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Value-Relevance of Banks' Fair Value Disclosures under SFAS 107
SFAS 107 fair value estimates are significant in explaining bank share prices beyond book values. In particular, securities, loans, and long-term debt are value-relevant, although deposits and off-balance sheet items are not. The core deposit…
What Theory is Not
Why ultimatums fail: Social identity and moralistic aggression in coercive bargaining
Required Financial Statement Disclosures: Purposes, Subject, Number, and Trends
The Organization of Exclusion: The Institutionalization of Sex Inequality, Gendered Faculty Jobs, and Gendered Knowledge in Organizational Theory and Research
This paper discusses how institutionalized practices and structures contribute to sex inequality in universities, gendered definitions of faculty jobs and gendered limitations to knowledge in the field of organizational studies. This analysis…
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Drawing upon a 6-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top…
Integrative complexity and conflict theory: Evidence of an emerging paradigm (Review and essay)
Bread and Roses: Justice and the Distribution of Financial and Socio-emotional Rewards in Organizations
Two studies tested the hypothesis that organizational decision makers attempt to counterbalance contribution-based distributions of financial/material rewards (a “merit” system that creates monetary inequality) with need- and equality-based…
Executive Summary Cross-Cultural Strategic Alliances and Business Partnerships in the Information Technology Industry: Can Trust be Achieved in a Polygamous World?
The Japan-America Alliances and Partnerships Project has been investigating business alliances and partnerships between U.S. high-technology ventures and Japanese corporations. The purpose of the project is to promote better understanding of the…
The Firm as an Incentive System
The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Sociology
Stationary Markov Equilibria
The sinister attribution error: Paranoid cognition and collective distrust in groups and organizations
Recent social psychological research on paranoid cognition has shown that when individuals are self-conscious or feel under evaluative scrutiny, they tend to overestimate the extent to which they are the target of others’ attention. As a…
Trust and distrust: Its psychological and social dimensions
A Survey-Based method for Measuring and Understanding Brand Equity and its Extendibility
The authors develop a new survey-based method for measuring and understanding a brand’s equity in a product category and evaluating the equity of the brand’s extension into a different but related product category. It uses a customer-based…
Continuous Time Security Pricing: A Utility Gradient Approach
Efficient and Equilibrium Allocations with Stochastic Differential Utility
Fading Memories: A Process Theory of Strategic Business Exit in Dynamic Environments
This comparative study of the evolution of Intel Corporation’s strategic position in two semiconductor memory businesses and in the microprocessor business provides insight into the forces that drive strategic business exit in dynamic…
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects
We investigate conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables. First we show that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect. We…
Fair Value Accounting: Evidence from Investment Securities and the Market Valuation of Banks
This study investigates how disclosed fair value estimates of banks’ investment securities and securities gains and losses based on those estimates are reflected in share prices in comparison with historical costs. Fair value securities gains and…