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The Smart Talk Trap

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business Review May1999 Pages 135-142.
  • An international metals and oil company was posting terrible numbers—sales and profits were down, as was share price. The company’s senior executives were mortified by the results; they knew major changes in strategy and operations were…
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Statistical Evidence on Global Account Management

David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025), G.S. Yip
Thexis April1999
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Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers

James N. Baron, David M. Kreps
Wiley April1999

Human Resources are the most important resource that a firm commands and should be regarded as capital, a factor of production in which managers invest today in order to realize future profits. This book deals with the strategic implications of…

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Strategic Issue on Multinationals: Localization and Integration of Foreign Subsidiaries

Takehiko Isobe, David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025)
Japan Overseas Enterprises Association Monthly Report April1999 Pages 24-27.
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Exploring Pandora's Box; The Impact of Diversity and Conflict on Work Group Performance

Margaret Ann Neale, Gregory B. Northcraft, Karen A. Jehn
Performance Improvement Quarterly March1999 Vol. 12 Issue 1 Pages 113–126.

This paper describes a model that explores the critical roles of three group composition factors (social category diversity, value diversity, and informational diversity) and two moderating variables (task type and task interdependence) on work…

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Survival of the Smartest: Managing Information for Rapid Action and World-Class Performance

Haim Mendelson, Johannes Ziegler
Wiley February221999

Drawing on the innovative concept of Organizational IQ and a study of companies in seventeen countries, Survival of the Smartest charts a course for managers to follow into the twenty first century. At the heart of the book is the authors’…

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Asymmetric and Neighborhood Cross-Price Effects: Some Empirical Generalizations

V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, Raj Sethuraman, Doyle Kim
Marketing Science February1999 Vol. 18 Issue 1 Pages 23-41.

This paper provides some empirical generalizations regarding how the relative prices of competing brands affect the cross-price effects among them. Particular focus is on the asymmetric price effect and the neighborhood price effect. The…

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The Malleable Self: The Role of Self-Expression in Persuasion

Jennifer Aaker
Journal of Marketing Research February1999 Vol. 36 Pages 45-57.

Considerable research in consumer experimental psychology has examined the self-expressive role of brands that has found little support for the premise that the interaction of the personality traits associated with a brand and those associated…

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Trust and distrust in organizations: Emerging perspectives, enduring questions

Roderick M. Kramer
Annual Review of Psychology February1999 Vol. 50 Pages 569-598.

Scholarly interest in the study of trust and distrust in organizations has grown dramatically over the past five years. This interest has been fueled, at least in part, by accumulating evidence that trust has a number of important benefits…

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Information Technology and Training in Emergency Call Centers

Susan Athey, Scott Stern
Industrial Relations Research Association January31999 Pages 53-60.
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Credit Swap Valuation

Darrell Duffie
Financial Analysts Journal January1999 Vol. 55 Issue 1 Pages 73-87.
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International Accounting Harmonization and Global Equity Markets

Mary E. Barth, Greg Clinch, Toshi Shibano
Journal of Accounting and Economics January1999 Vol. 26 Issue 1-3 Pages 201–235.

We show harmonizing domestic GAAP with foreign GAAP can have deleterious effects on security market performance, specifically price informativeness and trading volume. Harmonization effects result from interaction between two forces. Direct…

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Revaluations of Fixed Assets and Future Firm Performance: Evidence from the U.K.

David Aboody, Mary E. Barth, Ron Kasznik
Journal of Accounting and Economics January1999 Vol. 26 Issue 1-3 Pages 149–178.

We find, as predicted, that upward revaluations of fixed assets by UK firms are significantly positively related to changes in future performance, measured by operating income and cash from operations, indicating revaluations reflect asset value…

Working Paper

Analyst Coverage and Intangible Assets

Mary E. Barth, Ron Kasznik, Maureen McNichols
1999

This study examines the relation between analyst coverage and firms’ intangible assets. We assume that firms with substantial intangible assets, most of which are not recognized in firms’ financial statements, have more information asymmetry…

Working Paper

Buying the Bums Out: What's the Dollar Value of a Seat in Congress?

Tim Groseclose, Jeff Milyo
1999

Because of a little noticed provision of the Federal Elections Campaign Act, slightly more than a third of the members of the 102nd House of Representatives were allowed to convert unspent campaign fund to personal use - but only if they left…

Working Paper

CEO Stock Option Awards and Corporate Voluntary Disclosures

Ron Kasznik, David Aboody
1999

This study investigates whether CEOs manage investors’ expectations downward to scheduled stock option awards. Because executive stock options are typically awarded with a fixed exercise price equal to the stock price on the award date, we…

Working Paper

Capacity Realization in Stochastic Batch-Processing Networks Using Discrete-Review Policies

Constantinos Maglaras
1999

We present difficulties with realizing the capacity of queueing networks with batch servers under well known scheduling disciplines. We introduce a family of scheduling policies called discrete-review policies, which not only guarantee capacity…

Working Paper

Competitive Lobbying in a Majority-Rule Institution

David P. Baron
1999

This paper presents a complete information model of competitive lobbying in a majority-rule institution where lobbying consists of support provided to legislators in the form of politically valuable resources. Two lobbyists alternate in…

Working Paper

Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels

Geert Bekaert, Jun Liu
1999

Gallant, Hansen and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound on pricing kernels. The literature predominantly resorts to a simple, sub-optimal procedure that scales…

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Consistent Human Resource Practices

David M. Kreps, James N. Baron
California Management Review 1999 Vol. 41 Issue 3 Pages 29-53.