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CSR-Enhancing Factors for Business vs. Public Stakeholders: Hong Kong

There are myriad factors that drive firms to increase corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. For instance, some firms implement CSR as an instrument to seek eventual financial benefits, but others engage in CSR activities by the altruistic motivation to fulfill their social responsibilities.
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AN A IS AN A鈥: THE NEW BOTTOM LINE FOR VALUING ACADEMIC RESEARCH

In sports, the phrase 鈥渁 win is a win鈥 refers to the bottom line in those competitions: winning a game. How the game was won is not as important as the fact that it was won. In many ways, we have reached a similar point in the management field.
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Is Too Much Of A Good Thing Bad For You?

Essentially, how can having fun playing our favorite online game or staying connected with our friends on TikTok, ever be considered harmful? Most people don鈥檛 think about how often or how much they use a product or service. Many of our actions over time become routinized and consumption levels tend to gradually increase.
Dr. Banafsheh Behzad

Minimizing Health-Compromising Behaviors via School-Based Programs: An Optimization

An Active Learning-based Educational Program for Hispanic STEM Students through Industry-University Partnership (LEAP)
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Faculty Salary Inversion, Compression, and Market Salary Gap in California State University Business Schools

Extant literature has examined the relationship between seniority (or rank) and pay in tenure-granting academic institutions along with proposed remedies. This article examines faculty salary compression, inversion, and market salary gap in business schools in the California State University system.
CINDY CHEN Professor, Finance 91桃色

Revisiting Fama-French鈥檚 Asset Pricing Model with an MCB Volatility Risk Factor

Since the introduction of VIX to measure the spot volatility in the stock market, VIX and its futures have been widely considered to be the standard of underlying investor sentiment. We introduce the term structure of VIX to Fama-French鈥檚 Asset Pricing Model.
Dr. Hojong Shin

Evasive Shareholder Meetings and Corporate Fraud

We examine how the strategic scheduling of AGMs to evade shareholders is related to the likelihood of committing corporate fraud. 鈥淒o Korean Companies Conspire to Avoid Their Shareholders?鈥 - WSJ, March 13, 2014
Yoonhee Choi

Economic and psychological mechanisms in managerial turnover

What does 鈥淐EO of the Year鈥 awards mean to the rest of top managers working with the award-winning CEOs? Studies have shown that CEO awards bestowed by recognized media serve as a strong competitive advantage to award-winning CEOs and their firms, but also dramatically increase CEO compensation.
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The Reputation Effects of Tax Avoidance

Dr. Yoojin Lee is an Assistant Professor in Accountancy. Below is a brief summary of her recent research.
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Faculty Research on Working Moms

COB HRM faculty Dana Sumpter and Mona Zanhour have been quoted in The Atlantic for their research on the experiences of working mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. How are working mothers faring during the COVID-19 crisis?
Terrence Witkowski

Male Compensatory Consumption

Male Compensatory Consumption in American History The overcompensation thesis states that men cope with gender insecurities through extreme demonstrations of their masculinity.聽 In contemporary America, these might include eating red meat, driving massive trucks, or brandishing firearms.聽 This research investigates how such compensatory con
Paula Hao

The Role of Supervisor Incentives

Subjective Performance Evaluation and Forward-Looking Implications: The Role of Supervisor Incentives聽 2020聽Journal of Management Accounting Research