The emerging view among managers and academicians argues for an expanded reporting system to provide more comprehensive information about organizational performance, including internal strategic performance variables. Little systematically-gathered evidence is available, however, concerning the...

An emerging view among managers and academicians argues for an expanded reporting system to provide more comprehensive information about organizational performance, including internal strategic performance variables, although there is little systematically gathered evidence on the views of the...

This paper presents evidence concerning industry influences on the dividend decision after controlling for other firm-specific determinants known from prior research to affect payouts. Two sharply contrasting economic periods are examined: 1974 to 1980 and 1981 to 1987. Industry affiliation is...

Purpose – In the controlled environment of a professional business seminar, the paper collects data on the willingness of participants to strategically default on a mortgage that is underwater by varying degrees. By providing the participants with fabricated exogenous strong and weak...

In this paper, we investigate worldwide contagion and its determinants during the 2008 financial crisis. Utilizing an international sample of returns from 2003 to 2009, we consider both uni- and bi-directional contagion. After controlling for crisis-related volatility, we find strong evidence...