Purpose: This article aims to examine the influence of chief executive officer (CEO) internal political beliefs on labor relations. Prior research has paid little attention to channels through which the internal personal value system of managers enhances or deteriorates firm value. The authors...

Purpose: Prior research has used computer-generated data to illustrate the benefits of the recently developed duration-based costing (DBC) and its affiliate modified duration-based costing (MDBC). The purpose of this paper is to use data from a Fortune 500 corporation to compare its...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the operating characteristics as well as risk and performance measures of all available self-proclaimed socially responsible funds (hereafter SRFs) in the USA over the ten-year (2007–2016) period. The first research question addressed is: Do...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contemporaneous relationship between changes in corporate reputations and stock prices. Design/methodology/approach – The Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient TM is used as a measure of corporate reputation. Stock return and risk...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine operating characteristics, risk and performance measures of all available vehicles for index investing in US bond funds during the 15‐year period from April, 1994 to March, 2009. The results shed light on the important issue of bond index...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contemporaneous relationship between changes in corporate reputations and stock prices. Design/methodology/approach – The Harris Interactive Reputation QuotientTM is used as a measure of corporate reputation. Stock return and risk...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine operating characteristics, risk and performance measures of all available vehicles for index investing in US bond funds during the 15-year period from April, 1994 to March, 2009. The results shed light on the important issue of bond index...