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Akamah, H., & Asante-Appiah, B. (2025)
Ambrose, S. C., & Abdelghany, A. F. (2025)
Amin, M. S., Atkin, J. L., Cowley, S., Eckert, J. A., Ferrin, B. G., Greenlees, T., ... & Zwanka, R. J. (2025) Understanding Sense of Belonging Among Undergraduate Marketing Majors
Asante-Appiah, B., Kim, J. B., & Koo, K. (2025)
Are Audit Committee Disclosures of Auditor Reappointment Factors Legitimacy Enhancing?
Analyzing Geospatial and Geopolitical influences on Airline Competition: A Finnair Case Study.
CEO Outside Board Service and Managerial Short-Termism
Accounting Horizons, 39(3), 11-34.
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 1-33.
Transportation Journal, 64(1), e12035.
Journal of Marketing Education
Audit committees (ACs) are responsible for appointing external auditors but are not required to (and often do not) provide disclosures about how they accomplish this duty, and investors are concerned about this opacity. We hand-collect data on disclosures of factors considered by the AC in reappointing auditors. We find that disclosure tempers shareholder dissatisfaction with the AC’s cho - sen auditor, particularly when there are concerns about impaired auditor independence. Disclosure mitigates AC career concerns, especially after financial reporting fail - ures, and disclosure is associated with high audit quality. Additionally, we find that AC attributes indicating AC ef - fectiveness do not alter the mitigating effect of disclosure on shareholder dissatisfaction and AC career concerns, but the positive effect of disclosure on audit quality is mainly evident when ACs have high attribute effectiveness. Evi - dence on the legitimacy implications of auditor reappoint - ment disclosure is informative for constituents concerned about the effectiveness and transparency of the AC.
For many years Helsinki has served as a key air transport hub connecting Asia and Europe primarily through Fin - land’s national carrier, Finnair. Yet, in February of 2022 the closure of Russian airspace ended the Siberian corri - dor, at least in the near term that had long served as the most efficient air transport pathway between Asia and Eu - rope. This study examines Helsinki’s historical role as a key transport hub within the theoretical context of geographic centrality and intermediacy. The optimum geospatial lo - cation of Helsinki relative to key Asian cities is explored through both marketing and operational advantages that Finnair once leveraged. The networked route structure of Finnair before and during the twin shocks of the global pandemic and subsequent Russian–Ukrainian conflict is juxtaposed against a comparison set of hub-and-spoke airlines yielding key insights about the evolving compet - itive dynamics in the region. Moreover, a key component of Finnair’s Asian strategy, dubbed the 24-h single aircraft roundtrip rotation, is elucidated with respect to its bene - fits for aircraft utilization and crew scheduling efficiency. This unique characteristic allows for a special expression of intermediacy that can serve as an accelerant in air trans - port hub development. Finally, the current challenges fac - ing Finnair due to the geopolitical turmoil are placed with - in a managerial context and avenues for future research are offered.
A strong sense of belonging can meaningfully enrich stu - dents’ academic and social experiences. This study investi - gates the key academic and social factors that contribute to marketing students’ sense of belonging and examines how that sense of belonging affects critical academic outcomes, focusing primarily on the mediating role played by sense of belonging. Based on survey data from 526 undergrad - uate marketing majors, results show that faculty support, peer support, institutional support, and perceived fit sig - nificantly strengthen students’ sense of belonging. In turn, sense of belonging functions as a mediating mechanism that reduces dropout intentions and increases students’ likelihood of recommending their major and college. These findings highlight the processes through which support and fit shape critical academic and behavioral out - comes. They also offer actionable recommendations for improving retention and support by activating on-campus stakeholder groups that contribute uniquely to marketing students’ sense of belonging.
We hypothesize that CEOs with outside board service are less likely to engage in short-term-oriented activities be - cause external directorships can enhance their capabilities, relieve job-related concerns, and have a signaling impact in the CEO labor market. Consistent with our prediction, we find that CEOs’ outside directorships have a negative relation with short-term-oriented behaviors. The negative association is restricted to two outside directorships, par - ticularly for a subgroup of firms with strong short-term incentives, such as firms with a small decrease in earnings. The negative nonlinear relation is also found to be more pronounced for firms operating in more homogenous in - dustries and firms with weaker corporate governance. Ad - ditionally, we document that CEO outside board service has a positive relation with long-term-oriented behaviors and long-term firm performance. This study suggests that outside board service up to two positions can reduce man - agers’ short-termism and promote long-termism, improv - ing the long-term performance of their employer firms.
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