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Reputation in Repeated Second Price Auctions
Often, the same set of bidders take part in a series of similar but independent auctions. If bidders draw inferences from the past behaviour of others, then the auctions cannot be analysed independently. In particular, this paper shows that it…
Researching the Service Consumer
In recent years a number of papers have attempted to use new concepts or methodologies to study the service consumer. Drawing from sociology, social psychology and environmental psychology these new approaches can supplement the insights attained…
A Resource Dependence Perspective on Intercorporate Relations
This paper discusses a resource dependence perspective on intercorporate relations, as contrasted with a class perspective. The topics covered include the major points of contrast and their implications.
Shadow Pricing with Suboptimal Policy Rules
This paper aims to clarify different views on the validity of the Little-Mirrlees border price rule for project evaluation in a context where the Government chooses its controls suboptimally in a systematic fashion. The rule is shown to be valid…
A Simultaneous Approach to Market Segmentation and Market Structuring
The authors define a market segment to be a group of consumers homogeneous in terms of the probabilities of choosing the different brands in a product class. Using the matrix of joint probabilities of switching from one brand to another obtained…
Social Contingencies in the Attitude Model: A Test of Certain Interaction Hypotheses
This study investigates a number of contingent consistency hypotheses within the context of the attitude model. The effect of felt normative pressure on intentions is found to be contingent (in an interaction sense) on the potency/visibility of…
Social Values and Cooperative Response to a Simulated Resource Conservation Crisis
The present study examines the relationship between individuals’ social motives or values and their level of cooperation during a simulated resource conservation crisis. Prior to the resource task, a decomposed game procedure was used to classify…
Stochastic Equilibria with Incomplete Financial Markets
We demonstrate the existence of equilibria with incomplete financial markets for stochastic economies whose information structure is given by an event tree. The well known examples of non-existence of equilibria are precluded by restricting…
Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry
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Structural Relations in Organizations: On the Relationship Between Behavior, Belief and Formal Structure
Research concerning organizational structure has reached an impasse. Two approaches to structure research have remained isolated despite their complementary insights and methodologies. In mainstream structure research, organizational structures…
The Effect of Inside Information Upon Corporate Dividend and Financing Policies
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The Empirical Foundations of The Arbitrage Pricing Theory I: The Empirical Tests
The last thirty years have witnessed great changes in the field of finance associated with institutionally oriented students has been transformed into one dominated by scholars with amore scientific orientation. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (…
The Empirical Foundations of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory II: The Optimal Construction of Basis Portfolios
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The Present-Minded Professor: Controlling One's Career
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The Social Construction of Organizations
The literature on institutionalization and formal organizational structure is a diffuse and, at time, unclear body of work. The theory of the social construction of reality [Berger and Luckermann, 1967] is offered as a unifying theoretical…