Michael J. Barrett Doctoral Dissertation Grant

"ERM: Adoption, Performance Benefits and Disclosure Effect"
- Jared Soileau, University of Memphis
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"Characteristics of Internal Audits and Fraud Detection"
- Kasey Martin, University of Texas at San Antonio
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"The Effects of Reputation Threat and Whistle-Blowing Report Source on Chief Audit Executives’ Investigation Decisions "
- Cynthia P. Guthrie, CPA, MBA, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business
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"Do Controls Cause a False Sense of Security?: Biased Residual Risk Assessment and Unwarranted Risk-taking Due to Over-reliance on Control Systems"
- Margaret Christ, CIA, CPIM, University of Texas at Austin

"Corporate Governance and Internal Auditing in Greece"
- Andreas Koutoupis, Panteios University of Social & Political Sciences

"The Economic Effects of Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002"
- Jim Irving, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Chief Audit Executives' and Other Internal Audit Professionals' Perceptions of Company Responses to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002"
- Richard R. Clune Jr., Case Western Reserve University
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"Problems of Internal Control in Corporations"
(University of Economics-Varna, Bulgaria) - Anelia Grigorova
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"Auditors' Performance in Computer-Mediated Fraud Assessment Brainstorming Sessions: An Investigation of the Effects of Anonymity and Creativity Training"
- Antoinette L. Lynch, University of South Florida

"Control in a Teamwork Environment-A Comparison of Incentive Compensation Plans"
- Kristy Towry, University of Texas at Austin

"Determining the Demand of Continuous Online Assurance Given Specific Types of Decisions"
- Ronald J. Daigle, Texas Tech University 

"Cost of Capital, Corporate Governance and Audit Committee Independence"
- Scott Richardson, University of Michigan

"An Empirical Study of Factors Affecting Information Systems Audit Staffing and Resource Allocation Decisions"
- Richard F. Lucy, University of Texas at Austin

"The Effect of Others' Explanations on Auditors' Performance"
- Patricia M. Myers, University of Arizona

"An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Corporate Governance and Management Fraud"
- Mark S. Beasley, Michigan State University

"External Auditor's Evaluation of the Internal Audit Function: A Cascaded Inference Approach"
- Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, University of So. California

"The Expectations Gap: Understanding the Auditor's Efforts to Detect Fraud"
- Dennis H. Caplan, University of California at Berkeley

"From Excess Demand to Excess Supply: A Principal Agent Analysis of the Internal Auditors' Impact on Audit Effort Choice"
- Marinus DeBruine, Ohio State University

"Structured Analytical Procedures Using Industry Specific Information: Model Development and Validation"
- Robert D. Allen, University of Utah

"The Use of Case-Based Reasoning in Internal Auditor's Evaluations of EDP Controls"
- Bonnie W. Morris, CPA, University of Pittsburg

"The Effects of Certain Personal and Organizational Variables on the Attitudes of Internal Auditors Toward Ethical Dilemmas"
- Kay Carnes, CIA, CPA, St. Louis University 

1988

"An Investigation of Internal Auditor Judgment on the Importance of Indicators of Potential Fraud: An Analytical Hierarchy Approach"
- Barbara A. Apostolou, Louisiana State University

"The Role of the Internal Audit Function in Complex Organizations and Interorganizational Networks"
- Edmund J. Boyle, Pennsylvania State University

"The Audit Process as a Function of a Differentiated Environment"
- Parveen Gupta, Pennsylvania State University

"An Empirical Investigation of Factors Affecting the Use of Concurrent EDP Audit Techniques"
- Larry Mohrweis, University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Educational Requirements and Employment Opportunities for College Graduates in Internal Auditing"
- John S. Nosari, St. Louis University

"An Application of Reliability Engineering Concepts to the Analysis of the Accounting Control Systems"
- Samir Helal, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaig