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Involvement and Political Advertising Effect: An Exploratory Experiment
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Made in America (Under Japanese Management)
In Atlanta, Georgia, a U. S. electronics manufacturer utilizes an assembly line in which thirty five women assemble transistor 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)Statistical…
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
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Systems Quality, User Reactions, and the Use of Information Systems
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The Approximate Ruin Function for A Risk Process with Compounding Assets
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: A "Multi-Beta" Interpretation
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The Dynamic Organization: Structure, Technology, and Environment
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The Effect of Race, Insurance and Distance Upon the Utilization of Physician Services
This paper examines the relationships between the utilization of physician services and three variables — race, insurance, and distance to care — in a rural setting. Four measures of utilization are considered: (1) Total number of physician…
The Management and Economics of MIS Software Development Projects
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The Multi-Region Dynamic Capacity Expansion Problem - I
We consider the problem of determining a schedule of capacity expansions for m producing regions and a schedule of shipments from the regions to n markets so as to meet the market demands over a T-period planning horizon at minimum discounted…
The Multi-Region Dynamic Capacity Expansion Problem - 11
We consider the problem of determining a schedule of capacity expansions for m producing regions and a schedule of shipments from the regions to the n markets so as to meet the market demands over a T-period planning horizon at minimum discounted…
The Role of Territory Characteristics in Sales Response Functions
This paper presents a study of sales response functions in the retail apparel industry. Past research is reviewed and critiqued. The results of this study indicate that the territory characteristics of sales potential and workload are important…
The Stage Hypothesis and the S-Curve: Some Contradictory Evidence
This paper presents the results of a study testing the s-shaped budget curve of Nolans stage model of computer development in an organization. Research on the data processing budgets of California counties fails to support the s-shaped curve or…