Based on information technology adoption theories and considering Chinese cultural characteristics, this article proposes a user centric IT/IS evaluation model composed of three determinants, namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived fit, for investigating the...

Accumulated literature on technology adoption research has suggested that cultural factors have important impacts on the cognition and behavior of information systems users. In this paper, the authors argue that cultural factors should be treated as aggregate characteristics at the population...

In this paper we extend the bivariate hazard ratio to multivariate competing risks data and show that it is equivalent to the cause-specific cross hazard ratio. Two approaches are proposed to estimate these two equivalent association measures. One extends the plug-in estimator, and the other...

We examine shareholder activism in the recent split-share structure reform in China. This unique event allows us to avoid the deficiencies in determining activism proxies and in measuring their effectiveness that plague the previous literature. We find that the effectiveness of shareholder...

Using a set of structural models, we evaluate bond yield spreads and the price of default protection for a sample of US corporations. Theory predicts that if credit risk alone explains these two quantities, their magnitudes should be similar. Our findings concur with previous results that bond...