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Is Earnings Guidance A Treacherous Servant?, Thomas A. King Jul 2014

Is Earnings Guidance A Treacherous Servant?, Thomas A. King

Student Scholarship

In the wake of Enron-era scandals, some practitioners argue that earnings guidance ("management expects the firm to earn between $0.95 and $1.05 per share") invites dysfunctional behaviors as executives scramble to achieve previously announced targets. Guidance advocates counter that earnings forecasts simply reduce investor uncertainty. Quantitative analyses have not settled the matter. This qualitative study uses interviews of financial executives at 31 U.S. companies to explore how guidance influences managerial experiences. Primary findings are that executives fear credibility loss from reporting financial results that vary from guided estimates and that anxiety increases as guidance horizons stretch into the future and …

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Duopolistic Competition Under Risk Aversion And Uncertainty, Michail Chronopoulos, Bert De Reyck, Afzal Siddiqui Jul 2014

Duopolistic Competition Under Risk Aversion And Uncertainty, Michail Chronopoulos, Bert De Reyck, Afzal Siddiqui

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

A monopolist typically defers entry into an industry as both price uncertainty and the level of risk aversion increase. By contrast, the presence of a rival typically hastens entry under risk neutrality. Here, we examine these two opposing effects in a duopoly setting. We demonstrate that the value of a firm and its entry decision behave differently with risk aversion and uncertainty depending on the type of competition. Interestingly, if the leader’s role is defined endogenously, then higher uncertainty makes her relatively better off, whereas with the roles exogenously defined, the impact of uncertainty is ambiguous.

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Leverage Strategies Of Asian Reits And Real Estate Operating Companies, Kian Guan Lim, Tien Foo Sing Jul 2014

Leverage Strategies Of Asian Reits And Real Estate Operating Companies, Kian Guan Lim, Tien Foo Sing

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The real estate literature has been puzzled by the story of why a tax-exempt vehicle like REITs uses more debt than equity. We used empirical evidence on REITs and real estate operating companies (REOCs) in Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong from 2006 to 2010 and verified that REITs did use more debt than REOCs, despite borrowing constraints imposed on REITs in Hong Kong and Singapore. REITs also used more short-term debt to finance their real estate investment activities, but their total debt level declined during the crisis periods in 2007 and 2008. We found that higher long-term debt reduced the …

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The Dynamic Relationships Of Work Affect And Job Satisfaction With Perceptions Of Fit, Allison S. Gabriel, James M. Diefendorff, Megan M. Chandler, Christina M. Moran, Gary J. Greguras Jul 2014

The Dynamic Relationships Of Work Affect And Job Satisfaction With Perceptions Of Fit, Allison S. Gabriel, James M. Diefendorff, Megan M. Chandler, Christina M. Moran, Gary J. Greguras

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study assessed the longitudinal relationship between perceived fit (i.e., person–organization fit, person–job fit) and affect-based variables (i.e., job satisfaction, negative affect, positive affect) using momentary (i.e., within-person level) and stable (i.e., between-person level) assessments of both sets of variables. In doing so, we tested 3 theoretical models of the perceived fit and work affect relationship (i.e., fit preceding affect; affect preceding fit; reciprocal fit–affect relations) to determine (a) the antecedents and consequences of fit perceptions, (b) whether fit perceptions exhibit meaningful within-person variability, and (c) if direct fit perceptions are simply the result of affect/job satisfaction at work or …

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Impact Of Component Supplier Branding On Profitability, Stefan Worm, Rajendra K. Srivastava Jul 2014

Impact Of Component Supplier Branding On Profitability, Stefan Worm, Rajendra K. Srivastava

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In recent years, many business-to-business (B2B) component supplier (CS) firms have added branding to their marketing toolbox. By extending the logic of ingredient branding to B2B components, they aim to create “pull” from B2B end customers by building a strong CS brand image among their customers' customers. In contrast with the established “push” approach of building strong relationships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), it is unclear whether and under which conditions CS branding is a worthy strategy. On the one hand, anecdotal evidence suggests that suppliers can leverage strong CS brand image in negotiations with increasingly powerful OEMs to enhance …

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Creating A Value-Centered Culture To Drive High Performance, Robert Bergstrom, Tiffany Brown Devaughn, Elliot Brook, Lukas Tande, Richard Raymond Smith Jul 2014

Creating A Value-Centered Culture To Drive High Performance, Robert Bergstrom, Tiffany Brown Devaughn, Elliot Brook, Lukas Tande, Richard Raymond Smith

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

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Managerial Expertise, Corporate Decisions, And Firm Value: Evidence From Corporate Refocusing, Sheng Huang Jul 2014

Managerial Expertise, Corporate Decisions, And Firm Value: Evidence From Corporate Refocusing, Sheng Huang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper investigates how managerial expertise—specifically, industry expertise—affects firm value through divestiture. Using CEOs’ managerial experiences in industries throughout their careers as a measure of their industry expertise, I find that CEOs in diversified conglomerates are more likely to divest divisions in industries in which they have less experience. This finding is consistent with CEOs who divest such divisions in order to refocus on those divisions in which they have specialized—that is, to achieve a better match between their expertise and their firms’ retained assets. Firms that divest for a better CEO-firm match experience significant improvements in operating performance, as …

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Singapore's Financial Market: Challenges And Future Prospects, David K. C. Lee, Kok Fai Phoon Jul 2014

Singapore's Financial Market: Challenges And Future Prospects, David K. C. Lee, Kok Fai Phoon

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Singapore has successfully developed into one of the leading international financial centers in a short span of less than half a century. The factors of success can be attributed to time, space, and people. Given the complexity and connectivity of today’s markets, there are many challenges in a fast changing environment marked by huge global capital flows and punctuated by crisis after crisis. This chapter will explain the success of Singapore’s financial market and provide the author’s outlook for the island state’s future prospects in the aftermath of the US debt crisis, the Euro crisis, and likely slowdown in emerging …

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Impact Of Social Media On Power Relations Of Korean Health Activism, Kyu Jin Shim Jul 2014

Impact Of Social Media On Power Relations Of Korean Health Activism, Kyu Jin Shim

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This case study explores how the Korea Leukemia Patient Group (KLPG) uses social media in its internal communication strategy and how that empowers its relationship with external counterparts. The findings of this study indicate that the local health NGO’s communication strategy is changing in response to the increased effectiveness and impact of social media. With the use of social media like Twitter, the KLPG can construct an issue-based advocacy group quickly and effectively. Consequently, more legitimacy and representativeness through collected support from general publics has further empowered the KLPG. Yet, the sustainability component in the relationships built through social media …

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Firm As A Coordination System: Evidence From Offshore Software Services, Kannan Srikanth, Phanish Puranam Jul 2014

Firm As A Coordination System: Evidence From Offshore Software Services, Kannan Srikanth, Phanish Puranam

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

To examine what, if any, are the differences in how activities are coordinated within versus between firms, we conducted interviews with 32 project managers regarding 60 projects in the offshore software services industry. Uniquely, our projects were sampled along two dimensions: (1) colocation versus spatial distribution and (2) delivery by groups of individuals from a single firm versus from multiple firms. Our evidence suggests that in colocated projects, the same broad categories of coordination mechanisms are used both within and between firms. However, there is a qualitative difference in how geographically (i.e., spatially) distributed projects are coordinated within versus between …

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The Image Of Psychology Programs: The Value Of The Instrumental-Symbolic Framework, Greet Van Hoye, Filip Lievens, Britt De Soete, Nele Libbrecht, Eveline Schollaert, Dimphna Baligant Jul 2014

The Image Of Psychology Programs: The Value Of The Instrumental-Symbolic Framework, Greet Van Hoye, Filip Lievens, Britt De Soete, Nele Libbrecht, Eveline Schollaert, Dimphna Baligant

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

As competition for funding and students intensifies, it becomes increasingly important for psychology programs to have an image that is attractive and makes them stand out from other programs. The current study uses the instrumental-symbolic framework from the marketing domain to determine the image of different master's programs in psychology and examines how these image dimensions relate to student attraction and competitor differentiation. The samples consist of both potential students (N = 114) and current students (N = 68) of three psychology programs at a Belgian university: industrial and organizational psychology, clinical psychology, and experimental psychology. The results demonstrate that …

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Cellular Bucket Brigades On U-Lines With Discrete Work Stations, Yun Fong Lim, Yue Wu Jul 2014

Cellular Bucket Brigades On U-Lines With Discrete Work Stations, Yun Fong Lim, Yue Wu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

It is challenging to maximize and maintain productivity of a U-line with discrete stations under the impact of variability. This is because maximizing productivity requires assigning workers to suitable tasks and maintaining productivity requires sufficient flexibility in task assignment to absorb the impact of variability. To achieve this goal, we propose an operating protocol to coordinate workers on the U-line. Under the protocol the system can be configured such that its productivity is maximized. Workers are allowed to dynamically share work so that the system can effectively absorb the impact of variability. Analysis based on a deterministic model shows that …

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Nurturing High Performance Teams, Richard Raymond Smith Jul 2014

Nurturing High Performance Teams, Richard Raymond Smith

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

HR can play a more proactive and critical role in identifying high performance teams, and help accelerate their growth through specific actions.

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Within-Person Variability In Job Performance: An Integrative Review And Research Agenda, Reeshad S. Dalal, Devasheesh P. Bhave, John Fiset Jul 2014

Within-Person Variability In Job Performance: An Integrative Review And Research Agenda, Reeshad S. Dalal, Devasheesh P. Bhave, John Fiset

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although both researchers and practitioners know that an employee’s performance varies over time within a job, this within-person performance variability is not well understood and in fact is often treated as error. In the current paper, we first identify the importance of a within-person approach to job performance and then review several extant theories of within-person performance variability that, despite vastly different foci, converge on the contention that job performance is dynamic rather than static. We compare and contrast the theories along several common metrics and thereby facilitate a discussion of commonalities, differences, and theory elaboration. In so doing, we …

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Strategic Management Research: The Missing Linchpin In Developing Economy’S Context, Irfan Saleem Jul 2014

Strategic Management Research: The Missing Linchpin In Developing Economy’S Context, Irfan Saleem

Business Review

Research is conducted to identify impact of adopting Strategic HRM on HR outcomes (i.e. job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and performance measures (i.e. organizational and, individual performance) in order to the fill empirical gap in developing economy’s context. Cased based survey approach has been adopted to retrieve the evidence from companies. Three organizations are studied in depth to identify the evidence about strategic role of HRM. Objectivism has been adopted to test ontological assumption whereas positivism has been incorporated to test the epistemological assumption to prove the nature of reality about Strategic HRM. Results depict that effective Strategic HRM adoption …

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Components Of The Brand Equity Of Internet Service Providers (Isps) In Pakistan, Kashif Farhat Jul 2014

Components Of The Brand Equity Of Internet Service Providers (Isps) In Pakistan, Kashif Farhat

Business Review

This study assesses the determinants of customer-based-brand equity of Internet Service Providing brands in Pakistan. A Likert scale questionnaire was served to 251 respondents, selected through convenience sampling, to assess correlational relationship between the dependent variable: brand equity and independent variables: brand loyalty, brand awareness, perceived quality and brand association. Brand loyalty, brand awareness and perceived quality were found to have a positive significant impact on building brand equity. It’s recommended that marketers and brand managers allocate maximum resources to brand loyalty and brand awareness to gain higher brand equity of ISPs brands.

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Corporate Governance And Cash Holdings In Listed Non-Financial Firms In Pakistan, Alina Masood, Attaullah Shah Jul 2014

Corporate Governance And Cash Holdings In Listed Non-Financial Firms In Pakistan, Alina Masood, Attaullah Shah

Business Review

In this study, the relationship between corporate cash holdings and corporate governance variables is tested in Pakistan. The sample consists of 309 non-financial firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) over the time span of 2002 to 2010. The study uses several proxies for corporate governance mechanisms such as percentage ownership held by directors, institutional investors, and five largest shareholders, the existence of audit committees and a measure of concentration of ownership. To avoid omitted variable bias, the study also controls for all well-known determinants of corporate cash holdings (market to-book ratio, growth, size, leverage, R&D investments, cash flow …

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Impact Of Effectuation Based Interventions On The Intentions To Start A Business, Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Fawad Mahdi Jul 2014

Impact Of Effectuation Based Interventions On The Intentions To Start A Business, Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Fawad Mahdi

Business Review

Intention plays a very important role to measure one’s willingness to pursue entrepreneurship as a career. Previous researchers have differed about various antecedents that impact the entrepreneurial intention to start a business. Entrepreneurship education (EE) assumes to play an important role in shaping traits and attitudes of an entrepreneur, contrary to the “entrepreneurs are born” school of thought. We use the Individual entrepreneurship orientation (IEO) construct as developed by Boltan and Lane (2011) to measure its impact on the intention levels of students. The use of Effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001)as a pedagogical tool is used as a mediating variable between IEO …

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Growth Of Business Schools On Social Media: A Comparative Analysis With Focus On Iba Karachi, Erum Hafeez Aslam Jul 2014

Growth Of Business Schools On Social Media: A Comparative Analysis With Focus On Iba Karachi, Erum Hafeez Aslam

Business Review

When the Institute of Business Administration Karachi established a presence on various social media platforms in 2009, its audience and followers grew dramatically. Face book, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn all proved to be useful tools to disseminate information for its target audience including prospective and current students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and industry. By 2012, however, social media activity became somewhat stagnant, as it was observed that content on various interfaces, although informative, lacked engagement and interaction with the audience. After several months of close monitoring, a number of issues were identified; for example, content only consisted of program and …

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Back Matter Of Volume 9 Number 2, Tufail A. Qureshi Jul 2014

Back Matter Of Volume 9 Number 2, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Guidelines for contributors, Back matter

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Drug Violence In Mexico And Its Impact On The Fiscal Realities Of Border Cities In Texas: Evidence From Rio Grande Valley Counties, Akinloye Akindayomi, Sergio Garcia Jul 2014

Drug Violence In Mexico And Its Impact On The Fiscal Realities Of Border Cities In Texas: Evidence From Rio Grande Valley Counties, Akinloye Akindayomi, Sergio Garcia

School of Accountancy Faculty Publications

This study examines the potential spillover effects of the Mexican drug war and its associated violence on the fiscal realities of the U.S. border counties. Specifically, we study descriptively the data from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) counties of the state of Texas, placing it within the broader context of all Texas counties, and find initial evidence of possible ‘silver lining’ spilling over from Mexican drug violence to the U.S. border counties’ fiscal positions. Housing activities increase and property tax reliance decreases in RGV counties relative to other Texas counties (both border and non-border). We anticipate that the findings and …

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Front Matter Of Volume 9 Number 2, Tufail A. Qureshi Jul 2014

Front Matter Of Volume 9 Number 2, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Front matter, Contents and Editorial perspective

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Perceived Service Quality Of Electricity Supply In Nigeria: A Survey Of Manufacturers In Kakuri Industrial Estate, Kaduna, Abdulsalam Dauda, Mohammed Abubakar Mawoli, Abdullahi Yusuf Babandako Jul 2014

Perceived Service Quality Of Electricity Supply In Nigeria: A Survey Of Manufacturers In Kakuri Industrial Estate, Kaduna, Abdulsalam Dauda, Mohammed Abubakar Mawoli, Abdullahi Yusuf Babandako

Business Review

Manufacturing firms require adequate business support facilities in order to operate optimally and contribute to the economic growth of nations. The quality of the business support services is as important as their availability or provision. While it has been established that the existing business support services in Nigeria are inadequate, the quality of the existing business support facilities is unknown. Based on the contention that quality is determined by the user or customer, this study evaluates the service quality of electricity services in Nigeria from manufacturers’ perception. The entire population of the study constituting the general managers and assistant managers …

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Near-Optimal Nonmyopic Contact Center Planning Using Dual Decomposition, Akshat Kumar, Sudhanshu Singh, Pranav Gupta, Gyana Parija Jul 2014

Near-Optimal Nonmyopic Contact Center Planning Using Dual Decomposition, Akshat Kumar, Sudhanshu Singh, Pranav Gupta, Gyana Parija

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We address the problem of minimizing staffing cost in a contact center subject to service level requirements over multiple weeks. We handle both the capacity planning and agent schedule generation aspect of this problem. Our work incorporates two unique business requirements. First, we develop techniques that can provide near-optimal staffing for 247 contact centers over long term, upto eight weeks, rather than planning myopically on a week-on-week basis. Second, our approach is usable in an online interactive setting in which staffing managers using our system expect high quality plans within a short time period. Results on large real world and …

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A Retail Bank's Bpm Experience, Shankararaman, Venky, Gottipati Swapna, Randall E. Duran Jul 2014

A Retail Bank's Bpm Experience, Shankararaman, Venky, Gottipati Swapna, Randall E. Duran

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This real-life case study, which was undertaken by a leading financial services group in the Asia-Pacific region, is used to demonstrate the innovative use of BPM (Business Process Management) technology in a competitive business area. It describes how a BPM project, within the Application Verification and Capture (AVC), was conceived, designed and implemented in order to deliver strategic value to the organization. Hereafter, the financial services group will be referred to as “the bank”. The AVC project was targeted at one of the bank's processes called the Application Verification and Capture (AVC) process for unit trust products. This process involved …

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Dynamic Pricing In The Singapore Condominium Market, Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu Jul 2014

Dynamic Pricing In The Singapore Condominium Market, Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Dynamic pricing strategies are likely an important consideration of Singapore condominium developers because of the durability of condominiums, price transparency, and the long sales period. While we do not observe any systematic relationship between the new sale prices and time of purchase, we do find that quality-adjusted price increases and the quality of units purchased decreases over the new sale period. These results suggest that condominium developers allow early buyers to purchase high quality units at discounted prices but do not extend the price discount to later buyers of low quality units. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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2013-2014 Operating Budget: Form Bor-10, Salaries Of Non-Classified Employees; Form Bor-11, Salaries Of Classified Employees, Southern University System. Office Of Finance & Administration. Jun 2014

2013-2014 Operating Budget: Form Bor-10, Salaries Of Non-Classified Employees; Form Bor-11, Salaries Of Classified Employees, Southern University System. Office Of Finance & Administration.

All Southern University System Budgets

2013-2014 Operating Budget of the Southern University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Form BOR-10 Salaries of Non-Classified Employees. Form BOR-11 Salaries of Classified Employees.

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2014-June-30-Dr. Fred Alsop, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Jun 2014

2014-June-30-Dr. Fred Alsop, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss Plaintiffs' Verified Complaint (Harmony Land Company, Llc Et Al.), Elizabeth E. Long Jun 2014

Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss Plaintiffs' Verified Complaint (Harmony Land Company, Llc Et Al.), Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

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2014-June-30-Kelsey Hammer, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Jun 2014

2014-June-30-Kelsey Hammer, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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