Journal of Accounting and Economics 31 (2001) 255–307 Empirical research on accounting choice$ Thomas D. Fieldsa, Thomas Z. Lysb,*, Linda Vincentb b Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02163, USA Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Received 21 January 2000; received in revised form 31 January 2001 a Abstract We review research from the 1990s that examines the determinants and consequences of accounting
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Title of Assignment: A critical review of two articles relating to aspects of contemporary organizational design 1) M Orlitzky, F L Schmidt & S L Payne, Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis, in Organization Studies, 2003; 24; 403-441 2) E J Walton, The Persistence of Bureaucracy – A Meta-Analysis of Weber’s Model of Bureaucratic Control, in Organization Studies, 2005; 26; 569-600 Organisational Design is concerned with constructing and changing an organisation’s
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Philosophy vs. Science by Joseph Rowlands The historical relationship between science and philosophy has not been a friendly one. Philosophers like to start with their conclusions, and work to prove them. When it came to trying to figure out what the world was like, philosophers tended to argue about what the world should be like. Science was born as a rejection of this method. Its goal was to figure out what the world was really all about, and its primary tool was actual experimentation. We've
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Sleep deprivation is prevalent in industrialized societies and has been linked to serious health issues and traffic accidents. This essay views sleep and sleep deprivation from five different motivational perspectives in order to gain a holistic understanding of the phenomena. From evolutionary, psychodynamic, behaviourist, cognitive, and hierarchy of needs perspectives, it is inferred that the cognitive and behaviourist perspectives uphold the most merit for gaining understanding into sleep and
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Workplace Diversity: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between people in an organization. That sounds simple, but diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, education, background and more. Diversity not only involves how people perceive themselves, but how they perceive others. Those perceptions affect their interactions. For a wide assortment of employees to function
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Running Head: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Quantitative Research Article Critique Corey J. Ivany (MUN ID#: 009435660) Education 6100 Memorial University of Newfoundland Abstract This paper is an academic critique of an article written by de Jager, Reezigt, and Creemers (2002) titled: The effects of teacher training on new instructional behaviour in reading comprehension. The authors undertook a research study to examine the results of teacher inservicing on practical teacher behaviours
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Running Head: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Quantitative Research Article Critique Corey J. Ivany (MUN ID#: 009435660) Education 6100 Memorial University of Newfoundland Abstract This paper is an academic critique of an article written by de Jager, Reezigt, and Creemers (2002) titled: The effects of teacher training on new instructional behaviour in reading comprehension. The authors undertook a research study to examine the results of teacher inservicing on practical
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attributes as market-based because proxies for these constructs are typically based on relations between market data and accounting data. Based on theoretical models predicting a positive association between information quality and cost of equity, we test for and find that firms with the least favorable values of each attribute, considered individually, generally experience larger costs of equity than firms with the most favorable values. The largest cost of equity effects are observed for the accounting-based
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Active Learning with Support Vector Machines Kim Steenstrup Pedersen Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark kimstp@di.ku.dk Jan Kremer Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark jan.kremer@di.ku.dk Christian Igel Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark igel@di.ku.dk Abstract In machine learning, active learning refers to algorithms that autonomously select
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Terms in Social Cognition Cognitive consistency, naïve psychologist/scientist Attribution, cognitive miser, motivated tactician Asch's configural model, central traits, peripheral traits Primacy, recency, personal constructs, Implicit personality theories, stereotype, Cognitive algebra, summation, averaging, weighted averaging Schema, script, roles, self-schema, content-free schema Prototype, fuzzy sets, stereotypes, exemplars Social identity theory, self-categorisation theory
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