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NOVOSELOV, Kirill E. HSU, Charles WANG, Rencheng

Corporate Performance: The Vital Connection Between Information and Managerial Decisions

The real economic effects of financial reporting can be understood by looking into the joint effect of managerial overconfidence and accounting conservatism, specifically regarding the quality of corporate decisions. For instance, under what conditions does accounting conservatism improve corporate performance? Within the context of a firm, a chief executive ... Read More

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CHEN, Tai Yuan ZHANG, Guochang ZHOU, Yi

The Downside of Non-Compete Clauses for Firms

Non-compete clauses in employment contracts are widely used in countries like the US to forbid certain employees, such as CEOs and specialised technicians, from working with the competition when their contract is terminated. The aim is to safeguard employers’ proprietary information and investment in human capital. But research by Tai-Yuan Chen, Guochang ... Read More

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THONG, James Y L VENKATESH, Viswanath MARUPING, Likoebe M. ZHANG, Xiaojun

Selecting the Right Team: People, Process, and Technology

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of new technologies, tools, and platforms; for example, social networking, cloud computing, and data analytics. As such, IT projects that were developed for use in traditional client-server environments must now be deployed across these new platforms, be able to leverage big data, and have ... Read More

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XIE, Zhenzhen LI, J. T.

Innovation and Development via Overseas Exports

Exporting plays a significant role in the development of a firm, as can provide an opportunity to access knowledge from other sources, which can facilitate organizational learning. As such, governments in emerging markets (EMs) encourage exporting, as it is considered a key indicator of firms’ technological sophistication. That said, EM exporters often ... Read More

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SHIN, Dongwook BROADIE, Mark ZEEVI, Assaf

Which is Best: Dynamically Learning the Statistical Characteristics of Systems

Existing studies into ordinal optimization fall into one of two categories: fixed budget or fixed confidence. With fixed budget, the aim is to minimize the probability of false selection given a sampling budget. In a fixed confidence setting, the target is to come up with a sampling procedure that satisfies a desired guarantee on the probability of false ... Read More

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KAPUSCINSKI, Roman DEBO, Laurens YU, Man

The Impact of Product Reviews on Consumers and Firms

Before deciding to purchase a product, a consumer can access information via consumer reviews by customers who have already purchased the product. Consumer reviews are a form of customer feedback, but this information can also benefit firms. However, consumer-generated quality information (consumer reviews) relies on the volume of consumers who share their ... Read More

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WONG, Ellick K.F. KWONG, Jessica Y. Y.

Making a Choice: Escalation or Law-of-Effect

The behavioural approach to organization and decision making argues that negative feedback regarding a choice deters someone from doing the same thing again. That is, decisions should be guided by the law-of-effect—a concept central to adaptive learning. On the other hand, escalation research shows that decision makers often continue or reinforce their ... Read More

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Chen-Nan Liao CHEN, Ying-Ju

How Should Farmers Respond to Agricultural Information?

One of the key aspects to running a business is having access to useful information. In developing countries, farmers often suffer from a lack of information, which can lead to missing out on opportunities to sell their products at a higher price. By using various information and communication technologies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and ... Read More

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YAO, Song SEILER, Stephan WANG, Wenbo

Spreading the Word in a Digital Era

The exchange of information online has become increasingly public, and there are numerous platforms that facilitate this type of interaction. The second generation of the world wide web (known as web 2.0) allows users to collaborate and share information via social media, blogging, and web-based communities. Before this, word of mouth (WOM) used to be ... Read More

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TRACEY, J Bruce WAY, Sean A FAY, Charles H WRIGHT, Patrick M SNELL, Scott A CHANG, Song GONG, Yaping

How to Measure the Impact of HR Management on Firm Performance

A firm’s ability to respond quickly to changes in customer demand, competition and emerging market threats and opportunities is essential to its success. Scholars have argued that flexible human resources (HR) policies may be instrumental in fostering this capacity and thus improving firm performance. But the theory underpinning this work has been ... Read More

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