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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…
A Sales Force Management Model: Integrating Managerial and Research Perspectives
This paper develops a three-stage conceptual model of personal selling and sales force management that emphasizes the relationship between sales force management decision-making and empirical research. The model provides a means for both…
Santa Clara County Employers: Number Offering Fair Economic Choice of Health Benefits Plans
Employer decisions regarding the number of different health benefits plans offered and how premium costs are divided between the employer and the employee affect the extent of competition among plans in a community. We believe competition creates…
Some Consequences of Organizational Demography: Potential Impacts of an Aging Work Force on Formal Organizations
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Technology Choices in Developing Countries: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Further Research
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Technology Transfer and R&D Activities of Multinational Firms: Some Theory and Evidence
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The Critical Need for a Marketing Measurement Tradition: A Proposal
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The Effects of Level of Abstraction of a Script on Accuracy of Recall, Predictions, and Beliefs
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The Factor Structure of Multidimensional Response to Marketing Stimuli: An Investigation of Two Approaches
The factor structure of the variables which describe consumers multidimensional response to marketing stimuli can be determined either by Within Analysis (based on variation across individuals in responding to a representative stimulus) or Among…
The Nonoptimality of Equal Commission Rates in Multi-Product Salesforce Compensation Schemes
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The Return on Called Bonds
This paper analyzes the experience of investors in refunded bonds during the 1970s. These bonds tended to provide a higher return than bonds of the same company which were not called. However, the investor suffered an opportunity loss on…
Toward Strategic Intelligence Systems
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of strategic planning tools in the past decade. Since the quality of strategic planning will be greatly impacted by the quality of the information inputs, increasing attention should be paid to the…