Three Essays On Corporate Information Communications
DOWNLOAD
Download Three Essays On Corporate Information Communications PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Three Essays On Corporate Information Communications book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Three Essays On Corporate Information Communications
DOWNLOAD
Author : Junqi Liu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Three Essays On Corporate Information Communications written by Junqi Liu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on corporate external communication of accounting information. My dissertation's primary goal is to understand better how firms' financial disclosure behaviors change in response to various internal and external forces. To achieve this goal, I use empirical archival methods and employ several unique settings to examine the influences of three particular forces on firms' financial disclosure activities. Specifically, in the first essay, I focus on a firm's internal production function and ask whether labor cost stickiness shapes income smoothing activities. By contrast, the second and third essays explore the influences of two external factors, namely product market competition with existing rivals and the local information environment, respectively, on firms' mandatory and voluntary disclosure behaviors.
Three Essays On Corporate Disclosure And Information Externalities
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yetaotao Qiu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Three Essays On Corporate Disclosure And Information Externalities written by Yetaotao Qiu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This dissertation includes three essays on corporate disclosure and information externalities. In the first essay, I examine the disclosure behavior of rival firms identified by an Initial Public Offering (IPO) candidate during the IPO quiet period when the IPO candidate is restricted in its communication. I find that the tone of disclosures made by identified rivals becomes more positive during the quiet period, and reverses after the quiet period ends. The strategic disclosure behavior is mainly driven by identified rivals' concerns over product market competition. I also find that this behavior hurts the IPO candidate and benefits the identified rivals. In the second essay, I investigate the relations between IPO firms' peer choice and peer information environment. I find that IPO firms tend to select peer companies with a better information environment, and this effect is more pronounced for IPO firms with greater information uncertainties. I also find support that peer information environment is positively associated with upward offering price revision, post-offering analyst coverage, and negatively associated with the number of amendment filings. Overall, this essay shows that IPO firms can make use of the externalities of peer information to facilitate their initial public offerings. In the third essay, I switch my focus from intra-industry relations to supply chain relations. More specifically, I study the effects of layoff announcements by customers on the valuation and operating performance of their supply chain partners. I find that suppliers experience a negative stock price reaction around their major customers' layoff announcements. The negative price effect is exacerbated when industry rivals of layoff-announcing customers also suffer from negative intra-industry contagion effects. Moreover, these supply chain spillover effects are asymmetric, with only "bad news" layoff announcements causing significant value implications for suppliers, but not "good news" announcements. Supplier firms also reduce their investment in and sales dependence on layoff-announcing customers in subsequent years. Keywords: Disclosure; Product market competition; IPO quiet period; Identified rivals; Information externalities; Peer information environment; Corporate layoffs, Supply chain relations; Stock market return
Three Essays On The Influence Of Information Technology On The Organization Of Firms
DOWNLOAD
Author : Albert Edmund Wenger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Three Essays On The Influence Of Information Technology On The Organization Of Firms written by Albert Edmund Wenger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Three Essays On Consumer Communication And Information Asymmetry
DOWNLOAD
Author : Slađana Pavlinović
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Three Essays On Consumer Communication And Information Asymmetry written by Slađana Pavlinović and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Three Essays On Information And Communication Technology And Financial Globalization
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kwan Wai Ko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Three Essays On Information And Communication Technology And Financial Globalization written by Kwan Wai Ko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Communication categories.
"The third essay looks at ten Asian economies committed to ICT development and financial integration, and presents evidence on whether or not they have experienced greater output fluctuations from 1980 to 2003. A two-country dynamic general equilibrium model is used and ICT is assumed to increase the volume and speed of capital flows. This study's model predicts that economies with a high ICT development or/and a high degree of financial integration exhibit greater output fluctuations in the face of monetary policy shocks, but lower output fluctuations in the face of fiscal policy shocks. The empirical findings estimated by using the panel vector autoregression approach support these predictions." --
Three Essays In Information Systems
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jayarajan Samuel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Three Essays In Information Systems written by Jayarajan Samuel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Computer networks categories.
This dissertation tackles three problems in information systems: In the first essay we investigate the value of a local showroom to online competition. An increasing number of online retailers are grappling with whether to expand their operations to offline local showrooms. In this study, we quantify the value of showrooms by investigating how the presence and absence of local showrooms may impact customers’ searching and purchasing behaviors with online competitors. By using an exogenous event of a large retailer’s offline market exit and a unique data set capturing customers’ online browsing and purchasing activities before and after the event, we empirically examine the changes in online search and sales made by customers who lived within neighborhoods where showrooms closed. We question the adequacy of conventional sales-based measures and devise several search-based measures in order to better quantify the value of a showroom from the perspective of customer experience online. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find mixed results in terms of online competitors’ sales when a neighboring showroom closes. More importantly, we observe an increase in customers’ online search intensity in the absence of local showrooms. We discuss a wide range of implications both for online and offline retailers based on our results. The second problem we analyze is the effect of worker collaboration on productivity and costs to a company. Although collaboration in the workplace is promoted as a silver bullet for increasing productivity and decreasing costs, there is little empirical evidence to show the effects of collaboration. Using a unique dataset and a field experiment we develop a framework to measure the effects of collaboration in a service delivery industry. Our results show that when collaboration is forced on employees, although productivity increases, costs also increase. Based on our conclusions we recommend management to allow employees to choose when to collaborate and when not to. On further analysis of the implementation of our recommendations, we find that productivity levels increase along with reduction in costs if employees are allowed to choose when to collaborate on tasks. Finally, we investigate how to tackle the patching schedule of custom built enterprise systems. Keeping software systems safe from hackers is one of the most important goals for system operations managers. A system that has outstanding security patches is inherently risky and managers incur costs to keep the security of such systems at an acceptable level. Alternatively, they can choose to expend resources to apply outstanding patches and increase the security state of the system and thereby reducing the costs to maintain the system. In this research we study a motivating example from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry and apply a control theoretic model to solve for optimal patching periods. The optimal patching policy is shown to have a bang-bang solution which explains common approaches practiced in the industry. The results in this research are valuable to operations and maintenance managers who strive to keep enterprise software systems safe while minimizing cost.
Three Essays On Social Media Use And Information Sharing Behavior
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sarbottam Bhagat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Three Essays On Social Media Use And Information Sharing Behavior written by Sarbottam Bhagat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Social media platforms create rich social structures, expand users' boundaries of social networks and revolutionize traditional forms of communications, social interactions and social relationships. These platforms not only facilitate the creation and sharing of news and information, but they also drive various kinds of businesses models, processes and operations, knowledge sharing, marketing strategies for brand management and socio-political discourses essential for healthy and democratic functions. As such, social media has greater implications on organizations and society brought about by individuals' social media usage patterns, and therefore, calls for further investigations. The main objective of this dissertation is to explore and offer insights into such social media usage and information sharing behaviors via data driven examination of various theories. This dissertation involves three studies that focus on factors that explain individuals' three different social media usage behaviors. Essay 1 investigates individuals' perceived importance of online affiliation, self-esteem, self-regulation and risk-benefit structure as antecedents of users' geo-tagging behavior on social media. Essay 2 examines the role of online news quality, source credibility, individuals' perception towards online civic engagement, attitude towards news sharing and social influences to understand users' news sharing behavior on social media platforms. Essay 3 seeks to examine the individuals' information verification behavior on social media through the lens of individuals' fake news awareness, perceived cost of information verification, trust in social media and truth-seeking.
Three Essays On Two Sided Costly Marketing Communication And Its Strategic Implications
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yi Lu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Three Essays On Two Sided Costly Marketing Communication And Its Strategic Implications written by Yi Lu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Corporate Sustainability And The Role Of The Consumer
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jeffrey M. Gauthier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Corporate Sustainability And The Role Of The Consumer written by Jeffrey M. Gauthier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The challenge of sustainability has become an increasingly important concern for organizations. Sustainability raises new questions of legitimacy for organizations, compelling them to address stakeholder expectations of economic, environmental, and social performance. Although consumer stakeholders act as the ultimate arbiter of legitimacy for many firms, we know little about how consumers may influence corporate sustainability. This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the role of consumers in influencing corporate sustainability. The first essay examines how companies may attempt to manage sustainability ratings assigned by ratings agencies in an attempt to retain consumer stakeholder support. I argue that an understanding of cognitive choice models helps to reveal conditions under which firms may pursue improvements in sustainability performance in non-core practices rather than in core practices. The second essay is a quantitative analysis of corporate social performance in theU.S.insurance industry. With arguments grounded in the stakeholder salience framework of stakeholder theory, I argue that a firm's proximity to end-consumers will be related to specific dimensions of corporate social performance (community and diversity performance). Results of the study indicate that closer proximity to end-consumers (i.e., a greater percentage of revenues from end-consumers as opposed to businesses) is associated with stronger community and diversity performance. The third essay is a discourse analysis that examines how discourse is used to maintain legitimacy when consumer stakeholders' legitimacy concerns pose a threat to the firm's legitimacy. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and critical discourse analysis, I identify three themes (social, environmental, and economic) and three rhetorical justifications (ethos, logos, and pathos) in texts produced by Monsanto. I offer potential explanations for the relative frequency of themes and rhetorical justifications, and further identify taken-for-granted assumptions in Monsanto's texts. Taken together, these essays suggest that consumer stakeholders hold a significant role in influencing firms' actions, as well as the communication of those actions, regarding sustainability. More broadly, this dissertation reveals the insights that may be gained by foregrounding consumer stakeholders in management research.
Three Essays On Emergency Response Information Systems
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rui Chen (Ph. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Three Essays On Emergency Response Information Systems written by Rui Chen (Ph. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Emergency communication systems categories.
Among the three essays, essay 1 theorizes the existing literature in emergency management and information systems to propose the fundamental design principles of emergency response information systems. On the basis of essay 1, essay 2 provides detailed accounts on the communication aspects in emergency response information system design and consequently develops data standards that strengthen communication capabilities in incident response. Essay 3 continues the success of essay 2 to create refined research methodology for data model development that ultimately results in further improvement in emergency communication support.