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In the context of firm decision-making, several motives for acquiring and conveying information exist. Information serves to make better decisions, to persuade, and to impress. In this paper, we study how these motives shape incentives to acquire and communicate information. We employ a...

We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic...

Expectation confirmation research in general, and in information systems (IS) in particular, has produced conflicting results. In this paper, we discuss six different models of expectation confirmation: assimilation, contrast, generalized negativity, assimilation-contrast, experiences only, and...

Earnings reports are informative about a firm's current performance but convey little information about the prospects of the firm's long-term vision. We show that entrepreneurs can signal favorable private information about their long-term prospects by choosing an accounting system that upward...

Financing of public needs on state and local government levels is impossible to ensure, among other things, without corresponding information system. It is actually the information system that is supposed to enable promptness and accuracy during the registering of all resources of the public...

Empirical research in Information Systems (IS) is dominated by the use of explanatory statistical models for testing causal hypotheses, and by a focus on explanatory power. Predictive statistical models, which are aimed at predicting out-of-sample observations with high accuracy, are rare, and...

This commentary is on Shirley Gregor's (2006) article titled "The Nature of Theory in Information Systems", published in MIS Quarterly. In terms of theories, five types have been prominent in Gregor's classification: (a) Theory of Analyzing (b) Theory of Explaining (c) Theory of Prediction (d)...