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Do Hitters Boost Their Performance During Their Contract Years?, Heather M. O'Neill

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

Each season, baseball fans and journalists alike identify which players are in the final years of their contracts because a lot rides on how the players produce in their “contract year.” Will a player boost his effort and performance in an effort to improve his value and bargaining power? Or will he crumble under the pressure? Or are players’ performances uncorrelated with where they stand in their contract cycles?

In Memorium: George Roudebush Catlett (1917-2013), Stephen Zeff

Accounting Historians Notebook

George R. Catlett, the senior technical partner of Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1962 to 1980, died on October 10, 2013 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. He was born on August 14, 1917 in Fairmount, Illinois, where he grew up.

2013 Best Paper Award To Dale L. Flesher And Gary J. Previts

Accounting Historians Notebook

Best paper: “Donaldson Brown (1885-1965): The Power of an Individual and His Ideas Over Time”

Persson Selected For 2014 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award; 2014 Margit F. And Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Scholarship Awarded To Anderson

Accounting Historians Notebook

Martin E. Persson (Ivey Business School, Western University) received the 2014 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award for his manuscript, “R. J. Chambers and the AICPA’s Postulates and Principles Controversy: A Case of Vicarious Action”, which explores Raymond J. Chambers role in the development of postulates and principles at the AICPA in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Deborah Anderson (University of Oxford) was selected as the 2014 recipient of the Margit F. and Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Scholarship for her research on the topic, “A History of Valua-tion in US GAAP: A Critical Perspective”.

Boyns And Edwards Win 2014 Barbara D. Merino Award For Excellence In Accounting History Publication

Accounting Historians Notebook

Trevor Boyns and John Richard Edwards, both of Cardiff University, were selected as the 2014 recipients of the Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication for their book, A History of Management Accounting: The British Experience (Routledge, 2013).

2014 Q3 Market Pulse Report, Craig R. Everett

Pepperdine Market Pulse Report

The quarterly IBBA and M&A Source Market Pulse Survey was created to gain an accurate understanding of the market conditions for businesses being sold in Main Street (values $0-$2MM) and the lower middle market (values $2MM -$50MM). The national survey was conducted with the intent of providing a valuable resource to business owners and their advisors. The IBBA and M&A Source present the Market Pulse Survey with the support of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project and the Graziado School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.

2013 Best Paper Awards For Excellence

Accounting Historians Notebook

Best papers: Kevin Feeney “Railroad Audits: Some Arrive Ahead of Schedule” and Cynthia Krom and Stephanie Krom “The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and the Consequent Insurrection: ‘A Wicked and Happy Tumult’”

Prof. Cheryl Mcwatters Named First Non- U.K.-Based Editor For Accounting History Review

Accounting Historians Notebook

Professor Cheryl S. McWatters, the Father Edgar Thivierge Chair in Business History at the University of Ottawa/ Telfer School has been appointed editor of Accounting History Review.

In Memorium: Life Member Robert W. Gibson (1931-2014), Dale L. Flesher

Accounting Historians Notebook

Academy Life Member Robert William Gibson died on July 28, 2014, at the age of 83.

Accounting Historians Notebook, 2014, Vol. 37, No. 2 (October) [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Notebook

October issue

Dale L. Flesher Receives 2014 Hourglass Award

Accounting Historians Notebook

Dale L. Flesher is a Professor in the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi and holds the Roland & Sheryl Burns Chair; he also serves as associate dean of the School of Accountancy. He received both bachelors and masters degrees from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He has authored over 400 articles for more than 100 professional journals throughout the world, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accountancy, The CPA Journal, ABACUS, The Accounting Historians Journal, Accounting and Business Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He is also the author of …

Outline For Interact And Other Talks And Teaching Lessons - Outline Of The Tides Of Life Chapters 1, 2, And 3, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

These pages serve as an outline for various talks Pollard gave as well as for the first three chapters of his The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).

The Quest For The Entrepreneurial Spirit, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Drawing from his years of experience leading The ServiceMaster Company, Pollard outlines for the Entrepreneurial Leader's Organization (ELO) Conference (Vancouver, B.C.) the main tenets of what he considers the entrepreneurial spirit.

The Soul Of The Movement (Short Version), C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at the 2014 Faith at Work Summit (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - Boston, MA), Pollard contends that people represent the only thing of eternal value in the global marketplace. In light of this, he argues that Christians must be service-oriented ambassadors for Christ in the corporate world.

Outline For Interact And Other Talks And Teaching Lessons - Outline Of The Tides Of Life Chapters 7, 8, And 9, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

These pages serve as an outline for various talks Pollard gave as well as for chapters 7-9 of his The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).

Outline For Interact And Other Talks And Teaching Lessons - Outline Of The Tides Of Life Chapters 4, 5, And 6, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

These pages serve as an outline for various talks Pollard gave as well as for chapters 4-6 of his The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).

The Soul Of The Movement (Long Version), C. William Pollard, Al Erisman

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at the 2014 Faith at Work Summit (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - Boston, MA), Pollard contends that people represent the only thing of eternal value in the global marketplace. In light of this, he argues that Christians must be service-oriented ambassadors for Christ in the corporate world.

Included at the end of the speech is an email from one of the summit's conveners, Al Erisman, and Pollard's handwritten notes.

New Dentist News (October 2014), Ada Committee On The New Dentist

New Dentist News

New Dentist News offers timely information on scientific, social, educational, political and economic developments affecting new dentists. This collection is historical and items may not reflect current standards. For up-to-date information contact the ADA. The New Dentist News was alternately titled ADA Lifeline, 1997-June 2001.

Risk Profiles In Individual Software Development And Packaged Software Implementation Projects: A Delphi Study At A German-Based Financial Services Company, Stefan Hoermann, Michael Schermann, Marco Aust, Helmut Krcmar

Information Systems and Analytics

The aim of this paper is to compare risk profiles of individual software development (ISD) and packaged software implementation (PSI) projects. While researchers have investigated risks in either PSI projects or ISD projects, an integrated perspective on how the risk profiles of these two types of information system (IS) projects differ is missing. To explore these differences, this work conducted a Delphi study at a German-based financial services company. The results suggest that: First, ISD projects seem to be more heterogeneous and face a larger variety of risks than the more straightforward PSI projects. Second, ISD projects seem to be …

Sport Website Interactivity Effects: An Analysis Of The Relationships Between Interactivity, Attitudes, And Intentions To Revisit, Young Ik Suh, Taesoo Ahn, Paul M. Pedersen

Sport Management Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine the theoretical relationships between three dimensions of interactivity (i.e., active user control, two-way communication, and real-time information) and website effectiveness variables (i.e., attitudes toward the sport website and intentions to revisit). In addition, this study compared the proposed interactivity model with a rival model to identify the role of attitude as a mediating factor. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis with a convenience sample of 235 participants revealed that the proposed interactivity model performed better and was more parsimonious than the rival model. The results also indicated that the variable relating to …

Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley, University College, Western Kentucky University

UC Publications

No abstract provided.

The Huntsman Post, October 2014, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Ila Launches New Book Series, Karen A. Longman, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Despite lots of talk about having a shared commitment to advancing more women into senior-level leadership across all types of organizations and institutions, progress has been discouragingly slow. In a new book series, “Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice,” launched by the International Leadership Association in concert with Information Age Publishing, provocative questions are being asked about the status quo, encouragers and discouragers to women’s leadership advancement, what strategies are working, and whether or not the “pipeline” is a helpful metaphor for addressing the challenges that still confront high-potential women.

Haworth College Of Business News (10/2014), Western Michigan University

Haworth College of Business News

• Meet our 2014 awards recipients
• Bronco business
• Key to success
• IT forum to address cyber security

California's Contributions To The U.S. Export Profile, Denise M. Lucy, Françoise Lepage, Jayati Ghosh

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Small to medium sized enterprises (SME) are the engine of the United States economy. And the world’s emerging economies offer great opportunities to expand. However, only 1% of U.S. SMEs engage in the international marketplace. Efforts at the national level to expand all U.S. exports, and especially those of SMEs, depend upon each state in the union to participate in this venture. As a key contributor to the U.S. economy, California’s and its vast majority of SMEs, play a key role in U.S. export profile. This paper describes the export landscape of the top five U.S. states, focusing on California’s …

The Effects Of Advertised Exclusivity On Consumer Behavior, Danny Clyde Upshaw Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

Retailers routinely counter price competition by matching or beating competitors' prices. However, in addition to offering price-matching guarantees many retailers are increasingly adopting a differentiation or product assortment strategy of using "advertised retailer exclusive products" (AREPs) that are not directly comparable to competitor offerings. Such goods may offer added utilitarian and hedonic benefits to the consumer. With this tactic, products are advertised and labeled as "exclusive," but the nature of the exclusivity may range no further than an exclusive label to more pronounced differences, such as unique or additional features. However, the effectiveness of such tactics at: (1) decreasing search …

Imsa360: Fall 2014, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Excellence and Equity

As I write this letter I have now been at IMSA for nine days, though by the time you are reading this I will have been here for almost 90 days. I am excited about what I feel I can offer, and of course a bit anxious about the many things I have yet to learn. But leadership and risk taking are necessary at every great organization and I am confident that the fine people of the IMSA community will work with me to achieve continued excellence for our students and programs on the Aurora campus, across …

Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Volume 17, Number 4, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Adam G. Walke

Departmental Papers (E & F)

No abstract provided.

Executing The Strategic Plan: Five Actions Midlevel Leaders Can Take, Daniel Jensen

Faculty Works

The article offers suggestions for executing strategic plans for organizational success. Topics discussed include determining the objectives, goals, and organizational vision, measuring specific tasks to evaluate progress against expected results, and use of SWOT analysis to determine the strengths and weaknesses of organizations.

Pedagogy And Strategies To Maximize Learning In On-Line Courses - Benefits, Limitations And Best Practices Of Online Coursework, Mary Kay Copeland

Business Faculty/Staff Publications

No abstract provided.