The objective of this study is to examine the association between debt holding and subjective wellbeing using data from China. In recent years, consumer credit markets have been emerging and Chinese households have started to borrow for consumption. Some statistics show warning signs that...

This special issue was born from a Workshop organized by the e-Business & e-Government Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM), held on the 3rd-4th May at Brunel University Business School in London. The central theme of the workshop was on the relationship between...

Applying statistical tools to help understand business processes and make informed business decisions has attracted enormous amount of research interests in recent years. In this dissertation, we develop and apply data mining techniques to two sources of data, online bidding data for eBay and...

Forecasting the price in online auctions is important for buyers and sellers. With good forecasts, bidders can make informed bidding decisions and sellers can select the right time and place to list their products. While information from other auctions can help forecast an ongoing auction, it...

The present investigation explores the possibility that power has increased salience among males but not females. Evidence indicates that stimuli that are self-relevant or related to chronic goals are more likely to capture attention than neutral information. Across three studies we explore the...

A central tenet of organizational justice theory is that people prefer decisions to be made with higher than with lower procedural fairness. The results of five studies unearthed a boundary condition for this general tendency. People who experienced non-contingent success had less of a desire to...

We examine how the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS Act) affect mergers and acquisitions. We find that U.S. private targets are valued higher after the JOBS Act relative to public targets acquired by US acquirers. The announcement returns of acquirers who acquired US private targets...

This paper performs a meta-analysis to investigate how changes over time, model specifications, differences in data sets, and variable definitions could contribute to the differences in estimates of returns to education in China. The results show that approximately 10 percent of the variation...

We study how the allocation of federal contracts influences the sustainability of corporate policies. We find that a firm’s poor record of environmental and social (E&S) incidents is associated with losing government contracts and facing worse contract terms. ‘Punished’ contractors improve...