Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advocate that qualitative research tools can replace and merge with quantitative ones, in order to simplify the task of gathering and processing information. Design/methodology/approach – The study demonstrates how a qualitative technique (card sort)...

Purpose – This study seeks to investigate whether a firm's financial disclosure size can help investors predict performance. Design/methodolgy/approach - Controlling for size and industry, the relationship between financial disclosure size and subsequent stock performance for all Standard and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge about to what extent integrated information systems, such as ERP and SEM systems, affect the ability to solve different management accounting tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The relationship between IIS and...

Purpose – This paper, using daily data, sets out to present an empirical analysis of the relationship between recent Japanese stock prices and macroeconomic variables under the quantitative easing policy in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework of the analysis is...

Purpose – This paper, using daily data, sets out to present an empirical analysis of the relationship between recent Japanese stock prices and macroeconomic variables under the quantitative easing policy in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework of the analysis is...

Purpose – This study seeks to investigate whether a firm's financial disclosure size can help investors predict performance. Design/methodology/approach – Controlling for size and industry, the relationship between financial disclosure size and subsequent stock performance for all Standard...

Purpose – To conduct an analysis of the bibliometric presence of a patient group, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, within its relevant biomedical sub‐field. Design/methodology/approach – Publications in the multiple sclerosis sub‐field for 1988‐1999 in the Research Outputs Database...

This note reports the results of a survey of all the articles on EU policies published since 1994 in three major journals. It makes four recommendations. We should probably invest more research time on (1) established policy areas that are at the core of the Union, (2) the study of policy...

The authors address a methodological issue in estimating pay penalties to women professionals—whether the dependent variable in the pay equation should be hourly wage or earnings measured over some other period such as weeks, months, or a year. The authors analyze data on college...

Purpose – Quantitative measures are not commonly available to identify and measure product cannibalization resulting from the introduction of new products, and existing forecasting methods such as ARIMA do not explicitly account for the phenomenon. This paper aims to present a methodology to...