Transcending Cultural Barriers in order to Improve Trust in Agribusiness

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Todd Plocher and Dr. Mark Hansen, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Recognized cultural differences between nations influence the level of trust that one nation has for another. Trust has long been recognized as an important element in trading relationships between nations, businesses, and individuals. Trust is especially important in trading relationships involving food for reasons such […]

Innovation: Defining, Identifying, and Leveraging Sources of Advantageous Innovation

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Nathan Lord and Dr. Jeff Dyer, Department of Strategy Innovation is a topic that keeps business leaders up at night. The current competitive landscape of corporate America has become a place in which companies must constantly renew their products, services, and identities. According to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group, an overwhelming majority of […]

The Corporate Role in Economic Development

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Ben Lewis and Dr. Paul Godfrey, Organizational Leadership and Strategy According to the World Bank, approximately 3 billion people, almost half of the earth’s inhabitants live in poverty (World Bank, 2008). Although substantial progress in the war against poverty has been made, the need for economic development is pressing and real. Over the past year, […]

Establishing Successful Microfranchises

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Klarissa Jackson and Dr. Kristie Seawright, Romney Institute of Public Mgmt By merging business sense with their desire to end poverty, social entrepreneurs are ultimately changing destined cycles of poverty. Although the concept of social change is not new, the application of business principles to social causes is revolutionary. Microfranchising, a form of social entrepreneurship, […]

Predicting Managers’ Propensity to Issue Earnings Forecasts

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Bryan Graden and Dr. Ted Christensen, School of Accountancy In addition to mandatory disclosures such as SEC filings, managers have the option of disclosing information voluntarily to the public. Press releases and conference calls are two ways managers often reveal information to the market, and one of the most important disclosures made through these venues […]

Motivational Interviewing Applications in Recreational Therapy

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Caitlin Trotter and Dr. Neil Lundberg, Department of Recreation Management Introduction Motivational interviewing is a communication method that assists an individual’s internal motivation to make a change (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). Motivational interviewing has been incorporated in many health care fields and professions (Anstiss, 2009), but has not been fully embraced in the field of […]

Mobile Device Information Privacy: The Effects of Risk Experience and Education on Information Disclosure

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Erik Andersen and Dr. Mark Keith, Information Systems Information privacy research has demonstrated that consumers vary greatly in terms of their understanding of the real risks of disclosing personal information and location data over mobile applications. Those who truly understand the risks behave rationally and base their disclosure decisions on a risk/reward tradeoff. Those who […]

The Asymmetry of Incentives for Small and Large Firms When Forming Technology Partnerships

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Morgan Williams and Dr. David J. Bryce, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy Substantial friction exists in markets when sharing new innovation or realizing the gains that arise from innovation. This friction may create suboptimal outcomes for broader society because it can lead to situations in which the best innovations are not widely shared. For […]

Modeling the Skewness of Stock Return Distributions Using a Bayesian Framework

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Ian J. Wright and Dr. Keith P Vorkink, Business Management In order to make optimal portfolio choices, individuals, firms and portfolio managers are interested in the probabilities attached to their receiving various returns in the stock market. These probabilities of returns on securities are described by statistical functions called return distributions. However, much uncertainty concerning […]