Charlena Miller
• Emotional Intelligence, Self-Efficacy, and the Perceived Employability of Traditional Undergraduate Business Students in a Private Midwest Educational Institution, Michele Ryan
• Effect of Black- or White-Sounding Name and Impact of Intergroup Contact with Black Individuals on Auditor Judgments, Vanessa J. Tijerina
• Young Adults Who Save for Retirement: A Grounded Theory Study of the Decision-Making Process, Chad Greenwood
• How do People Justify not Paying their Taxes? A Study on Moral Disengagement and Tax Evasion, Grace M. Hufff
• Identity Work in Aspiring Big 4 Accounting Practice Leaders: Narratives of Personal Reinvention, Michael H. Kinnen
• The Impact of Workplace Mentoring on Meaningful Work for People With Workplace Anxiety in the Insurance Industry, Susan L. Nelson
• The Impact of Digital Marketing Tactics on the Recruitment of Domestic First-Generation College Students in the Southwest United States, Noelle Seybert
• Exploring the Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Workplace Violence, Jared W. Snow
• Theses/Dissertations from 2021
• Onboarding Autism Employees in Technology Industry, Heung-For Cheng
• Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Practices on Brand Trust and Purchase Intention in the Wine Industry, Sarah L. Cooley
• A New Model of Opportunity Recognition: Linking Individual Agency, Entrepreneurial Action, and the Innovation Process, Eva M. Fast
• Financial Literacy and Behavior in Credit Unions: An Exploration of Member Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior in the Credit Union Model, Peter R. Fisher
• Predicting the Financial Vulnerability of U.S. Public Charities: A Test of the Tuckman-Chang Model, Alesha L. Graves
• The Strategic Response of Nonprofits to Institutional Pressures: An Intellectual Capital, Mario L. Hicks
• Ethical Attitudes of Accounting Faculty and Public Accountants, James Karan
• An Analysis of the Impact of an Influencer’s Perceived Trustworthiness and Content Quality on Their Follower’s Travel Intent, Josh C. McNair
• Remote Working and Open Offices: A Phenomenological Study of the Factors Impacting Employee Productivity, Frank Murphy
• Rural Coopetition: A Consumer Perspective of Marketing Activities Involving SMEs, Cassandra A. Ritzen
• Consumer Behavior and Ad-Evoked Effects in Native Ads: The Role of Congruence and Brand Familiarity, Steven Rydin
• The Influence of Type of Implicit EWOM on Purchase Intention, Michael H. Starr
• U.S. Marine Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Diagnosed with PTSD: Perceived Employment Barriers Faced by Marines with PTSD Upon Discharge, Marlon G. Ware
• The Relationship Among Generational Cohorts, Tenure, Job Categories, and Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in a Healthcare Environment: A Quantitative Study, Jerry S. K. Adatsi
• Electronic Health Records: Influencing Performance at Critical Access Hospitals, John Bennett
• Millennial Students’ Awareness of Retirement Issues, Their Retirement Preparedness and Future Expectations, Krzysztof P. Bryniuk
• Assessing the Impact of Transition from Rules-based to Principles-based Accounting in the Recognition of Revenue: A Study of Public Companies listed in the Russell 3000 Index that Elected the Full Retrospective Method of Accounting, Foday Y. Deen-Conteh
• The Impact of Buyer Needs on Perceived Trade Show Effectiveness, RJ Fryan
• Self-Determination Theory and Pharmaceutical Salespeople: Does Motivational Orientation of U.S.-Based Pharmaceutical Salespeople Influence Sales Performance?, Brandon Gilbert
• A Cord of Three: A Phenomenological Study of Linkages in Interdenominational Interactions in Northwest Wyoming as Informed Through Network and Social Exchange Theories, Timothy N. Gray
• Management Succession in a Two-Family-Owned Business: A Case Study, Dwight D. Ham
• Factors Motivating Leaders to Volunteer: An Examination of Volunteer Leadership in Long-term Post-Acute Care, Christian Allen Mason
• Happiness at Work: A Phenomenological Investigation of Clinic Managers, Jorge Melendez
• Can Trait Emotional Intelligence Variables of Well-Being, Self-Control, Emotionality, and Sociability Individually or Collectively Predict a Software Development Engineer’s Creativity?, Mwoyondishe Jonathan Mvududu
• Job Satisfaction Among Faculty Members at CCCU Institutions, Heather C. Vaccaro
• Sticker Price Elasticity as Predictor of Tuition Reset Success: A Quantitative Approach, Robert F. Van Cleef
• A Narrative Analysis of Virtue Ethics Among Accounting Professors, Gibran N. Zogbi
• Leading Change: Examining the Relationships between Leadership Style, Organizational Culture and Change Readiness in Christian Universities of the State of Oregon, Dale Seipp Jr.
• Doctorum Reciproco: Multi-Generational Professionals and Their Sentimentality Towards Reciprocity, Sal Villegas
• Identifying City Attributes for Place Branding that Create Strong Self-Brand Connections, Matthew Vollrath
• An Empirical Examination of Formal and Informal Institutional Factors’ Influence on Global Food Industry Sustainability Engagement, Kat Yamamoto
• Entrepreneurship Education’s Impact on Entrepreneurial Intention: A Predictive Regression Model of Chinese University Students, Brian A. Lavelle
• The Link Between Job Satisfaction and the Intention to Leave Among Casino Employees, Oliver Wayne Aho
• Exploring Factors that Help Students Feel More Connected to Their Online Instructors, Debra Austin
• Scoping Job Enlargement with the Cultural Dimension of Individualism: An Industrial, Mark Wm. Cawman
• Exceptionally Employable: A Study of the Value of Contrasting Educational Modalities within Christian Liberal Arts Universities in Preparing Students for Employment Suitability, Sam Heinrich
• The Impact of CSR Efforts on Firm Performance in the Energy Sector, Robert Lloyd
• Public Company Health Insurers and Medical Loss Ratios: An Event Study of Dates Associated with the Affordable Care Act, Rachelle Quinn
• Self-Determination and Human Resource Retention: Employee and Volunteer Motivation to Stay in Rural Oregon Nonprofit Organizations, Nicole Richman
• Understanding Business Education: Examining the Effect of the Application of Strategic Learning Among Diverse Business Disciplines, Dan Thoman
• Pre-Certification Interprofessional Education: Ideal vs. Reality Patient Safety Curriculum, Edward E. Ward
• Marketing Channel Attitudes of Chinese Business-to-Business Companies: An Empirical Buyer Behavior Study for U.S. Companies Marketing to Chinese B2B Customers, Jonathan Cooley
• Corporate Social Responsibility: Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Costa Rican Hotel Tourist Industry, Michelle Flynn Osborne
• A Phenomenological Investigation of Factors Leading to Success in Diverting Non-Urgent Emergency Department Use at a Rural Critical Access Hospital Using the Patient Centered Medical Home Model, Paul Gratton
• An Investigation of the Trends in Pricing for Christian Higher Education and Its Relationship to Perceived Quality, Richard Holaway
• Understanding the Process Small Businesses Use to Capture, Convert, and Integrate Survival Knowledge, Frank Marshall
• Encouraging Ethical Behavior in the Workplace by Way of the Classroom: Examining the Use of Social Media in Marketing Ethics Instruction to Influence Millennials‘ Perception of Workplace Ethics, Traci Thomas Pierce
• The Lived Experience of College Choice, Ryan Ladner
• The Management of a Turnaround after an Ethical Breach in a Public Institution of Higher Education, Ashley Stark
• Nontraditional Students in Management and Accounting Programs: Investigating the Relationship between Personality and Major Satisfaction in the Community College Setting, Brad Ward
• Empirical Study on the Relationship between Ethical Leadership and Organizational Climate of Innovation, Virlena Crosley
• Undergraduate Education Background and Ethical Decision Making, Ian H. King
• Understanding Consumers’ Thoughts and Feelings about Financial Literacy and How Financial Literacy Affects Their Lives Using the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), Belle Marie
• An Exploratory Study of the Role of Values in Microeconomic Decision-Making and the Implications for Organizations and Leaders, Holly A. Bell
• Later Life Career Transitions: Exploration of Factors and Turning Points that Influence Career Transitions in Later Life, Estle Harlan
• The Role of Creativity in the Ethical Orientation of Oregon CPAs, John D. Porter
• Dissertations from 2012
• Exploring the background and motivations of social entrepreneurs, Timothy A. Lucas
• Dissertations from 2011
• Organizational culture and brand : A grounded theory assessment of employees’ enablement to live the brand at a best place to work, Tyler Laird Magee