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Facilities Focus: A Study of Concepts and Practices Related to Its Definition, Evaluation, Significance, and Application in Manufacturing Firms
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Futures Trading, Rational Expectations and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
This paper analyzes a model of a futures market in which both pure speculators and producers participate. Traders form rational expectations about the return on holding futures (the spot price) on the basis of diverse private information and the…
Improved Iterative Computation of the Expected Discounted Return in Markov and Semi-Markov Chains
This paper seeks to reduce the computation needed by iterative methods to find the expected discounted return in a finite semi-Markov or Markov chain. Two new norm reducing extrapolations and a new iterative method are presented and shown to be…
A Lagrangean Relaxation Algorithm for the Two Duty Period Scheduling Problem
The two duty period scheduling problem is an integer programming problem with 0-1 constraint coefficients. It is recognized that the problem can be reformulated as a one duty period problem with side constraints. Since the one duty period problem…
MBAs Move into Managing Small Companies
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Management as Symbolic Action: The Creation and Maintenance of Organizational Paradigms
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Marketing Models in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
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Measuring a Tax-Specific Term Structure of Interest Rates in the Market for British Government Securities
A method of measuring the term structure of interest rates is developed which accommodates the tax dependence of an investors choice of securities. Empirical results are given for the British Government Securities Market over the period 1955-1975…
Minimum Quality Standards Through Entry Licensing, Malpractice Suits and Equilibrium in a Medical Care Market with Asymmetric Information
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A Model of Direct and Relations Achieving Styles
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Multiperiod Securities and the Efficient Allocation of Risk: A Comment on the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model
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On the CAPM Approach to the Estimation of a Public Utility's Cost of Equity Capital
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Organization Development In A Large System: An Empirical Assessment
This study reports the results of a quasi-experimental field study measuring the effects of three Organization Development (OD) interventions conducted in a large, geographically dispersed organization. The OD interventions were designed to…
Overview of Iterative Methods for Discounted Finite Markov and Semi-Markov Decision Chains
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A Plan for Consumer Information System Development, Implementation and Evaluation
The idea of consumer information systems for local services has not truly been implemented. Complete implementation in the U.S. could lead to benefits of $100 billion annually. This paper, based on an NSF-sponsored project at Stanford…
Professional Performance of Certified Public Accountants: Evidence on the Quality of Auditing Services
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Retrospective Self-Insight on the Factors Considered in Product Evaluations
The accuracy of young women’s retrospective reports about their use of mental cutoffs and about the number of factors used in evaluating birth control devices was tested. During these evaluations, the women’s mental time horizons were manipulated…
S-Shaped Response Functions: Implications for Decision Models
This paper discusses the implications for analysis and parameter estimation of optimization using S-shaped (convex-concave) response functions. For both unconstrained and constrained optimization and for integer and continuous variables, the…