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- Promotion Incentives and Executive Compensation in Family Firms
- Family firms are the predominant form of business organization throughout the world, yet little is known about the types of incentive problems these firms face and how they are resolved. This paper examines a particular incentive problem, the dampening of promotion incentives, in family firms in which children succeed parents...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Mediation, Arbitration And Negotiation
- The publisher compares three common dispute resolution processes negotiation, mediation, and arbitration - in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). Under negotiation, the two parties engage in possibly arbitrarily long face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third part party who makes a non-binding recommendation....
- White papers 2007-09-11
- Why Don't IPO Firms Disclose A Reservation Price?
- A significant proportion of IPOs Initial Public Offering filed with the SEC are withdrawn during bookbuilding when it becomes clear to the issuer that they will not achieve a minimum acceptable offer price. Why don't issuers disclose this price at the outset? This question is important given that in many...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Why Don't IPO Firms Disclose A Reserve Price?: Secret Reservation Prices In A Divisible Good Auction
- A significant proportion of IPOs Initial Public Offering filed with the SEC are withdrawn during bookbuilding when it becomes clear to the issuer that they will not achieve a minimum acceptable offer price. Why don't issuers disclose this price at the outset? This question is important given that in many...
- White papers 2006-11-24
- Foreign Aid, FDI And Economic Growth In East European Countries
- This paper examines the effectiveness of foreign aid and foreign direct investment in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The model includes the labor force, capital stock, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, and is estimated using pooled annual time series data from 1993 to 2002. Before...
- White papers 2007-04-08
- Entrepreneurs And Evolutionary Biology
- Biological evolutionary processes select for heritable behaviors providing a survival and reproductive advantage. Accordingly, how we behave is, at least in part, affected by the evolutionary history of our species. This research uses evolutionary psychology as the theoretical perspective for exploring the relationship between a heritable biological characteristic testosterone level...
- White papers 2005-10-04
- Keyword Enhanced Web Structure Mining For Business Intelligence
- The paper explains the method of keyword enhanced Web structure mining which combines the ideas of Web content mining with Web structure mining. The method was used to mine data on business competition among a group of Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer DSLAM companies. Specifically, the keyword DSLAM was incorporated...
- White papers 2006-12-03
- Optimal Pricing And Inventory Polices With Dynamic Demand
- We develop a dynamic demand rate model for the optimization of retail sales of perishable assets, solving the joint inventory and pricing problem. The inclusion of a demand rate that is dependent upon past pricing decisions is a departure from the typical approaches to the joint pricing and inventory decision....
- White papers 2006-07-24
- Goal Setting And Goal Orientation
- Uniting separate research streams on situational and dispositional goals, we investigated goal setting and goal orientation together in a complex business simulation. A specific learning goal led to higher performance than did either a specific performance goal or a vague goal. Goal orientation predicted performance when the goal was vague....
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Optimal Retail Pricing And Inventory Polices With Uncertain Dynamic Demand
- We develop a dynamic demand rate model for the optimization of retail sales, solving the joint inventory and pricing problem. The inclusion of a demand rate that is dependent upon past pricing decisions, referred to as dynamic demand, is a departure from the typical approaches to the joint pricing and...
- White papers 2006-08-16
- Competitive Pricing With Dynamic Asymmetric Price Effects
- We model the temporal pricing strategies for two firms with asymmetric costs and differing market power (i.e. big-box retailer versus smaller local merchant). A firm's demand is a function of its price, a reference price and its competitor's price. Price effects may be asymmetric, i.e. consumers respond differently if they...
- White papers 2005-06-02
- The Strategic Decision-Making Process in Organizations
- This paper intends to describe the evolution of the strategic decision-making processes in organizations and propose an integrate view to these processes. This paper seeks to make a number of contributions to the literature on strategy development processes. It explores a multidimensional conceptualization of strategy development and inquires specific process...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Time and Organizational Improvisation
- This paper argues that effective management action is impeded by a simplistic understanding of time, one dominated by a clock-time perspective. Using the concept of improvisation the authors reconcile two major time dichotomies associated with organizational phenomena: clock time versus event time and linear time versus cyclical time. The authors...
- White papers 2004-10-09
- Crisis Communications: Managing Corporate Reputation in the Court of Public Opinion
- A crisis is the ultimate unplanned activity and the ultimate test for managers. In a time of crisis, conventional management practices are inadequate and ways of responding usually insufficient. This author, a communications practitioner with global experience, details a well-managed crisis response that will leave stakeholders with a favourable impression...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services
- This paper focuses on the consequences for the pricing of financial transactions of the bundling of those transactions within the same banking relationship. From the outset it is important to distinguish bundling from illegal "Tying." Bundling is a well-established practice within the banking industry whereby banks offer multiple financial products...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Examining the Relationship Between External Knowledge Management and Performance
- Acquiring the external knowledge and combining it with internal knowledge is important for product and process innovations. Therefore, the authors' suggest that managing the external knowledge is necessary to derive performance advantages. Drawing from the literature on strategy, organizational learning and knowledge management, the authors' have developed a model of...
- White papers 2003-09-18
- Adoption of the Balanced Scorecard: A Contingency Variables Analysis
- This paper examines the association between contingency variables and the adoption of a Balanced Scorecard BSC. The contingency variables that are examined include business-level strategy, firm size, environmental uncertainty, and investment in intangible assets. Utilizing both survey and archival data, collected as part of a mixed-methodology design, it is found...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- The Impact of Total Quality Management (TQM) on Financial Performance: Evidence From Quality Award Winner
- TQM is periodically lambasted by management gurus and the business media for its supposedly lackluster impact on financial performance. This paper presents objective evidence on whether this criticism is indeed justified. The evidence is based on a study of nearly 600 quality award winners. Three critical issues are addressed in...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Where Value Hides: Knowing Your Strategic Market Position Or, When Wanting To Be Number One Or Two
- Increase the overall Strategic Market Position for your business unit or company and you will increase your ability to achieve higher profitability and growth, and unlock hidden value. On the other hand, organizations that fail to recognize and act on their Strategic Market Position may be at risk. First, however,...
- White papers 2007-03-01
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- The University of Western Ontario Deploys Network Chemistry Solution to Secure and Manage Campus-Wide Wireless Network
- Network Chemistry, the wireless security experts, announced today that The University of Western Ontario has deployed its RFprotectTM Distributed wireless intrusion detection and protection system to provide security and management capabilities for the university's wireless network. Deploying Network Chemistry's solution allows Western to reduce overall IT costs while ensuring students...
- Research articles 2006-09-19
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