The proposal examines the long-term financial impact of Enterprise Systems (ES) on firm performance and the role of top management on this impact. A unique methodology based on recent accounting research is proposed to measure the contribution of ES to long-term financial performance. The proposal borrows from strategic management literature to examine the relationship between such contribution...

The relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship is poorly understood. We build the theory in this area by tracing institutional change in the US electric power industry over a 40-year period. Our analysis shows that environmental jolts mobilize actors to reformulate institutions, resulting in increased entrepreneurial opportunity. When the institutional environment is stable,...

Crisis informetrics is considered to be a relatively new and emerging area of research, which deals with the application of analytical approaches of network and information science combined with experimental learning approaches of statistical mechanics to explore communication and information flow, robustness as well as tolerance of complex crisis networks under threats. In this paper, we discu...

Article history: Received 3 November 2015 Received in revised form 21 November 2015 Accepted 21 November 2015 Available online xxxx Accurately assessing organizational information technology (IT) is important for accounting professionals, but also difficult. Both auditors and the professionals from whom they gather data are expected to make nuanced judgments regarding the adequacy and effective...

In this research, we examine when and why organizational environments influence how employees respond to moral issues. Past research proposed that social influences in organizations affect employees’ ethical decision making, but did not explain when and why some individuals are affected by the organizational environment and some disregard it. To address this problem, we drew on research on powe...

There has been increasing interest paid to the extent to which individuals have input into and control over the decision-making processes that most affect them. Over the past several decades, a web of technological, economic and socio-demographic forces of social change have been busy laying the groundwork upon which such participatory structures and processes can feasibly thrive. I argue that ...