Santa Clara University

Mandated to Change, Pressured to Survive: How Newly Appointed CEOs Use Resonance to Manage Strategic Change–Early Survival Dilemma

Abstract Newly appointed CEOs often enter office with a mandate to initiate strategic change, yet such change disrupts established routines and interests, frequently provoking resistance from organizational stakeholders. This creates a fundamental leadership transition dilemma: t...

Diffusion Models in Recommendation Systems: A Survey

Recommender systems remain an essential topic due to its wide application and business potential. Given the great generation capability exhibited by diffusion models in computer vision recently, many recommender systems have adopted diffusion models and found improvements in perf...

Do information and communication technologies empower female workers? Evidence from Vietnam

We examine the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption on female employment outcomes in Vietnam, using data at both the firm and household levels. Our identification strategy leverages geographic variation in the engineering costs of connecting to Vietna...

Beyond the Bubble: Answer Justification, Metacognitive Monitoring, and Revision in Multiple-Choice Testing

Multiple-choice tests are efficient and objectively scored, but they provide limited insights into the reasoning underlying students’ responses. Requiring students to justify their answers may encourage more generative processing while also providing diagnostic information about...