Why Do African Countries Adopt IFRS? An Institutional Perspective

Predicting Intention to Adopt Interorganizational Linkages: An Institutional Perspective

Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation

Renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) for electricity generation are politically popular in many U.S. states although economic analysis suggests they are not first-best policies. We present an empirical analysis of the political and economic factors that drive state governments to adopt an RPS, and the factors that lead to the inclusion of instate requirements given the adoption of an RPS. We fi...

Why Do Sleeping Nematodes Adopt a Hockey-Stick-Like Posture?

A characteristic posture is considered one of the behavioral hallmarks of sleep, and typically includes functional features such as support for the limbs and shielding of sensory organs. The nematode C. elegans exhibits a sleep-like state during a stage termed lethargus, which precedes ecdysis at the transition between larval stages. A hockey-stick-like posture is commonly observed during letha...

Why Do Firms Adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ Environmental Policies?

This paper examines why firms selectively adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ environmental policies. It argues that existing explanations based on factors external to firms are under-specified and a focus on internal dynamics is also required. It draws insights from institutional theory, corporate social performance perspective, and stakeholder theory and relates them to internal processes. Beyond-compl...

Why Do People Adopt, or Reject, Smartphone Password Managers?

People use weak passwords for a variety of reasons, the most prescient of these being memory load and inconvenience. The motivation to choose weak passwords is even more compelling on Smartphones because entering complex passwords is particularly time consuming and arduous on small devices. Many of the memoryand inconvenience-related issues can be ameliorated by using a password manager app. Su...