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Lessons to Learn from the Japanese...or Else
A Simultaneous Approach to Market Segmentation and Market Structuring
The authors define a market segment to be a group of consumers homogeneous in terms of the probabilities of choosing the different brands in a product class. Because the vector of choice probabilities is homogeneous within segments and…
A Black Hole: Ambiguity in Organizational Cultures
This paper begins with a discussion of the wild ceremonial dances of Australian aborigines. It then proceeds, after a brief diversion into definitional matters to discuss elements of four organizational cultures:
- The U.S. Department…
Stochastic Equilibria with Incomplete Financial Markets
Existence of Competitive Equilibria for Option Markets
In a general equilibrium model with options, Polemarchakis and Ku (1986) give an example of an economy where no competitive equilibrium exists. Their model is robust in the sense that slight changes of the parameters of the economy does not lead…
Adapting a Cost Accounting System to Just-In-Time Manufacturing
An Approach to Track Within-Segment Shifts in Market Share
Most approaches to examining the effects of marketing variables on market shares treat the market as a single aggregate. It would be managerially more useful to examine the marketing effects at the segment level. A market segment is defined in…
Bargaining in Legislatures
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Comparing the Predictive Powers of Alternative Multiple Regression Models
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A Comparison of the Skewness of Stock Return Distributions in Earnings Announcement and Non-Announcement Periods
This paper presents evidence that stock return prediction errors are less positively skewed in the time period surrounding accounting earnings report announcements than in a subsequent non-announcement period. Assuming that information available…
Competition, Compatibility and Standards: The Economics of Horses, Penguins and Lemmings
Competition and Mutualism Among Early Telephone Companies
Consistency, Structural Consistency, and Sequential Rationality
Cooperation in security dilemmas
Cost Accounting, Process Control, and Product Design
Cost Accounting and Cost Management in a Just-in-Time Environment
Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy and methods are being adopted by many organizations. What are the important implications of JIT for cost accounting, cost management, and the role of management accountants in organizations? This paper examines these…
Cournot Duopoly with Two Production Periods
Design of Regulatory Mechanisms and Institutions
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