The Cranfield School of Management Working Papers Series has been running since 1987, with approximately 380 papers so far /ion1 the nine academic groups of the School: Economics; Enterprise; Finance and Accounting; Human Resources; Information Systems; Logistics ana Transportation; Marketing; Operations Management; and Strategic Management. Since 1992, papers have been reviewed by senior membe...

During my academic years at the College of William and Mary, I have fifty published and peer-reviewed papers, among which fifteen are journal papers and thirty-five are conference papers. I have acquired three external research grants funded by the National Science Foundation, with one recent and two others from a while back. I have graduated three Ph.D. students, with the fourth passing the pr...

The Cranfield School of Management Working Papers Series has been running since 1987, with approximately 380 papers so far from the nine academic groups of the School: Economics; Enterprise; Finance and Accounting; Human Resources; Information Systems; Logistics and Transportation; Marketing; Operations Management; and Strategic Management. Since 1992, papers have been reviewed by senior member...

In this paper I describe two research papers that I use when I teach financial auditing. The first paper requires students to critique articles from a practitioner journal and an academic journal. The second paper requires that students interview an accounting practitioner using questions they developed from the first paper. I describe why I believe these papers are an innovation, what their ed...

Recommendation systems can take advantage of social media in various ways. One common example is combining social relationship into neighborhood-based recommendation systems, under the assumption that social relationship affects individuals’ interest or preference. Although this assumption may not be always true, this paper presents a realistic application, personalized academic paper recommend...

The world’s collective knowledge is evolving through research and new scientific discoveries. It is becoming increasingly difficult to objectively rank the impact research institutes have on global advancements. However, since the funding, governmental support, staff and students quality all mirror the projected quality of the institution, it becomes essential to measure the affiliation’s ratin...

The number of applicants vastly outnumbers the available academic faculty positions. What makes a successful academic job market candidate is the subject of much current discussion [1-4]. Yet, so far there has been no quantitative analysis of who becomes a principal investigator (PI). We here use a machine-learning approach to predict who becomes a PI, based on data from over 25,000 scientists ...

Introduction In recent years, there has been a growth in the number of papers that synthesize empirical research studies on gender and sex inequalities in academic statements. Furthermore, these studies can comply with European requirements of equalities since the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1999 enacted that equality between men and women should be included in all policies (Fernández Álvarez, 2014)...