How are decisions influenced by the presentation of nontraditional and nonfinancial accounting information, such as environmental measurements, when benchmark data provide vague signals for analysis? Generally, alternatives are analyzed either jointly (called joint evaluation mode, or JE) or...

The increasing use of complex, nonfinancial environmental performance measures in managerial decisions motivates consideration of contextual influences that potentially impact managerial judgments in environmental settings. This study extends general evaluability theory (GET: Hsee & Zhang, 2010)...