Working Papers

Congressional scholars regularly identify Speaker Joseph G. Cannon as the personification of centralized authority and partisan strength in the United States Congress. Portraits of Cannon as a tyrant, however, are almost always based on anecdotal…

We examine two broad, opposite approaches that often guide managers in managing diversity issues. One approach, the universalist approach, emphasizes similarity as the basis of justice, as embodied in the often-heard managerial motto that…

In this study, we investigate the role of experience diversity on learning by U.S. airlines. Do firms learn more from diverse of homogeneous accident experiences? Existing literature provides conflicting answers to this question, with some…

We document that firms reporting small positive earnings significantly understate the loss reserve accrual. Our findings also indicate that earnings management is not concentrated in these firms, but is pervasive across the entire earnings…

In this study we investigate the role played by managerial actions in explaining stock market returns and accounting earnings of 57 Internet firms engaged in Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce. We classify 3,166 managerial actions undertaken…

This .paper investigates the linkages between trade policy and economic growth in a panel of 57 countries, between 1970 and 1989. We develop a new measure of trade policy openness, based on the policy component of trade shares. This is used in a…

We analyze a model where an altruistic sender, who may or may not be informed, broadcasts one of a finite set of messages to rational receivers. If broadcasting is costless and the sender is rational, there is an informationally efficient…

According to system justification theory, which complement theories of similarity, social identification, and homophily, people internalize and perpetuate systemic forms of inequality, event if it means harboring preference for members of higher…

This research examines the effect of target marketing on members of the advertiser’s intended audience as well as members not in the target market: the “non-target market.” The results of three experiments show that unfavorable non-target market…

We build a discrete time, serially correlated stochastic demand, nonstationary, finite horizon, capacity expansion model that includes (1) economies of scale in capacity costs, (2) positive expansion lead times, and (3) a fixed maximum cumulative…

We investigate whether the size and quality of the networks of firms engaging in illegal/unethical acts are affected by those acts. Using legitimacy, status, and resource dependence theories, we hypothesize that size will be affected and quality…

This study investigates the use of variable compensation to motivate product development managers and its impact upon the performance of product development projects. Grounded on measurement theory, the paper presents a model to explore the…

The principal-agent paradigm, in which a principal has a primary stake in the performance of some system but delegate operational control of that system to an agent, has many natural applications in operations management (OM). However, existing…

In an experimental study involving power differences between groups, the effects of legitimate and illegitimate explanations for power were investigated on measures of affect, stereotyping, and memory. We found that powerless groups reported more…

We examine whether pollution prevention actions result in innovation. Since a change in the product or process is not instantaneous, we compute the buy and hold returns for the long run to capture the gains due to innovation. We compare the stock…

This paper examines how power influences human behavior. We consider evidence from diverse literatures relating elevated power to approach and reduced power to inhibition. Specifically, power is associated with (a) positive affect, (b) attention…

Motivated by the U.S. Congress’s motion to recommit with instructions to report forthwith, a simple spatial model is analyzed to clarify the relationship between early-stage agenda-settings rights of a committee and/or the majority party, a late-…

This paper provides a theory of private politics in which an activist seeks to change the production practices of a firm for the purpose of redistribution to those whose interests it supports. The source of the activist’s influence is the…

The accounting for business combinations has long been one of the most controversial financial reporting issues, generating numerous opinions and interpretations by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Financial…

We investigate how sociological argumentation differs from the classical first-order logic. We focus on theories about age dependence of organizational mortality. The overall pattern of argument does not comply with the classical monotonicity…