STEM or Humanities? Toward a Balance of Interest Fit (open access)

STEM or Humanities? Toward a Balance of Interest Fit

Article analyses the relationship between interest fit and career/income outlooks for college students as opposed to the relationship between such outcomes and the nature of the domain.
Date: December 17, 2019
Creator: Bozorg, Hoda Vaziri; Tay, Louis; Parrigon, Scott; Bradburn, Norman M. & Pawelski, James O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Technical Efficiency of French Regional Airports and Low-Cost Carrier Terminals (open access)

The Technical Efficiency of French Regional Airports and Low-Cost Carrier Terminals

Study focuses on the viability of regional airports in France through technical efficiency using data envelopment, principle component analysis, Malmquist productivity index, and regression analysis using bootstrapping.
Date: September 18, 2019
Creator: Hong, Seock-Jin & Jeon, Minjun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Interactive Visualizations: Implications of Seeing, Doing, and Playing for Quantitative Analysis Pedagogy (open access)

Dynamic Interactive Visualizations: Implications of Seeing, Doing, and Playing for Quantitative Analysis Pedagogy

Article presents a sample of dynamic interactive visualizations of relatively complex quantitative topics in statistics, operations management, and management science and discuss their implications for pedagogy for undergraduate and graduate students.
Date: May 16, 2019
Creator: Kulkarni, Shailesh S.; Mai, Bin; Amirkiaee, S. Yasaman & Tarakci, Hakan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation (open access)

Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation

This article investigates the six cognitive biases resulting from the use of the representativeness heuristic, namely, insensitivity to prior probability of outcomes, insensitivity to sample size, misconception of chance, insensitivity to predictability, the illusion of validity, and misconception of regression. Specifically, the authors examine how cognitive reflection and training affect these six cognitive biases in the operations management context.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: AlKhars, Mohammed; Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Pavur, Robert J. & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
AI Agency Risks and Their Mitigation Through Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework (open access)

AI Agency Risks and Their Mitigation Through Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework

This article builds on agency theory and identify factors that increase the risk of an agency problem between a principal (a human or an organization) and an AI agent and propose a framework for AI agency problem analysis. The framework is illustrated through AI use cases and industry examples. Implications for AI governance research and practice are discussed. It was presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Sidorova, Anna & Rafiee, Dana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continued Usage and Location Disclosure of Location-Based Applications: A Necessity for Location Intelligence (open access)

Continued Usage and Location Disclosure of Location-Based Applications: A Necessity for Location Intelligence

This article's research builds a continuance usage and location disclosure model from the expectation-confirmation perspective. The effect of benefit expectations on usefulness and satisfaction is hypothesized. In addition, the positive effect of usefulness on satisfaction and continuance intention is postulated. Findings contribute to the current literature in business intelligence by focusing on location disclosure behavior in the context of LBAs and the necessity of this type of information for location intelligence. This article was presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Peak, Daniel; Mousavizadeh, Mohammadreza & Koohikamali, Mehrdad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Business Models in China’s Rural Markets (open access)

Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Business Models in China’s Rural Markets

This article draws on case analysis to present two frameworks for evaluating two types of business models, and, through open coding and axial coding on eight Chinese cases, identifies the main components for the evaluation frameworks and critical factors within each component. Using the coding results as a lens, the article applies a cross-case comparative data analysis to establish the multi-level evaluation systems and provides suggestions for entrepreneurs and other stakeholders to better their business model design in China’s rural markets.
Date: November 8, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Xinxiang; Hu, Lijun; Salimath, Manjula & Kuo, Ching-Chung
System: The UNT Digital Library

Strategic Voting and Insider Ownership

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This article outlines a model of strategic shareholder voting that allows outside shareholders to mitigate the influence of insiders.
Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Marquardt, Blair; Myers, Brett W. & Niu, Xu
System: The UNT Digital Library

When Hackers Err -- The Impacts of False Positives on Information Security Games

This article presents the first comprehensive analytical model that incorporates the false positives both from the perspective of the attacker as well as of the system defender.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Mai, Bin & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emotional Ability and Associative Learning: How Experiencing and Reasoning about Emotions Impacts Evaluative Conditioning (open access)

Emotional Ability and Associative Learning: How Experiencing and Reasoning about Emotions Impacts Evaluative Conditioning

This article extends evaluative conditioning research by examining how differences in emotional ability impact implicit and explicit attitude formation from conditioning.
Date: April 2, 2018
Creator: Hasford, Jonathan; Kidwell, Blair & Hardesty, David M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Future time perspective, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment: The mediating effect of self-efficacy, hope, and vitality (open access)

Future time perspective, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment: The mediating effect of self-efficacy, hope, and vitality

This article analyzes the mediating role of self-efficacy, hope, and vitality in the relationship that future time perspective has with job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
Date: March 8, 2018
Creator: Arturo Cernas-Ortiza, Daniel; Mercado-Salgado, Patricia & Davis, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring the Relative Effectiveness of Emotional, Rational, and Combination Advertising Appeals on Sport Consumer Behavior (open access)

Exploring the Relative Effectiveness of Emotional, Rational, and Combination Advertising Appeals on Sport Consumer Behavior

This article examines the relative effectiveness of emotional advertising over rational advertising and combination advertising on sport consumer behavior.
Date: 2018
Creator: Lee, Seunghwan & Heere, Bob
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Re-Sharing on Social Network Sites in the Age of Fake News (open access)

Information Re-Sharing on Social Network Sites in the Age of Fake News

This article examines the relationship between the characteristics of social media content and re-sharing behavior.
Date: October 3, 2017
Creator: Koohikamali, Mehrdad & Sidorova, Anna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Happy Wife, Happy Life: Food Choices in Romantic Relationships (open access)

Happy Wife, Happy Life: Food Choices in Romantic Relationships

This article examines how relationship partners influence consumer eating patterns.
Date: August 30, 2017
Creator: Hasford, Jonathan; Kidwell, Blair & Lopez-Kidwell, Virginie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do Collaborative Relationships in Supply Chain Pay-Off? (open access)

Do Collaborative Relationships in Supply Chain Pay-Off?

This article attempts to articulate the theoretical foundation of collaborative relationship in supply chain and survey empirical results on financial gains reported in various research studies.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Kwon, Ik-Whan G.; Hong, Seock-Jin & Kim, Sung-Ho
System: The UNT Digital Library
Income Statement Reporting Discretion Allowed by FIN 48: Interest and Penalty Expense Classification (open access)

Income Statement Reporting Discretion Allowed by FIN 48: Interest and Penalty Expense Classification

This article investigates whether tax avoidance, management compensation, and debt agreements affect the expense classification election and whether this discretion has implications for financial statement users.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Abernathy, John L.; Beyer, Brooke; Gross, Andrew D. & Rapley, Eric T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are They Wearing Their Pride on Their Sleeve? Examining the Impact of Team and University Identification upon Brand Equity (open access)

Are They Wearing Their Pride on Their Sleeve? Examining the Impact of Team and University Identification upon Brand Equity

This article examines the effectiveness of sportswear companies' sponsorship of intercollegiate athletic departments, and the subsequent effects on the students of the university.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wear, Henry; Heere, Bob & Clopton, Aaron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on PCAOB Concept Release on Audit Quality Indicators, No. 2015-005, July 1, 2015 (open access)

Comments of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on PCAOB Concept Release on Audit Quality Indicators, No. 2015-005, July 1, 2015

This commentary summarizes the contributors’ views and recommendations on the Public Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) Audit Quality Indicators (ACIs).
Date: October 2015
Creator: Rezaee, Zabihollah; Abernathy, John L.; Causholli, Monika; Michas, Paul N.; Roush, Pamela B.; Rowe, Stephen et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments of the Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on the SEC’s Concept Release No. 33-9862; 34-75344 File No. S7-13-15, Possible Revisions to Audit Committee Disclosures (open access)

Comments of the Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on the SEC’s Concept Release No. 33-9862; 34-75344 File No. S7-13-15, Possible Revisions to Audit Committee Disclosures

This commentary summarizes the contributors’ views on the various questions asked in the SEC’s Release, Possible Revisions to Audit Committee Disclosures.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Abernathy, John L.; Felix, Robert; Jamal, Karim; Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh & Pevzner, Mikhail
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Counsel Prominence and Corporate Tax Policy (open access)

General Counsel Prominence and Corporate Tax Policy

This article examines the role of the general counsel (GC) in corporate tax policy.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Abernathy, John L.; Kubick, Tom & Masli, Adi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation Approaches for System of Systems: Event-Based Versus Agent Based Modeling (open access)

Simulation Approaches for System of Systems: Event-Based Versus Agent Based Modeling

This paper from the 2015 Conference on Systems Engineering Research conference proceedings reviews different modeling techniques and uses two converse techniques, i.e. agent-based and event-based modeling, to run a simulation of hypothetical systems collaborating into a system of systems.
Date: March 16, 2015
Creator: Baldwin, W. Clifton; Sauser, Brian & Cloutier, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The South Africa World Cup: The Ability of Small and Medium Firms to Profit From Increased Tourism Surrounding Mega-Events (open access)

The South Africa World Cup: The Ability of Small and Medium Firms to Profit From Increased Tourism Surrounding Mega-Events

This article examines how a mega-sport event affects small and medium businesses (SMEs) that hope to profit from the increased tourism associated with the event.
Date: March 2, 2015
Creator: Heere, Bob; Van Der Manden, Pieter & Van Hemert, Patricia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fan Community Identification: An Empirical Examination of Its Outcomes in Japanese Professional Sport (open access)

Fan Community Identification: An Empirical Examination of Its Outcomes in Japanese Professional Sport

This article tests a model of fan community identification that includes outcome and moderator variables in the contexts of two major professional sport leagues (soccer and baseball) in Japan.
Date: 2015
Creator: Yoshida, Masayuki; Gordon, Brian; Heere, Bob & James, Jeffrey D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Source of Audit Committee Accounting Expertise Influences Financial Reporting Timeliness (open access)

How the Source of Audit Committee Accounting Expertise Influences Financial Reporting Timeliness

This practitioner summary article summarizes "The Association between Characteristics of Audit Committee Accounting Experts, Audit Committee Chairs, and Financial Reporting Timeliness,'' which investigates the association between audit committee members’ accounting expertise and financial reporting timeliness.
Date: November 2014
Creator: Abernathy, John L.; Beyer, Brooke; Masli, Adi & Stefaniak, Chad M.
System: The UNT Digital Library