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Accruals and the Prediction of Future Cash Flows
Building on the Dechow, Kothari, and Watts (1998) model of the accrual process, this study provides insights into the role of accruals in predicting future cash flows. The model shows that each accrual component reflects different information…
A Behavioral Model of Turnout
The so-called “paradox of voting” is major anomaly for rational choice theories of elections. If voting is costly and citizens are rational then large electorates the expected turnout would be small, for if many people voted the chance of anyone…
Culturally Conferred Conceptions of Agency: A Key to Social Perception of Persons, Groups, and Other Actors
Many tendencies in social perceivers’ judgments about individuals and groups can be integrated in terms of the premise that perceivers rely on implicit theories of agency acquired from cultural traditions. Whereas, American culture primarily…
Do Firms Issuing Equity Manage their Earnings? Evidence from the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry
This paper examines whether property-casualty insurance companies manage earnings to influence investor expectations at the time of equity issuances. Our tests focus on the discretionary component of a material accounting accrual recognized by…
Do SEC Disclosures Reduce Investors' Disagreements About Firms' Exposures To Market Risk?: A Trading Volume Analysis
This paper uses a trading volume analysis to examine the extent to which SEC-mandated disclosures make firms’ market risk exposures more transparent to investors. We hypothesize that if the SEC’s quantitative market risk disclosures reduce…
Does the Quality of Online Customer Experience Create a Sustainable Competitive Advantage for E-commerce Firms?
Claims have often been made that the quality of the online customer experience in terms of web site ease of use, selection of goods offered, quality of customer service, the effectiveness of virtual community building, and site personalization…
Domestic Discretionary Appropriations, 1950-1999 Here's the President. Where's the Party?
Annual changes in domestic discretionary spending are analyzed to test predictions from three distinct types of theories of U.S. policy-making: (1) preference-driven, or nonpartisan, theories such as the recently developed pivotal politics theory…
A Dynamic Analysis of the Market for Wide-Bodied Commercial Aircraft
This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost…
Dynamic Customization of Marketing Messages in Interactive Media
As a consequence of significant advances in information technology, the marketing community has become increasingly interested in the possibilities afforded by interactive media. The explosion of the World Wide Web is the most notable example of…
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Obtaining Resource Commitments
Most theories of the firm ignore the entrepreneurial process of how the various resources of the firm are combined in the first place. This paper examines the process of how an entrepreneur obtains commitments from multiple resource providers to…
Exploring the Impact of Marketing and Manufacturing Strategies, Conflict, and Morale on Business Performance
As firms are increasingly transforming their organizations in response to environmental pressures and hypercompetition, the traditional sequence of manufacturing and marketing (hereafter M/M) strategy formulation and implementation is undergoing…
From Red Vienna to the Anschluss: Ideological Competition Among Viennese Newspapers During the Rise of National Socialism
Periods of social and political change often are marked by struggles among competing ideologies. Given the importance of formal organizations to such struggles, we propose that competitions among ideologies can be understood and modeled as an…
Going Public and the Option Value of Convertible Securities in Venture Capital
This paper considers potential disagreements between an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist about the desirability of taking a company public. Convertible securities are shown to be optimal for a novel reason. In particular, it is shown that…
Green and Competitive? Evidence from the Stock Market
While public benefits of environmentally friendly practices are well understood, there is anecdotal evidence that suggests that firms that follow such practices also receive private benefits. The paper investigates the effect of pollution…
How Does Culture Influence Conflict Resolution? A Dynamic Constructive Analysis
Psychologists have taken several approaches to modeling how culture influences the ways individuals negotiate interpersonal conflict. Most common has been the approach of searching for cultural traits, general, stable value-orientations that…
Idea Hampsters on the Bleeding Edge: Metaphors of Life and Death in Silicon Valley
Organizational theory has addressed the role of metaphor in analyzing organizational culture, fostering innovation in organizational development, and in maintaining control of employees through language and socialization. We argue that metaphors…
Incentive Efficient Control of a Make-to-Stock Production System
This paper considers a principal-agent variant of the classical make-to-stock single server queueing system. A principal (whom we call “her”) has a primary stake in the performance of the system, incurs linear holding and backorder inventory…
Information Processing in Traditional, Hybrid, and Virtual Teams: From Nascent Knowledge to Transactive Memory
Virtual teams are increasingly common in organizations, yet explicit theory and research on virtual team processes and outcomes is relatively rare. In this chapter, we first place virtual teams in context and provide a two dimensional framework…
Information Technology as a Jealous Mistress: Competition for Knowledge Between Individuals and Organizations.
Information technology may play the role of a jealous mistress when it comes to the relationship between individual and organizational knowledge creation. Information technology can facilitate the dissemination of knowledge across the…
Is Disinflation Good for Growth?
When countries attempt to stabilize annual inflation rates greater than 40 percent, the domestic stock market appreciates by 24 percent on average. Therefore, the long-run growth benefit of reducing high inflation outweighs the short-run cost. In…