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The Future of Sustainability Reporting as a Regulatory Mechanism
(2014-03)
Abstract. Sustainability reporting is now a mainstream activity among large, global corporations. The majority of the largest corporations in the United States now produce sustainability reports, and several European ...
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 ...
Essays on Supply Chain Contracting and Retail Pricing.
(2014)
An important operational decision that a seller has to make is how to price his product under different situations. This dissertation addresses three unique pricing problems, commonly faced by a seller in a supply chain, ...
Do business groups help or hinder technological progress in emerging markets? Evidence from India
(2014-01-01)
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources ...
Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with evidence from Swaziland
(2014-05-01)
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development ...
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 ...
What incentives are being used by International Business Researchers in Their Surveys? A Review.
(2014-12-01)
Following a number of studies on the factors that might affect response rates in cross-national research, this work examines the types of incentives mentioned by international business scholars in mail surveys as well as ...
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 ...