How Corporate Executives Perceive Environmental Issues

How consumers perceive environmental advertising in the banking context

A study was conducted to investigate how consumers respond to banking advertisements with environmental claims. The study adopts a 2×2×2 factorial design. Altogether 195 participants in Hong Kong, China, were asked to read an advertisement of either a well-known or a lesser-known bank, featuring either a global or a local environmental issue, and containing a substantive or an associative envir...

The Story of My Face: How Environmental Stewards Perceive

The story of my face intertwines concepts of social semiotics and discourse analysis to explore how a simple type of printed media (flyer) can generate stigmatization of informal recyclers, known as binners in Western Canada. Every day, media exposes humans to signifiers (e.g., words, photographs, cartoons) that appear to be trivial but influence how we perceive their meaning. Amongst the signi...

How Optimism Undermines Executives’ Decisions

Key Issues for IT Executives 2004

1 Mary Lacity was the accepting Senior Editor for this article. 2 The author wishes to thank SIM for sponsoring this research. Rajkumar M. Kempaiah, a doctoral student at Stevens Institute of Technology, performed all of the statistical analyses. sues facing its IT executive members. Ball and Harris conducted the first survey and produced a list of 18 issues in 1982. Subsequent surveys were tak...

Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?

We examine corporate financial and investment decisions made by female executives compared with male executives. Male executives undertake more acquisitions and issue debt more often than female executives. Further, acquisitions made by firms with male executives have announcement returns approximately 2% lower than those made by female executive firms, and debt issues also have lower announcem...