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On the Optimality of Structured Policies in Countable State Decision Processes. II: Positive and Negative Problems
Organizational Entitativity: The Problem of Boundaries, Units, and Loose Coupling
Before we can apply organizational theories to social aggregates, their status as entities must be evaluated. The degree to which a social aggregate is a system may be assessed using common fate, similarity and proximity as variables which…
Organizational Structure and Economic Performance: A Test of the Multidivisional Hypothesis
This paper empirically investigates the proposition that the organization and operation of the large enterprise along “M-Form” multidivisional lines favors goal pursuit and least cost behavior more nearly associated with the neoclassical profit…
Overseas Research and Development by U.S.-Based Firms
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Personal Deserving Versus Justice for Others: An Exploration of the Justice Motive
Two experiments were conducted to test implications derived from Lerner’s formulation of the “justice motive.” The experimental paradigm provided subjects with an opportunity to earn money in exchange for participation in future experimental…
Phased Decision Strategies: Sequels to an Initial Screening
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Regulatory and Nonregulatory Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs
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Sequential Decision Problems With Expected Utility Criteria. III: Upper And Lower Transience
This paper concerns sequential decision problems with expected utility criteria. A class of such problems, which combines and extends the standard cases of transient, positive and negative dynamic programming, is proposed and analyzed. The…
Sex Differences in Economists' Incomes
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Social Structure and Organizational Type: The Case of the Integrated Organization in an Atomized Society
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Strategic Intelligence Systems
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Supervisor-Worker Relations: A Study of Supervisory Practices in Japanese and American Firms in the United States
Supervisory methods of Japanese managed firms in the ‘United States are compared with those of American firms, matched by industry. Findings suggest that supervisors of Japanese firms (all of whom were Americans) were more involved in counseling…
Taxation and the Incidence of Homeownership Across Income Groups
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The Analysis of Seasonal Economic Models
Many important insights can be obtained about economic relationships and seasonality when an economic model contains an explicit specification of the mechanism generating seasonality in the endogenous variables. Unfortunately, determining the…
The Comparative Impact of Different Organization Development Techniques*
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The Evaluation of Internal Controls Over Payroll
Auditors’ evaluations of internal control over payroll systems based on profiles of system characteristics were studied using a quasi-experimental research design. Specific topics considered here included inter-auditor agreement (consensus),…
The Freedom of Information Act: Opportunities and Threats at the Competitive and Governmental Interfaces
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The Horizon Effects on Product Evaluation Strategies
A woman’s time horizons when evaluating product concepts(birth control devices) were varied. These variations produced changes in the linearity and complexity of the evaluation strategies used, and in the emphasis given to specific factors. Loss-…
The Impact of Organization Development
Little systematic evidence exists on the overall effects of Organization Development (OD). Thirty-five empirical studies assessing the impact of OD activities provide the basis for analysis. The impact of OD is assessed using a typology derived…