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Going-Concern Opinions: The Effects of Partner Compensation Plans and Client Size

Carcello, Joseph V.; Hermanson, Dana R.; Huss, H. Fenwick - 2000

Partner compensation plans in large accounting firms tend to emphasize either local office profits or worldwide firm profits ("small-pool" or "large-pool" firms, respectively) (Trompeter 1994). Some have expressed concern over possible impairment of auditor independence when a small-pool...

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The Impact of Corporate Tax Executive Credentials on Person-Organization Fit

Epps, Kathryn K.; Cleaveland, M. Catherine; Bradley, … - 2010

Researchers have examined several factors that influence the extent to which the values of individuals are congruent with the values of the organizations in which they are employed. These factors include personal characteristics, satisfaction with corporate policies, and job/task competence....

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Active Management of Real Options

Miller, Tom W. - 2011

Business opportunities to introduce new products at a later date are treated as real options. These real options are … change randomly during the option's life. The distance to breakeven and the value of the business opportunity may be actively … breakeven is an important measure for a business opportunity, active management can create substantial positive incremental …

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Improving Distribution Operations: Implementation of Material Handling Systems

Chakravorty, Satya S. - 2009

Academic research has primarily focused on the technical factors of material handling systems, with little or no discussion of human factors. In order to improve the performance of distribution operations, we found that the implementation of material handling systems involves both human and...

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Knowledge and Innovation Focus: A Classification of US and Canadian Firms

Joyce, Teresa; Stivers, Bonnie P. - 1999

This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business … 500 and 151 Post 300 firms. The study was sponsored by the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State … knowledge and innovation-related business practices. Our analysis reveals that firms in each country can be categorised based on …

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Testing the Accuracy of Employee-Reported Data: An Inexpensive Alternative Approach to Traditional Methods

Hales, Douglas N.; Sridharan, V.; Radhakrishnan, Abirami; … - 2008

Although Information Technology (IT) solutions improve the collection and validation of operational data, Operations Managers must often rely on self-reported data from workers to make decisions. The problem with this data is that they are subject to intentional manipulation, thus reducing their...

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Business Strategy and Top Management Compensation: The Mediating Effects of Employment Risk, Firm Performance and Size

Veliyath, Rajaram; Ferris, Stephen P.; Ramaswamy, Kannan - 1994

We compare top management compensation among prospector, defender, and analyzer strategic types, and the effects of differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top management group more than did analyzers. They were...

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Summary Brief: Macro Influences on the Adoption of Sales Force Automation (SFA) Technology

Borders, Aberdeen Leila; Widmier, Scott; Hair, Joe - 2009

There is great interest in the application of technological solutions driven by a thriving CRM industry. It has been shown the more effective the implementation of SFA, the greater its impact on increased sales performance. Previous research on SFA adoption has focused on the individual as the...

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Impediments to Timely Delivery of New Products at an Industrial Products Firm

King, Barry E.; Penlesky, Richard J. - 1992

To identify and discuss sources of delay in the new product development process at an industrial products firm, data were collected during 11 bi-weekly project review meetings at which 42 different projects were discussed. The highest priority projects were designs for a new venture into...

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Reward contingency, unemployment, and functional turnover

Williams, Chuck R - 2000

Based on the valence model of expectancy theory and the Cornell model of job satisfaction, this field study investigated the relationship between reward contingency, unemployment, pay satisfaction, job satisfaction, and functional turnover. The latter of which separates turnover into four...

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