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Sequential Decision Problems With Expected Utility Criteria. III: Upper And Lower Transience
This paper concerns sequential decision problems with expected utility criteria. A class of such problems, which combines and extends the standard cases of transient, positive and negative dynamic programming, is proposed and analyzed. The…
Sex Differences in Economists' Incomes
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Social Structure and Organizational Type: The Case of the Integrated Organization in an Atomized Society
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Strategic Intelligence Systems
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Supervisor-Worker Relations: A Study of Supervisory Practices in Japanese and American Firms in the United States
Supervisory methods of Japanese managed firms in the ‘United States are compared with those of American firms, matched by industry. Findings suggest that supervisors of Japanese firms (all of whom were Americans) were more involved in counseling…
Taxation and the Incidence of Homeownership Across Income Groups
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The Analysis of Seasonal Economic Models
Many important insights can be obtained about economic relationships and seasonality when an economic model contains an explicit specification of the mechanism generating seasonality in the endogenous variables. Unfortunately, determining the…
The Comparative Impact of Different Organization Development Techniques*
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The Evaluation of Internal Controls Over Payroll
Auditors’ evaluations of internal control over payroll systems based on profiles of system characteristics were studied using a quasi-experimental research design. Specific topics considered here included inter-auditor agreement (consensus),…
The Freedom of Information Act: Opportunities and Threats at the Competitive and Governmental Interfaces
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The Horizon Effects on Product Evaluation Strategies
A woman’s time horizons when evaluating product concepts(birth control devices) were varied. These variations produced changes in the linearity and complexity of the evaluation strategies used, and in the emphasis given to specific factors. Loss-…
The Impact of Organization Development
Little systematic evidence exists on the overall effects of Organization Development (OD). Thirty-five empirical studies assessing the impact of OD activities provide the basis for analysis. The impact of OD is assessed using a typology derived…
The Reliability of Estimated Beta Weights in Multiple Regression Studies
The reliability of beta weights estimated through the multiple regression procedure is defined as the ratio of the variance of the true beta weights to the expected variance of the estimated beta weights. Equivalently, reliability is (…
The Transmission of Control Through Organizational Hierarchy
This paper addresses the problem of control loss in hierarchies. Data on 215 departments(aggregated from 2,363 individual questionnaires) show that Behavior Control and Output Control differ sharply in transmission. Behavior Control shows almost…
A Theoretical Comparison of the Predictive Power of the Multiple Regression and Equal Weighting Procedures
The multiple regression procedure (MRP) is compared with the equal weighting procedure (EWP) which forces the estimated regression weight to be the same for each of the k predictors (independent variables) after orienting each predictor to be in…
A Theory of Competitive Equilibrium in Stock Market Economies
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Three Chief Executives: How Style Effects Results
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Toward Strategies for Marketing Home Energy Conservation
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Type Z Organization: A Better Match for a Mobile Society
Aspects of the “ideal types” of American (Type A)and Japanese (Type J) forms of organization are compared and related to their socio-cultural roots. A hybrid organizational “ideal type” (Type Z) which is particularly appropriate for many…