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The Smart Talk Trap
- 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…
Statistical Evidence on Global Account Management
Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers
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…
Strategic Issue on Multinationals: Localization and Integration of Foreign Subsidiaries
Exploring Pandora's Box; The Impact of Diversity and Conflict on Work Group Performance
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…
Survival of the Smartest: Managing Information for Rapid Action and World-Class Performance
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’…
Asymmetric and Neighborhood Cross-Price Effects: Some Empirical Generalizations
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…
The Malleable Self: The Role of Self-Expression in Persuasion
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…
Trust and distrust in organizations: Emerging perspectives, enduring questions
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…
Information Technology and Training in Emergency Call Centers
Credit Swap Valuation
International Accounting Harmonization and Global Equity Markets
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…
Revaluations of Fixed Assets and Future Firm Performance: Evidence from the U.K.
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…
Analyst Coverage and Intangible Assets
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…
Buying the Bums Out: What's the Dollar Value of a Seat in Congress?
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…
CEO Stock Option Awards and Corporate Voluntary Disclosures
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…
Capacity Realization in Stochastic Batch-Processing Networks Using Discrete-Review Policies
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…
Competitive Lobbying in a Majority-Rule Institution
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…
Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels
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…