This study seeks to advance understanding of how transformational leadership by top executives can affect their companies' innovativeness. A holistic model is proposed that includes both direct effects from transformational leadership, and indirect effects mediated by characteristics of the...

The study investigates the appropriateness of using publication of an article in a top (specifically, top three) accounting journal as a proxy for its quality, as reflected by its impact on others' research. This investigation is motivated by an apparent increase in pressures to publish in top...

The widely accepted business wisdom tells us that maintaining a long-term relationship with customers is more profitable than acquiring new customers, but very limited empirical evidence supports this viewpoint. The inconsistent findings in prior research suggest that some factors may influence...

We investigate the emphasis that buyers place on each of five performance measurement dimensions (technology, quality, delivery, service, and cost) when they select suppliers and allocate orders among those suppliers. The results of a comparative case study of six large buyers in the electronics...

We investigate whether referral-based hiring exacerbates or mitigates control problems. Incentive contracts can be used to attract employees with certain traits. However, whether the outcomes are positive for the firm or not depends on the quality of incentive contracts. Our research setting...

The study investigated the effects of individualistic and collectivist cultures (represented by U.S. and Chinese nationals residing in Taiwan, respectively) on individuals' decisions in a team-based working setting. The findings of a laboratory experiment indicated that only the U.S. subjects...

This study investigates the effects of national culture on the truthfulness of subordinates' upward communications under alternate pay schemes. U.S. nationals and Chinese nationals in Taiwan were used to represent members of two cultures that significantly diverge on three cultural dimensions...