Article history: Received 17 January 2014 Received in revised form 28 May 2014 Accepted 29 May 2014 Available online 12 June 2014 This article investigates the impact of the observation that managers can use cash to defer bankruptcy on default risk and corporate financial policies. I show that with managerial cash use to defer default, the impact of cash on default risk depends on two opposing ...

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Millions of lives could be saved each year if countries made use of existing knowledge and the best cost-effective methods to prevent and treat cancer, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Entitled National Cancer Control Programs: Policies and Managerial Guidelines, the WHO report says that one-third of the 10 million new cases of cancer that are diagnosed global...

This paper aims to test the relationships between information exchange benefits and company performance, and the mediating effect of supply chain compliance on this relationship. A sample of 165 buying companies and a sample of 96 suppliers were analyzed by partial least square (PLS) path modeling. Five company characteristics, including company size, company age, company type, quality standard...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to document retailer opinions about tobacco control policy at the point of sale (POS) and link these opinions with store level compliance with sales and marketing provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. METHODS This study conducted interviews of 252 tobacco retailers in three counties in North Carolina and linked their opinions with in-person observ...

The design and use of standard processes are foundational recommendations in many operations practices. Yet, given the demonstrated performance benefits of standardized processes, it is surprising that they are often not followed consistently. One way to ensure greater compliance is by electronically monitoring the activities of individuals, although such aggressive monitoring poses the risk of...

An essential but difficult task to achieve in distributed enterprise systems is the management and enforcement of regulations and policies. We explore and discuss ideas for the implementation of enterprise wide compliance management. We propose an approach that builds on policies to realize compliance checking on semantic descriptions of enterprise models. This paper is meant to initiate a disc...

The key threat to information security is constituted by careless employees who do not comply with information security policies. To ensure that employees comply with organizations’ information security procedures, a number of information security policy compliance measures have been proposed in the past. Prior research has criticized these measures as lacking theoretically and empirically grou...