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Conjoint Analysis in Marketing: New Developments with Implications for Research and Practice
The authors update and extend their 1978 review of conjoint analysis. In addition to discussing several new developments, they consider alternative approaches for measuring preference structures in the presence of a large number of…
Stock Dividends, Stock Splits, and Signaling
This paper provides evidence that firms signal their private information about future earnings by their choice of split factor. Split factors are increasing in earnings forecast errors, after controlling for differences in pre-split price…
How much is enough? Psychological aspects of guns versus butter decisions in a simulated security dilemma
The present research investigates the role of cognitive processes in decisions regarding how much to spend on security in a laboratory simulation of an international security dilemma. The results of 2 studies are described. Study 1 examines…
Equilibrium Vertical Foreclosure
We formulate a complete bu analytically simple, equilibrium model of vertical mergers to evaluate the logic of standard vertical foreclosure claims and the criticisms made of those claims. The model includes incentives of the integrated firm and…
Measuring Delivery Performance: A Case Study from the Semiconductor Industry
Just-in-time manufacturing and distribution processes, computer-aided design, and flexible manufacturing systems are now commonplace in the modern workplace, but antiquated accounting systems are unable to monitor accurately their operations,…
The Effects of Brand Loyalty on Competitive Price Promotional Strategies
This paper analyzes the role played by brand loyalty in determining optimal price promotional strategies used by firms in a competitive setting. (Loyalty is operationalized as the minimum price differential needed before consumers who prefer one…
Women and Poverty
Women and Poverty is a collection of essays, many of which originally appeared in the American journal Signs and have now been reissued as a book. The empirical social trend which underlines the book is the increasing impoverishment of women in…
A Course in Microeconomic Theory
David M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is both challenging and “user-friendly.” The work is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual…
Optimal Hedging and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Futures Market
The Pacific Rim Challenge: Balancing Cooperation and Competition, Technical Report No.76
Transactions Costs and Portfolio Choice in a Discrete-Continuous Time Setting
Children's use of social comparison standards in judging performance and their effects on self-evaluation
The use of a standard of social comparison by children to evaluate their classroom performance has been cited as an important determinant of their perceptions of both success and failure and their overall level of ability. This study examined…
Organizational Culture and Counter Culture: An Uneasy Symbiosis
Takes exception to a set of common assumptions that underlie recent work on organizational culture: that the culture serves the objectives of a firm’s top management team, that the primary function of culture is to unify the diverse elements in…
An Empirical Analysis of Software and Hardware Spending
The growth in information systems budgets and in their primary components, hardware and software effort, are analyzed empirically. It is demonstrated that while a large component of the growth is due to technology related factors, these…
Are Congressional Committees Composed of Preference Outliers?
Breaking up the Mono-Method Monopolies in Organizational Research
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The Theory and Philosophy of Organisations assesses and analyzes the assumptions upon which our understanding of organizations is based and in doing so aims to redirect the ways in which organizational research is conceived…
Collusive Price Leadership
Combining Social Concepts: The Role of Causal Reasoning
Four studies examined how people combine social concepts that have conflicting implications (e.g., Harvard-educated and carpenter). Several kinds of evidence indicated that such combinations are guided by causal reasoning that draws upon both…
Components of Bank Earnings and the Structure of Bank Share Prices
Empirical examination of the relation between common stock prices and two major components of bank earnings shows that earnings before securities gains and losses play an important role in explaining bank stock prices. The market appears to…
Corporate Culture and Economic Theory
This volume serves as an introduction to the field of positive political economy and the economic and political processes with which it is concerned. This new research tradition is distinct from both normative and historical approaches to…