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Earnings quality and CFO financial expertise
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Financial reporting is a central issue in the capital markets. As financial reporting is mainly the responsibility of chief financial officers (CFOs), the characteristics of a CFO potentially ...
Factors influencing consumers' warranty purchase: The role of goal orientation, individual mood, and framing
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation investigated how decision framing and an individuals' mood and goal orientation interact to influence the decision to buy a car warranty. In the process, the psychometric ...
Terminal materialism vs. instrumental materialism: Can materialism be beneficial?
(2009-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Previous research has focused on the negative outcomes of materialism (e.g., Richins and Dawson 1992). This dissertation extends the work of Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton (1978) to investigate ...
Role of emotional attachment in co-production
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Drawing from an exhaustive literature review, I find that coproduction which is the customer's hands-on participation in making an object and emotional attachment (EA) which reflects an emotional ...
Implications of Subchapter S tax status for commercial banks
(2009-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Banks first became eligible to elect Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code in 1997. Subchapter S status provides institutions the ability to maintain limited liability while avoiding double ...