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Toward Typology of Organization Development Research
OD research is currently in a confused yet rapidly developing state. It is argued here that this situation exists partly because of a basic confusion as to exactly what constitutes OD research. A definitional typology is proposed based on the…
Usage of the Lens and Subjective Probability Paradigms for Financial Research Purposes
Two basic paradigms have been used by accounting researchers to model and evaluate financial judgments relative to environmental conditions; the Brunswik Lens and subjective probability (SP) paradigms. Here the Lens and SP paradigms are compared…
Dividends and Taxes
We present sufficient conditions for taxable investors to be indifferent to dividends despite tax differentials in favor of capital gains (Strong Invariance Proposition). The conditions include two ‘seemingly unrelated’ provisions of the Internal…
Conjoint Analysis in Consumer Research: Issues and Outlook
Since 1971 conjoint analysis has been applied to a wide variety of problems in consumer research. This paper discusses various issues involved in implementing conjoint analysis and describes some new technical developments and application…
Allocation of Managerial Effort: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Decision Strategies, Environment and Performance
The work presented in this paper investigates behaviorally plausible rules for making decisions in complex situations. A rule is plausible if it is consistent with assumptions concerning limits on a decision maker’s information processing…
An Empirical Study of Subjective Probability Revision in a Financial Context
Bayesian consistency and accuracy of subjective probability assessments for a financial parameter are the major research hypotheses addressed here. Individuals familiar with the information and task environment provided probability assessments…
An Organizational Failures Framework
The paper begins with an explication of Oliver Williamsons market failures framework, which describes the conditions under which market transactions will be replaced by formal organizations. It then applies the central ideas of that framework to…
Analysis And Comparison Of The Lens And Subjective Probability Information Processing Paradigms
When comparisons are to be made with environmental conditions, two basic paradigms have been used by accounting researchers to model and evaluate financial judgments; the Brunswick Lens and subjective probability (SP) paradigms. Here the Lens and…
Anticipated Information Releases Reflected in Call Option Prices
This study captures the ex ante information content of a financial reporting event (the annual earnings announcement) by examining the behavior of call option prices on dates leading up to and passing through the disclosure date. This approach…
Assessing Planned Change
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Asset Revaluations and the Appropriability of Returns from Inventive Activity: Some Qualifications and Evidence
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Choosing Multiple Items from a Product Class
By focusing on consumer preference for single items, marketing research has implicitly assumed that product choices are made independently of each other. For many product classes (e.g., magazines, stereo albums, liquors in a home bar) that…
Comparison of a Multi-Pass Heuristic Decomposition Procedure with Other Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Procedures
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a heuristic procedure for resource-constrained project scheduling. The procedure is a representative of a class of multi-pass procedures based on problem decomposition and is applicable to single or…
Competitive Bidding in the Underwriting of Public Utility Securities
A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms
Conjoint Analysis in Consumer Research: Issues and Outlook
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Consumer Dynamics in Nonprofit Organizations
The study of consumer dynamics, that is behavior patterns over time, can lead to a better understanding of users than can a static analysis. In this study, the theater attendance behavior over the preceding five year period of current subscribers…
A Consumption-Oriented Explanation of Some Special Features or the International Bond Market
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Currency Option Bonds, Puts and Calls on Spot Exchange and the Hedging of Contingent Foreign Earnings
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