Terrence C. Sebora

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Associate) at University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Synopsis This case followed Todd Duncan, Chairman of Duncan Aviation, as he considered which international locations Europe, Latin America, or Asia were most important in positioning Duncan to benefit from continued internationalization of the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) industry. The company had the option to hire Regional Managers to...

Subject area – International Strategy Study level/applicability – Undergraduate or graduate capstone course in strategy or international management course. Case overview – Faced with increased competition at home, Sainsbury’s decided to expand its international operations by entering Egypt. Sainsbury’s initially created a joint venture with an Eg...

Case description Cutts Floral Distributors, founded in 2004 by Dave Lambe, was a floral wholesaler in Lincoln, Nebraska. The firm became a top wholesaler in the Lincoln area and had expanded its delivery range (all accessed by the company's hand delivery system) up to 100 miles outside of Lincoln. The company credited its success to the expertise o...

Roca, Nebraska, leaned forward in one of the desk chairs in Papa Geno"s office area, pulled his gray hair more tightly into his ponytail, and picked up his pipe. Gene looked again at the two documents on his desk. The first was a just-competed strategic plan for his business. The development of the strategic plan began when Gene and co-owner, Sharo...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-209). This study introduces a new perspective on the inception of the relationship between CEOs and boards. Their relationship demonstrates characteristics of exchange. Based on this finding, factors associated with the CEO that influ...

Corporate entrepreneurship may provide a model for a successful national entrepreneurship policy that could foster higher levels of entrepreneurial activity as well as new ventures capable of contributing to the growth of the national economy. The ways in which entrepreneurship is known to be effective in growing the economy are discussed. Parallel...

This initial exploratory study empirically examines factors reflecting the three core stages in new venture creation—opportunity recognition (entrepreneurial self-efficacy), opportunity evaluation (risk acceptance), and opportunity exploitation (willingness to act). Data were obtained via survey from more than 400 graduates from the college of busi...

Because upper managers have the responsibility to set the corporate entrepreneurship agenda, their entrepreneurial characteristics matter to a firm's successful implementation of corporate entrepreneurship. This study investigated influences on the idea creation, risk taking, and proactiveness perceptions of upper managers in a random sample of 105...

Purpose The paper sought to extend previous research on factors associated with corporate entrepreneurship (CE) by surveying operating managers and top executives in Thai manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach The paper used an expanded case method that combined face‐to‐face interviews with the top executives and results of responses to...

If active institutional investors matter to corporate governance, then understanding what influences institutions to become involved also matters. Ryan and Schneider (2002) proposed that the type of institutional investor determines activism. Ryan and Schneider advanced a model that identified a number of antecedents/determinants of activism, inclu...

This paper provides a survey on studies that analyze the macroeconomic effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). The first part of this paper introduces different patent policy instruments and reviews their effects on R&D and economic growth. This part also discusses the distortionary effects and distributional consequences of IPR protection a...

The questions related to why some individuals choose to start a business while others do not are often studied in Entrepreneurship literature. While extensive research has been performed regarding when, why, and how individuals identify potential opportunities, this study brings together many of the factors previously studied in the literature in o...

Thailand has been one of the most successful developing countries. This progress came to a sudden halt in 1997 when the Asian financial crisis hit this country. Thailand responded by creating a favourable environment for business incubation as a high priority at the national government level. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of t...

Bright Lights is a small non-profit organization in Lincoln, NE offering a summer enrichment program to school aged children. Post 9/11, the organization faces challenges in its efforts to sustain financial resources. With enrollment and course offerings on the rise, funding is more important than ever. At the second to the last meeting of the year...

This study investigates governance in 147 publicly held companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Results indicate that Thai directors reflect both monitoring and continuation governance concerns. The findings relating director governance responsibility to Thai corporate performance, as measured by average return on equity for 2002-2004,...

A critical decision that a hoard of directors must make involves Chief Executive Officer (CEO) selection. In order for an organization to he successful, board ot directors must identify CEO candidates that offer a good fii with the needs of the organization. Unfonunately. few analytic techniques have been suggested to aid directors in making comple...

A critical decision that a board of directors must make involves Chief Executive Officer (CEO) selection. In order for an organization to be successful, board of directors must identify CEO candidates that offer a good fit with the needs of the organization. Unfortunately, few analytic techniques have been suggested to aid directors in making compl...

This study explored the relationship between leadership style and individual ethics in work groups. We present a model of how active leadership affects conformity in members’ ethical decision frameworks (formalism and utilitarianism). We tested this model by examining 36 work groups over a 12-week period. Results supported the hypothesis that more...

Corporate governance scholarship posits that the governance structure of a firm affects its competitive performance. As governance structures and systems initially developed, differing legal, financial, and cultural factors caused them to vary. Divergent paths resulted in multiple governance forms. Presently, evidence is growing that these governan...

This paper investigates board judgment in response to management led buyouts (MLBs). Board response is suggested to be guided by the business judgment rule and its dual duties of care and loyalty. The duty of loyalty is seen to be evolving into a specification of fair dealing. With this trend, the current interpretation of the business judgment rul...

This study explores the relationships between competitive context, the use of specialists and the initiation of innovative activity in 94 small businesses in a midwestern state. Results indicate t relationships between competitiveness and environmental uncertainty and the presence of specialists in small businesses. The relationships, however, are...

Corporate governance scholarship posits that the governance structure of a firm affects its competitive performance. As governance structures and systems initially developed, differing legal, financial, and cultural factors caused them to vary. Divergent paths resulted in multiple governance forms. Presently, evidence is growing that these governan...

This paper presents a model of the basic components of the CEO selection decision process used by corporate boards of directors. It describes selection as a purposeful and boundedly rational process characterized by three key components: aspiration, judgment and justification. Each of these components is described in detail. In addition, the orderi...

This paper presents a model of the basic components of the CEO selection decision process used by corporate boards of directors. It describes selection as a purposeful and boundedly rational process characterized by three key components: aspiration, judgment and justification. Each of these components is described in detail. In addition, the orderi...

The effect of market type and product technology on innovation was studied using data from 3800 employees in 88 small businesses. Results demonstrate that: (1) organizational context effects on innovative activity are significant at administrative and strategic levels, (2) organizational members in consumer markets initiate more innovations but imp...

In this study we review over thirty years of succession research in an effort to discern what we know conclusively about the subject, what we do not know because of mixed results, and what has not yet been studied. We begin by answering two key questions: (1) Why is succession such an important topic? and (2) What makes CEO succession different fro...

The use of innovation process measures are examined as a valuable alternative, or addition, to traditional innovation output measures in this study of organizational entrepreneurship in 82 small businesses. A multi-measurement approach (i.e., overall innovation activity and participation) across a three step process (i.e., ideas discussed, proposed...

This study examined the roles of general mental ability and problem construction ability in predicting the quantity, quality and originality of opportunities.