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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"conference calls"”.
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Internal and External Attributions by Managers in Earnings Conference Calls
<p>In this study, I examine whether managers make self-serving attributions by internally (externally) attributing favorable (unfavorable) performance or demonstrate leadership by accepting blame and deflecting praise when communicating with analysts and investors. After validating the attribution …
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Temporal Focus and Analyst Scrutiny: Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls
Using the setting of earnings conference calls, this paper investigates the temporal focus of management presentation during those calls, i.e., the extent to which managers allocate their discussions to future firm prospects relative to past firm performance. I find a negative association between …
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Voluntary disclosure as a response to low accounting quality : evidence from quarterly conference calls
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Textual Analysis of Management Tone during Conference Calls and the Impact on Capital Markets
… defined by the Harvard IV-4 Dictionary, during conference calls and the impact on analyst accuracy, dispersion of analysts' estimates, cumulative abnormal returns, abnormal trading volumes, and the number of days after the end of the quarter. Results indicate that pessimism is significantly …
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Art as Occupation: A Phenomenological Study of Art as a Means of Self-Expression for an Individual Recovering from Severe Physical, Sexual, and Ritual Abuse
… during thorough semi-structured interviews using conference calls and correspondence through e-mail with the participant. Data analysis involved horizontalization of narrative data resulting in the dissemination of meaning units. From these a textual and structural description of the participant's …
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Single Camera Motion Compensated Viewpoint Shift
… enabling more realistic eye contact in video conference calls.
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Creating a sustainable business model for the TV industry : strategic analysis on the Smart TV ecosystem
… from alarm clocks to email consumption to video conference calls. The era of connected devices now trigger a radical change in an area that has not been disrupted over decades - the TV experience. By integrating the Internet into television sets, Smart TVs will allow consumers to use on-demand …
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Sustaining data quality - lessons from the field: creating and sustaining data quality within diverse enterprise resource planning and information systems
… the organisation. A series of site meetings and conference calls took place embracing forty eight of the fifty four factories together with seven business groups.
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Adherence to Self-Monitoring Predicts Weight Loss and Weight Regain in Rural Breast Cancer Survivors
… were randomized to either continued bi-weekly conference calls or bi-weekly newsletters. Final analyzed sample included 191 participants. Results: Higher weekly self-monitoring consistency was associated with higher weight loss at 6 months, F(2, 189) =29.87, p<0.001, R2=0.13. Higher levels of …
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“Because I Care I risk”: How CEO Free Market Orientation Affects the Extent and Type of Income Smoothing
… I conduct a content analysis of firm earnings conference calls to measure three indicators of free market orientation of CEOs – economic individualism, competition, and property rights. As an initial demonstration of the significance of CEOs’ economic ideology, in the sample of 140 CEOs who …
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
… measures based on the Q&A section of earnings conference calls, I find that target firms emphasize building organizational culture with better quality, more innovation, higher integrity, and growing respect after activism. However, teamwork culture does not change. I also find that these …
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Down Front: Challenges Facing Community College Based Performing Arts Centers
… to utilize a survey, an online list serve and conference calls in three rounds of data collection.</p> <p>Two a priori themes emerged from the analysis of data. First, all arts organizations work very hard to develop and engage audiences in a service of mission and to generate operating …
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Language Reasoning by means of Argument Mining and Argument Quality
… results and future estimations through earnings conference calls. The proposed scheme is derived from argumentation theory at the micro-structure level of discourse. We further conducted the corresponding annotation study and published the first financial dataset annotated with arguments: FinArg. …
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Cognition and Gender Diversity in Top Management Teams - A Comprehensive Analysis of Top Management Team Communication and Linguistic Patterns
… choices of female and male CFOs during earnings conference calls, analyzing tone, uncertainty, and complexity. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) methodology on a unique dataset of 294 quarterly earnings calls from Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) constituents (2016-2020), the …
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Essays on Sell-Side Analysts
… (personal meetings, investor meetings, and conference calls) or non-management sources (such as channel checks). We find that information discovery is prevalent in 17% of the reports. The cumulative abnormal return (CAR) for reports containing discovery are 6.3% for upgrades and -10.6% for …
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Analysis of the product development process for geographically distant teams in vehicle tophat design phases
… single point of contact for daily interaction. Conference calls and virtual tools have been very useful for the day-to-day communication, however scheduled and periodical face-to-face meetings between distant the Design Engineering teams has been proven to provide good results to enhance team …