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Board to Death: How Busy Directors Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis
(2017-07)
This article argues that the directors of the United States’ largest financial institutions are too busy to execute their governance roles effectively. Most financial institution directors serve on the board of at least ...
Joint Inventory and Fulfillment Decisions for Omnichannel Retail Networks
(2018-01)
With e-commerce growing at a rapid pace compared to traditional retail, many brick-and-mortar firms are supporting their online growth through an omnichannel approach, which integrates inventories across multiple channels. ...
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 ...
Learning in a Disruptive Customer Engagement Platform: An Empirical Analysis in the Banking Industry
(2016-07)
The shift in enterprise applications to disruptive mobile platforms calls for research to better understand the mechanisms and factors behind success in these new platforms. In this paper, we empirically study the learning ...
Leveraging Physical Assets for Value Creation Through Cleanweb Firms - the Finnish Cleantech Space in Transition
(2015-05)
Cleantech has made a respectable comeback onto the global agenda of firms, investors and economic developers alike. In the midst of the resurgence, Finnish CleanTech has been recognized globally. Indeed, recent rankings ...
Salience Games: Keeping Environmental Issues in (and Out) of the Public Eye
(2016-06)
Businesses and green activists seek to influence public attention to the social impacts of a sector -- they play salience games. An activist allocates funds between campaigning against a polluting industry and other ...
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Benefit Society?
(2017-02)
In short, it depends on the ownership type. We construct an event-based outcome measure of firm-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact for public and private firms globally from 2007 to 2015 using data ...
Combating Corruption in International Business: The Big Questions
(2015-08)
The last several years have seen a significant rise in the efforts of governments to combat the supply side of corruption. Due to these increased efforts, now is an important time to ask some of the big questions in combating ...
A Causal Tree Approach for Personalized Health Care Outcome Analysis
(2016-12)
Using patient-level data from 35 hospitals for 6 cardiovascular surgeries in New York, we provide empirical evidence that outcome differences between health care providers are heterogeneous across different groups of ...
A Half Century Post Title Vii: Still Seeking Pathways for Women to Organizational Leadership
(2015-03)
Perhaps the most important of the many 50th anniversaries marked in 2014 is the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). Although Title VII and accompanying legislation and judicial rulings have ...