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A Corporate Governance Perspective on the Franchisor- Franchisee Relationship
(2014-07)
The franchisor-franchisee relationship is unique in that it has characteristics of both an arm’s length business transaction as well as an ongoing business relationship. As time goes by, however, the interests of the parties ...
Dynamic Joint Pricing and Order Fulfillment for E-Commerce Retailers
(2016-03)
We consider an e-commerce retailer (e-tailer) who sells a catalog of products to customers from different regions during a finite selling season and fulfills orders through multiple fulfillment centers. The e-tailer faces ...
Positioning Multi-Country Brands: The Impact of Heterogeneity in Cultural Values and Competitive Set
(2013-02)
We suggest and show that multi-country brands should position themselves consistently across markets more on those specific imagery attributes that are themselves more consistently valued across countries. Leveraging prior ...
Can Trustworthiness in a Supply Chain Be Signaled?
(2014-09)
The relationship between a buyer and its suppliers is important and often relies on factors beyond the terms of a contractual agreement. Buyers can therefore benefit from identifying trustworthy suppliers. We argue that ...
Ethical Infrastructures and Evidence-Based Corporate Compliance and Ethics Programs: Policy Implications from the Empirical Evidence
(2015-12)
In 2016 it will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of Organizational Sentencing Guidelines (OSG), which has been the single greatest influence on the structure of corporations’ compliance programs. The government and corporations ...
Can Managers Time the Market? Evidence Using Repurchase Price Data
(2014-05)
Little is known about the price firms pay for stock repurchases. Using a dataset of all U.S. repurchases from 2004 to 2011, we compare the actual average price paid monthly in a repurchase to the average market price for ...
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Employer: Relative Enforcement of Covenants Not To Compete, Trends, and Implications for Employee Mobility Policy
(2011-12)
Covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”) remain a controversial tool for employers to restrict employee post-employment mobility, particularly in an increasingly cross-jurisdictional business world. Amid the growing attention ...
Reconciling Professional and Personal Value Systems: The Spiritually Motivated Manager as Organizational Entrepreneur
(2010-02)
Today, many people hold a personal set of moral beliefs about the proper role of the corporation in regard to the natural environment. These beliefs are held at the level of the individual and are formed through personal ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradoxes
(2016-02)
The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors ...
Climate Change in the Era of the Anthropocene - an Institutional Analysis
(2015-06)
Recently, many geoscientists have re-conceptualized and re-labelled our current Holocene Era as “the Anthropocene,” a less stable era with biophysical characteristics and processes strongly influenced by human activity. ...