Do new products launched during a recession perform better? Does the severity of the recession matter? Are products more successful when launched earlier or later in a recession? These are all questions of managerial importance that as yet remain unanswered in the extant marketing literature....

This interdisciplinary review highlights the significant body of work on organizational wrongdoing, on governmental and societal corruption and illegality, and approaches that go beyond the two dominant areas of accounting and audit research on fraud, namely on fraud detection and prevention...

Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present evidence suggesting that the same is true in Canada. In...