We provide theory and experimental evidence that, in cases of undetected fraud, professional evaluators (i.e. experienced auditors) do not evaluate auditor performance any more favorably when the auditor more accurately assessed a heightened risk of fraud. This occurs despite professional...

The interaction between search engines and e-commerce Web sites is an issue of critical importance in the current Information Age, where the growing use of the Internet for commerce gave rise to rapidly-growing industries, which in turn depend on search engines to reach their customers. So far,...

The acceleration of global warming has forced governments to further monitor and regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of industry. One of the simplest and most common approaches that governments use to reduce firms' emissions is to set an environmental standard for firms to comply with before a...

Written for the Cambridge Handbook on International and Comparative Trademark Law (forthcoming), this chapter surveys US law and policy regarding certification marks and collective marks. It summarizes the current statutory framework and associated case law, then briefly posits some future...

In this paper, I investigate matching problems where priorities and preferences are misaligned. In the case of centralized college admissions, students are matched based on their test scores in standardized tests (priorities), a noisy realization of their aptitudes (colleges' preferences) due to...

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming. Forest loss disrupts ecosystem services, depletes biodiversity, and ultimately undermines the fulfillment of basic human rights. The mining sector is the fourth largest driver of deforestation after agriculture,...

Many researchers address the benefits of using methodologies, standards, but they rarely go beyond the direct effects, and get to the ownership. The owner is one of the key participants in project management. This research aims to explore a possible association between the methodologies,...

The present study investigated Italian consumers' awareness, perception, knowledge of European Union (EU) quality certifications: Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG), and organic as well as the consumption of...

Research questions: Is it possible for pharmaceutical companies to apply the concepts of industry 4.0, such as the smart factory, completely in their GMP relevant production processes? Are the GMP guidelines generally open to modern production methods enabled by I4.0? Are those responsible in...