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  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

Haris Tabakovic, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. Accountability is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Apr 2007
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Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

definite advance over the arbitrary overhead allocations done by traditional standard cost systems, many companies abandoned ABC or updated their model only infrequently, because of the high time and cost associated with re-estimating the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Fruitful avenues for future research are suggested. February 2015 Journal of Management Accounting Research Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 By: Datar, Srikant M., Dennis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

strategy comes into question when students take the first standardized test aligned with the more rigorous Common Core State Standards. While the test results show that, on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization across industries. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

merchants? What should they know before signing a contract? A: The main insight in my paper is that default contract terms—obvious contract terms—are not the only possible terms. It may be that you pay most of your suppliers on standard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

productivity of EHR use and delegation. We then explored the interaction between these 2 strategies and the role of practice size. Results: Greater EHR use and greater delegation were independently associated with higher levels of productivity. An increase in EHR use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

e-mailed flu-shot reminder e-mails. The catch: Some of them received a standard reminder, with information about when and where the shots would be offered, while others received an additional prompt—suggesting that the employees write... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jul 2014
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How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

as improved teaching and leadership talent, the use of technology in personalized learning, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, wider school choice, and a dramatic upgrade in the quality and use of data analytics to determine what... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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