Faculty Publications

“Taxpayer Behavior Under Audit Certainty,” Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming (with B. Ayers and E. Towery).

"Volatility Dynamics under an Endogenous Markov-Switching Framework:  A Cross-Market Approach," Quantitative Finance, forthcoming 2018 (with W. Song and D. Ryu).

"The Best Way to Network in a New Job," Harvard Business Review, 2018 (with R. Cross).

“Mindfulness in Information Technology Use: Conceptual and Operational Definitions,” MIS Quarterly, 2018 (with J. Thatcher, H. Sun, R. Klein, and T. Zagenczyk).

"The Sociotechnical Perspective as an ‘Axis of Cohesion’ for the Information Systems Discipline: Its Historical Legacy & Its Continuing Relevance," MIS Quarterly, conditionally accepted (with S. Chatterjee, X. Xiao, and A. Elbanna).

"Does Selective Sales Force Training Work?" Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming (with Y. Atefi, M. Ahearne, T. Donavan, and B. Carlson).

"Toward a Dialectical Process View of Organizational Employees’ Information Systems Security Behaviors," Information Systems Research, conditionally accepted (with M. Karjalainen and M. Siponen).

"The Practice of Qualitative Research in the IS Discipline: An Evolutionary View and Some Implications for Authors and Evaluators (Part I and Part II)," Journal of the AIS, forthcoming 2018 (editorial, with Xiao, X, Beaulieu, T., and Lee, A. S.).

"Revisiting the Impact of System Use on Task Performance: An Exploitative-Explorative System Use Framework," Journal of the AIS, 2018 (with H. Sun and J. Thatcher).

"Disagreement about Inflation and the Yield Curve," Journal of Financial Economics, 2018 (with P. Ehling, C. Heyerdahl-Larsen, and P. Illeditsch).

“Linguistic Tone and the Small Trader,” Accounting, Organizations and Society, forthcoming (with S. Baginski, E. Demers, and A. Kausar).

"Portfolio Tax Trading with Carry Over Losses," Management Science, forthcoming 2018 (with P. Ehling, S. Srivastava, S. Tompaidis, and C. Yang).

“Consumer Wisdom:  A Theoretical Foundation of Five Integrated Facets,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming 2018 (with M. G. Luchs).

“Getting Comfortable on Audits - Understanding Firms' Usage of Forensic Specialists,” Contemporary Accounting Research, 2018 (with G. Jenkins and M. Oler).

"Text Analytics to Support Sense-making in Social Media: A Language-Action Perspective," MIS Quarterly, 2018 (with Y. Zhou, S. Deng, and P. Zhang).

"Work-Life Conflict of Globally Distributed Software Development Personnel: An Empirical Investigation Using Border Theory," Information Systems Research, 2018 (with S. Sarker and M. Ahuja).

"Aggregate Tail Risk, Economic Disasters, and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns," Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2018 (with J. S. Martin).

“North American Free Trade Agreement,” Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, 2nd edition, 2018.

“Equity Compensation and Tax Avoidance: Disentangling Managerial Incentives from Tax Benefits and Reexamining the Effect of Shareholder Rights,” Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2018 (with B. Stomberg).

"How Do Construal Level and Evidence Formatting Impact Auditors’ Consideration of Inconsistent Evidence?" Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming (with T.D. Carpenter and J. Thayer).

Financial Accounting, 5th ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2018 (with J. Waybright).

“Conflicting Transfer Pricing Incentives and the Role of Coordination,” Contemporary Accounting Research, 2018 (with J. Blouin and L. Robinson).

"How Am I Doing?: Perceived Financial Well-Being, Its Potential Antecedents, and Its Relation to Overall Well-Being," Journal of Consumer Research, 2018 (with D. Warmath, D. Fernandes, and J. G. Lynch).

"Marketers' Use of Alternative Front-of-Package Nutrition Symbols: An Examination of Effects on Product Evaluations," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2018 (with C. Newman, C. Andrews, and S. Burton).

"The 2016 SIM IT Issues and Trends Study," MIS Quarterly Executive, 2017 (with L. Kappelman, E. McLean, V. Johnson, R. Torres, Q. Nguyen, and M. Snyder).

"The Impact of Latency Sensitive Trading on High Frequency Arbitrage Opportunities," Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 2017 (with A. Frino, V. Mollica, and T. Zhang).

"The Shackles of CEO Celebrity: Sociocognitive and Behavioral Role Constraints on ‘Star’ Leaders,” Academy of Management Review, in press (with J. Bundy, D. Hambrick, and T. Pollock).

"Intrinsic Motivation and Organizational Identification among On-Demand Workers," Journal of Applied Psychology, in press (with K. Rockmann).

"The Role of Executive Symbolism in Advancing New Strategic Themes in Organizations: A Social Influence Perspective," Academy of Management Review, in press (with D. Hambrick).

“Are Disruptive CEO Successions Viewed As a Governance Lapse? Evidence from Board Turnover,” Journal of Management, 2017 (J. Marcel, A. Cowen, and G. Ballinger).

The Phoenix Project: Remediation of a Cybersecurity Crisis at the University of Virginia (and Teaching Note), Darden Business Publishing, 2017 (with R. Wright).

"Training to Mitigate Phishing Attacks Using Mindfulness Techniques," Journal of Management Information Systems, 2017 (with M. Jensen, M. Dinger, and J.B. Thatcher).

“Entertainment Marketing,” Foundations and Trends in Marketing, 2017.

"Time Delays, Competitive Interdependence, and Firm Performance," Strategic Management Journal, 2017 (with J. Luoma, S. Ruutu, and H. Tikkanen).

"Pressure to Manage Ratios and the Willingness to Do So: Evidence from Nonprofit Managers," Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2017 (with L. Parsons and C. Pryor).

"Determinants of Early Conformance with Information Security Policies," Information & Management, 2017 (with F. Belanger, K. Enget, and S. Collignon).

"WSJ Category Kings–The Impact of Media Attention on Consumer and Mutual Fund Investment Decisions," Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 (with R. Kaniel).

IT Project Retrospectives: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices, Amazon Direct Publishing, 2017.

Entering the Civil Aircraft Industry: Business Realities at the Technological Frontier, 2017. In this book, Dr. Roberts provides an insider’s perspective of the industry, drawing on his more than 30 years of experience and interest in all aspects of the field.

"Manual Journal Entry Testing: Data Analytics and the Risk of Fraud," Journal of Accounting Education, 2017 (with R. Fay).