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- Publications
- Influence
Have American's Social Attitudes Become More Polarized?
- Paul J. Dimaggio, J. Evans, B. Bryson
- Psychology
- American Journal of Sociology
- 1 November 1996
Many observers have asserted with little evidence that Americans' social opinions have become polarized. Using General Social Survey and National Election Survey social attitude items that have been… Expand
Honesty in Managerial Reporting
- J. Evans, R. Hannan, R. Krishnan, D. Moser
- 1 October 2001
This study reports the results of three experiments that examine how preferences for wealth and honesty affect managerial reporting. We find that subjects often sacrifice wealth to make honest or… Expand
Budgeting Research: Three Theoretical Perspectives and Criteria for Selective Integration
- M. Covaleski, J. Evans, Joan Luft, M. D. Shields
- Economics
- 1 December 2003
Budgeting is one of the most extensively researched topics in management accounting and has been studied from the theoretical perspectives of economics, psychology, and sociology. Thus, budgeting… Expand
Honesty in Managerial Reporting
- J. Evans, R. Hannan, R. Krishnan, D. Moser
- Economics
- 11 May 2001
This study reports the results of three experiments that examine how preferences for wealth and honesty affect managerial reporting. We find that subjects often sacrifice wealth to make honest or… Expand
Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
- J. Evans
- Sociology
- 2002
Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing the genes of one's children is quickly becoming a… Expand
Signaling and Monitoring in Public-Sector Accounting
- J. Evans, J. M. Patton
- Economics
- 1987
Although several recent papers (e.g., Zimmerman [1977], Baber [1983], Evans and Patton [1983], and Ingram [1984]) have hypothesized that state and local government accounting and auditing practices… Expand
Epistemological and Moral Conflict Between Religion and Science
- J. Evans
- Sociology
- 1 December 2011
Debates about religion and educational attainment often assume that members of certain religious groups do not seek out knowledge of science because they are opposed to the use of the scientific… Expand
Board size and firm performance: the moderating effects of the market for corporate control
- Shijun Cheng, J. Evans, Nandu J. Nagarajan
- Economics
- 1 August 2008
We examine whether takeover threats affect the importance of board size using the passage of state antitakeover laws enacted in mid-to-late 1980s as our empirical setting. While the Complement… Expand
Agency Theory and Participative Budgeting Experiments
ABSTRACT: A series of participative budgeting experiments has examined the effect of incentive structures and/or information environments on employees' reporting and production decisions. We analyze… Expand
Religion and Human Cloning: An Exploratory Analysis of the First Available Opinion Data
- J. Evans
- Sociology
- 1 December 2002
Human cloning has recently entered the public sphere as a contentious issue and religious groups have spoken out in opposition to these technologies. To date, there has been no research to… Expand
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