The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions

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Scott Emett and Dr. David Wood, Accountancy After a few months of developing my original ORCA proposal topic entitled “The Effect of Internal Control and Framing on Employee Process Improvement Suggestions”, I learned an invaluable lesson about academic research: many promising research ideas do not turn out to be as promising from a research perspective […]

Audit Quality and Subsidiary Audits

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Jeremiah Bentley and Dr. Steven Glover, Accounting International and national accounting standard setters have spent significant amounts of time discussing and making rules about the consolidation of company’s financial statements (ASB 2009; PCAOB 2008, 2010; IAASB 2007; FASB 2010). One of the focuses of these discussions is how auditors should respond to the consolidation process […]

The Impact of Describing Products in Sensorial Ways on Variety- Seeking Behavior

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Lidan Xu and Dr. Ryan Elder, Department of Business Management This project is to examine how describing the sensory attributes (vs. non-sensory) of a product impacts variety-seeking behaviors of consumers. It is important to understand when and why consumers seek variety as companies seek to maintain customer loyalty. Prior studies have showed that variety seeking […]

Vocal Artifacts: A Video-Based Study of the Appropriation and Articulation of Material Objects within Employment Interviews

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Emily Warren and Dr. LeBaron Curtis, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy The goal of this project was to examine how material objects and texts (e.g., resumes, letters, application files, etc.) may be appropriated and articulated during employment interviews. While past research focused on the verbal and discursive features of employment interviews, using research methods […]

Recruiting Internal Auditors: The Effects of Using the Internal Audit Function as a Management Training Ground and Performing Consulting Services

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Matthew Starliper and Dr. David Wood, School of Accountancy A critical component of high quality corporate governance is attracting well-qualified job candidates into the internal audit function (IAF). Yet, IAFs face significant challenges in hiring a sufficient number of qualified professionals to perform their worki. Given this challenge, it is important to understand factors that […]

The Effect of Relational Self-Construal in Dispute Resolutions and Negotiations

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Aubri Robinson and Dr. Sheli Sillito, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy The purpose of our research project was to determine the influence of managerial fairness in the context of dispute resolution and negotiation. We aimed to identify whether managers’ relational self-construal (RSC), whether they define themselves in terms of their close relationships with others, […]

SEC Comment Letters: Investors’ Response to Accounting Disclosure Scrutiny

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Kurt Gee and Dr. Jeffrey Wilks, School of Accountancy This project gave me a wonderful opportunity to experience the research process first-hand. The purpose of our study was to assess how investors in corporations respond to oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the corporations’ accounting and disclosure practices. Professor Wilks and I […]

The School Based Family: Coaches and Teachers as Parental Figures for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ugandan Schools

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Dr. Stacy Taniguchi, Department of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the possible formation of surrogate families within Ugandan schools to potentially provide a context for positive development experiences, especially for orphans who lack positive development opportunities provided by parents. The sample for this study consisted of […]

The School Based Family: Coaches and Teachers as Parental Figures for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ugandan Schools

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Dr. Stacy Taniguchi, Department of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the possible formation of surrogate families within Ugandan schools to potentially provide a context for positive development experiences, especially for orphans who lack positive development opportunities provided by parents. The sample for this study consisted of […]