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View article: Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs)
Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) Open
Psychology's crises (e.g., replicability, generalisability) are currently believed to derive from Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), thus scientific misconduct. Just improving the same practices, however, cannot tackle the root causes…
View article: A Critique of Agential Realism
A Critique of Agential Realism Open
Agential realism is a highly cited philosophy proposed by Karen Barad (2007) that provides an iconoclastic approach to understanding ontology, epistemology, and ethics as intertwined, entangled, mutually implicated, co-constituted fields. …
View article: Sociomateriality, agential realism, and the metaphysics of accounting information systems: A response to Vosselman and De Loo
Sociomateriality, agential realism, and the metaphysics of accounting information systems: A response to Vosselman and De Loo Open
I respond to Vosselman and De Loo's (2023) critique of my earlier paper on agential realism, representation theory, and accounting information systems (Weber, 2020). In that paper, I argued that little is learned by using an agential reali…
View article: Some Prognostications: Artificial Intelligence and Accounting
Some Prognostications: Artificial Intelligence and Accounting Open
The Colin Ferguson Oration is the address given to attendees at the annual Australia Accounting Hall of Fame dinner and presentation evening. It is an invited oration, whereby an eminent modern-day leader addresses the audience on matters …
View article: Farmers' awareness of digital credit: Does financial literacy matter?
Farmers' awareness of digital credit: Does financial literacy matter? Open
This study investigates the relationship between financial literacy and farmers' awareness of digital credit in rural Madagascar. We apply questions that demonstrate individuals' understanding of the four fundamental concepts for financial…
View article: Farmers’ preference for digital credit: Does the delivery channel matter?
Farmers’ preference for digital credit: Does the delivery channel matter? Open
Previous studies highlight the limited credit access for farmers compared to non-agricultural firms in sub-Saharan Africa. A new innovation that has the potential to serve the financing needs of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is digital cre…
View article: Farmers’ willingness to pay for digital and conventional credit: Insight from a discrete choice experiment in Madagascar
Farmers’ willingness to pay for digital and conventional credit: Insight from a discrete choice experiment in Madagascar Open
In recent decades, microfinance institutions with financial products designed for low income groups have been established all over the world. However, credit access for farmers in developing countries remains low. Digital financial service…
View article: Farmers’ willingness to pay for digital and conventional credit: Insight from a discrete choice experiment in Madagascar
Farmers’ willingness to pay for digital and conventional credit: Insight from a discrete choice experiment in Madagascar Open
In recent decades, microfinance institutions with financial products designed for low income groups have been established all over the world. However, credit access for farmers in developing countries remains low. Digital financial service…
View article: Loan officer rotation and credit access: evidence from Madagascar
Loan officer rotation and credit access: evidence from Madagascar Open
Purpose With exclusive data from a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Madagascar, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if loan officer rotation (change of loan officer) has an effect on credit access (loan approval) in rur…
View article: Information Systems as Representations: A Review of the Theory and Evidence
Information Systems as Representations: A Review of the Theory and Evidence Open
Representation Theory proposes that the basic purpose of an information system (IS) is to faithfully represent certain real-world phenomena, allowing users to reason about these phenomena more cost-effectively than if they were observed di…
View article: Explaining weather-related credit risk with evapotranspiration and precipitation indices
Explaining weather-related credit risk with evapotranspiration and precipitation indices Open
Purpose Although the microfinance sector in developing countries has seen an impressive development in recent years, many small-scale farmers in rural areas are still undersupplied with capital. One of the main reasons for this undercapita…
View article: Truth and consequences: Bogus pipeline experiment in informal small business lending
Truth and consequences: Bogus pipeline experiment in informal small business lending Open
The prevention of asymmetric information plays a major role in successful small business lending. The purpose of this research is to determine if small business applicants report their income information correctly when requesting a loan. T…
View article: Does pre-defined flexibility come with teh cost of higher credit risk? Evidence from agricultural micro lending in Madagascar
Does pre-defined flexibility come with teh cost of higher credit risk? Evidence from agricultural micro lending in Madagascar Open
Using a unique dataset from a commercial microfinance institution in Madagascar, this paper investigates how the provision of microfinance loans with (in)flexible repayment schedules affects loan delinquencies of agricultural borrowers. We…
View article: Does weather matter? How rainfall shocks affect credit risk in agricultural micro-finance
Does weather matter? How rainfall shocks affect credit risk in agricultural micro-finance Open
Small-scale farmers in developing countries are undersupplied with capital. Although microfinance institutions have become well established in developing countries, they have not significantly ex-tended their services to farmers. It is gen…