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New Research @
Boston University School of Management

Summer 2006

Focus On:

Professor David Weil

Using Information for Regulatory Results

An Interview with David Weil, Associate Professor of Finance and Economics

Q:  Much of your work looks at governmental regulation of corporations.  What are some of the central issues arising lately in this field?

A: A big issue—most recently illustrated by the Sarbanes-Oxley disclosure requirements—is the shift in how Congress and other legislative bodies design regulations.  More and more frequently, government requires organizations to provide the public with information as the primary method for dealing with public policy problems.

In my view, this trend holds good and bad news for regulators, business, and the public.

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Articles/Chapters

Accounting

Finance & Economics

Lihui Lin and Nalin Kulatilaka: “Network Effects and Technology Licensing with Fixed Fee, Royalty, and Hybrid Contracts.” Journal of Management Information Systems.

David Weil, F. Abernathy, and A. Volpe: "The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors."
Environment and Planning.

David Weil and A. Pyles: "Why Complain? Complaints, Compliance, and the Problem of Enforcement in the U.S. Workplace."  Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal

Information Systems

Stephanie Watts, Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, and A. Even: “The Role of Process Metadata and Data Quality Perceptions in Decision Making: An Empirical Framework and Investigation.”  Journal of Information Technology Management. (Download)

Stephanie Watts and D. Kwan: “IT Valuation in Turbulent Times.”  Journal of Strategic Information Systems (forthcoming).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Paul Carlile:  “The Incompatibility of Knowledge Regimes: Consequences of the Material World for Cross-Domain Work.”  European Journal of Information Systems, special issue on Knowing in Practice (forthcoming).

Stephanie Watts and John Henderson:  "Innovative IT Climates: CIO Perspectives.”  Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Stephanie Watts, and A. Even: “The Role of Process Metadata and Data Quality Perceptions in Decision-Making: An Empirical Framework and Investigation.”  Journal of Information Technology Management (forthcoming).

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Mark Gaynor, D. Myung, N. Hashmi, and S. Moulton: “An Intelligent Pre-Hospital Patient Care System.”  International Journal of Electronic Health Care (forthcoming).

Lihui Lin and Nalin Kulatilaka: “Network Effects and Technology Licensing with Fixed Fee, Royalty, and Hybrid Contracts.” Journal of Management Information Systems.

Lihui Lin: “Impact of Users’ Expertise on the Competition between Proprietary and Open Source Software.” Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Bala Iyer, D. Dreyfus, and P. Gyllstrom: “A Network Based View of Enterprise Architecture.” In Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice. Edited by P. Saha.

Bala Iyer, C.H. Lee, and N. Venkatraman: “Managing small world ecosystems: Some lessons from the software sector.” California Management Review. 

Bala Iyer and L. Gao: “Analyzing Complementarities Using Software Stacks for Software Industry Acquisitions.”  Journal of Management Information Systems (forthcoming).

Marketing

Frederic Brunel and Jonathan D. Hibbard:  “Using Innovations in Student Teaming to Leverage Cross-Functional and Marketing Learning: Evidence from a Fully Integrated Undergraduate Core.”  Marketing Education Review

C.B. Bhattacharya and X. Luo: “Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Satisfaction and Market Value.”  Journal of Marketing.

Organizational Behavior

Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Paul Carlile:  “The Incompatibility of Knowledge Regimes: Consequences of the Material World for Cross-Domain Work.”  European Journal of Information Systems, special issue on Knowing in Practice (forthcoming).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville:  “Inside the ‘Black Box’: How Organizational Culture Informs Attention and Action on Environmental Issues.”  Organization & Environment  (forthcoming).

Strategy & Policy

Working Papers

Accounting

Finance & Economics

Information Systems

Marketing

Susan Fournier, C. Allen, and F. Miller:  “Brands and Their Meaning Makers.”  Download

Frederic Brunel and A Alon:  “Opening the Word-of-Mouth Black Box: An Analysis of Word-of-Mouth Rhetorical Methods in Group Conversations.”  Download

Frederic Brunel and A. Alon: “Does Word-of-Mouth Change with The Passing Of Time? A Longitudinal Analysis of Community Development and Word-of-Mouth Genres.”  Download

Frederic Brunel: “Design and the Big Five: Linking Visual Product Aesthetics to Product Personality.” Download

Frederic Brunel and Scott Swain: “A Two-Route Model of Product Aesthetic Evaluation.”  Download

Organizational Behavior

Strategy & Policy

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