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Concepts of fairness in the Global Trading System
How are to assess the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO? In this paper, one first discusses why fairness is a condition of the agreements among governments that form the global trading system. This paper then suggests that fairness can best be considered within the...
Tags: Vertical industries, University of Michigan, fairness, GATT, equity, government, agreement
White papers 2005-10-09
The Psychology of Revenue Management: Impact of Familiarity, Framing and Fencing Condition on the Perceived fairness of Rate Fences
Revenue management (RM) has been practiced in the airline, hotel and car rental industries for over 15 years, and has more recently attracted attention in other industries, including broadcasting, golf, health care and restaurants. Perceived fairness is a serious concern for revenue managers who like to use a range of...
Tags: Operational accounting, Cornell University, revenue management, familiarity, fairness, broadcasting, industry, health care
White papers 2004-12-14
The Benevolence of the Baker: Fair Pricing Under the Threat of Customer Anger
This paper has shown that a model of fairness in pricing can match several salient microeconomic observations about price adjustment. This includes the observation that prices are variable across customers and across certain time intervals (namely when there are "Specials") while they are relatively stable in response to other shocks....
Tags: Pricing, Harvard Business School, fairness, pricing strategy, adjustment
White papers 2003-11-03
Explorations in Price (Un)fairness
Consumers may use multiple reference points including cost of goods, past prices, and competitive prices to judge price fairness. Across a series of studies it show that consumers are inclined to overestimate profits, often to an extreme extent. It further demonstrate that prices are perceived to be unfair because consumers...
Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, fairness, competitive price, inflation
White papers 2003-01-01
Partners, fairness and Compensation
Article makes out that three things frequently make it difficult to set compensation in a way that everyone considers fair. It says that compensation is about money, and money is a complex and mystifying subject. Secondly, setting compensation is an expression of what the partners think about their relationship, in...
Tags: Benefits, compensation, fairness
White papers 2003-01-01
Pricing And fairness: Do Your Customers Assume You Are Gouging Them?
Price of a product is the amount of money that is charged from a buyer by the seller in exchange for that particular product. Setting the final price of the product entails the consideration of several important factors. Management of price involves working along two major activities viz. price determination...
Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Knowledge@Wharton, fairness, pricing strategy
White papers 2002-09-11
Fair Process: Striving for Justice in Family Firms
This paper introduces procedural justice as a central notion for understanding the effectiveness of a family firm's decision making and planning processes. It posits that many of the common difficulties faced by family firms are rooted in a lack of fairness in the decision-making processes governing these business families and...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, fairness, decision-making, performance
White papers 2001-08-08
Less fairness less work
Want to know what makes for fairness in a work environment and why knowing could be one of the most important things you can know about working with and managing people. This article tells us what makes for a fair work environment. It gives 6 judgment rules, writing it down...
Tags: fairness, organizational structure, environment
White papers 2001-05-07
Employees respond to their supervisor's fairness quotient
It is found that employees are motivated to work harder, performing duties beyond what’s required, when they trust their supervisor to be fair. Some leadership styles are better at creating this perception than others create. All organizations that wish to excel in the market place or anywhere else have to...
Tags: Workforce management, supervisor, fairness, leadership style, leadership, job
White papers 2000-07-21

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Learning good habits
Electrode Inc may not have the right to dismiss a staff with such a short notice since the act carried out by Christopher is a personal issue. On the other hand, the company may have the right to dismiss him if there is a clause in the employment terms that...
Articles 2008-12-01
Speer Reloading Manual No. 14
My first reloading manual was Speer No. 3, published in 1959. At 220 pages, it was a comprehensive introduction to the world of metallic cartridge reloading. The Speer manuals are now up to Number 14 and, under the auspices of Alliant Technosystems (ATK) it bulks 1,140 pages. Reloading...
Articles 2008-06-01
Shotguns: still a great option
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you have ever read one issue of GUNS before, you and the planet are aware I like large-bore handguns and rifles. A little known fact might be, I also like shotguns and have for a very long time. In the interest of "fair play" I...
Articles 2008-06-01
Blaze relieved to get first win of season, prepare for Crush
The team struggled to come up with enough cliched metaphors to describe last week's 67-50 victory over Kansas City. Utah Blaze players and coaches alike compared the win to getting a monkey off their back. They likened the win to finding the final piece to a puzzle....
Articles 2008-05-08
It's not just about limiting the clubs, golf will have to keep its
When it comes to technology even Formula One has struggled to keep up with the advances in golf. It is fair to say the equipment now would be unrecognisable to the pioneers who invented the game in the 1500s. Indeed, it would be unrecognisable to many players from the 1980s....
Articles 2008-05-08
Hang on in there, Hillary. It's too soon to quit
Last October, a revelatory Vanity Fair article called "Going After Gore" traced the dubious history of the "toxic coverage" in the US media that irreparably damaged Gore's chances in the 2000 election. The effortless charm of George W Bush was relentlessly contrasted with Gore's inability to turn charm on like...
Articles 2008-05-08
It's not just about limiting the clubs, golf will have to keep its
*GOLF When it comes to technology even Formula One has struggled to keep up with the advances in golf. It is fair to say the equipment now would be unrecognisable to the pioneers who invented the game in the 1500s. Indeed, it would be unrecognisable to many...
Articles 2008-05-08
It's not just about limiting the clubs, golf will have to keep its
*GOLF When it comes to technology even Formula One has struggled to keep up with the advances in golf. It is fair to say the equipment now would be unrecognisable to the pioneers who invented the game in the 1500s. Indeed, it would be unrecognisable to many...
Articles 2008-05-08
Mavericks, Carlisle close to deal
DALLAS -- Rick Carlisle is still on the verge of becoming the next coach of the Dallas Mavericks. Carlisle is the only candidate the team has interviewed since firing Avery Johnson last Wednesday. Negotiations turned serious over the weekend and have continued all week, but as of...
Articles 2008-05-08
Arts panel fires chief for more than theft
LOGAN -- The executive director of Logan's Summerfest Arts Faire was not dismissed solely because of his recent theft conviction, the festival's president of the board said Wednesday. Wally Bloss would not elaborate on the other factors that contributed to Steve Bower's dismissal, however. ...
Articles 2008-05-08
Capita is a safe bet, despite what you may have heard
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN Our view: Hold Share price: 686p (+22p) In an ideal world Capita would like to have kept the contract to run London's congestion charging scheme. In fact, IBM presented the capital with a better offer, and Capita, the...
Articles 2008-05-07
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