Publications

This study investigates how Australian asset revaluations are associated with share prices and non market-based firm value estimates. We find that revalued financial, tangible, and intangible assets can be value-relevant. Although prior research…

This study investigates whether the relevance, reliability, and timeliness of Australian asset revaluation differ across types of assets, including investments, property, plant, and equipment, and intangibles. We also investigate whether they…

Several theories of reputation and herding (see, e.g., Scharfstein and Stein (1990), Zwiebel (1995), and Prendergast and Stole (1996) predict that herding among agents should vary with career concerns. Our goal in this paper is to test for this…

In recent years, the supermarket industry has become increasingly competitive. One outcome has been the proliferation of a variety of pricing formats, and considerable debate among academics and practitioners about how these formats affect…

In recent years, the supermarket industry has become increasingly competitive. One outcome has been the proliferation of a variety of pricing formats, and considerable debate about how these formats affect consumers’ store choice behavior. This…

We argue that a common organizational practice—the hiring new workers via employee referrals—provides key insights into the notion of social capital. Employers who use such hiring methods are quintessential “social capitalists,” viewing workers’…

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors affecting the performance of Japanese overseas subsidiaries. The following five factors are incorporated in the model: subsidiary location, characteristics of parent company, ownership levels and…

This paper addresses the interplay of strategy, organization, and incentives in a global company. The basic framework takes one step further Chandler’s perspective that structure follows strategy by incorporating incentives chosen in response to…

Some firms, particularly in high-tech, appear to view technology and cost leadership as separate and distinct ways of achieving high profiles within a given product market. In contrast, we develop a model of technology competition suggesting that…

This paper studies the pricing of “private information”, that is information which is of value only (or mainly) for a specific consumer. In private information markets, firms are familiar with their client’s decision problem and consumers…

Using a sample of petroleum refining firms, this paper provides evidence that earnings sensitivity measures analogous to those mandated by the SEC’s (1997) new market risk disclosure rules are positively associated with stock market determined…

Both Transaction Cost Economics and Property Rights Theories offer explanations of the boundaries of the firm based on ideas of ex post bargaining and hold-up. These theories are quite distinct in their empirical predictions, but neither offers a…

Both transaction cost-economics and property-rights theories offer explanations of the boundaries of the firm based on ideas of ex post bargaining and holdup. These theories are quite distinct in their empirical predictions, but neither offers a…

The extent to which management influences accounting recognized in financial statements and the extent to which investors are able to identify such influence are fundamental questions in financial reporting research. This study contributes to…

We propose that need for closure (NFC) leads attributors to respond to an ambiguous social stimulus by increasing reliance on implicit theories received from acculturation. Hence, the influence of NFC should be shaped by the knowledge structures…

This paper analyzes the emergence of norms from an evolutionary perspective. It is hypothesized that norms diffuse not necessarily because they are functional for the communities in which they are embedded but because in certain selection…