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An Overview of Investor Sentiment in Stock Market
(Journal of Contemporary Business Issues, 2015-02)Investing decisions affect many individuals. Investment sentiment, a metric seeking to quantify the expectations of future returns, can cause counterintuitive individual actions. To help individuals with investment ... -
Building Ethical Leaders: A Way to Integrate and Assess Ethics Education
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2013-06)The Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethics Framework (BELIEF) Program was introduced in 2006 at the Northern Illinois University College of Business. The Program was developed to support two learning ... -
Do Variations in the Strength of Corporate Governance Still Matter? A Comparison of the Pre- and Post-regulation Environment
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2014-07)Corporate scandals brought the issue of corporate governance to the forefront of the agendas of lawmakers and regulators in the early 2000s. As a result, Congress, the New York Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ enacted ... -
Could the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 be Helpful in Reforming Corporate America? An Investigation on Financial Bounties and Whistle-Blowing Behaviors in the Private Sector
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2013-01)The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the availability of financial bounties and anonymous reporting channels impact individuals’ general reporting intentions of questionable acts and whether the availability ... -
Investing in Accounting: A Call for Professional Involvement in Higher Education
(American Journal of Business Education, 2011)The current financial crisis has created serious repercussions for accounting education. Public universities have lost funding and initiated huge budget cuts. These drastic cutbacks have resulted in the losses of courses, ... -
It's a Matter of Principle: The Role of Personal Values in Investment Decisions
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2010-05)We investigate the role of personal values in an investment decision in a controlled experimental setting. Participants were asked to choose an investment in a bond issued by a tobacco company or a bond issued by a ...
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