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Audience Presence During Breaks in Television Programmes
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
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
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
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
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Cournot Pre-Commitment and Bertand Competition Yield Cournot Outcomes
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Diagnosing the Experience Curve
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
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
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
This paper provides details and derivations that support Porteus [1982].
Managing the New Venture Division: Research Findings and Implications for Strategic Management
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…
A Model of the Interaction of Strategic Behavior, Corporate Context, and the Concept of Strategy
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Necessary and Sufficient Informational Conditions for Pareto-Efficient Risk Sharing in Incomplete Markets
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…
Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Collapse in the Propagation of the Great Depression
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Operationalizing Involvement as Depth and Quality of Cognitive Response
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
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A Process Model of Internal, Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm
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…