Publications

Media attention has been overlooked as a potential determinant of strike duration. This study analyzed the impact of media attention on strike duration using a sample of the 90 largest U.S. strikes that occurred from 1980 to 1991. Results…

This research explores the extent to which differences in perceived diagnosticity as compared with differences in the accessibility of associations embedded in persuasion appeals better account for the attitudinal differences found in the culture…

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…

Past research on dual process models of persuasion has documented that, when faced with information incongruity, individuals tend to form product evaluations by attenuating the less diagnostic information, relying solely on the more diagnostic…

This paper investigates the relationship between organizational aging and innovation processes to illuminate the dynamics of high-technology industries, as well to resolve debates in organizational theory about the effects of aging on…

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…

Impersonal criteria for making decisions and restraints on emotional expression at work have long been the hallmarks of organizational life (for example, Weber, 1946, 1981). Recent work has broken this emotional taboo (for example, Fineman, 1996…

We consider a model with several regions whose technological ability and factor endowments are identical and in which transport costs between regions are non-negligible. Nonetheless, certain goods are sometimes produced by multiple firms…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The crux of the kidney allocation problem is the trade-off between clinical efficiency and equity. We consider a dynamic resource allocation problem with the tri-criteria objective of maximizing the quality-adjusted life expectancy of transplant…

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…

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…