The use of the right type of Information Technology (IT) applications or manufacturing systems is expected to usher in a competitive advantage. Selection of the right type of IT application is, however, a challenging task. When a company, with a given dominant process structure, emphasizes two...

As global corporations pursue a dual strategy of global integration and local responsiveness, it becomes necessary to determine whether some management practices can be applied across borders. Using a sample of 143 employees from nine Nigerian organizations, we found that organizational support...

can rarely be reproduced using the data+code in the journal archive. Recently created archives at top journals should avoid the mistakes of their predecessors. We categorize reasons for archives' failures and identify successful policies.

We examine the online archive of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, in which an author is required to deposit the data and code that replicate the results of his paper. We find that most authors do not fulfill this requirement. Of more than 150 empirical articles, fewer than 15 could be...

For-profit studies have investigated the effect of taxes and agglomeration economies on individual firm location, but these factors have been largely overlooked for nonprofit institutions. I use firm-level data to investigate how corporate income, property, sales, and individual taxes and the...

This paper investigates the pre-exit characteristics of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and closures. We estimate competing risk hazard models using an 18-year national data set that spans the wave of closures in the 1980s and of mergers in the 1990s. Evidence shows that weak productivity of the...

Researchers have responded to the challenges of information technology management by examining factors that affect or determine technology usage. However, these writings focused mainly on developed countries thereby limiting their generalizability to developing countries, which are...