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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
Abstract not available.
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…
Toward Typology of Organization Development Research
OD research is currently in a confused yet rapidly developing state. It is argued here that this situation exists partly because of a basic confusion as to exactly what constitutes OD research. A definitional typology is proposed based on the…
Usage of the Lens and Subjective Probability Paradigms for Financial Research Purposes
Two basic paradigms have been used by accounting researchers to model and evaluate financial judgments relative to environmental conditions; the Brunswik Lens and subjective probability (SP) paradigms. Here the Lens and SP paradigms are compared…
Allocation of Managerial Effort: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Decision Strategies, Environment and Performance
The work presented in this paper investigates behaviorally plausible rules for making decisions in complex situations. A rule is plausible if it is consistent with assumptions concerning limits on a decision maker’s information processing…
An Empirical Study of Subjective Probability Revision in a Financial Context
Bayesian consistency and accuracy of subjective probability assessments for a financial parameter are the major research hypotheses addressed here. Individuals familiar with the information and task environment provided probability assessments…
An Organizational Failures Framework
The paper begins with an explication of Oliver Williamsons market failures framework, which describes the conditions under which market transactions will be replaced by formal organizations. It then applies the central ideas of that framework to…
Analysis And Comparison Of The Lens And Subjective Probability Information Processing Paradigms
When comparisons are to be made with environmental conditions, two basic paradigms have been used by accounting researchers to model and evaluate financial judgments; the Brunswick Lens and subjective probability (SP) paradigms. Here the Lens and…
Anticipated Information Releases Reflected in Call Option Prices
This study captures the ex ante information content of a financial reporting event (the annual earnings announcement) by examining the behavior of call option prices on dates leading up to and passing through the disclosure date. This approach…
Asset Revaluations and the Appropriability of Returns from Inventive Activity: Some Qualifications and Evidence
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Choosing Multiple Items from a Product Class
By focusing on consumer preference for single items, marketing research has implicitly assumed that product choices are made independently of each other. For many product classes (e.g., magazines, stereo albums, liquors in a home bar) that…
Comparison of a Multi-Pass Heuristic Decomposition Procedure with Other Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Procedures
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a heuristic procedure for resource-constrained project scheduling. The procedure is a representative of a class of multi-pass procedures based on problem decomposition and is applicable to single or…