Selected Faculty Research

Jasmijn Bol ’s paper “Performance Target Revisions in Incentive Contracts: Does Information and Trust Reduce Ratcheting and the Ratchet Effect?” has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The paper was co-authored by Jeremy Lill, a PhD candidate in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bol is an associate professor and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow in Accounting.

Kelly Grant’s paper “Teaching Professional Communication in a Global Context: Using a Three-Phase Approach of Theory Exploration, Self-Assessment, and Virtual Simulation” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization. The paper, co-authored with Timo Lainema, Elizabeth Tuleja and Jeffrey Younger, will be published in a special issue of the journal, “Re-Imagining Professional Communication Pedagogy for the Globalized Classroom.” Grant is a professor of practice in management communications.

Robert Hansen’s paper “Can analysts pick stocks for the long-run?” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. The paper, co-authored with Oya Altınkılıç and Liyu Ye, examines stock return drift following analysts’ revisions of their stock recommendations. The paper finds that during the high-frequency algorithmic trading period of 2003–2010, stock return drift is not significantly different from zero, overturning previous research findings. The authors’ new findings agree with improved market efficiency after declines in real trading cost inefficiencies associated with transacting on analysts’ reports. Hansen is Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance.

Adrienna Huffman ’s paper “Decision-Useful Asset Measurement from a Business Valuation Perspective,” co-authored with Christine Botosan, has been accepted for publication in Accounting Horizons. Huffman is an assistant professor of accounting.

Jennifer Merluzzi’s paper “Unequal on top: Gender profiling and the income gap among high earner male and female professionals” has been accepted for publication in Social Science Research. In the paper, Merluzzi and co-author Stanislav D. Dobrev find that young women are routinely subjected to gender profiling by employers in which their potential contribution to the organization is interpreted through the lens of social stereotypes and cultural norms that attribute to them weaker labor market commitment than men. The end result, the authors suggest, is income inequality between high earner men and women during the early career stages. Merluzzi is an assistant professor of management.

Greg Oldham’s paper “The impact of digital technology on the generation and implementation of creative ideas in the workplace,” co-authored with Nancy Da Silva, was published in Computers in Human Behavior in January 2015. Additionally, his paper “The social network side of individual innovation: A meta-analysis and path-analytic integration,” co-authored with Markus Baer, Karoline Evans and Alyssa Boasso, has been accepted for publication in Organizational Psychology Review. Oldham is the J.F., Jr. and Jesse Lee Seinsheimer Chair in Business and professor of management.

Emily Rosenzweig’s paper “When Knowledge Knows No Bounds: Self-perceived Expertise Predicts Claims of Impossible Knowledge” has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science. The paper was co-authored with Stav Atir, PhD candidate at Cornell University, and David A. Dunning, professor of psychology at Cornell. Rosenzweig is an assistant professor of marketing.

Stephen Rowe and Paddy Sivadasam’s paper “Asleep at the Wheel (Again)? Bank Audits During the Lead-up to the Financial Crisis” was published in Contemporary Accounting Research in March 2015.

Claire Senot’s paper “The Impact of Combining Conformance and Experiential Quality on Hospitals’ Readmissions and Cost Performance” has been accepted for publication in Management Science. The paper, co-authored with Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward, Anita L. Tucker and Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, examines two key process quality measures — conformance quality and experiential quality — and two measures of performance — readmission rate and cost per discharge — to investigate the opportunity for hospitals to achieve better care at lower cost. The authors find that hospital administrators can mitigate the tradeoff between reducing readmissions and controlling costs by prioritizing communication-focused experiential quality, which measures caregivers’ ability to engage in meaningful conversations with the patient, over response-focused experiential quality, which measures caregivers’ ability to respond to explicit patient needs. In addition, Senot’s paper “Role of Bottom-up Decision Processes in Improving Care Quality: A Contingency Perspective,” co-authored with Aravind Chandrasekaren and Peter Ward, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management. Senot is an assistant professor of management science.

Paddy Sivadasan and Ira Solomon’s paper “Audit fee residuals: costs or rents?” has been accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting Studies. In the paper, co-authored with Rajib Dooger of the University of Washington-Bothell, the authors find that fee residuals largely consist of researcher-unobserved audit production costs and are likely to be poor proxies for rents. This finding provides valuable guidance for how fee residuals should be used in future research, indicates promising avenues for future audit fee research, improves the ability to predict expected audit fees from past fee data and clarifies the policy implications that can reliably be drawn from extant and future fee-residuals-based research. Sivadasan is an assistant professor of accounting, and Solomon is dean and Debra and Rick Rees Professor of Business.

Harish Sujan’s article “The Importance of Starting Right: The Influence of Accurate Intuition on Performance in Salesperson–Customer Interactions,” co-authored with Zachary R. Hall and Michael Ahearne, was published in the May 2015 issue of Journal of Marketing. In the article, the authors evaluate the influence of accurate judgements by salespeople about customers in face-to-face interactions and argue that salespeople who make accurate intuitive judgements improve their selling performance by enabling more appropriate initial sales strategies. Sujan is the A. B. Freeman Chair of Business and professor of marketing.

Mita Sujan’s paper “Temporal mindsets and self-regulation: The motivation and implementation of self-regulatory behaviors” was published in November 2014 in Journal of Consumer Psychology. Sujan is the Malcolm Woldenberg Chair of Marketing and professor of marketing.

Lingling Wang’s paper “International Sourcing and Capital Structure” was accepted for publication in Review of Finance. The paper was co-authored with Cheol Eun. Wang is an assistant professor of finance.