• Windfalls of Emperors’ Sojourns: Stock Market Reactions to Chinese Firms Hosting High Ranking Government Officials 

  Schuler, Douglas A.; Shi, Wei; Hoskisson, Robert E.; Chen, Tao (Wiley, 2017-08)

  Research summary: We contribute to the corporate political activity (CPA) literature by showing that investors value companies that host visits of high-ranking government officials (President and Premier). We argue that ...
• External Corporate Governance and Financial Fraud: Cognitive Evaluation Theory Insights on Agency Theory Prescriptions 

  Shi, Wei; Connelly, Brian L.; Hoskisson, Robert E. (Wiley, 2017-06)

  Agency theory suggests that external governance mechanisms (e.g., activist owners, the market for corporate control, securities analysts) can deter managers from acting opportunistically. Using cognitive evaluation theory, ...
• Why be first if it doesn’t pay? The case of early adopters of C-TPAT supply chain security certification 

  Ni, John Z.; Melnyk, Steve A.; Ritchie, William J.; Flynn, Barbara F. (Emerald, 2016)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on adoption of certified management standards, specifically public standards. Such standards play an increasingly important role in today’s business environment. However, to ...
• A cross-cultural examination of the relationships among human resource management practices and organisational commitment: an institutional collectivism perspective 

  Rode, Joseph C.; Huang, Xiaowen; Flynn, Barbara (Wiley, 2016-11)

  Previous research has shown that human resource management (HRM) practices vary across cultures. However, little research has empirically compared the effects of various HRM practices on firm-level or individual-level ...
• Audit Committee Accounting Expertise, Analyst Following, and Market Liquidity 

  Farber, David B.; Huang, Shawn X.; Mauldin, Elaine (Springer, 2016)

  We study the relation between audit committee accounting expertise, analyst following, and market liquidity. Our main results indicate that analyst following increases subsequent to the appointment of an accounting expert ...
• The Role of Female Sexual-Self Schema in Reactions to Non-Explicit Sexual Advertising Imagery 

  Mayer, James Mark; Peev, Plamen (Springer, 2017)

  We explore females’ reactions to a non-explicit, but still sexually themed, advertisement. Specifically, we consider the role of female sexual self-schema (SSS) in the identification of the level of sex present in such an ...
• Supply Chain Power Configurations and their Relationship with Performance 

  Huo, Baofeng; Flynn, Barbara B.; Zhao, Xiande (Wiley, 2017)

  In order to lay the foundation for the study of supply chain power, we study power configurations at the level of interlocking power dyads (IPDs), viewing the simultaneous effect of upstream and downstream power. We build ...
• The Efficacy of Sexualized Female Models in Young Adult-Male Oriented Cigarette Advertising 

  Mayer, James Mark; Baek, Tae Hyun (Springer, 2016)

  This paper explores the portrayal (efficacy) of female models in male-targeted cigarette print advertisements through a content analysis (experiment). We first describe the presence and portrayal of females through a content ...
• Contingent Effects of Humor Type and Cognitive Style on Consumer Attitudes 

  Mayer, James Mark; Peev, Plamen; Kumar, Piyush (Springer, 2016)

  In the spirit of examining humor contextually, we consider a basic question in this essay: do different humor types “play by the same rules,” cognitively speaking? We examine the relationship between humor and cognitive ...
• Goals and Social Comparisons Promote Walking Behavior 

  Chapman, Gretchen B.; Colby, Helen; Convery, Kimberly; Coups, Elliot J. (Sage, 2016)

  The effectiveness of a pedometer intervention was affected by manipulating the goals given to participants and by providing social comparison feedback about how participants’ performance compared with others. In study 1 ...
• A Structural Equation Modeling-Based Examination of the Private Label Brand (PLB) Consumer Evaluation Process 

  Mayer, James Mark (Springer, 2016)

  The goal of this paper is to answer the question “What variables influence consumer private label brand (PLB) evaluations?” We employ structural equation modeling (SEM) in order to analyze a hypothesized process by which ...
• Board Changes and the Director Labor Market: The Case of Mergers 

  Becher, David A.; Walkling, Ralph A.; Wilson, Jared I. (ECGI, 2017-02)

  We provide benchmarks for board changes over time and in response to the evolution of firm structure. Boards are more stable in the modern era. At the same time, shifts made around mergers are substantial and significantly ...
• Do Stock Options Overcome Managerial Risk Aversion? Evidence from Exercises of Executive Stock Options 

  Heron, Randall A.; Lie, Erik (2016)

  We report that the probability that executives exercise options early decreases with the volatility of the underlying stock return. We interpret this to mean that executives’ subjective option value increases with volatility ...
• The Effects of Sources of Earnings Forecasts and Degree of Source Expertise on Subjects' Estimates of Earnings per Share: A Field Experiment 

  Hassell, John M. (1983)

  Motivated by previous research in accounting, finance, and psychology, this dissertation reports the results of a field experiment to determine whether two particular variables affected subjects' estimates of earnings per ...
• The Strategic Effects of Auditing Standard No. 5 in a Multi-location Setting 

  Patterson, Evelyn; Smith, Reed (AAA, 2016-02)

  Auditing Standard No. (AS) 5 provides guidance in the required audit of internal control over financial reporting and its integration into the financial statement audit. AS 5 advocates a “top-down” approach, in which control ...
• On Theory in Supply Chain Uncertainty and its Implications for Supply Chain Integration 

  Flynn, Barbara B.; Koufteros, Xenophon; Lu, Guanyi (Wiley, 2016-07)

  This article develops a theoretical conceptualization of supply chain uncertainty, based on the foundation provided by contingency theory, classical organization theory, and information processing theory. We develop a ...
• Providing CEOs With Opportunities to Cheat: The Effects of Complexity-Based Information Asymmetries on Financial Reporting Fraud 

  Ndofor, Hermann Achidi; Wesley, Curtis; Priem, Richard L. (Sage, 2015-09)

  Opportunities for financial reporting fraud arise because of information asymmetries—often labeled “lack of transparency”—between top managers and their diverse shareholders. We evaluate the relative contributions of ...
• Feeling Insecure-A State View of Whether Investors in Municipal General Obligation Bonds Have a Mere Promise to Pay or a Binding Obligation 

  Pollard, Randle B. (2015-02)

  The City of Detroit's filing for municipal bankruptcy in July, 2013, has added to a continuing controversy of whether general obligation bondholders have a secured lien. The City of Detroit claimed its general obligation ...
• Tapping the power of local knowledge: A local-global interactive perspective 

  Li, Shenxue; Easterby-Smith, Mark; Lyles, Marjorie A.; Clark, Timothy (Elsevier, 2016-06)

  Existing theories of international business and strategy do not fully explain how local knowledge disadvantage faced by foreign investors can be mitigated. We conducted an in-depth qualitative study into four MNCs to ...
• The Mutual Impact of Global Strategy and Organizational Learning: Current Themes and Future Directions 

  Hotho, Jasper; Easterby-Smith, Mark; Lyles, Marjorie A. (Wiley, 2015-05)

  Despite the interest in issues of knowing and learning in the global strategy field, there has been limited mutual engagement and interaction between the fields of global strategy and organizational learning. The purpose ...

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