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2005 Award Winners
Accounting
Magdy Farag, "Discretionary Accruals, Non-audit Service Fees, and Earnings Persistence"
Minna Yu, "Analyst Following and Executive Stock Option Grants"
Finance
Sutthsit Jamdee and Michael Merriman, "The Masking Motivation for Share Repurchases"
Management Systems
Kholekile Gwebu and Jing Wang, "Search Engine Result Bias: An Empirical Investigation of Commercial Web Based Search Tools"
Kholekile Gwebu and Jing Wang, "Building Trust in Virtual Organizations"
2004 Award Winners
International Studies
Brian Polin, "Country of Origin Effect: Resolving the Unresolved Issue of Multifactor Interaction"
Management Systems
Douglas Druckenmiller, "Strategic Supportthrough Comprehensive Situational Mapping: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach"
Marketing
Michael Mallin, "Salesperson Motivation: The Effects ofTrait Competitiveness and Locus of Control"