Despite calls to link management accounting more closely to management (Jonsson, 1998), much is still to be learned about the role of accounting information in managerial work. This lack of progress stems partly from a failure to incorporate in research efforts the findings regarding the nature of managerial work, as well as inadequate attention devoted to the detailed practices through which a...

Business historians know that public policy--the mix of law, public administration, and politics--has had an important impact on the development of the American business system. The scholarly issue, of course, is how important, and in what ways in particular. Business and economic historians have produced a rich literature on the place public policy had in building a transportation infrastructu...

Peer review, the process of improving the quality of work done by a peer of approximately equal caliber, is posited to be an effective educational tool and learning process. Unfortunately, many students participating in peer review lack confidence in the value of their feedback or experience difficulty maintaining interest in another student’s work, thus tending to create feedback that is super...

Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information, and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information--to be "hiders"--they are judged negatively by others (experiment 1). These negative judgments emerge when hiding is volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide...

In the philosophical literature, self-deception is mainly approached through the analysis of paradoxes. Yet, it is agreed that self-deception is motivated by protection from distress. In this paper, we argue, with the help of findings from cognitive neuroscience and psychology, that self-deception is a type of affective coping. First, we criticize the main solutions to the paradoxes of self-dec...

Shortly after publishing our first article, we (EM, PAT) started receiving daily electronic invitations to submit additional manuscripts to unfamiliar journals and present at questionable conferences. Unfortunately, our experience is not unique. Considering the intense pressure to publish during medical training, limited knowledge of predatory publishing entities, and lack of local institutiona...

The management of any organization web sites is flattering more captious earlier than owed to the fast growth of the population reliant on the WWW as the most important information source. An organization can spread its achievements through its web sphere as well as accordingly achieve visibility and regulate from the web population. WRES assembles the parameters from the WWW repeatedly in stre...

When surveyed about economic conditions, supporters of the president’s party often report more positive conditions than its opponents. Scholars have interpreted this finding to mean that partisans cannot even agree on matters of fact. We test an alternative interpretation: Partisans give partisan congenial answers even when they have, or could have inferred, information less flattering to the p...

Managerial talent is neither observable nor divisible. Thus, performance measures that evaluate a manager’s human capital are significant not only for compensating a manager through accurate appraisal, but also for inferring managerial talent. In practice, however, talent measures are often imperfect, thereby hindering firms from control of a manager’s behaviors. As such, exploring the nature o...

OBJECTIVES A well-known demographic finding in modern society is the inverse association between socioeconomic status and mortality. The purpose of the study was to examine socioeconomic indicators, such as occupational category (white-collar vs blue -collar) and occupational position (managerial vs non-managerial) as determinants of all -cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality...