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An Interactive Procedure for the School Boundary Problem With Declining Enrollment
School districts in some urban areas are facing reduced enrollments. Educational and economic considerations dictate closing schools. Parents, on the other hand, often resist closing neighborhood elementary schools and object to having children…
Behavioral Factors in System Implementation
A descriptive model of variables influencing the use of an information system is presented. The model is tested with empirical data from a study of the use of a sophisticated sales information system. These results suggest three crucial factors…
Bonds Versus Stocks: Some Lessons From Capital Market Theory
The apparent end of the bear market in bonds and relatively high interest rates have led some investors to conclude that bonds are now the superior investment medium. On the other hand, stocks continue to command a large following. Theoretically…
Bounds and Transformations in the Computational Theory for Finite State and Action Markov Decision Processes
New improved bounds on the optimal return function infinite state and action, infinite horizon, stationary Markov decision processes are developed. They require solving a single constraint, bounded variable linear program, which can be done using…
Consumer Behavior: Theoretical Perspectives
Original chapters on theoretical views of consumer behavior. Coordination editors were S. Ward and T Robertson.
Consumer Initial Processing: Definitions, Issues and Applications
This research paper will appear in substantially its present form in G. David Hughes, Michael L. Ray and George Haines (Eds.) Consumer Information Processing, Chapel Hill, N. C.: U. of North Carolina Press, 1974. The book is based on a conference…
Consumer Research Contributions to the Evaluation of Public Policy: The Case of Truth in Lending
This paper explores two converging trends of potential interest to consumer researchers. The first is the burgeoning area of evaluation research, and the second is the growing interest of legislators and regulators in information disclosure as a…
Decentralized Capital Budgeting Decisions and Shareholder Wealth Maximization
The firm’s objective function is well defined as shareholder wealth maximization. However, the firm is a group of individuals and each member has objectives that are not necessarily coincidental to the organization’s goal. This paper investigates…
A Decision Sequence Analysis of Developments in Marketing Communication
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Defining the Span of Control
The uses of the concept, “Span of Control,” have become so varied over the past years that in its present form it is no longer useful as a means of communicating information between scholars. This paper argues that the span of control is a useful…
A Descriptive Model of Information Systems in the Context of the Organization
Developing a Balanced Marketing Information System
One of the most cited marketing articles as reported in L.M. Robinson and R.D. Adler’s Marketing Megaworks: The Top 150 Books and Articles
Praeger, New York, 1987
Dynamic Memory Allocation in a Simulation Environment
This paper investigates the performance of dynamic memory allocation and deallocation algorithms when used to manage memory for simulation programs. A total of 35 different algorithms were programmed for test. A set of 18 different test demand…
Expected Inflation Implied by Capital Market Rates
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External Economic Relationships and the Process of Development: A Framework for Discussion
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Forecasting the Market Return on Common Stocks
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Frameworks for Information Systems
Six frameworks for information systems are reviewed. Each framework is evaluated on a series of criteria describing its usefulness for academicians and practitioners. The evaluation demonstrates that each of the frameworks is best suited for…
A Goal Partitioning Procedure for Modeling Coordination Activities in a Hierarchical Decentralized Organization
A mathematical model of the resource allocation decision process in a two level decentralized organization is presented. The model and solution procedure are capable of representing a wide range of behavioral situations. Some important aspects of…
Improved Penalties for the Branch and Bound Algorithm
Improved penalty calculation for the branch and bound algorithm, as applied to mixed integer programming problems, are presented. For a given variable, finding the best (“up” or “down”) penalty requires solving a mixed integer program. When…
Imputing Expected Security Returns From Portfolio Composition
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