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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 entrepreneurship, 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
Abstract not available.
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…
RatBAS -- A Software Tool for Users of BASIC
This document describes a program that translates programs written in RatBAS, a modified version of BASIC, to logically equivalent programs in BASIC.
Some Factors in New York Stock Exchange Security Returns, 1931-1979
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Stock Return Seasonalities and the "Tax-Loss Selling" Hypothesis: Analysis of the Arguments and Australian Evidence
In this study, we extend the discussion of the tax loss selling hypothesis and also examine the month-to-month small firm return premium for a sample of Australian stocks for the period 1958-1981. Although the basic idea behind the tax-loss…
Strategic Goals, Power, and Environmental Perceptions: Correlates of Performance in Volatile Environments (1)
The relationship between environmental volatility and various domain navigation behaviors was studied among top managements of 20 non-diversified firms. The findings suggest that attempts to avoid true environmental uncertainty, to seek high…
Strategy Implementation: Five Approaches to an Elusive Phenomenon
The traditional textbook approach to strategy implementation was to treat “implementation” an activity following “formulation.” Usually, the topic was treated as a question of organization design, where systems and structures were manipulated in…
Strategy Making of Internal Corporate Ventures: Findings on the Interplay of Content and Process
This paper describes the genesis of strategy in two internal corporate ventures. The comparison of archival and interview data suggests that content and process are intrinsically intertwined in the early stages of strategy-making. Strategic…