We study decision makers who willingly forgo acts that finely vary with states, even though these acts are informationally and technologically feasible. They opt instead for coarse rules that are less sensitive to state by state variations. We model this coarse decision making as a consequence of individuals using classical, frequentist methods to draw robust inferences from scarce data. Our ce...

Watson (2003: 168) claims that ‘although increasing academic attention is being paid to business ethics, the ways in which ethical consideration come into activities and decisions of organizational managers have been examined in a very limited way’. This article contributes by suggesting an interesting way to study moral managerial decisions is studying these decisions in their discursive conte...

Faced with today’s ill-structured business environment of fast-paced change and rising uncertainty, organizations have been searching for management tools that will perform satisfactorily under such ambiguous conditions. In the arena of managerial decision-making, one of the approaches being assessed is the use of intuition. Based on our definition of intuition as a non-sequential information p...

With the increase in an online transactions and interactions on the internet, a key issue is how to use efficient and simple evaluation method to achieve trust based decisionmaking for service users and service providers. Trust plays an important role in all commercial cloud environments. It is the evaluation of capability of service providers as well as service users in completing a task based...

This paper analyzes how accounting biases endogenously arise as firm owners’ optimal response to balance different stewardship uses of accounting information systems. Specifically, we identify conditions under which the nature of the stewardship use affects whether the accounting system exhibits conservative or liberal bias. We distinguish two types of stewardship uses of accounting information...

We review the core issues in managerial accounting for radiologists. We introduce the topic and then explore its application to diagnostic imaging. We define key terms such as fixed cost, variable cost, marginal cost, and marginal revenue and discuss their role in understanding the operational and financial implications for a radiology facility by using a cost-volume-profit model. Our work plac...

Data representations and their impact on decision making performance have been a subject of Information Systems research for a long time [Benbasat et al. 86, DeSanctis 84, DeSanctis & Jarvenpaa 89, Vessey 91]. The graphical representations in most studies in this area are common business charts, such as pie, line, bar, among others. These charts are not necessarily designed to support any speci...

The issue of interest here is the employment of decision support agents in supply chain management. The study discusses the sorts of supply-related managerial tasks that decision support agents have been assigned, and how well or poorly they have performed these tasks. This research suggests the reasons why organizations might elect to invest supply chain management responsibilities in decision...