Business: Recent submissions
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The story and the storyteller: Strategic storytelling that gets human attention for entrepreneurs
(Elsevier Inc., 2023-02-11)As a captivating way to engage, inform, and persuade one�s audiences, storytelling can serve as a strategic skill in an entrepreneur�s arsenal. Although entrepreneurs often use storytelling to mobilize financial resources ... -
Is the "smoke-filled room" necessary? An experimental study of the effect of communication networks on collusion
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-03-03)We investigate how well firms can collude with partial communication in relation to full communication. We find that firms vary their communication strategies with network structures. In the networks that have either an ... -
Can you see me lying? Investigating the role of deception on gaze behavior
(Elsevier, 2023-06-01)Throughout the early part of this century, and especially during the peak of the global pandemic of 2020, the world has come to rely increasingly on computer-mediated communication (CMC). The study of computer-based media ... -
The effects of government spending on consumption and the real exchange rate: a comparison between developed and developing countries
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-02-13)Purpose – The degree of development and the way to identify a fiscal shock matter in evaluating the effects of the fiscal policy. This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of a fiscal expansion on private consumption ... -
Improving imbalanced machine learning with neighborhood-informed synthetic sample placement
(Routledge, 2022-10-02)Machine learning is widely used in information systems design. Yet, training algorithms on imbalanced datasets may severely affect performance on unseen data. For example, in some cases in healthcare, fintech, or cybersecurity ... -
Risky combination: the role of managerial perceptions of social media use and entrepreneurial orientation on SME innovation
(Emerald Publishing, 2023-01-17)Purpose – This study examines the conditions when “managerial perception of the contribution of social media” (SMC) enhances and inhibits entrepreneurially oriented small and medium-size enterprises’ (SMEs’) ability for ... -
Adaptive scaffolding toward transdisciplinary collaboration: Reflective polyvocal self-study
(Springer International Publishing, 2022-12-16)Contemporary global challenges require experts from various disciplines to work together. Since every field of knowledge has its unique language and discipline-based culture, collaborative inquiry presents an additional ... -
Best way not to misuse p values is not to draw definitive conclusions about hypotheses
(BMJ, 2022-02-25)A recent article in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine asserted the following1, ‘We begin by saying that p values themselves are not flawed. Rather, the use, misuse or abuse of p values in ways antithetical to rigorous scientific ... -
Stand in the wind: Market power reformation during uncertain periods
(Elsevier Inc., 2023-03-01)Economic policy uncertainty affects firm dynamics and profitability, and thus imposes an impact on firm markups and market power. Using quarterly data of the U.S. publicly listed firms over 1985Q1 to 2020Q3, this paper ... -
Did friendship impair the auditor’s independence?
(American Accounting Association, 2022-06-09)The objective of this case is to help students identify potential violations of independence between a member of an external financial statement audit team and a client employee. Additionally, this case informs students ... -
Financial development and declining market dynamics: Another dark side of “too much finance”?
(Springer, 2022-11-06)This paper empirically investigates whether financial development has played a role in the rise of market concentration over the past decades. Using an industry-level panel of 41 countries over the period 1989–2010, we ... -
Estimating land values using residential sales data
(Elsevier, 2022-10-29)Land prices are at the heart of urban economics but are generally not observed directly. Though they are central to household and firm location choices, land-only sales in urban areas are rare and often outliers. Indeed, ... -
In search of scholarly Impact
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Early Earnings Releases and the Role of Accounting Quality
(American Accounting Association, 2021-12-01)More than half of U.S. public companies announce earnings before audit completion. We examine how accounting quality, as a measure of the ex ante reliability of earnings, affects the decision to release earnings early. ... -
The nature of vicarious embarrassment
(Elsevier, 2022-08-31)Extant literature suggests that a consumer who purchases a sensitive product will experience embarrassment if others, real or imagined, witness the purchase. However, the parallel embarrassment experienced by observers is ... -
Regional house price co-movement in the USA: the medium cycle is not the business cycle
(Springer Nature, 2022-08-02)Co-movement in different regional housing markets has implications for portfolio management, as well as the effectiveness of monetary and other policies. Such co-movement has thus been the subject of several previous ... -
Crowd reactions to entrepreneurial failure in rewards-based crowdfunding: A psychological contract theory perspective
(MDPI, 2022-07-08)Rewards-based crowdfunding (RBC) has recently gained popularity as an alternative means of finance to help entrepreneurs bring novel projects to life. We theorize that crowdfunding backers perceive an implicit psychological ... -
Is there a clash of civilizations? Cultures and institutions across civilizations
(People and Global Business Association, 2022-06-01)Purpose: We analyze how countries are similar and different in terms of cultures and institutions and the extent to which they can be grouped into civilizations. This is based on Huntington’s (1993,1996) framework that ... -
The Northern Ireland housing market: would unification with the south be problematic?
(AccessEcon LLC, 2022-02-20)Recent political events such as Brexit, as well as changing demographics have made the unification of Northern Ireland and the Republic likelier than recently thought possible. Unification would require addressing many ... -
FinTech and capital allocation efficiency: Another equity-efficiency dilemma?
(Elsevier, 2022-05-22)The emergence of financial technology (FinTech) introduces new tools and solutions to lending and equity markets, and has significantly increased the accessibility of marginal firms to funds, a property known as financial ...