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A Model of Aggregate Reporting Quality
(2014-07)
We characterize firms’ aggregate reporting quality in an economy where a rational capital market as well as a regulator discipline firms’ reporting choices. When the regulator is resource constrained, multiple aggregate ...
Governance in the Executive Suite and Board Independence
(2014-01)
The overall independence of a firm’s governance system depends not only on the independence of its board of directors but also on CEO influence over the other top executives. We find that board independence and independence ...
Embracing Co-Creation Experience in Economics: Rethinking Surplus
(2014-04)
Economics without the lens of co-creation, in the new evolving economy, blurs visibility. We provide a framework that can reshape economic thinking with co-creation at the core. In particular, an individual’s experience ...
Firm Characteristics, Consumption Risk, and Firm-Level Risk Exposures
(2014-10)
Firm-level risk exposures and costs of equity are notoriously difficult to estimate. Using a novel approach mapping consumption risk exposures to firm characteristics, we combine the traditional portfolio-level approach ...
Political Uncertainty and Financial Market Quality
(2014-04)
We examine the effects of political uncertainty surrounding the outcome of U.S. presidential elections on financial market quality. We postulate those effects to depend on a positive relation between political uncertainty ...
Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure
(2014-11)
Corporate greenwash has accelerated in recent years, bringing in its wake growing skepticism about corporate green claims. Although a theory of the drivers and deterrents of greenwash has begun to emerge, it is static in ...
Service Quality Variability and Termination Behavior
(2014-01)
We investigate the roles of the level and variability in quality in driving customer retention for a new service. We present model-free evidence that while high average quality helps in retaining customers, high variability ...
The Fourth Wave, Management Science and Practice in the Age of the Anthropocene
(2014-04)
Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to ...
Platforms: A Multiplicity of Research Opportunities
(2014-05)
Platforms refer to intermediaries that facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents wherein the decisions of one set of agents is likely to have an effect on the other via direct and/or indirect externalities. ...
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
(2014-08)
The goal of this special feature is to explore Industrial Ecology (IE) concepts and tools as the basis for competitive advantage for business. Past studies of the relationship between business and IE exist but there is ...