We study life cycle revenues of a particular category of intellectual property (IP), motion pictures, which sell in different formats in two sequential markets: the theatrical market and the home video market. We combine data collected from numerous public and proprietary sources and form a...

Field research has a very long history of application in many disciplines including anthropology, sociology and business. Field research differs significantly from other research methods in that trained researchers document the interactions of people as they live and work in naturally occurring...

This study investigates how adopting new performance measures affects the decision process through which supervisors make subjective adjustments. In our setting, the Chinese government substituted economic value added (EVA) for return on equity (ROE) in the performance score formula it uses to...

This study finds that Chinese firms that issue high-quality corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports are perceived as having greater legitimacy (operationalized by government endorsement and media endorsement) by the Chinese government and media. Chinese firms that issue higher quality CSR...

While the construct of Narcissism has existed for well over a hundred years, it has become the most discussed personality disorder of recent times and has the potential to influence organizational culture and control systems. Although systematic research on narcissism has been conducted at the...

This study investigates the relationship between narcissistic personality characteristics in CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and financial performance measures of earnings-per-share and stock valuation. Using panel data from 1992 through 2009, we show that firms with narcissistic CEOs have higher...