Working Papers

These papers are working drafts of research which often appear in final form in academic journals. The published versions may differ from the working versions provided here.

SSRN Research Paper Series

The Social Science Research Network’s Research Paper Series includes working papers produced by Stanford GSB the Rock Center.

You may search for authors and topics and download copies of the work there.

Academic Area
Centers & Initiatives
Results for

Audience Presence During Breaks in Television Programmes

Derek W. Bunn
1982

Experiments on the use of electricity data as an unobtrusive measure of household behaviour during breaks in television programmes have provided some new insights.Whilst confirming much of accepted “presence” research, there is a clear indication…

Capital Market Efficiency: Definitions, Testing Issues And Anomalies

George Foster
1982

Research on capital market efficiency continues to have an important impact on the accounting and finance literatures. This paper covers five topics related to market efficiency: I. Alternative viewpoints on what is meant by market efficiency, II…

A Comparison of Corporate Financial Reporting in Japan and the United States

Hiroyuki Itami, Kunio Itoh
1982

This is a research on how corporate financial reporting practices are influenced by such environmental (to accounting) factors as the capital market institutions, the legal system and management behavior. International comparison provides an…

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management: A Review and Conceptual Integration

Robert A. Burgelman
1982

Firms need both diversity and order in strategy for their continued survival. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process through which organizations turn diversity, autonomously generated by their entrepreneurial operational level participants,…

Corporate Financial Reporting: A Methodological Review of Empirical Research

George Foster, Ray Ball
1982

Abstract not available.

Cournot Pre-Commitment and Bertand Competition Yield Cournot Outcomes

David M. Kreps, Jose Scheinkman
1982

Abstract not available.

Diagnosing the Experience Curve

George S. Day, David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025)
1982

Few strategy concepts have gained wider acceptance than the notion underlying the experience curve, that real unit costs decline systematically with increases in cumulative volume. The logic is appealing, the empirical support seems persuasive…

Economic Dispatch of Electric Power by Stochastic Linear Programming

Derek W. Bunn, Spiros N. Paschentis
1982

Operational improvements in the short-run scheduling of electric power generation can accrue considerable economic and fossil-fuel savings. This study has undertaken an evaluation of the worth and practicality of using “stochastic linear…

Emotion and Persuasion in Advertising: What We Do and Don't Know About Affect

Michael L. Ray, Rajeev Batra
1982

Emotion and persuasion is an old topic in psychology and a difficult one to apply to advertising. Affect appears to have four possible effects on “learning” from advertising and a direct effect on advertising effectiveness in low depth-of-…

Inventory Policies for Periodic Review Systems: Supporting Details

Evan L. Porteus
1982

This paper provides details and derivations that support Porteus [1982].

Managing the New Venture Division: Research Findings and Implications for Strategic Management

Robert A. Burgelman
1982

The New Venture Division (NVD), an important organizational innovation to facilitate corporate entrpreneurship, so far has been used with mixed success, Systematic differences in terms of administrative processes, strategy-making, and…

Models in Managerial Accounting

Joel S. Demski
1982

Abstract not available.

Necessary and Sufficient Informational Conditions for Pareto-Efficient Risk Sharing in Incomplete Markets

Amin H. Amershi
1982

Although, the marginal Lagrange conditions for Pareto-optimal risk-sharing are known, the precise informational requirements of the risk- sharing contracts are not known. This paper determines the minimal structure of such information under…

On the Significance of Interlocking Directorates

Donald Palmer
1982

Abstract not available.

Operationalizing Involvement as Depth and Quality of Cognitive Response

Michael L. Ray, Rajeev Batra
1982

This paper conceptualizes message response involvement as situational states characterized by the depth and quality of the cognitive responses evoked by the message. Data is presented to argue, however, that the inherent multidimensionality of…

Optimal Funding and Asset Allocation Rules for Defined-Benefit Pension Plans

J. Michael Harrison, William F. Sharpe
1982

Abstract not available.

Perspectives on Strategy

Richard T. Pascale
1982

Abstract not available.

A Process Model of Internal, Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm

Robert A. Burgelman
1982

This paper reports findings of a field study of the internal corporate venturing (ICV) process in the diversified major firm. It presents a grounded process model of the interlocking key activities, involving managers at different levels in the…