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Questioning the Assumptions of Value Engineering: Alternative Views of the Cultural Change Process
Advocates of “value engineering” typically share assumptions about what culture is an how it changes. We delineate these assumptions and argue that they are misleadingly limited. Perceiving and enacting culture change. We present two alternative…
Questioning the Assumptions of Value Engineering: Alternative Views of the Culture Change Process
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Service-Induced Campaign Contributions and the Electoral Equilibrium
Congressional incumbents are successful in over 90 percent of their reelection contests. Once explanation for this incumbency advantage is that incumbents provide services to constituents and interest groups as a means of generating both campaign…
Setup Reduction and Increased Effective Capacity
Setup reduction is an important aspect of the Just in Time (JIT) and Zero Inventory (ZI) concepts. This paper continues the study of the benefits of such reduction. Porteus (1985b) examined the tradeoff between investment in reduced setups and…
Social Group Identity and the Emergence of Cooperation in Resource Conservation Dilemmas
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Social group identity and the emergence of cooperation in resource conservation dilemmas
Some Observations on Capital Structure and the Impact of Recent Recapitalization on Share Prices
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Standardization and Variety
Stochastic Production-Exchange Equilibria
This paper examines the role of production and stock markets in a continuous-time stochastic economy. The results include sufficient conditions for the existence of general equilibria: spot price processes and security price processes under which…
Strategic Capability Transfer in Acquisition Integration
This paper presents a grounded theory of the acquisition integration process. The theory proposes that the central element in successful acquisition integration is the transfer of strategic capabilities between firms. A series of interactions…
Strategic Delay in Bargaining
This paper analyzes a bargaining model with incomplete information in which the time between offers is an endogenous strategic variable. We find equilibria involving a delay to agreement that is due to the use of strategic time delay by…
Structural Consistency, Consistency and Sequential Rationality
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Taking the Workers Back Out: Recent Trends in the Structuring of Employment
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Taxation and the Dynamics of Corporate Control: The Uncertain Case for Tax Motivated Acquisitions
We develop an analytic framework to examine the familiar claim that the tax system favors corporate acquisitions. The framework is then applied to the three most commonly identified sources of tax gains from acquisitions: the change in asset…
A Test of the Efficiency of a Given Portfolio
A test for the ex ante efficiency of a given portfolio of assets is developed. The relevant statistic has a tractable small sample distribution. Its power function is derived and used to study the sensitivity of the test to the portfolio choice…
The Cyclical Component of United States Economic Activity
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The Gorbachev Era
Who runs the Soviet Union and how? What will change under Gorbachev? What is life like in the USSR today? What forces shaped modern Russia? How is the Soviet economy organized? What are its flaws? And what are Gorbachev’s prospects for correcting…
The Interrelations of Finance and Economics: Empirical Perspectives
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The Old and New Export Pessimism: A Critical Survey
Rather ironically, the very success of the East Asian NICS (Newly Industrializing Countries) has evoked a new export pessimism. This paper sorts out the arguments underlying this pessimism and evaluates their credibility. The discussion moves…