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Boards Of Advisors In Small Businesses: An Empirical Profile Of Their Composition And Use

Akers, Michael; Giacomino, Don - 2004

there is very limited use of Boards of Advisors in small businesses and that many small business managers are not aware of … the concept of a Board of Advisors. However, those small business managers (97%) that use a Board of Advisors characterize … board members were male (67%), active in business (90%), have managerial/strategy or law (52%) and are not compensated (53%). …

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Earnings Quality: It's Time to Measure and Report

Gissel, Jodi; Giacomino, Don; Akers, Michael - 2005

Earning's quality is an important aspect of evaluating an entity's financial health, yet investors, creditors, and other financial statement users often overlook it. Earnings quality refers to the ability of reported earnings to reflect the company's true earnings, as well as the usefulness of...

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Applying Sarbanes-Oxley Principles to Colleges and Universities

Goins, Sean; Giacomino, Don; Akers, Michael - 2009

In the wake of the financial scandals that have occurred in the corporate sector, the public is demanding more accountability not only from corporations but also from nonprofit organizations such as universities. Institutions can enhance corporate governance by implementing some of the...

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Earnings Management and Its Implications

Akers, Michael; Giacomino, Don; Gissel, Jodi - 2007

In the wake of continuing, highly publicized financial frauds and failures, the accounting profession has placed renewed emphasis on issues related to earnings management and earnings quality. Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements, which was issued in...

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A Double Edged Sword: Understanding Vanity Across Cultures

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven - 2008

-nationally and by gender) as well as social and business implications with vanity. Design/methodology/approach ? Key research …

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Examining the Cross-National Applicability of Multi-Item, Multidimensional Measures using Generalizability Theory

Durvasula, Srinivas; Netemeyer, Richard G.; Andrews, J. … - 2006

Establishing the applicability of multi-item measures is important for making valid inferences when testing theories cross-nationally. Typically, researchers have relied upon the tenets of classical measurement theory (CT) using confirmatory factor model invariance testing to conclude that a...

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Forging relationships with services: The antecedents that have an impact on behavioural outcomes in the life insurance industry

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash; … - 2004

The extent to which service quality is linked to satisfaction, value and behavioural outcomes continues to be debated in the literature. This research investigated two models involving the linkages between service quality, satisfaction, perceived value, repurchase intention and willingness to...

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Understanding the Interfaces: How Ocean Freight Shipping Lines Can Maximize Satisfaction

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash - 2002

Physical distribution services are becoming increasingly important as supply chains strive to become more efficient in the logistical flow of goods to industrial customers. Performance of these services, however, takes place during encounters that customers have with various interfacing...

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Business to Business Marketing: Service Recovery and Customer Satisfaction Issues with Ocean Shipping Lines

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash - 2000

The tenets of relationship marketing are useful in understanding the success of a service provider. Based on a sample of 221 firms in Singapore that use ocean freight shipping services, examines service recovery issues related to satisfaction. It was found that service recovery methods such as...

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Testing the SERVQUAL Scale in the Business-to-Business Sector: The Case of Ocean Freight Shipping Service

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash - 1999

freight services. Based on a survey of a cross-sectional sample of 114 business organisations in Singapore, which regularly … can only be applied with caution in business-to-business marketing. Implications and future directions for research are …

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