The study investigates whether non-CEO inside directors with reputation incentives affect the effectiveness of a firm's internal control over financial reporting. Internal control effectiveness is an important indicator of financial reporting quality. Using a large sample of 7,352 firm-year...

Using the most recent machine learning-based image-processing techniques, we investigate whether banks factor borrowing firm's chief executive officer (CEO) facial trustworthiness into bank loan contracting. We find that banks tend to grant more favorable loan terms to firms with...

This study investigates the development and sustainability of a firm’s IT capability reputation from an IT executive’s standpoint. Building on institutional theory, we argue that IT executives will try to achieve external legitimacy - i.e., project an image of superior IT capability to...

The objective of this study is to identify factors that help build an IT reputation, and to evaluate whether markets value a firm's ability to develop and sustain its IT reputation. Building on IT strategic leadership and IT business value literature, we argue that a similarity in the background...

This study introduces a causality-based framework of antecedents and consequences in order to examine the positive reciprocity between senior IT executives (sITes) and IT capable firms. More specifically we propose that: 1. There is a positive association between accrued sources of managerial...

Contrary to prior studies that have tried to examine the role of IT capabilities on firm performance in isolation from the role of senior IT executives, we propose that there is a positive relationship between the power of senior IT executives and the likelihood that the firm will develop...