Business Administration, College of: Recent submissions
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Spreadsheet-based Simulation Models for Decision Support: Case of strategic pairings in sport tournaments with match play for team competition
(IOS Press, 2012)In sport tournaments where teams compete in match play format, the pairing of players in matches is critical to the final outcomes. This paper presents simulation models using only commonplace spreadsheet software to ... -
Security Analysts, Cash Flow Forecasts, and Turnover
(Elsevier, 2012-12)We examine the relation between security analyst turnover and the relative accuracy of their annual earnings and cash flow forecasts. Controlling for self-selection in an analyst’s decision to issue a cash flow forecast, ... -
The Effects of the Bosman Ruling on National and Club Teams in Europe
(SAGE Publications, 2012-04)The Bosman ruling and its aftermath allowed soccer players to move more freely between clubs in Europe. This study examines the performance of national and club teams in Europe before and after Bosman. Some national teams ... -
Modeling Trade Direction
(Oxford University Press, 2008-08)I propose a modeling approach to classifying trades as buys or sells. Modeled classifications consider information strengths, microstructure effects, and classification correlations. I also propose estimators for quotes ... -
Termination of Related and Unrelated Joint Ventures: A Contingency Approach
(Elsevier, 2011-12)Previous research has investigated various factors that influence joint venture (JV) termination. Yet the majority of studies do not distinguish between different types of JVs, particularly whether a JV is related or ... -
Confessions of a Job Crafter: How We Can Increase the Passion Within and the Impact of Our Profession
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Job crafting, engaging in practices that alter our jobs for the better, has enormous potential to enliven scholars and to enhance our field’s societal impact. Drawing upon a personal tale, I outline various job crafting ... -
Market Uncertainty and Dynamic New Product Launch Strategies: A System Dynamics Model
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011-08)New products are intrinsically associated with high level of market uncertainty, and product launches often fail because launch strategies formulated based upon prelaunch forecasts cannot accurately capture actual market ... -
Closing and cloning in open-end mutual funds
(Elsevier, 2012-04)Using a unique dataset, we document that only those closed funds for which no new fund is subsequently launched continuously deliver positive abnormal returns. This suggests the existence of an optimal fund scale. In spite ... -
Confessions of a Job Crafter: How We Can Increase the Passion Within and the Impact of Our Profession
(SAGE Publications, 2011-06)Job crafting, engaging in practices that alter our jobs for the better, has enormous potential to enliven scholars and to enhance our field’s societal impact. Drawing upon a personal tale, I outline various job crafting ... -
Estimating DEA Confidence Intervals with Statistical Panel Data Analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2011-12-15)There is a conflict between Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) theory's requirement that inputs (outputs) be substitutable, and the ubiquitous use of nonsubstitutable inputs and outputs in DEA applications to hospitals. This ... -
Balancing Influence Between Actors in Healthcare Decision Making
(BioMed Central, 2011-04-19)Background: Healthcare costs in most developed countries are not clearly linked to better patient and public health outcomes, but are rather associated with service delivery orientation. In the U.S. this has resulted in ... -
Measuring Efficiency under Fixed Proportion Technologies
(Springer Verlag, 2011-06)Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications frequently involve nonsubstitutable inputs and nonsubstitutable outputs (that is, fixed proportion technologies). However, DEA theory requires substitutability. In this paper, ... -
The Transportation Revolution and Antebellum Sectional Disagreement
(Duke University Press, 2011-03)The transportation revolution had several important effects on the antebellum political equilibrium. First, it caused western and southern political views to differ by bringing more easterners and European immigrants into ... -
Do "protean" employees make better leaders? The answer is in the eye of the beholder
(Elsevier, 2010-10)While the protean career (Hall 1976; 2002) has been lauded for its advantages in helping individuals adapt to changing career contexts, it is not clear how this career orientation may impact how others perceive a person’s ... -
Lower bounds on sample size in structural equation modeling
(Elsevier, 2010-11)Computationally intensive structural equation modeling (SEM) approaches have been in development over much of the 20th century, initiated by the seminal work of Sewall Wright. To this day, sample size requirements remain ... -
Do workers who experience conflict between the work and family domains hit a "glass ceiling?": A meta-analytic examination
(Elsevier, 2010-12)Based in Conservation of Resources (COR; Hobfoll, 1989) and self-verification (Swann, 1987) theories, we argue that when workers experience conflict between the work and family domains this should have implications for ... -
Are Financial Constraints Priced? Evidence from Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-09)Using comprehensive firm- and aggregate-level data, this paper studies the real and financial implications of capital market imperfections. We first examine whether financially constrained firms' business fundamentals ... -
When Planning Is Not Enough: The Self-Regulatory Effect of Implementation Intentions on Changing Snacking Habits
(American Psychological Association, 2010-05)Objective: This study examined whether matching implementation intentions to people’s regulatory orientation affects the effectiveness of changing unhealthy snacking habits. Design: Participants’ regulatory orientation was ...