American Journal of Business: Volume 29 Issue 3/4

Followers’ reactions to self-serving leaders: the influence of the organization's budget policy

Stijn Decoster, Jeroen Stouten, Thomas M. Tripp

Even though leaders often are seen as responsible guides, they sometimes behave in a self-serving way, for example, by spending the company's budget on their own, frivolous needs…

Influence of financial distress on foreign exchange exposure

Aigbe Akhigbe, Anna D. Martin, Laurence J. Mauer

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a non-monotonic relationship may exist between financial distress and foreign exchange (FX) exposure. The authors hypothesize…

Psychological influences on customer willingness to pay and choice in automated retail settings: Context effects, attribute framing, and perceptions of fairness

Ashutosh Dixit, Kenneth D. Hall, Sujay Dutta

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of price attribute framing and factors such as urgency and perceived price fairness on customer willingness to pay (WTP…

Predicting public or private feedback-seeking behaviors

Robin A. Cheramie

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the presence of an audience inhibits or facilitates feedback-seeking behaviors.

Team interdependence and turnover: evidence from the NFL

Justin L. Davis, Andy Fodor, Michael E. Pfahl, Jason Stoner

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the interactive effect of turnover and task interdependence on performance in work teams. Based on pervious research, the…

Are earnings quality attributes reflected in financial strength ratings?

Daniel Ames, Chris S. Hines, Jomo Sankara

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether earnings quality attributes are reflected in AM best's financial strength ratings (FSRs), a measure widely used in the insurance…

The Wizard of Oz

Steven Mandell

Serving those who served us: a case study of service learning

Tracy Porter

Observations of a new Dean

Ray Braun