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42
Citations
23198
World Ranking
1439
National Ranking
607

Overview

Thomas Z. Lys is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting with specific attention to subfields such as Gender Studies, Accounting, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?, 2024, Organization Science
  • Substitution between Accrual-Based Earnings Management and Real Activities Manipulation - A Commentary and Guidance for Future Research, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Thomas Z. Lys frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors including David P. Daniels, Jennifer Dannals, Margaret A. Neale, and Daniel Cohen. These collaborations have spanned various topics within their research domains.

The primary venues where their work has been published are:

  • Organization Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

The scientist's work integrates multidisciplinary perspectives, engaging with issues of workforce gender diversity and financial practices within corporate contexts. Their approach encompasses empirical investigation into gender-related diversity impacts as well as detailed analyses of financial management techniques.

Best Publications

  • Real and Accrual‐Based Earnings Management in the Pre‐ and Post‐Sarbanes‐Oxley Periods

    Daniel A. Cohen;Aiyesha Dey;Thomas Z. Lys

  • The financial reporting environment: Review of the recent literature

    Anne Beyer;Daniel Andrei Cohen;Thomas Z. Lys;Beverly R. Walther

  • Empirical research on accounting choice

    Thomas D Fields;Thomas Z Lys;Linda Vincent

  • Use of R2 in accounting research: measuring changes in value relevance over the last four decades

    Stephen Brown;Kin Lo;Thomas Lys

  • Signaling through corporate accountability reporting

    Thomas Lys;James P. Naughton;Clare Wang

  • Expertise in forecasting performance of security analysts

    John Jacob;Thomas Z. Lys;Margaret A. Neale

  • The association between revisions of financial analysts' earnings forecasts and security-price changes

    Thomas Lys;Sungkyu Sohn

  • The market for audit services: Evidence from voluntary auditor changes

    W.Bruce Johnson;Thomas Lys

  • The Financial Reporting Environment: Review of the Recent Literature

    Anne Beyer;Daniel A. Cohen;Thomas Z. Lys;Beverly R. Walther

  • Lawsuits against auditors under the security acts

    Thomas Lys;Ross L. Watts

  • The Ohlson Model: Contribution to Valuation Theory, Limitations, and Empirical Applications:

    Kin Lo;Thomas Lys

  • Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods

    Daniel A. Cohen;Aiyesha Dey;Thomas Z. Lys

  • Use of R-squared in Accounting Research: Measuring Changes in Value Relevance over the Last Four Decades

    Stephen Brown;Kin Lo;Thomas Z. Lys

  • Analysts' Forecast Precision as a Response to Competition:

    Thomas Lys;Lisa Gilbert Soo

  • An analysis of value destruction in AT&T's acquisition of NCR

    Thomas Lys;Linda Vincent

  • Empirical Research on Accounting Choice

    Thomas D. Fields;Thomas Z. Lys;Linda Vincent

  • Trends in Earnings Management and Informativeness of Earnings Announcements in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods

    Daniel A. Cohen;Aiyesha Dey;Thomas Z. Lys

  • Discretionary accounting choices and the predictive ability of accruals with respect to future cash flows

    Brad A. Badertscher;Daniel W. Collins;Thomas Z. Lys

  • Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers With Non-Big Eight Audit Firms

    Paul M. Healy;Thomas Lys

  • Lawsuits Against Auditors

    Thomas Z. Lys;Ross L. Watts

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret A. Neale
Margaret A. Neale Stanford University
Daniel W. Collins
Daniel W. Collins University of Iowa
Clifford W. Smith
Clifford W. Smith University of Rochester
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam University of California, Los Angeles
Kent Daniel
Kent Daniel Columbia University
Ravi Jagannathan
Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University
Paul M. Healy
Paul M. Healy Harvard University
David F. Larcker
David F. Larcker Stanford University

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