Browsing Washburn Faculty Research by Title

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    • Sacrificing Corporate Investment for Stock Repurchases: Are Family Firms Different? 

      Van Dalsem, Shane (Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-09-1)
      Recent changes to the US tax code have increased stock repurchases by US firms. Critics state and existing research provides evidence that firms forego valuable investment to repurchase stock for short-term stock price ...

    • Scotland's Premier Whisky Regions: A Comparative Case Study of Place Branding 

      Martin, Andrew; Pryor, Susie (Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-10-1)
      Over the past two decades, tourism has emerged as among the most important economic sectors in the global marketplace and a key means by which social and cultural phenomena are diffused. Moreover, it is a sector that is ...

    • Scottish Property Valuation: Some Important Factors Since the Land Reform Act of 2003 

      Hines, Mary Alice (Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-03-1)
      The Scottish and U.S.-owned real property valuation companies in Scotland need real estate appraisers that are capable of valuation work in both the R.I.C.S.- and the U.S.-related valuation systems for U.S. and other ...

    • Sears' Spinoff of Lands' End 

      Van Dalsem, Shane (Washburn University. School of Business, 2017-11-1)
      Following several years of declining revenues and profits, in late 2011 Sears Holding Inc. ("Sears") began to hive off its business divisions. As part of its series of diversitures, on December 6th, 2013 Sears announced ...

    • Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act: An Analysis of External and Internal Responses 

      Martin, James; Ockree, Kanalis (Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-10-1)
      Exhaustive research has been done on the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) since its passage in July 2002. Researchers such as Rittenberg and Miller (Rittenberg, 2005) found improvements in information technology ...

    • Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Did the Stock Market Anticipate It? 

      Martin, James; Ockree, Kanalis (Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-08-1)
      With the 2002 passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), substantial new internal control disclosures are required of publicly traded companies. This paper examines the relationship between internal control and SOX and ...

    • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 

      Boncella, Robert J. (Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-02-1)
      This article is under review as a contribution to "The Handbook of Information Security" -- a three-volume reference source providing state-of-the-art information concerning the information, computer and network security ...

    • SEO Valuation and Insider Manipulation of R&D 

      Walker, Rosemary; Kwak, Sungkyu; Hull, Robert M. (Washburn University. School of Business, 2015-09-1)
      We examine a sample of 674 SEOs from 1999-2010 where reduced R&D spending is significantly associated with the lowering of insider ownership proportions. With this association established, we derive an R&D manipulation ...

    • She Works Hard for the Money: Women in Kansas Agriculture 

      Ball, Jennifer (Washburn University. School of Business, 2012-10-1)
      Much scholarship exists on women in agriculture in developing countries, especially China, India, and countries in Latin America. There has been much less research on the topic in developed economies, presumably because ...

    • Should the Home Mortgage Be Paid Off? 

      Baker, Gary; Clevenger, Thomas (Washburn University. School of Business, 2003-12-1)
      Families in the United States have home ownership as a goal. The United States Congress considers home ownership so important that the Federal income tax code allows interest paid on home mortgages to be deducted before ...

    • The Simple Man: A Consumer Identity Project? 

      Frendle, Angela; McGinnis, Lee (Washburn University. School of Business, 2007-05-1)
      In this study we analyze the Simple Man, or those men who have above average means in education, household income, or net worth but who consume conspicuously below their means. We interviewed ten such men and found that ...

    • Social Networks and Organizational Performance: Exploring the Quality of Domain Knowledge Sources 

      Freeze, Ronald; Sasidharan, Sharath; Schmidt, Pam (Washburn University. School of Business, 2013-07-1)
      For sustained performance in a dynamic market environment, individuals within an organization must operate in a social network (SN) that promotes knowledge exchanges, encourages knowledge acquisition, and facilitates ...

    • Social vs. Individual Effects: The Impact of Flow and Communitas on Golfers' Enduring Involvement Moderated by Gender and Playing Frequency 

      Gao, Tao; Gentry, James W.; McGinnis, Lee (Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-09-1)
      This study explores the comparative effects of two antecedents of enduring involvement in determining whether social versus psychological effects are more important in establishing enduring involvement. Specifically, we ...

    • Socio-Economic Effects of U.S.-Based Fast Food Franchises on Developing Markets: An Egyptian Consumer Perspective 

      Riddle, Liesl; Witte, Carl L.; Pryor, Susie; Grunhagen, Marko (Washburn University. School of Business, 2007-08-1)
      This paper uses insights from a self-contained focus group study conducted with Egyptian consumers to propose a broad range of economic and non-economic effects of U.S.-based fast food franchises in developing markets. We ...

    • Statistical Process Control in the Call Center 

      Price, David; Roach, Bill (Washburn University. School of Business, 2013-11-1)
      While the name of the operations management course was changed from production management years ago, some of the content, statistical process control, in particular, has not changed sufficiently to reflect the broadened ...

    • A Stirling Approach to the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) 

      Kerchner, Robert; Roach, Bill (Washburn University. School of Business, 2007-01-1)
      Many applied statistics courses do not review a proof of the Central Limit Theorem; they rely on simulations like Galton's Quincunx, and/or sampling distributions to acquaint the students with the Bell Curve. the Bell Curve ...

    • Strategic Interaction in the Retail Gasoline Market 

      Byrne, Paul F. (Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-10-1)
      This study uses spatial econometrics to examine the extent to which product differentiating results in strategic interaction in the pricing decision of retail gas stations.

    • Students' Ethical Decision Making: Are We Assessing What We Think We are Assessing? 

      Byrne, Paul (Washburn University. School of Business, 2020-02-1)
      The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business' (AACSB) accreditation standards specify that all business programs must include learning experiences that address ethical understanding and reasoning. Coupled with ...

    • A Study of Perceived Satisfaction with Healthcare Services Among New Zealand Healthcare Users 

      McCormick, I. Ross N.; Goodyear-Smith, Felicity A.; Wunder, Gene C. (Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-04-1)
      A mailed survey to measure perceived New Zealand healthcare users satisfaction with selected issues of healthcare is presented. A proportional random sampling process was employed to elect 602 registrants from the New ...

    • Subprime Mortgage Defaults: A Confluence of Upward Aspirations and Readily Available Capital 

      Schrum, Janice; Martin, James (Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-07-1)
      Recent dramatic increases in the level of home mortgage defaults by subprime borrowers have focused intense regulator and media scrutiny upon the potential causes of the increases. In an analysis of causation, this paper ...