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An investigation of the effects of IT investment on firm performance: The role of complementarity.
(2006)
The concept of complementarity has been introduced into IT-based firm performance research in order to address inconsistent magnitudes of the impacts from IT investments across studies. This dissertation seeks to understand ...
Government, business groups, and corporate entrepreneurial intensity during institutional transition.
(2002)
With archival and perceptual survey data from 992 member firms of the largest 250 business groups in the transition economy of China, it is found that formal institutions in various forms of government influence exert ...
Rules versus principles, accountants' cognitive styles and professional penalties.
(2006)
While 40.2% of the general U.S. population are Thinkers (T), 70.5% of accounting professionals are Thinkers (T). While 20.3% of the general U.S. population are STJs, 39.1% of accounting professionals are STJs and the STJ ...
Trust in virtual teams: The role of task, technology and time.
(2004)
Virtual teams face major impediments to developing trust given their relative inability to evaluate other members' abilities, motivations and work patterns. However, trust is the foundation on which virtual teams can build ...
Accountability as it influences ethical behavior.
(2001)
The Ethical Decision-Making Model with Accountability proposes that various forms of accountability will influence ethical intentions, with moral intensity moderating this relationship. The model also shows that cognitive ...
How do nonprofessional investors understand and use relevance and reliability of financial information?
(2008)
With recent and ongoing changes to the conceptual framework, it is important to gain an understanding of how users of financial information understand and use the relevance and reliability of financial information in their ...
A proactive model of communication in marketing channels.
(2001)
A survey of 1000 exclusive insurance agents was conducted, which yielded a usable response rate of 20.3%. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results provide support for fifteen out of eighteen ...
The effect of non-audit services on investor judgments about auditor independence, auditor knowledge, audit quality and investment.
(2002)
Increasing levels of non-audit services (NAS) provided by auditors to their audit clients, along with large-scale investigations of questionable accounting practices employed by major firms, have brought the issue of auditor ...
DEVIATIONS FROM THE NORM: VITAL SIGNS AFFECTING ATTRIBUTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR MOTIVES
(2009)
Since the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) construct was introduced twenty-five years ago (Bateman & Organ, 1983; Smith, Organ, & Near, 1983), researchers have directed a great deal of research effort toward ...
To what extent is slack conditioned on munificence? Extending the behavioral theory of the firm.
(2004)
This dissertation studies the accumulation and "spending" of organizational slack dependent on environmental munificence. Over five decades have passed since the "behavioral theory of the firm" formally introduced the idea ...