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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…
Conjoint Analysis in Consumer Research: Issues and Outlook
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Consumer Dynamics in Nonprofit Organizations
The study of consumer dynamics, that is behavior patterns over time, can lead to a better understanding of users than can a static analysis. In this study, the theater attendance behavior over the preceding five year period of current subscribers…
A Consumption-Oriented Explanation of Some Special Features or the International Bond Market
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Currency Option Bonds, Puts and Calls on Spot Exchange and the Hedging of Contingent Foreign Earnings
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Defining and Improving Decision Making Effectiveness
Evaluation is seen as key in any systematic attempt to improve decision making effectiveness in unstructured tasks. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are systems designed to extend a manager’s ability to deal with the complexity of the decision…
Determinants of Sales Force Performance: A Multiple Company Study
What factors account for the wide variation in performance within a sales force, and what is the relative importance of these factors? This paper attempts to answer that question by first developing a framework that identifies the major…
Dollar-Denominated Returns on French Index Linked Bonds and on Other French Assets
A historical record of returns is provided for major categories of French assets during 1959-1975. The record includes details about index linked bonds, an asset which is rare in the U.S. but common in France. During the sample period, real…
Effects of Alternate Information Structures in a Decomposed Organization, A Laboratory Experiment
The literature on the decomposition of mathematical programs as models for organizational design and resource allocation in decentralized organizations is extensive. Unfortunately there has been little empirical investigation into the problems…
Employment Practices and Employee Behavior: Japanese and American Comparisons
Abstract not available.
Energy Company Financial Reporting: Conceptual Framework for an Energy Information System
Abstract not available.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Method for Computing Approximately Optimal (s,S) Inventory Policies
A new method, recently proposed by Porteus, for obtaining approximately optimal (s,S) inventory policies was evaluated numerically. When demand was normally distributed, the method performed very well. The performance was good but diminished…