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In China, Can Sex Appeal for a Low Involvement Product Increase the Chances of it Being Purchased?
(Drake Management Review, 2011-10)Globalization has helped mold China into the economic leader that it is today. Despite the country‘s growing economic ties, Chinese culture remains unique, making it difficult for foreign firms to effectively communicate ... -
Uncertainty Avoidance and Consumer Perceptions of Global e-Commerce Sites: A Multi-Level Model
(Drake University, 2013-10)Online purchasing is a decision-making process that involves inherent uncertainty. Yet consumer tolerance for uncertainty differs across cultures, requiring e-vendors to decide whether to adapt websites to different ... -
Uncertainty Avoidance and Consumer Perceptions of Global e-Commerce Sites: A Multi-Level Model
(Drake Management Review, 2013-10)Online purchasing is a decision-making process that involves inherent uncertainty. Yet consumer tolerance for uncertainty differs across cultures, requiring e-vendors to decide whether to adapt websites to different ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Corporate Governance Practices in Canada and the United States
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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 ... -
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 ...