Pitt Business

A paper by David Denis, "Debt Financing and Financial Flexibility: Evidence from Pro-Active Leverage Increases" was accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies. The paper was co-authored with Stephen McKeon of the University of Oregon

A paper co-authored by Andrew Stephen, "Feeling the Future: The Emotional Oracle Effect," has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Consumer Research, Inc. It is scheduled to run in October. The paper was co-authored with Michel Tuan Pham and Leonard Lee, both of Columbia University.

Cait Lamberton's paper," When is Ours Better than Mine? A Framework for Understanding and Altering Participation in Commercial Sharing Systems," has been accepted for publication in the July edition of the Journal of Marketing.

A paper co-authored by Chris Kemerer, "Effects of Structural Complexity and Team Task Strategy on Object-Oriented Software Maintenance: An Experimental Test", has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering for publication in 2012. Kemerer wrote the paper with Narayan Ramasubbu of Singapore Management University and Jeff Hong, a PHD candidate at Singapore Management University.

A paper co-authored by Marios Panayides has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. The paper, entitled "Volume Dynamics and Multimarket Trading" was written with Pamela Moulton of Cornell University and Michael Halling of the University of Utah.

Bill Hefley, who is editing a series called "Service Science, Research and Innovations in the Service Economy" for the publisher Springer, had the first book of the series released in a Chinese edition. Hefley was the lead author for the volume, entitled "Service Science, Management and Engineering: Education for the 21st Century."

A paper by Dennis Galletta and two Katz doctoral students-Pratyush Nidhi Sharma and George Gonzalez - has been accepted for the 2012 American Accounting Association Mid-year Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Their paper, entitled "Continuous Monitoring: Are Non-Adopters with Future Adoption Plans More Enlightened than Non-Adopters with No Adoption Plans?," falls within the Information Systems and Strategic Emerging Technologies Section of the conference. Another paper by the trio, entitled "Adoption of Continuous Monitoring and Continuous Auditing: A Multi-Group Partial Least Squares Approach," has been accepted by the Special Interest Group Workshop on Accounting Information Systems in Shanghai China.

A paper co-authored by Chan Li was selected as Best Paper for the 2012 Auditing Section Midyear Conference by the American Accounting Association. Li's paper is entitled "Client Supply Chain Relationships, Audit Firm Selection, and Implications for Audit Quality." Li wrote the paper with Karla Johnstone of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Shuqing Luo of the National University of Singapore.

Doctoral student Pratyush Nidhi Sharma's paper, "A Comparison of PLS and ML Bootstrapping Techniques in SEM: A Monte Carlo Study", has been accepted for the 2012 International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods in Houston. Sharma co-authored the paper with Kevin H. Kim of the University of Pittsburgh.