Spanish Abstract: La Universidad Tecnológica del Estado de Zacatecas tiene una estrecha vinculación con el sector empresarial a través de la contratación de egresados de los distintos programas educativos, de las estadías, de los cursos de capacitación tanto de miembros de las empresas a...

We demonstrate that people discount delayed task outcomes due to perceived changes over time in supplies of slack. Slack is the perceived surplus of a given resource available to complete a focal task. For temporally near events, investing a resource for one purpose may cause one to fail to...

This paper develops a model of the interplay between corporate leverage and product differentiation strategy. Leverage improves managerial discipline, but it can also raise customer concerns about a vendor's long-term viability. We argue that customer concerns about firm viability will be...

This paper examines whether high-ability managers’ earnings smoothing is motivated by the need to mitigate the adverse effects of heightened information asymmetry triggered by mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on managers’ reputation capital (job loss) and firm value. We document that...

India, on an edge of major change towards an unprecedented economic growth along with robust advancements in the nation’s HDI, having around 65% of its population aged below 35 years and will add almost 10-12 million more to it every year in coming two decades. Urban India has 137 million...

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is heralded by proponents as the quintessential marketing metric for measuring customer and brand loyalty. Its popularity is currently very high, especially in North-American companies. The frenetic interest in NPS has led some commentators to call it a cult-like...

Whether a firm's environmental performance influences its financial performance is an unsolved puzzle. In this paper, we investigate if the market rewards concern for environmental issues over the long term. We use KLD's environmental score to construct two matched portfolios that differ in...

Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...

The dynamic growth of start-up companies in India has caused major disruption in the business landscape. At the same time, many start-ups encounter major setbacks at the scaling up stage. This qualitative study examines the problems encountered by start-up companies while scaling up the...