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Evaluation of Project Risk in Capital Investments with Abandonment Options
This paper develops a formula for calculating the variance of the present value of cash flows for capital investment projects that have an option to abandon the project in each period. The development of the optimal abandonment strategy can be…
A Framework For Analysis Of Coordination Mechanisms In Decentralized Organizations
This paper has three purposes: (1) to present a framework for classifying and analyzing conceptual models of the resource allocation process in a decentralized organization, (2) to explain some different coordination strategies, and (3) to show…
Gold Mining Stocks: An Economic Analysis, 1968-1974
Abstract not available.
Information Requirements for Health Maintenance Organizations
Health Maintenance Organizations have been proposed as a major element in the restructuring of the health care delivery system to help contain costs and bring about improved distribution of services. The structure and responsibilities of these…
Information Systems for Experimental Social Programs -- A Health Services Example
The organizational forms and data requirements of experimental social programs contribute to the necessity for the development of new general purpose file management and data processing systems. The organizational aspects of social research…
Involvement and Political Advertising Effect: An Exploratory Experiment
Abstract not available.
Made in America (Under Japanese Management)
In Atlanta, Georgia, a U. S. electronics manufacturer utilizes an assembly line in which thirty five women assemble transister panels in a prescribed set of steps. Six thousand miles away, an identical assembly line belonging to the same company…
Market Equilibrium in a Multiperiod State Preference Model With Logarithmic Utility
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Organizational Control: Two Functions
A distinction is drawn between two modes of organizational control, one based on personal surveillance (behavior control), and the other based on the measurement of outputs (output control). A study of employees over five levels of hierarchy…
Organizational Performance, Action and the Use of Information
A descriptive model of the relationship between organizational performance, action, and the use of information from a formal reporting system is presented. An empirical study of the performance of branch banks, the use of an information system,…
Output Control: An Organizational Response to Large Size
Organizations can achieve control either through the evaluation of behavior or through the evaluation of outputs. This “behavior-output” dimension is not the same as the familiar “personal-impersonal control dimension. Data collected in 78 retail…
Retail Store Credit Card Use A Study of New York Consumers
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Risk Evaluation of Capital Investments: A Survey
This is a survey of techniques for evaluation of risk in individual capital investment projects. The paper identifies the four types of relationships affecting project uncertainty; 1)Accounting-type relationships defining cash flow; 2)…
Stock Price Consistency in a Market with Heterogeneous Investors
This paper examines an idealized dynamic model of a market for a single stock. The model assumes a finite number of investor classes, the members of each class having essentially infinite wealth. All investors are assumed to be risk neutral, but…
A Structured Programming Experiment
Abstract not available.
Systems Quality, User Reactions, and the Use of Information Systems
Abstract not available.
The Approximate Ruin Function for A Risk Process with Compounding Assets
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: A "Multi-Beta" Interpretation
Abstract not available.