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Working Paper

Strategic Management from Concept to Implementation

L. Bourgeois III
1985

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Structural Relations in Organizations: On the Relationship Between Behavior, Belief and Formal Structure

1985

Research concerning organizational structure has reached an impasse. Two approaches to structure research have remained isolated despite their complementary insights and methodologies. In mainstream structure research, organizational structures…

Journal Article

Testing specifications of economic agents' intertemporal optimum problems in the presence of alternative models

Kenneth J. Singleton
Journal of Econometrics 1985 Vol. 30 Issue 1-2 Pages 391-413.

This paper develops statistics for testing the null specification of an economic agent’s intertemporal optimum problem, that incorporate information about a specific non-nested alternative specification. The disturbances may be serially…

Working Paper

The Development Performance of Asian-Pacific Countries

Gerald M. Meier
1985

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

The Empirical Foundations of The Arbitrage Pricing Theory I: The Empirical Tests

Bruce N. Lehman, David M. Modest
1985

The last thirty years have witnessed great changes in the field of finance associated with institutionally oriented students has been transformed into one dominated by scholars with amore scientific orientation. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (…

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The Empirical Foundations of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory II: The Optimal Construction of Basis Portfolios

Bruce N. Lehman, David M. Modest
1985

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

The Present-Minded Professor: Controlling One's Career

Shelley Taylor, Joanne Martin
1985

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

The Social Construction of Organizations

1985

The literature on institutionalization and formal organizational structure is a diffuse and, at time, unclear body of work. The theory of the social construction of reality [Berger and Luckermann, 1967] is offered as a unifying theoretical…

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A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment

Jeremy I. Bulow, Lawrence Summers
1985

This paper develops a model of dual labor markets based on employers’ need to motivate workers. In order to elicit effort from their workers, employers may find it optimal to pay more than the going wage. This changes fundamentally the…

Working Paper

Toward An Innovative Capabilities, Audit Framework

Robert A. Burgelman, Thomas Kosnik, Martine de Poel
1985

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Toward a Concept of Corporate Strategy for the Diversified Firm

1985

Abstract not available.

Journal Article

Undiscounted Approximations of Discounted Regenerative Models

Evan L. Porteus
Operations Research Letters 1985 Vol. 3 Issue 6 Pages 293-300.

This paper approximates the discounted average cost in regenerative models by an undiscounted average cost. A financial holding cost is assessed on expenditures that are incurred earlier than the middle of each cycle. A financial variability cost…

Working Paper

A Utility-Based Model of Common Stock Price Movements

1985

This paper develops and tests a non-linear utility-based econometric model of the temporal behavior of aggregate stock price movements, based on a constant relative risk aversion utility function and an observable information set consisting of…

Working Paper

Why Do We Have Nominal Government Debt?

1985

The time-consistency literature suggests that there is no reason to have anything but indexed debt. We show that nominal debt provides valuable insurance against the financial effects of economic fluctuations and variations in government…

Journal Article

Moral Outrage and Pragmatism: Explanations for Collective Action

Joanne Martin, Philip Brickman, Alan Murray
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology September1984 Vol. 20 Issue 5 Pages 484-496.

 

Two explanations for collective behavior were contrasted. The first, exemplified by relative deprivation theory, stresses the importance of feelings of moral outrage and perceived economic injustice. The second focuses on more…

Book

Social Dynamics: Models and Methods

Nancy Brandon Tuma, Michael T. Hannan
Academic Press Orlando June1984

Methods for analyzing longitudinal data to make inferences about social dynamics. Extensive treatment of event-history analysis and panel analysis/.

Journal Article

Cost Reduction, Competition, and Industry Performance

A. Michael Spence
Econometrica May1984 Vol. 52 Issue 1 Pages 101-122.
Journal Article

Effects of group identity on resource use in a simulated commons dilemma

Roderick M. Kramer, Marilynn B. Brewer
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology May1984 Vol. 46 Issue 5 Pages 1044-1057.

Used 172 undergraduates in 3 experiments to assess the effects of making salient either a superordinate (collective) or subordinate (differentiating) group identity in heterogeneous groups. In Exp I, 22 male and 36 female Ss were assigned…

Working Paper

Riding the Wave: The Culture Creation Process

Joanne Martin, Sim Sitkin, Michael Boehm
March1984

Previous research portrays founders as culture creators, generating the visions and values that employees come to share. These studies seldom examine the diversity of employees reactions to founders, in part because data have been collected so…