Firms invest considerable resources into improving their operations and performance. Information technology (IT) and competition networks play an important role in operations by facilitating access to information and knowledge. However, the links between IT, competition networks and operating...

Intangible resources play an increasingly influential role in today's business operations, but how they affect inventory management remains underexplored in the literature. This paper associates a firm's inventory-turnover performance with its capabilities of utilizing the intangible resources...

When a safety defect occurs, manufacturers often use product recalls to mitigate potential consequences. Our empirical observation on large recalls in the automobile industry suggests that the timing of a recall is a key decision in this recall process, as we find that only recalls made in an...

Prior literature documents mixed evidence about how research and development activities affect corporate creditworthiness. We investigate whether publicly available patent information is incrementally useful in assessing the benefits and risks of corporate innovation from bondholders'...