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An Empirical Study of the Professional Socialization of Accounting Students
The purpose of this paper is to investigate accounting student attitudes at one stage of the process of educating and orienting individuals to enter the profession of public accounting, i.e., the “professional socialization’ ” of accounting…
Bias in Stochastic Binary Models of Brand Choice
In stochastic models of brand choice, a k-brand market (k>2) is generally reduced to a two-brand market by denoting the brand of interest as A and combining all other brands to form the “other brand” B. It is shown that (i) market share…
A Characterization of the Optimality of Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets
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Coping Strategies and Attentional Mechanisms in Self-imposed and Externally Imposed Delay Situations
Conducted 2 experiments to examine the relationship between frustration and coping strategies in 2 delay-of-gratification situations: self-imposed delay (optional waiting for a preferred reward) and externally imposed delay (required waiting for…
Corporate Forecasts of Earnings Per Share and Stock Price Behavior: Empirical Tests
The disclosure of corporate forecasts of projected annual earnings was a topic of intensive debate within the investment community during the years 1970-75. Questions of accuracy, objectivity, independent certification, and investment utility…
Decomposition of Arborescent Linear Programs
We apply what we call sequential projection to reformulate certain linear programs as recursive optimization problems. We then apply the standard idea of approximating_x000B_the return function at each stage of the recursion by using inner (or…
Deserving and the Emergence of Forms of Justice
Dimensions of Professional Socialization for Accounting Students
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Diverse Anticipations, Rational Anticipations, Ex Ante Efficiency and Ex Post Efficiency
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Ego-involvement and Attributions for Success and Failure
Investigated the impact of task importance on the causal attributions for success and failure on a bogus social-perceptiveness task which was given to 52 undergraduates. Consistent with previous research, Ss assumed more personal responsibility…
Executives, Bureaucrats, and Politicians: Improving the Management of Government Agencies
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Exploring Territorial Differences in the Relationship Between Marketing Variables
The parameters of a market share response function are estimated by using time series data separately for several sales territories. In a second stage an attempt is made to explain territorial differences in parameter estimates. It appears that…
Financial Information Processing Models: An Empirical Study
Given the objective of describing quantitatively how people use financial data to generate financial judgments, second year graduate business school students were provided with data for each of sixty companies in an experimental setting and an…
A Framework for the Comparison of Marketing Models: A Delphi Study
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Further Beyond Conjoint Measurement: Toward a Comparison of Methods
An extensive body of research in marketing and related areas concerns the collection and analysis of data to assess preference formation by individuals. Alternative methods are available to analyze the information. Based on synthetic data, metric…
Implementation of an Interactive Graphics Model for Design of School Boundaries
This paper contains a description of an interactive graphics model for the design of school boundaries which has been implemented in two settings. The first involved a school district in which the Superintendent and his staff used the system to…
Incentive Contracting for National Defense: A Problem of Optimal Risk Sharing
This paper analyzes risk sharing in Defense contracting within an insurance framework with moral hazard present. The positive model specifies conditions under which risk sharing between the firm and the government can be expected to occur, and…
Independence and Calibration in Decision Analysis
An individual is said to be potentially miscalibrated if he is not sure whether his future subjective probability assessments will agree with observed frequency. Alternately, the individual is said to be uncertain about his own calibration. It…
Industry Differences in the Relationship Between Advertising and Profitability
The assumption that the relationship between market structure variables and profitability is the same across industries is critically examined. Using observations on food, tobacco and cosmetic firms, the null hypothesis of equal coefficient…