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The Coming Managerial Class: Generation Z Women and Their Ethics
(Drake Management Review, 2020-10)A seemingly endless series of high-profile incidents involving the actions of some prominent United States and European corporate and government individuals have occurred in recent years, weakening faith in leaders, ... -
The Winds of Change: How Wind Energy Impacts Local Economies in Iowa
(Drake Management Review, 2020-10)As renewable energy has become less costly over time, chiefly since the mid-2000s, the wind energy industry has been expanding rapidly. This is especially true in Iowa, which has become a leading producer of wind energy ... -
Behavioral Economics and the Demand for Insurance
(Drake Management Review, 2020-10)While neoclassical economic models have provided significant insight into policy and economic behavior, these models fail to take into account actual human behavior outside of what is defined as rational. These anomalies ... -
This Isn’t Your Parent’s TV Show…Oh Wait, It Is
(Drake Management Review, 2020-10)Popular conception holds that Millennials and Gen Z’ers do not like old stuff. Whether it be old games, books, technology, movies, or TV shows, the prevailing thought is that the younger generation prefers newer things. ... -
Perceptions of Competency Norms in the Workplace: A Scale Development
(Drake Management Review, 2020-04)This study developed and tested a theory-based measure of an individual’s perceptions of social norms of showing competency at work (i.e., perceptions of competency norms) with 644 working professionals in two samples. ... -
Netnography: A Pocket Guide to Conducting Research in Closed Virtual Communities
(Drake Management Review, 2020-04)This paper defines closed virtual communities and outlines a brief guide for researchers (academics and students) who wish to engage in ethnographic studies of online communities, commonly known as a netnography. Although ... -
Organizational Stigma: Sources and Outcomes
(Drake Management Review, 2019-04)Organizational stigma is a useful adaptation of the concept of social stigma, which can be used to understand why some organizations are saddled with the image of being socially unsavory or undesirable. In this paper, ... -
Up Close and Friendly: A Study of Compassion and Favoritism by Human Resource Professionals
(Drake Management Review, 2019-04)We assess differences in human resource professionals’ displays of compassion and favoritism by observing the rigor with which participants in an experiment enforce an organizational rule. In our experiment, participants ... -
Generations at Work: A Review of Generational Traits and Motivational Practices Impacting Millennial Employees
(Drake Management Review, 2019-04)There are currently five generations operating in today’s workforce, yet only one that is causing a disturbance amongst traditional managerial practices: Millennials. Commonly referred to as Generation Y, Millennials are ... -
Calculating Financial Accuracy Rates in Health Insurance Claims Audits
(Drake Management Review, 2018)This article examines varying financial accuracy rate calculations, and, when working with rightskewed health claims amounts distributions, varying approaches to sampling and choices of stratifying variables. After ... -
Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Tax for Chinese Firms
(Drake Management Review, 2018)For all companies, profitability is a key objective. Minimization of taxes paid is a critical step in achieving that objective. However, most Chinese companies are in an unusual situation and pay more taxes than they ... -
Exploring the Effect of Narrators’ Accents in Informational Short Films
(Drake Management Review, 2018)Advances in technology have made it increasingly easy to receive information via YouTube and short film clips from around the world. This research examines if a foreign accent has a favorable or an unfavorable effect ... -
Who They Know and What They Know: Risk Management Implications of Subcontractors’ Interfirm Alliances and Service Scope
(Drake Management Review, 2017-04)This project management study examines subcontractor selection through the lens of risk management and identifies the possible combined impact of subcontractor interfirm alliances and service scope on project outcomes. ... -
Business Students’ Love of Money and Their Distrust of Corporations
(Drake Management Review, 2016-10)In the last two decades, the business world has witnessed the collapse of major companies (e.g. Enron, Lehman Brothers) due to widespread fraud. The financial collapse of 2007-2009 has been characterized as “The Great ... -
Corporate Governance: South Africa vs. The United States
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Saudi Arabia: An Overview of Executive Compensation, Board Structure, and Sustainability
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Corporate Governance Practices in Canada and the United States
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Russia and the United States: A Comparison of Governance Practices, Compensation, and Sustainability
(Drake Management Review, 2014-04)The first part of this paper will examine executive compensation in both the United States and Russia. We will discuss the fact that in the United States, CEOs’ salaries are exponentially greater than the salaries of ... -
Time is of the Essence? Investigating How Culturally-Based Perceptions of Time Affect Hindsight Bias for Task Completion
(Drake Management Review, 2014-04)Hindsight bias, known as the “Monday Morning Quarterback” syndrome, occurs when individuals feel they would have been able to predict the outcome to past events. This research examined if hindsight effects for ... -
Perceptions of Truthfulness and Communication Anxiety in Online Employment Interviews
(Drake Management Review, 2013-10)In organizations, the past decade has seen an increase in the popularity of Skype as a firstround employment interview tool. Due to Skype’s speed, quality, and transmittal of sound and video, it is sometimes thought of ...
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